How I Built A Shipping Container Recording Studio // Building Rawcus Studios
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Rawcus Studios is a self build recording studio in a shipping container in Mid Devon. This build took 8 months of research and preparation, with 3 months build time during the summer of 2019.
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Outstanding! Well done, everybody!
GLLLLEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!! Hi.
I was looking for you here!
Fuck you Glen, you think this is actually a good project worth the money of a shipping container? There's no room in there, he would've been better off making the entire space one big mix room. Plus there's no ventilation in the recording room so even if you manage to fit more than one person in there it'll be a dutch-concentration-camp-oven in no time!
Fuck you Glenn
Hi glen fuck you
You can probably ship these pre built studios worldwide now
ill order one right now
NOW THAT'S A NICE BUSINESS IDEA NOW ISNT IT??? Id buy one if i had somewhere to put it
you know i was having the same thought as to how much it would be to purchase one without the partitioning wall. lol
Great idea
Mauricio Duarte H Da Kid just dropped some fire 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Galaxy
That XLR keychain holder was actually sick haha
Tristan Deniet agreed! I’d buy one 😃
@@nl_2652 I sell them! Get in touch in insta @rawbrass
man i was blown away!!!!
You know the guys with egg cartons and chinese studio foam lining the walls of their bedroom at moms house are the ones with all the criticism. At least congratulate him first for for completing his project. So many trolls and haters.
jp tamayo hahaha good call. Yeah, egg cartons. Ya know for those 19-20k nasty frequencies
@@jasongravely7217 I mean, you can build acoustic panels for a reasonable price. This video is cool, but for most people, it makes more sense to use their current space and just build some acoustic panels, spending the rest of their budget on gear.
This is fabulous, congratulations. I used to own 3 recording studios and my next ones will be in converted shipping containers, I made that decision years ago. Glad I saw this, keep on recording!
I used to build studios professionally and what I learned is to make walls non parallel. In a tight space like this you could off- set one end of both walls to be wider at the main door and skinnier in the back. It only takes an inch or so for each so 2” total difference in the width. Absorbers first mid- low on corners goes a long way. Good job
Just curious but what's the reason for doing this, soundwave direction?
Create Love Happy it’s a shipping container 😂
Tegan69 I’m not a pro but I believe less standing waves.
Bass builds up in 90 degree angles
@@jasongravely7217 OK, thanks for your input!
That is actually brilliant
what I learnt from this video
I need friends
and also the music choices of this dude are nothing short of epic!!!!!!!!!
I used a refrigerated container for my studio, saved me a lot of work insulating, and it came with a floating floor. It's made of fibreglass over ply with 2.5" thick foam inside. Awesome build though man, it's really interesting seeing how others went about it
ooooh good idea. I was offered one for £70 but had nowhere to put it. Been thinking about how I could use one since.
Before leaving a commenting on the Control room acoustic treatment please read this!:
The Control room treatment shown in this video was a temporary solution using old pieces of low quality foam from another project. This was just put up as I didn't have the budget to kit this room out and its is better than nothing. I have now treated the control room properly, which you can see on Instagram @rawbrass
read this RIGHT in time! whew. good thing i didn't make myself dumb online!
After seeing all the thought, planning, and work that you went to to build the rest of the studio, the thought never crossed my mind that you were going to leave the control room treated (mistreated?) thusly.
And even if you did, all would still have to be forgiven due to the niftiness of the XLR keychain. A+++!
I screamed out lout when Isaac that after all the effort you put in, you treated the control room with foam :D
Read the Pinned post. I couldn't complete the control room sound treatment straight away for budget reasons. Check out my insert @rawbrass to see the completed control room.
In this day and age, I would use a Geiger counter when selecting a donor container.
Everything about this looked beautiful except the way you put the acoustic foam in the control room.
And the not properly streched fabric on the absorbers, and ....
For a DIY build it's awesome though.
And the positioning of the monitors in the control room. Yikes.
Why would you have a window
@@thedevilsadvocate5210 Needs more windows! And a built in cowbell!!
@@23logaritam how so?
