Soundman2020 - Studio Design Forum

Well, it seems that me making a studio is meant to cause enormous stress, frustration and as many problems as possible. Problems with the design, 18 months of waiting to get a permit, choosing the wrong builder who fucked me around for 9 months and worked one day and disappeared. Now I have fired hi...

Yes.. they came for one day and I have not seen or heard from them in 10 days.. Just crazy... The way things work or don't work in Portugal is enough to drive one mad but you just have to work with the system, no matter how dysfunctional. Anyway, I have started my studio fundraiser and feel free to ...

We started the process in May 2018, Stuart and I before that.... Anyway, things are super slow in Portugal to get just about anything done. Signed a contract in March 2020 with a builder and after 7 months, they finally started yesterday. Incredible.. Anyway, they tore down most of the ruin yesterda...

Well, 2020 is 3/4 over now and the builder still has not started to build my studio, despite us signing a contract in March!!!! I just wanted to let people know, it is still going to happen and he says soon, but I have been hearing that for months... I keep you posted.. Supposed to start next week b...

Contract with the builder (just to make the building, not the studio inside) has been signed. They will start in the next 3 weeks and be finished before May 29th. Wow.. Hard to believe after 3 years this is going to happen now. I will keep you posted.

Hello Stuart..... They are going to start very soon with tearing down the ruin and the plan for the foundation that the contractor has now does not include having anything in the foundation. Can't all of these cables just run in the walls? My time is running out to make any changes and I would have ...

I am gearing up to finally build my studio and a thinking about Direct boxes. I will record mostly rock music (guitars, bass, drums, keyboards) in the studio and will need some DI boxes but I was thinking to decrease clutter, it could be very handy to just have a few multichannel DIs build directly ...

Good news folks... I finally agreed with a local builder to start construction on my studio. Looks like they will start next week. It was about 10,000€ more expensive than I had planned but this seems the best we can get at this time. All the other builders where 20,000€ more. I will post pictures a...

This is the architectural plans to make the building. Thr roof slants down from 5m in the back to 4.2m in the front. Pay no attention to they way the rooms are laid out inside as we are free to do whatever we want inside and will follow the design as stuart has made it except we are moving the stora...

Stuart designed me a studio about 2 years ago. It was never totally completed but enough. It is about 80m2 with a 23m2 control room, 33m2 live room with 4.5m high ceilings, and an entrance room that we will treat so that vocals can be recorded in there. It has been a long journey as it is a difficul...

Wow.. that is great.. I look forward to when I am at this point. I am correct that this is only for when you room is finished and you have placed your speakers in the softits that you can run this? Also, how do you make these kinds of measurements in your live room?? Where do you set up your speaker...

Nice to see the new forum taking form. I recently read this article about Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, No Man, etc..) who I am a huge fan of his 5.1 mixes and also his own albums. I was just so surprised when I see the room that he mixes in. It has just about everything wrong you image and yet he ...