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My husband wants to make our basement into a recording studio. He’s done recording before, but now that we own our own home he can do more to make things sounds better. We’re not rich and I’m wondering if anyone with experience in this can suggest some good sound-proofing or sound-proof booths to use that aren’t crazy expensive. I don’t mind paying a little extra, but neither one of us are millionares. Your suggestions would really help me out since I’d like to get him going on it soon. I hate seeing him not doing what he loves.
Please, don’t answer if you have no real suggestions. I’m looking for suggestions from people who’ve done this, not people just looking to get points.

One advice is to make sure you don’t get sucked into buying a ton of that egg-carton foam that you see in many studios. That is used to absorb reflections of sound and is not used for actual sound absorption. You can find out more about that at www.auralex.com under acoustics 101. (I’m not a salesman, I just know they have good resources about sound isolation and reflection).

You will get the best results by building a room within a room. Just putting up a ton of foam can still leak sound out the top and much of the sound travels through the floor. If you have a cement floor – great. If not, he should get a raised, isolated floor and build a booth/room within the room and not attached to the building.

If you don’t have the time or resources, you can buy something like this: https://www.gkacoustics.com/store.asp?area=Products&name=Sound%20Isolation%20Booths&categoryid=8
They are expensive.

Here is a trusted resource that talks about building your own.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may04/articles/qa0504-5.htm

Have fun and get recording!

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