Turning a utility room into a studio

[akaider]

Hello everybody. I am new in this post and Im trying to figure out how to place some of my ideas in to place in an empty room I have in my house. I am a drummer and im trying to set up a band recording setting in this room.The room is located at the side of my house and is made of 8 inch cinder blocks has no windows and only one door. all of the lights and outlets can be moved around with no problems. The room itself absorbs plenty of the noise. I would like a suggetion on an isulation that covers low and high pitch. As u can see in the picture attached the red lines are when im plating to divide the room in 3 diferent areas one for drums, one for vocals and a control area. The roof should be at 7 feet of height. I guess i got the hard part figured out, I would like to know where and how I should place the inner walls in the control room and vocal room and also where can I place the doors? Should I place the vocal door inside the Drumset room or place the door somewhere next to the main entrance of the room ? Also I have no idea at what angle the inner walls should be placed? Should I place different insulation in both rooms or should I stick with the same one on both ? My Drumset Dimmensions are 8 x 6 feet and Im tryin to figure out where to place it in order to fit a bassist and a guitar player in case I decided to jam. or practice. I would appreciate any inputs I am brand new at this and this would be my first projec. I am trying to keep the budject under $600 maybe I can go to $800 if it will make a bigger diference in the quiality

[xSpace]

"The room itself absorbs plenty of the noise. I would like a suggetion on an isulation that covers low and high pitch."

I do not understand these statements. Are you saying that the room seems to be well isolated for sound...but the contained sound inside the room is giving you a sonic headache?


" As u can see in the picture attached the red lines are when im plating to divide the room in 3 diferent areas one for drums, one for vocals and a control area. The roof should be at 7 feet of height."

Personally, for a small room, practice or jam room, I would leave it all open, no walls especially with a low ceiling height of 7 feet. With the current dimensions of 14 X 16 X 7 you have an interior volume of 1568 cubic feet...that is a lot of potential for sound to grow.

Why do you need a vocal isolation booth that has the potential to run up the cost and be a boom box in the low frequency area? And when you slice up this room, you put all the other players, with the low ceiling, in closer proximity(closer together frequency wise) so you run again the risk of muddled sound.

BUT, if a control room is a requirement, then I would look for the area that makes the best sense for it, omit the vocal booth ( use gobos instead) and enjoy the whole room.

[akaider]

Well I iwas thinking about dividing the room just to make it look more professional since I would like to record my jams with a good quality sound but I can just divide the room in 2 just to keep a small area for control room outside and the other room isolated. as for the isolation I can hear some of the hi's and low's outside nothing that would bother the neighbours I just dont wanna annoy my wife with the Hi's and low's around the house, since the room is wall to wall with bedroom and kitchen. aA far of the inside it is crazy and the sound is bouncing like crazy I've been researching about how and where to place inner walls to make the contained sound a little I was planing to put walls at angle but I would be sacrificing space. Im trying to get ideas just to see what and where can I place in this room to make it sound professional.

[xSpace]

"dividing the room just to make it look more professional since I would like to record my jams with a good quality "


Like I said, the volume of the room is what you require to get good audio in a microphone AND for the human ear...looking more professional in this instance will only have you looking more professional but having bad recordings and difficult sounds.