Hi Denis -- on Apr 19 2020 at 01:56, you wrote:

 DH>> My platinum owning friend uses speakers for most of his recording work
 DH>> (he has his own studio in the basement and does a lot of small group

DM> What is basement and in which basementen, Dallas?

A basement on this continent is a space below the main living floor.
Often it's entirely or mostly below ground. Typically we consider the
space to be "unfinished", meaning there are just bare studs forming the
walls (you can see the back side of whatevercovers the outside of the
house at that level). The ceiling is usually unfinished also, so when
you look up you see the bare floor joists and the underside of the floor
boards. I should mention that most construction here on the West Coast
(and in many other places in North America) is wood frame, so we have
wooden joists (horizontal) and studs (vertical) forming the frame, with
plasterboard, wood, stucco, etc. covering the frame. Brick and concrete
construction is quite rare other than in large commercial buildings. For
examples, google Vancouver and go to street view.

In Frank's case, his basement is at ground level (because in his area
the water table is quite high) and it's completely finished with a
couple of bedrooms, bathroom, sitting room. It had an enclosed garage as
part of the basement but he's converted that into a recording studio
with a sound-isolated control room at one end.


Cheers... Dallas

--- timEd/NT 1.30+