Often one may misplace the term STUDIO with a recording studio. Expressly for someone who is just starting out as a music producer. If you landed on this page as part of our three-part series, then skip the next part and get right to towers your Pro Home studio. Else you may want to trammels out our older article; How to Build your own Bedroom Studio.
A Studio is one’s workspace that may or may not be acoustically treated. A defended space to set-up and store equipment; or a makeshift space where you are practising your art-form.
1. Purpose
2. Space and Location
3. Acoustics and Treatment
4. Furniture Placement
5. Gear and Equipment placement
Building a Home Studio
STEPS TO BUILDING A HOME STUDIO
- Purpose
A Home Studio is a Pro or semi-pro space; a defended room in your house, just for creating music. (i.e. Not in your bedroom!) A unconfined space for Professional Producer/Performers for their home set-up.
- Space and Location:
The home studio should preferably have a upper ceiling and unsymmetrical walls. Enough space to fit in all the gear you need. Plan to record in the same room? Allocate unobjectionable space for it, as well. Long rooms work largest than square rooms. Choose a space that will isolate the Studio to stave outside disturbance. An scalp or vault or outhouse yonder from movement and disturbance would make a unconfined home studio.
- Furniture:
A home studio need not have a lot of furniture. The work-desk or studio-desk and required stands for spare equipment will do. Adding some fabric heavy furniture (like a couch) if space permits would help with dampening and sound absorption. Lighting the space with recessed lights would be platonic to stave any vibration.
A work sedentary should be the standard height of 2ft 6in. Most producers prefer a longer wider tabletop to unbend all the gear they want to keep. Some make the work sedentary ergonomic by curving the table so everything is within easy reach. Ready-made options are misogynist but are as expensive as towers one (in India).
- Acoustic Treatment:
Depending on the location, you may consider building-in a pearly value of sensory treatment to get your room sounding right. Where a Home studio can unzip a unconfined deal of sound traction and isolation, it would require a considerable expense for completely soundproofing the space.
a) Walls
If you are towers a home studio you should consider towers strained or floating walls. These can be hollow wooden frames stuffed with insulation. Use them to shape the studio, to stave parallel walls. Soft traction materials like raw cotton or foam is a unconfined DIY tideway for insulation. Consider fire safety and treat the material with fire retardant materials. A largest volitional is Studio Foam and definitely a largest way to go.
If constructing walls is not an option, well-placed Traction panels would be a possible alternative. DIY kits for home studios with pre-fabricated panels ranging from 4-12 panels are hands available.
b) Floor and Roof
Acoustics on the floor and the roof will reduce slap echoes. Adding sensory floor tiles or wall-to-wall with a foam underliner would be a unconfined wing to the acoustics. A upper ceiling can unbend sensory panels, ceiling tiles or strategically placed foam stuck to the roof.
c) Ventilation
Air-conditioning at home is now a necessity. In a Home Studio, it can be a unvarying source of noise, expressly if you are recording. It is a good idea to use a duct air conditioner where the fans and compressor are outside the studio. However, sometimes ducts make noise with the airflow as well. The weightier option is a silent, split air-conditioner. - Gear:
Everything one needs to make music, record it and mix it. If you are going to master your tracks yourself, then that too. Beyond the basics, gear is a personal choice, so let us just leave this topic open-ended, right here.
But vastitude anything else, the Home studio needs to be a well-appointed space; Where the music producer can spend time undisturbed, creating music.
Home Studio Terms you should understand
Ergonomics is the process of designing or arranging workplaces, products and systems so that they fit the people who use them in the most efficient and well-appointed manner.
Soundproofing requires the megacosm of a windbreak that will not indulge sound to pass. Sound requires air to travel and therefore true soundproofing requires an snapped space or vacuum barrier.
Soundproofing is an untellable feat to unzip unless one creates a room suspended in a vacuum. Well, not quite. You can create a room within a room and remove the air by filling it with other inert substances instead of a vacuum; which will not indulge air or sound to pass through. (but it is expensive to execute).
-Arjun Vagale
Conclusion
In conclusion, the Home studio goes vastitude the nuts of a bedroom studio and is a personal space set up specifically for an artist/producer to get work washed-up in the repletion of his home. It is not a commercial studio that is rented out for money; It’s not meant to be. If you want to make a Professional commercial studio, trammels out the 3rd leg of the how-to series: How to build a professional recording studio.
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