The saddest thing about videos like this is that they only happen once. Amazing build, absolutely loved it!
great thing is, you can watch over and over and over and...
Looks cool in there.
Super interesting to see someone else make one of these. I built my first one in 2018, still going strong. Some differences to yours though. I did floating floor and the resilient channel to hang the walls on, did double layer sound bloc plaster and at the front doors I did sliding glass with cedar cladding. Instead of 2 rooms in the studio I went for a porch/foyer and main room as I'm a media composer and don't really do the band-y stuff when you'd benefit form a "live" room. The porch has tea making facility, the fuse boxes and split system AC controls etc. All my stud walls and floor had rubber mounts to eliminate even more vibrations. Currently get total noise cancelation of 100DB inside to outside. Obvs I can't hear any of there outside while in the studio and it can even hail on the roof with no noise penetration. I did all my wiring under the floor studs to make sure there was zero holes in the walls. My lighting and sound panels are all mounted to an internal skeleton structure that hugs the outside of the internal walls. all of the skeleton is hidden behind light recess panels and sound panels - result = no holes in the walls. The only holes are behind the AC fan and those that come up for the plug outlets in the floor. The main room has a great studio door that I reclaimed from the old BBC studios that weighed 100kg! I built it inside a high cube container and have a 6 inch ventilated space between the roof and the ceiling insulation that is also protected by plastic. This allows any condensation to dry out quickly as that cavity has outside vents. The big steel external doors still close for when I need to lift it to a new location (although my biggest fear remains someone closing them and locking me inside! To the point I keep a metal disc cutter in a cupboard inside. No Joke! I really should remove the doors from the outside when it's stationary, but I do enjoy being able to close it shut when I am away from the property for holiday etc. Something I never did and have always meant to do is build steel frame cedar decking and step to sit flush that I can disassemble and take with me. Something that always strikes me is if I've been away for a few weeks, it still smells like the day I built it when I return, a freshly constructed kind of smell, that smell then goes away until I'm not it there for ages again. One day I if I ever have the space, I'd like to make a 40ft one and mound stone and earth around the sides and roof so it's like a hobbit studio within a man made hill, and turf the whole thing with lovely plants etc. and Furthermore I'd like to join 2 x 40ft with 2 x 20ft in a square formation with a central garden.... I never get to talk about the construction to anyone so sorry for me doing a massive long comment!
That is encouraging to anyone wanting a studio of their own. Great video!
Favourite bit was the X.L.R key ring attachment. Nice work
you've been working on your project and finished it. even if you'll find some design flaws, you can be proud for leading and idea from scratch to finish. congratulations
Starting around 6:44 if you keep watching the pile of wood behind him you can actually see how the wood is changing and that's amazing to witness in a timelapse ^^
Also, consider a second container as an echo chamber lmao.
Did this with an empty room in our house. Was absolutly mindblowing!
the best drum sound I've ever had came from a tiled wash room in a former mental asylum. Borrowed mics and a (rebuilt) drum kit from a skip. Natural acoustics in weird spaces is where it's at!
Painting red can be difficult, next time tint your primer to 50% of the color you choose and that will help achieve better coverage.
Dark purple or grey primer under the red works the best.
Amazing
beautiful project
It's also pretty obvious you're good builders who know exactly what you're doing - excellent skills.
beautiful studio , nice construction
This is super cool! I have always wondered about a shipping container studio.
Exceptional work.
the best mancave I saw online.
FINALLY, I had this idea for years now and I finally found a video of how to make one.....
Thank you soooooo much Rawcus Studios :)
Brilliant!
This is exactly what I want to do. Wow, how creative minds can think alike all over the world. Thank you for this video
The craziest studio build ever. Welldone. Congrats. Lov it
This is incredible
That Oak desk is stunning! What a fantastic build. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you like it!
Nice job! thanks for documenting, we´re thinking about making a container radio station in Mexico City!!!
the perfect studio. Great job
This is incredible. I plan on building a similar setup in my basement and will be referring to this video when I'm ready to do it.
Dude, this is awesome. So inspirational.
