Making my office LOOK and SOUND good! 

Keep in mind the feet or wheels of a chair moving around on those carpet tiles will separate the seams VERY quickly. Definitely suggest one of those mats that you put under your chair to keep that from happening, if you hadn't already thought of that of course. Cheers!

I can't remember which RU-vidr recommended your channel, but I'm so glad I'm here. Just finished binging your studio build.

Yes! Glad you referenced Brad's video. Fix This Build That for those interested.

The design of the ceiling panels and LED light bars came out very clean / modern. Really sharp looking.

This is hands down the most beautiful ceiling treatment I've seen. I was worried the foam would ruin the vibe of the room, but the colour of it pairs really well with your wallpaper! Great job!

I’m sure someone has already said it but it’s an old work junction box. New work would have nails that you attach to the stud before it’s been dry walled.

I feel like a mean internet butt pointing it out, but the junction box is an OLD work electrical box, not a new work. New work electrical boxes assume you have access to the studs prior to the drywall going up, so they can be nailed into the studs. Michael, that room is looking crazy awesome. You can really tell your artistic stylings come through. I hope you find yourself being inspired by your own work in the room and keep delivering the amazing content you provide. Thank you for sharing.

I’m surprised it was that cheap. I’ve spent almost $13K treating my studio. That’s just for acoustic and structural materials, no gear and that is still on the very low end of what you can spend. That price includes soffit monitors, absorption panels, diffusion panels, bass traps, asymmetrical and moveable false walls, custom soundproof doors and a standalone iso booth with doubled acrylic windows. I’m not a commercial studio and this is very modest compared to a lot of home studios you’ll find all over RU-vid. Yours turned out great! Well done!

That was an OLD work box since you were not building everything from scratch. Great job on everything else. I love watching your projects come to life!

I produce music and the less echo when recording the better. A very simple work around to bad acoustics is hanging up blankets on the wall. It eliminates any echo by absorbing the sound. 🙂

Is it weird that I am a SWF over 60 with very minimal power tool experience who lives in a condo in the Canadian Pacific Northwest yet I find your videos informative, enjoyable and very relaxing!? Hope not cause I will keep watching anyway.

Aesthetically AND accoustically perfect - if the folks can't find you, I know where you'll be!

Hey Michael, audio engineer here. If you need a hand with anything...let me know. The room is coming together really nice. Keep it up!

Very nice sir!! Also welcome to the joys (and rabbit hole) of audio treatment!! I think you did a great job and hit most of the high points for what you're wanting to do (which is basically ADR / Voice Over work). A few ideas to keep in mind if you need to do it again: - One thing to note about the batting in those panels you used. Ideally you also would want a cover on the back of the panel to keep the fibers from getting into the air and you breathing them over time. Granted, yours are put flush with the ceiling, so might not be as big a deal in your case? But something to consider - The room is crazy reverberant because of all of the hard, reflective, long and flat parallel surfaces! Hence when you put the carpet down, you noticed it didn't make that much of a difference? It's all of the highly reflective walls that are parallel to each other that's the bulk of your problem. Hence you could most likely remove that carpet and still be fine if you wanted to at this point. The one thing to keep in mind if you do this is when you record, if you sit down and roll around, the wheel noises will get picked up by a quality mic. But just to note that there's plenty of high end music studios that have hardwood / concrete floors, they'll just place a rug down as needed. - Making the panel boxes is a great way to go!! BUT, you also have a lot of flexibility as well. For the batting, there's the stuff you got, there's also Roxul 40/60, and there's an Owen's Corning equivalent as well. You can make them in different thicknesses based on your goal. Since you're not trying to sound proof the room (i.e. stop all internal / external sound bleed) and you're only dealing with voice, you can go with 1" thick panels or less as those will absorb the higher frequencies and tame the echo-ness of the room. The thicker the panel, the lower the frequencies it can absorb. But for voice, anything thicker than 2" is probably overkill. - Another trick you could do is take the middle section of your walls and convert them to foam / fabric covered panels (the green areas with the golden drawings. You could probably get that same pattern printed on some thin fabric panel acoustic boards and that would probably kill most of your reflections due to the bulk of the reflective surface area it would replace. - also how dead are you wanting the room? In ADR / Voice Over there's a desire to make the room as dead as possible so the sound mixers can add the appropriate reverb back onto the voice. But for what you're doing, you still probably want the room to be a little "alive" still (meaning a touch of room echo). In our brains we use the echo to help define spatial awareness, as well as make a place "feel" real to us (it's a reason most people can't tolerate an anechoic chamber for more than about 15 to 30 minutes before getting agitated). So what you have now is probably a really nice blend of reflective surfaces, and taming the reflections just enough for your needs. - another trick for ceiling panels is instead of flush mounting them, you hang them just a little (like several inches). The reason for this is then the back-side of the panels can absorb more reflections. The sound will bounce off the ceiling and into the back of the panel, which will trap even more sound, where as if it's flush with the ceiling the waves will just bounce off the side of the panel and back into the room. A good hanging trick is you use some linked chain, and then screw in hooks on the 4 corners, then just drill holes in the ceiling and use alligator anchors with hooks to suspend the panels. You can even play with the length of chain on each end of the panel to angle them in interesting ways. - back lighting - if you suspend the panels, you can put LED strips on the back of them and create really nice ambient back lighting - parallel walls create reflective build ups (go into recording studios and you'll see that usually the room has some odd walls / ceilings to alter the reflections). So the ceiling panels in your case helped to break up the surface to get the sound to bounce around more and lose energy in the process (as well as some of it being absorbed). This is also why the red foam panels you put up are angled, to help spread the reflections in different directions. So if you find the room still isn't tame enough for what you want, you can add some vertical panels on the long sidewalls using the same batting and technique as the ceiling panels. That will break up the long reflective surface of the wall. Definitely do the 1" off the wall trick in this case as it'll expose the back of the panel like in the above tip - For fabric, you want fabric that still breathes and lets the waves pass through. If you want the safest choice, Guilford of Maine specializes in making acoustic fabric (and I think they also meet various fire code requirements). Else a simple test is to breath through the fabric to make sure that a decent amount of air can get through (meaning if very little air goes through, then the sound will mostly bounce off the fabric rather than go through into the batting). OK I'll stop ;p. Obviously this is a subject I really enjoy as I've made my own recording studio and went through a lot of this research. Great looking office now sir!!!

