On May 21, 8:24*pm, (hank alrich) wrote:
5016 wrote:
On May 20, 3:21 pm, Frank Stearns
wrote:
5016 writes:
I have a room about 1000sqft. I want to build a studio, no control
room, just a single room.
Very roughly, how much will it cost for me to pay to someone else to
build it? (I'm in suburban NY).
It does not have to be a commercial quality wow-me build, but it does
need to be very well sound insulated with soundproof windows, floating
floor, walls, ceiling redone and HVAC done right.
My first guess was $150K. More or less?
There is a HUGE amount of information missing here. Right off the bat is
ceiling height. If it's 8 feet or less, you're screwed - at least to do
what you state. If it's 10 feet you're still screwed, just not quite as
badly. If it's 12 to 16 ft, you
15 feet
That can be enough.
have a fighting chance. 20-24 feet, yeah, now you're cooking with gas..
What is the shape of the room?
In total there is 4500sqft that can be utilized as needed. The shape
of the room will be determined when detail design is carried out.
What's in the neighborhood?
Houses, that's why it needs to have very effective soundproofing
What are you going to do in the space?
Rehearse and record a single band. It will not be rented out to other
clients.
Rock band? I.e., fairly loud? Or not?
Yes, fairly loud rock band.
If you're working with punk bands and there's not much else in the
immediate area outside, you can do with less iso than, say, if you were
recording small, delicate harps and the neighbor next door had the punk
band, or there was a stamping mill or freeway not far away.
$150K might be 10x more than you need, or it might be 2-3x less than you
need, depending on those beginning factors noted above. There's much,
much more, as well...
Forgive me, but are you trolling, or is this a serious question?
It's serious. Obviously, the answer can only be very vague at this
stage. Just trying to get an order of magnitude estimate before
starting any serious design.
The catch there is you have to get to the point of closing in on at
least the outline of details before you can pin the amount of $ needed.
Is the budget for just the room, or will that also cover the equipment?
I'm trying to price out the room first. That's the difficult thing to
price out; equipment is straightforward to price.
One more thought: if this is a fun project with no serious outcome
intended, cool. But if this is intended to be a serious project with
potentially successful commercial outcome, for a small fraction of that
amount of money one can record and mix and master in fine facilities
working with experienced engineers, and have a lot of money left over
for promtion and publicity, tour support, etc.
This direction is not the most economically efficient one. But, at
least up to a point, that is not the primary consideration here.
Frank asks below whether this will be contracted out or not. The
entire build will be contracted out. I'm not entirely sure about how
much money would be allocated to the design stage, but this is a
single room and I would not be employing a high-dollar studio design
professional to manage the project. I would probably pay some
consulting fees to validate the approach. But I'm primarily interested
in approximate build costs.
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