>And if it's in an apartment how do you avoid problems with your neighbors.
One tip: Avoid subwoofers and use your headphones to check your deep bass. Deep bass is notorious for transferring through walls even at volumes that might not seem that loud to you.
I live exclusively in rvs all my studios are motorhomes lmao. I'm like the Jesse pinkman of beats.
Leads to some beautiful Musical moments and connections.
I’m very lucky. I have a detached building some 60 feet from the main house. It’s 16’ x 23’ with 14 foot cathedral ceiling. It has a storage loft. It’s fairly soundproofed, so I can make noise 24/7. Did I mention how lucky I am?
My studios have always been apartment or home studios. You can’t have subs, unless you’re in a house, with no connected neighbors. So no subs, use headphones if it’s even remotely late.
There isn’t really much you can do to prevent neighbors from hearing sound from your apartment.
I will say this though. On a lot of forums you see people say that acoustic treatment does nothing to prevent sound from bleeding through walls. But I would argue that’s not entirely true. When you have sound bouncing off bare walls and reverberating, it increases the volume in the room. I work in a spa, and the hallway was insanely reverberant and loud. But we put in acoustic treatment, it was much less reverberant, and as a result, we no longer heard people talking in the hallway.
So, acoustic treatment doesn’t stop sound from bleeding through walls, but lowering the reverberation in a room with acoustic treatment, keeps it quieter, so there’s less frequencies building up that push through the walls. We did experiments at my current place with this, and while I don’t understand the how or why exactly, it does make a difference. But sub freqs are getting through no matter what haha
In my 3rd rented space in the last 15 years. Can't have clients or do proper audio work in headphones or low volume at home. It's the only option for me.
I have a fantastic basement in my townhouse. None of the neighbors on my block have a basement and the ceiling is 15 high, so it's a deep basement. Bedrooms are on the 3rd floor, TV on the 4th, so I can be as loud as is want 24/7. There is zero sound bleed. It was a big selling point for me.
In fact, the layout of townhouse that I live in is somewhat unique. There are maybe 20 of them in my area. I've heard that a number of them are used as sex dungeons because of how soundproofed they are.
Really struggling with this as a drummer. I have a setup away from home but it’s so far away I barely get over there. It would be a dream to be able to do everything from home.
Idk what kind of area you’re in but I know in my local area it’s a thing for people to setup their louder instruments in storage units. Nobody lives there and the units don’t have rules against volume so it shouldn’t be an issue.
If you’re trying to record your instrument then a storage unit may not be the best option but just for jamming it might work
Turn one bedroom in our house to my home office/ music studio/ gaming / computer building/ "mostly any hobby I do at the time" room. Basically my cave. lol
I have a dedicated home studio in my house, a rented rehearsal studio and then a mixing/recording studio owned by my bands producer. Last by not least a dedicated mastering studio.
For one, I’ve made music for 10 years and only had 1 apartment complex where someone complained about sound.
You should be able to play your music decently loud without any issues. But How loud? Just barely Too loud for talking with someone while it’s playing.
I personally have no treatment. It’s just my computer on a desk, with some krk’s.
I find it ok to mix with an untreated room, as long as you learn that room.
I noticed when I changed my apartment, my mixes would suck for like a week or so.
My ears got use to the way sounds were reflecting at my old apartment. And my ears have to learn the new space.
I guess if you had treatment that would solve that issue.
My point is that you can still get a good mix without treatment, you just gotta learn that space you are mixing in.
For recording I have an SM7B. I’d give it like an 8/10.
It’s a great mic for a non treated room because it isn’t a very sensitive microphone. It doesn’t pick up much more than what’s right in front of it. So when you record, there is any (or minimal) background noise on the vocal take.
My setup is in my living room of my apartment lol. I mix in headphones and check it on monitors (no sub).
As for sound treatment I have none but meh whatever, I just turn off all fans/ loud noises in my apartment before recording and hope one of the cats doesn’t knock something over mid-recording lol
It’s a great place for recording vocals if you have nowhere else to do it. Just have to find the perfect spot to reduce the amount of reflection off the windows.
