In this extensive series, we showed you how we took a humble timbre garden cabin and converted it into a soundproof recording studio. In this first episode, we gave you a guided tour of the cabin before any of the building work took place. We talked about our initial ideas on how to approach this build along with some thoughts on design.

This video was the first in a series on how to soundproof a home recording studio in which we walk you through the entire process of the garden cabin recording studio conversion.

Listed below are three fundamental aspects we discussed in this video and what we ultimately set out to achieve in this studio build.

Maximise Internal Space

Adjusting the shape of the cabin from it's current uneven layout to a rectangle was the first critical stage. The garden cabin had a porch that protruded into the room, reducing a significant portion of usable internal space. The porch was planned to be removed (inverted) so that a symmetrical rectangle could be built making the internal workspace larger.

Soundproofing

Getting the soundproofing right was one of the most challenging and essential aspects of the studio build. We didn't want to hear the neighbours in their gardens, they didn't want to hear us recording and mixing. The room within a room method was chosen for this build. It's a tried and tested way of reducing sound transmission between the outside world and inside the studio. 

Studio Security

Getting security systems installed can easily be overlooked. Never doubt the importance of having an all bells and whistles security system. Thieves are smart these days and generally attempt to break in when you are not around, that's when a security system pays for itself. 

Below you will find the other articles in this series as well as the final studio build video showing you how we approached this entire project from start to finish.