I was going to comment on why the second one did not fit but I am glad I waited. I like the cut of you jib, Sir. The office is gorgeous.

If you ever want add any additional acoustic treatment in the future, one option to explore would be building some diffusers. While absorbers prevent sound reflections, diffusers scatter reflections, which helps increase acoustic clarity while retaining some pleasing reverberation. Professional studios typically use a mixture of acoustic absorption and diffusion to control echo, flutter, and other acoustic anomalies without completely deadening the room. I could see you building some fir or spruce diffusers that would really blend with and enhance the overall esthetic of your space. Which would certainly be preferable to hanging more fabric boxes on the wall! Great job as always!!

"Hi-Chews & Set Screws" would look good on a shirt, has a nice ring to it ;)

Hi Michael. That electrical box is an "Old" work box. I know your not an electrician so I thought you would want to knon. The office looks great!! Nice job!

You know what Mich... this office needs some DIY speakers made with patterned plywood front baffles! One day you'll give in and make a set to shut me up😁😆😉

Awesome stuff!! Thanks from all of us carpenters here in Australia 🇦🇺 🍺👍

My wife calls this the channel the slow clap channel because after every video I always give a slow clap because I'm in awe of the craftsmanship

So good that you gave credit to other creators where due. Nice one!

Love that you were wearing other youtube makers tees

Standing desk and chair combo? Would love to see you make one custom for your set-up. Electronics might be a different flavor for your channel.

I think you meant to say that it is an old work electrical box :) cheers! Awesome project video as usual

All hail the algorithm for recommending this video. Nice work, man!

Damn! You make it LOOK so EASY!😄

That room is really coming along!

Amazing.

Michael, over the past couple weeks you've become one of my favorite RU-vidrs. Really good stuff

Cool and Amazing! Well done!

Wow. Have been a little baffled as to what to do with my basement. Now I think I have an inspiration.

That was an awesome video! Thanks!

you do fantastic work

Nice job. Thanks for sharing

Beautiful work as always. Thanks for sharing!

Hey! The micro particule from the insulation material is smaller than the fabric’s hole. For your health you need to put a vapor barrier in between. For those who don’t beleve that, i invit you to search the size of the rockwool’s particule vs the size of tissus hole.

This came out amazing!

This man is gonna hack his way through life lol. You've earned a sub sir xD

I remember in the '60s, pulped paper egg boxes were very popular for deadening sound!

