Remodeling Vocal Booth.

CrAkD · Post by **CrAkD** » Mon May 30, 2005 9:14 pm

I currently use a closet for a vocal booth. the good thing is that the room next to my studio room has a closet too and their back to back. so what im going to do knock down the wall seperating them. close up the door in the studio and just put a window facing the control room. use the doorway from the other room to get in. What I want to do is make it sound proof well im at it so i can record with the monitors on. I was hoping you guys could help me out with what is a good cost effective way to sound proof it. im willing to spend money just not $2500 on a door lol. thanks in advance.

Post by **sharward** » Tue May 31, 2005 2:56 am

CrAkD wrote:I currently use a closet for a vocal booth. the good thing is that the room next to my studio room has a closet too and their back to back. so what im going to do knock down the wall seperating them. close up the door in the studio and just put a window facing the control room. use the doorway from the other room to get in. What I want to do is make it sound proof well im at it so i can record with the monitors on. I was hoping you guys could help me out with what is a good cost effective way to sound proof it. im willing to spend money just not $2500 on a door lol. thanks in advance.

Rule #1 -- read and follow all of this.

Rule #2 -- Use the search feature (which, by the way, is referenced in Rule #1). There are several threads here pertaining to projects very similar to yours.

Once you teach yourself the basics (be prepared to invest hours of study for this), you're more than welcome to post lots of details and ask lots of not-already-asked-and-answered questions.

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:45 am

Thanks for updating your profile - while you're looking/learning, do you know for SURE that the wall you intend to knock down is NOT LOAD BEARING?

(If you're not sure how to tell, ask; I don't remember that info being on the site)

Overall, good idea on expanding the booth; they're always too small and sound crappy, not to mention the claustrophobia... Steve

CrAkD · Post by **CrAkD** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:50 pm

no its not load bearing, the wall is already down, its a finished attic so the walls between the rooms is just to seperate them. I took some pics inside the room but the lighting is kind of crappy. im going to take some better ones tomorrow along with measurements for you guys. im going to put my control desk right up against the closed up doorway where a window will be. the monitors will be on top of the desk facing away from the wall. the only thing i want to achieve is the monitors not leaking into the mic. its still not TOO big so i dont know if ill have enough room to do double walls all the way around. im trying to read as much as possible so I dont ask the same questions over and over just kind of overwhelming alot to learn with the wall down and ready to go. dont wanna rush and do it wrong. thanks in advance for helping.

Post by **sharward** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:08 pm

CrAkD wrote:I'm trying to read as much as possible so I dont ask the same questions over and over just kind of overwhelming alot to learn with the wall down and ready to go. dont wanna rush and do it wrong. thanks in advance for helping.

You'll be fine.

I drafted the Stages of Soundproofing Enlightenment to lighten things up for folks like you who experience the "Bambi in the headlights" effect.

Granted, you're not trying to isolate drums, but I'm sure you'll relate anyway.

Hang in there, friend...

CrAkD · Post by **CrAkD** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:33 pm

Here are some pics of the project along with some measurements.

This door is going to be closed up and turned into the window my desk with gear and monitors will be put about a foot infront of it. the doorway you can see on the other side is going to be my door. since the monitors will be on one side im hoping i wont have to go too crazy on the door just get it pretty tight.

here is inside the booth, the beams in the middle will be taken down its basicly 48" both ways from door to door and wall to wall. 47" door to door cause the sheetrock hasnt been taken down yet on those walls but have on the other walls which makes up for the extra inch.

here is the slant, since its the attic the wall has to slant along with the roof. the slant is 36". floor to heighest flat point in ceiling is 83".

here you can see where the slant becomes the ceiling.

im thinking the only thing ill be able to double wall is possibly the window side and the bottom of the slanted side because behind that is an eve with space for an additional wall. the other side houses the chimney and theres no room for a double wall cause the chimney is right up against the back wall. the side thats gonna have the door theres no room to move out cause we sunk a dresser in the right hand wall right after the doorway. let me know what you guys think the best plan of attack for this would be. thanks in advance for all your help.

CrAkD · Post by **CrAkD** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:06 am

well the center beams are down ready to roll. im thinking of just doing a double wall on the window side and just double sheetrock the rest. along with acoustical caulking. do you think this will work?

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:50 am

That may work; exactly what do you intend for the door? If it's not really good, a double sheet rock wall leaf may be able to "keep up" with the door... Steve

CrAkD · Post by **CrAkD** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:45 pm

well i read something here about a hollow door with mdf and veneer on each side i was thinking of giving that a shot. the door is going to be on the opposite side of the booth as the window. so im hoping it wont really matter.

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:01 pm

Link is here in case you forgot -

http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1662

HTH... Steve

CrAkD · Post by **CrAkD** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:22 pm

knightfly wrote:Link is here in case you forgot -

http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1662

HTH... Steve

thanks alot, this may be a dumb question but i didnt see it any of the reading i did. but with the acoustic caulking how am i applying that? where all the sheet rock meets eachother?

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