Cool Room Studio

[Luke Garfield]

Just been up north for holidays and stopped in on a mate who lives near Byron Bay. He had been building a studio a couple of years back but I hadn't had a chance to check it out.

Basically he's put down a basic slab then he's constructed the outer shell from cool room panels. Bolted this structure together and then set about putting the internal structure in place. Talk about a portable studio - when/if he moves he'll throw the cool room onto the back of a truck and voila!

Now keeping in mind he is using the room solely for tracking vocals and singular instruments. However I am throwing myself into the studio ring this year and setting about building a control room and small overdub booth (plus a utility room with the excess space). He says you can get the panels in 6m lengths which suits my early design ideas of at least an 11ft internal ceiling. The structure pops together quite straight forwardly he assured me, he even had his good lady wife bolting the panels together (nothing like a supportive other when studio building).

Anyone ever come across this idea. I'm quite impressed with the finished product and for the price it looks good and more importantly sounds great.

[Kris]

ok. I thought this was about the cool room studios in melbourne.

www.myspace.com/thecoolroom

carry on.

[Luke Garfield]

Haha. Yeah I should have seen that coming.

[Kurt]

I thought about doing it myself but did a bunch of research on the 'net which put me off the idea. Apparently thermal insulation is not particularly effective sound insulation, though it may be enough in a fairly quiet area like Byron. (especially if the cool room was free or cheap!)

[Luke Garfield]

yeah you're quite right about the area he's living in.

I guess that the thermal insulation isn't particularily dense and hence doesn't have fabulous absorption coefficients. I think I'll need to do a bit more research myself...

[Chris H]

ok. I thought this was about the cool room studios in melbourne.

www.myspace.com/thecoolroom

carry on.

your link dont work for some reason.
Maybe this one will. I did a lot of soldering at the cool room in a mad rush to get it ready to mix an album.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =106736881

[Mark Bassett]

The link didn't work because there was a fullstop at the end, which I've now removed.

Carry on.

[Kris]

Cheers Mark.

The Cool Room is Henry Seeley's studio (Planetshakers). They used Nashville engineer J.R. McNeely for quite a while and now Henry is doing the mixes. Not bad for a 'basement' studio eh? I think the SSL was taken care of by Mixmasters.