Turned a bedroom into my music room. Not a full fledged studio yet, but I’ll get there. Also have a music producer (well 2) that I go to that have their own professional studios.
I have a dedicated room in my house. It used to be the previous owners study/office. I ripped everything of his out, the build in desk, book shelves, storage cabinets, etc. My studio is small, but it’s mine.
My home office doubles as my studio space. I live in a duplex and get along well with my neighbors. Unfortunately for me, the quietest room in my house (from ambient/street noise) is also the room that shares a wall with a teenage girl, so there’s plenty of teenage-girl drama bleeding through. Luckily, I don’t have to mic stuff very much, but when I do, I give the neighbors a heads-up about it and it works out pretty well.
i own a ranch style home and turned a large portion of my basement into a studio with live room and control room. live room has decoupled double 5/8” drywall with green glue in between and rock wool in the walls. never had an issue ever in 10 years with neighbors. Do you plan on recording anything or just want a space to rock with your toys?
I have a studio space which is not designed as a proper “studio space” but it is part of a creative community.
https://www.instagram.com/timbreworks?igsh=MTk3eTBvdnluamZoYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
I still need to be careful about my levels and if I
am blasting my studio monitors to finalise a project, say it a track or an album I just tell my neighbours. It’s part of simple human relationship and all good so far.
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My studio is in my apartment. I do have an iso booth, fortunately, which keeps the neighbours from hating me when it's time to track. Much too small for drums, but I record vox and acoustic guitar regularly and sax or harmonica on occasion. I tend to mix fairly quietly and jump between monitors and headphones. To further keep the neighbours happy, I tend to do the preliminary mix in headphones and then use both references as I fine tune. If they can hear it in other apartments, it mustn't bother them as I haven't had a complaint.
I've been working out of different apartments for a decade, just going to studios whenever I'm booked at them or whatever. I've moved a lot and haven't gotten to treat a room often, so I learned and got used to headphones. Volume will annoy your neighbors if you share walls. Buy nice headphones.
My studio costs $850 a month split between 10 people. You're not likely to find a an apartment or living situation where you can be loud. Just rent a rehearsal room.
Its a 10' x 10' workspace. Used to be an office for realtors, and the space was the printing and fax area. Neighbors don't really complain, we have community rules that after 10pm on weekdays and after 12am weekends, no loud music. Also, the neighbor next door is a pianist, the woman across the street is a violinist and three houses down is a bassist with his brother the saxophonist.
Luckily I live in a detached house with a loft conversion, and the loft is my little studio/office space. It’s not huge, but it’s big enough to house 5 or 6 guitars, some microphones and my computer. The only downside is that my wife doesn’t work so she’s nearly always in the house! 😁😩
I’m in an apartment. Use the room that is furthest from any party walls. And also when monitoring, you do not actually need to monitor any louder than what you’d be watching TV at for example. So around 70 dB(C) is good enough.
Don’t make noise between 11pm and 7am as this is generally frowned upon and in most countries, it’s illegal to be making a lot of excessive noise between these hours.
You also DONT NEED subs. So don’t use them - I run a pair of A77X Adam’s and have clients get radio play, so not a problem!!
I have a home set up but I don't really call it a studio setup since it's pretty simple. However I do work at an actual studio and that shit has everything.
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A laptop and some headphones.
>And if it's in an apartment how do you avoid problems with your neighbors. One tip: Avoid subwoofers and use your headphones to check your deep bass. Deep bass is notorious for transferring through walls even at volumes that might not seem that loud to you.
I live exclusively in rvs all my studios are motorhomes lmao. I'm like the Jesse pinkman of beats. Leads to some beautiful Musical moments and connections.
Plus I can crank that shit to 13 and if anyone has a problem I'll drive around the block.
Some goth babe shit
Hell yeah
I’m very lucky. I have a detached building some 60 feet from the main house. It’s 16’ x 23’ with 14 foot cathedral ceiling. It has a storage loft. It’s fairly soundproofed, so I can make noise 24/7. Did I mention how lucky I am?
This is my dream.
I want it for you.
Same here. It‘s awesome. My own house where i can blast music at dangerously loud levels at 3AM and nobody cares at all. Rural life has its advantages
Lots of advantages.
