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!

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.

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!

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

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

Those lights with those ceiling boxes looks great!

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!!

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

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 UKposts. Yours turned out great! Well done!

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 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. 🙂

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

Those canvas corners are exactly how artists stretch canvases for paintings -for several centuries

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Thanks so much for sharing the journey with us!

Beautiful work as always. Thanks for sharing!

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!

That’s a terrific looking studio! Well done.

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

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

Compliment a very nice room solution because it makes working fun. Maybe a shelf with a small coffee kitchen is just an idea.👍😀

incredible job. Love your work. Inspirational.

The trim under the foam looks beautiful.

Nice job. Thanks for sharing

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!

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.

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.

fantastic craftsmanship!

Great work Michael. It looks amazing and sounds professional.

The fit and finish is on point, looks professional, sounds great.

Loving the combination of wallpaper and wood paneling. Awesome works~

OMG ! ITS BEAUTIFUL! SO GREAT JOB!

Such an impressive room! Amazing work, Michael!!

Great job! Such an incredible transformation of room! So many details for the trim, walls and ceilings. Those lights are very interesting, something to look into. Again, an awesome project!

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

Looks great, sounds great! Thanks for sharing.

I just found your channel today. I really enjoyed the videos with your storage area and office. Great work!

What a great looking room. Nice job!

That office/studio looks super nice. I love all the trimwork.

Those lights are cool. Good job on the whole project.

Wow, love the end result. And the sounds...the panel on the ceiling did make a difference.

Good results and the room really looks great!

Awesome work and awesome result!

the room turned out great! excellent work! i like how you made it warm, but i would definitely put curtains there

That was spectacularly relaxing to watch, I loved seeing the process of how the room got converted into a comfy, cozy space. Thanks for sharing!

Turned out gorgeous Michael!

Amazing build! It's funny how the before and after audio sample can be so subtle and yet so distinctly different. The results are beautiful!

Well done. I have no other words to describe how awesome everything is on that office build!

Great job! Looks great as well

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

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!

Fantastic Michael! Really brilliant work! 😃 The difference is night and day! Really impressive!!! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Looks awesome and very inspiring

I appreciate you showing some of your difficulties in the project and how you worked through it. Too many times other creators make it seamless and perfect which is not real world experience. Good job!

You did a beautiful job a beautiful studio. Congratz. Great Job.

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

you do fantastic work

Nice work. Sounds so much better - the ceiling panels made a huge difference.

This is so good! Love it

Such an improvement!! Good stuff Michael

Me encanta como quedó, no podria haber resultado mejor, hermosa oficina. Felicitaciones.

Love the design of your office.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️ looks and sound sooo much better! Thankyou for sharing your thought, plans, reasons behind your choices and your finished results. 🙋🏻‍♀️🇬🇧💕jane

Great work, your office turned out really nice! And there's just something about a space that is extra quiet for working / reading - perfect!

I might steal some ideas for my hobby desk! Love the lights

Looking forward to the great office desk you're going to have to build to go with that office.

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

great video mike! love your designs and approaches. we think alike. love how the office is turning out! looks rad!!!!!

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

Michael, the room turned out great and what a difference in sound quality, simply amazing! You have great taste, the room really came together, nice job!

Great job. Love it!

Great result!

Your office is so nice! It's definitely aesthetically and (phonetically) acoustically pleasing. Well done, Michael

You're an absolute professional! Love that you included damn near every tool and resource used within the comments, and organized everything in a succinct manner. Have no qualms sponsoring your efforts by using the links! Thank you for a well designed video and explanation... I hope this continues to be a profitable endeavor for you!

Just spend the last couple hours rinsing through these videos man and honestly feeling very inspired. Looking to buy my first home in the next year and get my home studio set up, hugely inspired by the design of your's it's really fresh but also cosy with the slat wood. Thank you!

Very nicely done!

really impressive design and execution.

Good job. I have to build a studio too. Thx for the info.

This came out amazing!

It looks so cozy too!

I love this series of your room, keep it up!

Nice work! Enjoyed watching the show!

I love that you take the same dedication and quality of your client work to your own space. Not enough makers do that, and it's awesome that your office is a reflection of your personality and a designer. Really love it, what huge improvements you've made!

that room is awesome, well done!

Cool and Amazing! Well done!

This is great! Innovative, clean, professional, and it works! You’ve discovered one of my fav theater set hacks in the fabric drop cloths; they’re much cheaper than fabric per yard and extremely versatile. Looking forward to the next installment. Keep up the good work 👍

Love Hi-Chews! Great work!

That room is really coming along!

Great work on your new office space Michael. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you get up to with that Glow Forge laser. If it is half as novel as the work you have done with patterned plywood, we are all in for a treat!

Great job Caleb. That a big table for sure. I enjoyed the video.

I really like that interior design with the wood and leave walls very naturalistic and also the colour combinations contain some of my favourite colours. Great job i want

I’m in love with the office design