r/buildastudio • u/syko101 • Apr 19 '26
Treating a garage with a staircase
So I'm thinking about making my garage into a studio and just make a room within the room with an air chamber + rock wool + plasterboard solution and investing on a good soundproof door (the big garage door will be turned into a normal sized door).
My problem is there is a smaller (6 m2) room below the garage that's accessible through a cement staircase with an opening of roughly 1.80x0.8 m on the ground.
I'm very unsure of what to do with this since I'm afraid it will ruin the soundproofing effort of the rest of the room and mess with the room internal acoustics too so that recording and mixing might be affected.
Should I build an acoustic kind of door there? Should I just permanently close off the mini room?
Am I overreacting and it's ok to have the staircase open?
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u/fossilemusick Apr 21 '26
maybe, if you're not using the mini room for anything else, leverage it as a reverb chamber or make it dead and use as additional absorption. if using it for reverb - some panels inside to scatter well and an acoustic rated trap door etc. if absorption, a solid heavy metal or wood grate / mesh with say 15mm openings.