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Ideas for building a decent editing studio?
I’m trying to put togheter a HD editing studio,
the room is around 4×3 meter (13×10 feet).Right now it’s a empty, newly painted room (grey).
I already have all the technical gear, like desk, chairs, computer, monitors, speakers, breakoutboxes, editing bays etc.
I also have some lounge chairs for clients that I’m gonna put in the corner of the room. Aswell as soom nice lamps and stuff.Any suggestions on what i need to buy to make it a nice room to work in, especially for acoustics and what not?
If anyone got some sketches that would be nice.
My budget is below $1000.help/suggestions?
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Something I learned from a book somewhere which has worked well with me was to get some graph paper (1/4″ squares) ea square represents 1 foot. Then precisely measure all your furniture and cut out accurate scaled squares out of cardstock to represent everything in your room and lable them. You can now move these pieces of card around on the graph paper to see what set-ups will fit/work the best.
My room is 14X14 and I have most everything in 4 – 7′ racks (if they would only stop making all this new stuff). One thing that helped immensely was eliminating the area behind the racks you need for access to the back of the gear. This area was about 2′ and it was still tight to access equipment back there.
THE SOLUTION: Since there was a regular hallway behind the wall the racks were infront of, I was able to build the back of the racks into this hall wall. The hallway still works as a hallway but the back of the racks are along one side. The racks all have nice mesh doors so it actually looks cool in the hall. The side pannels of the racks have all been removed except the end ones so all the wireing goes through the sides from rack to rack. There is more room to access the back of the gear and I made the editing room 2′ bigger by eliminating the old access space.
This type of renovating is not always possible but what an advantage it has been for me.
“everything is broken”
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Don’t forget one large jar of Jelly Bellies. 😉
Kevin Monahan
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Good that you’re considering the sound side of things. The room acoustics can make more difference than your choice of monitoring speakers.
If you have time to read a book, F. Alton Everest has one called “Acoustic Techniques for Home & Studio” which is out of print, but you can get it used at Amazon. Also, maybe “Sound Studio Construction on a Budget”.
If you need to do any soundproofing, https://www.soundproofing.org/
I especially recommend their reprint of an EPA book on soundproofing called “QUIETING: A Practical Guide to Noise Control”.
I’ve taken a few classes on acoustics, and this book has everything you need to know about contructing for sound deadening in a compact package.
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Ever buy the big jar of Jelly Bellies from Costco? They never seem to taste right. I kept eating and eating, trying to find one to take the wierd taste out of my mouth but couldn’t do it.
Good thing I bought that huge bag of Hot Tamales. 🙂
travis ballstadt
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