Building A Home Studio - Update
Way back in October last year I mentioned that I was planning to build a practice studio in my garage so I thought I’d update you on the progress. That won’t take long… there hasn’t been any!
A few things got in the way, the main thing being the budget or lack of budget. When I actually sat down and worked out what materials I needed in order to adequately soundproof a 6 metre by 4.5 metre space then budget became a problem. Sure I could work on it over time but the problem was that i need to do some recording and I need to do it now! This calls for a compromise.
The recording I need to do is just some vocal narration work but it needs to be good quality. The buses going past my house don’t help. The short term answer came to me last week. Build a vocal booth! I can knock together a simple but effective vocal booth quite quickly and cheaply. So that’s going to be step 1 of the home practice/recording studio. Once I’ve got that in place I can slowly start to build the larger room around it as budget allows. Not a bad plan, eh?
The booth will measure 1.8 metres by 1.2 metres or about 5feet by 4feet in the old money. That will be plenty big enough for my large frame and a single mic on a stand. The construction will be chip board on the inside and outside with a pine frame filled with fibreglass insulation. I’ll add carpet to the outside and accoustic foam to about three quarters of the inside plus carpet on the floor. By my reckoning it should be pretty quiet but either way it’s going to be much better than trying to record in my noisy house.
Construction will start later this week (if it stops raining) and I’ll do some update posts with pictures as I go. Stay tuned!
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