That's given me huge inspiration for a home cinema I want to do 👌
Big ups man. Looks like it turned out great! Hope all is good 🤟
THIS IS FIRE ..I was planning the same exact thing .haven't gotten to it yet ,but i purchased all the equipment and supplies already . i guess now i can start on it .thanks
its wonderful great work i saw the full video great techniques u have been used nice well done!
Top idea and great Timelapse footage!
Hearing a guy from England say “double-glaze windows” makes me happy.
Very nice! My first studio consists of 5 shipping containers (a bit smaller than yours though), I've been working there for 5 years now. Very convenient
It's absolutely brilliant. All aspects covered. Great craftsmanship
Next time, video in landscape.
Awesome job guys
Great build, and movable. I like it. My mobile airstream studio has about the same room, but your ideas of calming reflections is useful. Although it has some interesting curves [mic placement is interesting] it too is made of metal. Here in Canada condensation is an issue in the winter.
Fantastic!! Amazing Project and so resourceful! I am inspired!!
Absolutely amazing 👏😍
Nice work! Look at all that rockwool! I'm quite inspired by that feature wall.. I'm currently working on a live room and I like that idea very much.
Excellent job guys. Love it.
I thought the bigger room was going to be your control room so the speakers could fire down the length of the room and getter better sound for mixing. The smaller room would be perfect for recording vocals guitars and basic drums.
Very cool and inspiring this is what life and being a man is all about, building stuff
BRILLIANT!!!!! It turned out really well!!!!!
Crazy and beautiful work!
The end was hilarious 😂. Great job on the build.
Amazing space, thanks for sharing its journey! Really inspiring
Great studio!
Hey, Thanks for your comment. Follow me on Instagram @rawbrass and send me a DM for the full cost of the build.
Pure satisfaction to see
Great job. If I were you and I had to record drums, I would just use the control room and put the drums in the shop where you cut the wood. Greetings from Argentina.
Beautiful. I admire your passion and dedication to this. I hope one day I get to lay some tracks there when visiting the UK.
Cheers from the U.S.
Absolutely love it, Ive just recorded Vocals for a new AAA game in central London in a container studio ! so was looking how to build one and saw yours, its better than the one I used ! well done
everything about this is totally awesome
dope! I gotta finish my home studio build!
What a brilliant video! So much attention to detail. Thank you for taking the time to make the video.
DAMN THIS IS AMAZING, YOU JUST BLESSED ME BRO
Inspiring video. This video fills my head with ideas and possibilities. It shows great ingenuity and imagination.
Great work! ive been planning to build a studio at the side of my house from block and timber but this has actually made me think about a shipping container. its exactly the right size!! awesome stuff.
Impressive, I built one myself in a trailer and it was a ton of work! Congrats
About how much did this whole thing cost?
my guess it would be like at least a lot of money
Definitely at least $100.
@@letsthinkforamoment8904 Definitely a little more lmao
I guess around $5.000,00, I’m building my own shipping container studio at this moment and I’m getting close to €5.000,00 when it’s all done.
@@basvanderperk3171 how much of that is the cost of the container itself ?
For those dimensions, it would've been better to keep it as a mixing room only, with the desk and monitors placed at one end.
that's exactly what I was thinking!! one long room with the speakers behind that cool wooden wall.... and add about 10x the amount of acoustic treatment (ROCKWOOL panels, not those lame foam thingies that only dampen the highs) to the walls & ceiling & it'd be legit worldclass sound quality in there....
I disagree because you'd get less out of the given space
@@joeeeee256 you get less acoustically out of the space dividing it up like this. the larger the room dimensions the better the fidelity of the speakers. doing an A-room & adjoining control room in a large hall with a high ceiling is one thing. doing it in a shipping container is less that ideal... there will be little to no isolation between the two 'rooms' in this scenario anyways. so one long room would've been the best way to go in this case i think, from an acoustic point of view
I'd do the opposite.
A big room for yourself, a small room for singers, amps and reamping.