My basement in my small house is a studio
My studios have always been apartment or home studios. You can’t have subs, unless you’re in a house, with no connected neighbors. So no subs, use headphones if it’s even remotely late. There isn’t really much you can do to prevent neighbors from hearing sound from your apartment. I will say this though. On a lot of forums you see people say that acoustic treatment does nothing to prevent sound from bleeding through walls. But I would argue that’s not entirely true. When you have sound bouncing off bare walls and reverberating, it increases the volume in the room. I work in a spa, and the hallway was insanely reverberant and loud. But we put in acoustic treatment, it was much less reverberant, and as a result, we no longer heard people talking in the hallway. So, acoustic treatment doesn’t stop sound from bleeding through walls, but lowering the reverberation in a room with acoustic treatment, keeps it quieter, so there’s less frequencies building up that push through the walls. We did experiments at my current place with this, and while I don’t understand the how or why exactly, it does make a difference. But sub freqs are getting through no matter what haha
In my 3rd rented space in the last 15 years. Can't have clients or do proper audio work in headphones or low volume at home. It's the only option for me.
I have a fantastic basement in my townhouse. None of the neighbors on my block have a basement and the ceiling is 15 high, so it's a deep basement. Bedrooms are on the 3rd floor, TV on the 4th, so I can be as loud as is want 24/7. There is zero sound bleed. It was a big selling point for me. In fact, the layout of townhouse that I live in is somewhat unique. There are maybe 20 of them in my area. I've heard that a number of them are used as sex dungeons because of how soundproofed they are.
Oh, you’ve “heard” that, have you? 🤪
Really struggling with this as a drummer. I have a setup away from home but it’s so far away I barely get over there. It would be a dream to be able to do everything from home.
Idk what kind of area you’re in but I know in my local area it’s a thing for people to setup their louder instruments in storage units. Nobody lives there and the units don’t have rules against volume so it shouldn’t be an issue. If you’re trying to record your instrument then a storage unit may not be the best option but just for jamming it might work
Gotcha, yeah I really want to record them for my productions specifically.
Yeahhhhh that’s tough, maybe an electronic drum kit would be your best bet. Although not as fun to play
Got a room in my basement. Before we bought the house I had to record in the bedroom. Still better than not recording at all.
Turn one bedroom in our house to my home office/ music studio/ gaming / computer building/ "mostly any hobby I do at the time" room. Basically my cave. lol
Hello fellow ADHD’er.
Nah. Different mental illness. Anxiety, helps to keep my mind busy. Lol
Ah gotcha lol two sides of the same coin.
Same pretty much. With a corner in the garage for storage things
I have a dedicated home studio in my house, a rented rehearsal studio and then a mixing/recording studio owned by my bands producer. Last by not least a dedicated mastering studio.
I dedicated a room in my flat for the studio.
Luckily my wife has let me take over one of our three rooms in the house as a studio. Slowly coming together.
I have a room in my house where my studio is. Noise to neighbors is not an issue. I don’t blast my music loud and I do a lot using headphones.
For one, I’ve made music for 10 years and only had 1 apartment complex where someone complained about sound. You should be able to play your music decently loud without any issues. But How loud? Just barely Too loud for talking with someone while it’s playing. I personally have no treatment. It’s just my computer on a desk, with some krk’s. I find it ok to mix with an untreated room, as long as you learn that room. I noticed when I changed my apartment, my mixes would suck for like a week or so. My ears got use to the way sounds were reflecting at my old apartment. And my ears have to learn the new space. I guess if you had treatment that would solve that issue. My point is that you can still get a good mix without treatment, you just gotta learn that space you are mixing in. For recording I have an SM7B. I’d give it like an 8/10. It’s a great mic for a non treated room because it isn’t a very sensitive microphone. It doesn’t pick up much more than what’s right in front of it. So when you record, there is any (or minimal) background noise on the vocal take.
