SONIC-ROCKET
RECORDING STUDIO
CONSTRUCTION
The great thing about the rough construction phase is the nearly immediate gratification. Most of the walls were up by the end of 2013 and the whole place had that delicious Douglas Fir new construction smell.
The great thing about the rough construction phase is the nearly immediate gratification. Things go from being a big saw dust filled mess to something that really allows you to picture the actual space very quickly.
Most of the walls were up by the end of 2013 and the whole place had that delicious Douglas Fir new construction smell.
There is enough 5/8″ drywall in this studio to do a small apartment complex. All the walls and ceilings have two layers independently taped and separated by a layer of green acoustic glue. All the angles and crevices made sanding and prepping the surfaces costly and time consuming.
The core changes to the plumbing were adding a water heater, moving the lavatory, and raising the waste up to accommodate the raised floor.
The subfloor is built from 2×6 lumber isolated from the cement shop floor by rubber “uboats”. About a mile of conduit was installed to hold the various audio connecting cables. The whole assembly was topped with two layers of 3/4″ plywood separated by green acoustic glue.
Already by this time the few friends that knew what I was up to started asking “When do you think you’ll have it finished?” I never could give them a straight answer but fortunately I do come from a family of building contractors so I knew going into the project the two universal truths of building 1-It’s gonna take longer than you think and 2-It’s gonna cost more than you think. As it turned out… Both were true for my project.