But, then again, it all depends on your workflow
@@ChristianIce I hear you. But recording an amp or singer in a small vocal booth usually gives a really boxey recorded sound... unless you have TONS of acoustic treatment... which is impossible in this case.... better to leave it as one open room and record amps and singers with the engineer in the same room on headphones.... would yield better fidelity for sure.... not as 'studio-looking' but more professional results for sure
And here I am in my rectangular 9 square meter studio with the biggest struggle for acoustics, drooling over the idea of buying a shipping container.
Wow. This is so dope. Great job guys.
well done - great work enjoy your studio
would be interested of the frequency response of your control room. I built a 3 leaf wooden structure designed to take the energy out of the sound waves but letting them pass threough the outer walls at very low volume.
That’s iNcReDiBlE!! Wow!
Thanks for taking the time and trouble to film your work and produce this video. Well planned and executed. Very cool. Wish you all the best.
mans killled it frrrr
This is amazing! I love seeing container repurposed for things like this. I’d live to hear some recordings from here
Thanks man! Lots of unreleased stuff in the pipeline due to COVID. check out HiFi LoFi on Facebook, they have a single + video release next Friday (19th Sept). Recorded, mixed, filmed and edited at the studio.
Fantastically done. The Red wall is the same as my little home though haha.
Godamn dude nice work.
Dude... this is awesome!
Thanks for the idea. I gonna build one for myself
I must try something like this at home! XD!!! Great video!
in times of corona virus, those masks are the most expensive thing in the project...
Yea which is ridiculous cause people doing projects like this actually need the masks, all the paranoid uneducated fearful sheep don’t need them
*most valuable
Queen Purple, while there is a lot of panic buying, many doctors work in hospitals that do not supply N95 masks. This creates a need for the doctors to use them as well, as many of them are in day to day contact with those must vulnerable to the disease.
They needed masks to put in rockwall, then used leftover rockwall as a sound filter on the air intake...
Wes Darling woah I missed that part. Seriously? Wtf they just breathing straight poison
Outstanding! Just one, minor, critique, if I may, Rockwool's ability to absorb vibration, as a dense mass, is the same whether they are contained (like, in 3mm mdf or 1mm sheet trans PVC with dust tape around the edges), or whether they are left bare (like just wrapped in fabric). may I suggest for anyone following this lovely, genius, project to contain your rockwool. The effects of Rockwool for absorbing low end through localized mass is 100% the same. The unhealthy effects and signs of exposed rockwool are not apparent at first, but put some bass into the room, and get those particles (in the rockwool) moving, or activating, and you'll will not be .... well....whatever...good build.
Nice one! :).
Very cosy place ... looks lovely and warm and inviting.
This is an epic studio build my guy! Thank you for sharing the complete process with us.
This is brilliant!
So much work..
Fantastic !!!
Hiya bud. Great work on this? Out of curiosity, is this fully soundproof?
Damn, That must be like a sweat lodge in the summer months... Mini-Split to the rescue.
Not atall, the acoustic insulation also acts as heat insulation. So after the container cools overnight it retains the cool for the majority of the day. Only starts to get a bit warm with 4+ people inside on a hot day. But due to the nature of the studio this isn’t how I usually work.
Regarding the air ventilation; is there are particular reason why it's set up that way? Would it be possibly more efficient to bring cool fresh air in from low and have the warm/hot air exit up high?
Very nice build. Congrats.
That’s exactly what does happen 😊 The warm air rises and is drawn out with the extractor through the ceiling vents, the pressure difference created by the extractor draws cold/fresh air in passively through the lower vents.
Rawcus Studios I rewatched and realized my misunderstanding was due to a bit of narrative slight of hand going on at @ 10:10 . Not intentionally of course, but you are talking about fresh air in while the camera is showing the outtake.
Great job! Very good documentation of the entire construction process which is enormously useful.
sweet project. congrats. subscribed.
An impressive build but if I had that foot print I would have definitely built a bigger space, it's impossible to tame the low end in that space plus drums need air. I gave up trying to get my ideal drum sound in my bedrooms opting for MIDI drums and drum samples which are so good nowadays no need to record live.
I suspect you chose a shipping container to save money?
Thanks for sharing. Lots of hard work. Most of it looks good and makes sense. In hindsight, what would you have done differently?
Fantastic 👏
Good job, guys!