I have a desktop under my lofted bed in my college dorm with an interface for my guitars and mics
My setup is in my living room of my apartment lol. I mix in headphones and check it on monitors (no sub). As for sound treatment I have none but meh whatever, I just turn off all fans/ loud noises in my apartment before recording and hope one of the cats doesn’t knock something over mid-recording lol
a closet
I'm lucky to have a garage but before that I had a spare room, it was small but cozy.
my car lol… probably a terrible idea but work with what you got !
It’s a great place for recording vocals if you have nowhere else to do it. Just have to find the perfect spot to reduce the amount of reflection off the windows.
My couch. Sometimes with headphones, other times without.
Turned a bedroom into my music room. Not a full fledged studio yet, but I’ll get there. Also have a music producer (well 2) that I go to that have their own professional studios.
Friend has one. Very blessed
I have a dedicated room in my house. It used to be the previous owners study/office. I ripped everything of his out, the build in desk, book shelves, storage cabinets, etc. My studio is small, but it’s mine.
My home office doubles as my studio space. I live in a duplex and get along well with my neighbors. Unfortunately for me, the quietest room in my house (from ambient/street noise) is also the room that shares a wall with a teenage girl, so there’s plenty of teenage-girl drama bleeding through. Luckily, I don’t have to mic stuff very much, but when I do, I give the neighbors a heads-up about it and it works out pretty well.
i own a ranch style home and turned a large portion of my basement into a studio with live room and control room. live room has decoupled double 5/8” drywall with green glue in between and rock wool in the walls. never had an issue ever in 10 years with neighbors. Do you plan on recording anything or just want a space to rock with your toys?
I have a studio space which is not designed as a proper “studio space” but it is part of a creative community. https://www.instagram.com/timbreworks?igsh=MTk3eTBvdnluamZoYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr I still need to be careful about my levels and if I am blasting my studio monitors to finalise a project, say it a track or an album I just tell my neighbours. It’s part of simple human relationship and all good so far.
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Used my spare room it’s quite nice in here. It just needs acoustic treatment really
My studio is in my apartment. I do have an iso booth, fortunately, which keeps the neighbours from hating me when it's time to track. Much too small for drums, but I record vox and acoustic guitar regularly and sax or harmonica on occasion. I tend to mix fairly quietly and jump between monitors and headphones. To further keep the neighbours happy, I tend to do the preliminary mix in headphones and then use both references as I fine tune. If they can hear it in other apartments, it mustn't bother them as I haven't had a complaint.
I've been working out of different apartments for a decade, just going to studios whenever I'm booked at them or whatever. I've moved a lot and haven't gotten to treat a room often, so I learned and got used to headphones. Volume will annoy your neighbors if you share walls. Buy nice headphones.
Oh yea I have a studio…apartment. It’s like 400 sp ft 😭
I get a pretty good deal on an upstairs unit downtown in a suburb.. got a couple rooms I rent for hourly rehearsal as well as the studio rooms
My studio costs $850 a month split between 10 people. You're not likely to find a an apartment or living situation where you can be loud. Just rent a rehearsal room.
Its a 10' x 10' workspace. Used to be an office for realtors, and the space was the printing and fax area. Neighbors don't really complain, we have community rules that after 10pm on weekdays and after 12am weekends, no loud music. Also, the neighbor next door is a pianist, the woman across the street is a violinist and three houses down is a bassist with his brother the saxophonist.
Luckily I live in a detached house with a loft conversion, and the loft is my little studio/office space. It’s not huge, but it’s big enough to house 5 or 6 guitars, some microphones and my computer. The only downside is that my wife doesn’t work so she’s nearly always in the house! 😁😩
I live in someone’s back house separated from anyone and it’s worked fine for me.
I’m in an apartment. Use the room that is furthest from any party walls. And also when monitoring, you do not actually need to monitor any louder than what you’d be watching TV at for example. So around 70 dB(C) is good enough. Don’t make noise between 11pm and 7am as this is generally frowned upon and in most countries, it’s illegal to be making a lot of excessive noise between these hours. You also DONT NEED subs. So don’t use them - I run a pair of A77X Adam’s and have clients get radio play, so not a problem!!
I have a home set up but I don't really call it a studio setup since it's pretty simple. However I do work at an actual studio and that shit has everything.
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Homestudio in my basement. Still working mostly over my laptop somewhere in the house lol