Looks great!

Thanks so much for sharing the journey with us!

Awesome work and awesome result!

I love seeing all the time and energy you put into everything you do. Congrats on another great video!

Very nicely done!

Looks great, sounds great! Thanks for sharing.

Great result!

looks soooo nice! congrats and thanks for sharing your projects!

Well done!

Love this build. Far nicer with wood and wallpaper than the garfice (garage office) I am in now. I work from home, on video conferences nearly all day and didn't want to share a office with guest room. Building out garage for storage and offices is the best, and this is my second one, did one in FL house for storage and dog room before. This garfice is 4'6" x 6'8" made of 2x4's and roof of room is a 19" space for my storage boxes, works great. The portable AC was too loud in room, so one day I mounted it on the rooms wall outside on a shelf, then boxed in portable AC to get return air from office, and boxed top cold air in through roof side, yes very redneck but has worked great and even use remote from inside using a USB remote extender. Cut a area rug to fit and lightly glued under edge of baseboard and threshold by door. Outside 2 walls (garfice is in back left corner of garage) is covered with french cleats for all my tools, another great idea. I am in the garfice 8 or more hours per day and it's great. For electric, it is all romex with outlets and switches for lights but short wall has a male RV outlet in wall for heavy duty ext cord to my dedicated 20am outlet, so unplug office easily. Used structural screws and tapcons as I wanted to be able to take it all down fairly easily. But now I have good ideas from you to upgrade and make it way nicer.

Just amazing

Bro. Your intro with the probe lens. SOO GOOD. I see you. I see you. Game recognizes game.

Great job man!

Dude. Congrats. Badass!

Great job! Looks great as well

You get specialist canvas stretching pliers for mounting prints- basically a very wide jaw with a ridge on one side to use as a lever

incredible job. Love your work. Inspirational.

That’s a terrific looking studio! Well done.

OMG ! ITS BEAUTIFUL! SO GREAT JOB!

Great job. Love it!

Looks awesome and very inspiring

Love the lighting you did in here, great work with the sound panels as well!

Great job

It looks so cozy too!

What a great looking room. Nice job!

Amazing! The room is truly a work of art, fantastic job man.

fantastic craftsmanship!

We bought super cheap foam like that and spray glued thin pieces of styrofoam to the back that we cut with a jig and heated wire. Saved a butt load of money and it works fabulous.

This is amazing!!! Gonna go watch part 1 now

Fantastic!

Great video, again!

Good results and the room really looks great!

This is so good! Love it

Brilliant acoustic treatment and super aesthetically pleasing! It's a beautiful room - bravo!

Nice work! Enjoyed watching the show!

Wow this looks like an absolute dream office! Fantasic pairing with dark green wallpaper, burgandy foam, and light wood -- came out looking beautiful.

Great Job 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

that room is awesome, well done!

Very nice!

Sent this to a couple family members who do audio-video editing. That said, the mismatched colors of acoustic foam would drive me a bit bonkers. 😆

wow, fantastic, LOVE FROM ITALY

You could always try to find a textile, or have one printed, that matches your wallpaper. You could then make acoustic panels for your walls, as well. May not be needed at this point, since it sounds pretty good, already.

Love it!!

Nailed it, sounds great from here!

Love the design of your office.

Looks great! My only comment is that the electric box is an "Old Work" box if it has screws to clamp it to the existing drywall. A "New Work" box has nails so you can nail it directly to studs before the drywall is up.

Dude, you're a legend! that looks so good! love the way you walk us through what you're using and why. and the ceiling cleat worked out so good!

Amazing!

amazing! u r one talented guy!!👍👍

Such an impressive room! Amazing work, Michael!!

This transformation has been awesome, and so many different techniques to learn from. You’re a very talented individual, thanks so much for sharing!

Such an improvement!! Good stuff Michael

Love Hi-Chews! Great work!

Turned out gorgeous Michael!

Those lights with those ceiling boxes looks great!

BTW and for what it's worth... Your use of the sentence ' The quick RED fox jumped over the lazy BROWN dog. ' The knit pick is to have a sentence that includes all letters of the alphabet. It's what I was taught in printer school. Not sure of the necessity of the word ' red ' as the letters appear elsewhere. It might be just for the flow of the sentence structure. Thought you might find it interesting. All the best, Pete

amazing and I am learning a lot from your methods

wow that room looks so cool

really impressive design and execution.

Nicest office ever!!! I love it.