My Studio Floor Plan

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I'll be moving here in the next few years and I figured, hey, why not solidify my studio design so I know what I need to do going in? I figure it will take me at least this long to plan it all out, anyway. It took me a bit just to figure out what layout I wanted.

Well, here it is. It won't be a commercial space. I might record bands via word of mouth but it's mostly for my own work and for friends/family that want to record. It, of course, is yet to be built, so I don't have any size constraints per se...but I would like to keep it smaller than a football field. :D

I didn't put it, but I thought I might be able to enter the CR from the hallway on the left right across from the window. This is so I can open the window and let air blow in to air out the CR when I need to. I figured I could frame up a door there and treat one side...the part on the CR side. Same with getting into and out of the vocal booth.

Thoughts? Also, thoughts on general layout would be cool. I did this all from looking at plans from John L. Sayer's Studio Design forum in the sticky section.

The desk was my failed attempt at an Argosy desk I'm looking at getting when I do the build. hehe

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How will you get into the vocal booth? ;) A door across from the control room door?

Do you really need all those iso booths? Why not have a larger live room and one booth?
 
Not sure of the sizes, but scaling from the control room, I would make the drum booth bigger, or do away with it and put the drums in the live room. With a vocal booth and amp iso booth the drums don't need a booth.

Cheers
Alan.
 
pandamonk said:
How will you get into the vocal booth? ;) A door across from the control room door?
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That's what I was asking...I need a way to get in there but short of framing a door into the CR wall, I don't know. Ideas?
pandamonk said:
Do you really need all those iso booths? Why not have a larger live room and one booth?
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I don't really need a super huge live room. I think I, at least, need the amp iso booth and the vocal booth.

witzendoz said:
Not sure of the sizes, but scaling from the control room, I would make the drum booth bigger, or do away with it and put the drums in the live room. With a vocal booth and amp iso booth the drums don't need a booth.
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Yeah, that area was more for storage of stands, cables, PA equipment, etc than anything else. I just threw Drum ISO on there cause I didn't have one. In the back of my mind I was thinking that I'd just record drums in the live room, anyway.
 
Ethan Winer said:
Advice is impossible without dimensions!

--Ethan
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I don't have any idea on dimensions. I was hoping to get a bit of help on that. Since the building hasn't been built, I'm kind of open there.

Well, back to the drawing board I guess. I don't know how big to make anything and that was part of my question...I guess I just don't know where to start.
 
Ethan Winer said:
You might want to get a pro involved. In the mean time start here:

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Maximum Studio, Minimum Stress

--Ethan
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Well, I kinda wanted to do it myself. With the build, I'm sure I won't wanna fork out extra dough for a pro to design it. I'd feel more accomplished if I learned it and did it myself...except for the heavier construction. I could probably get away with having a contract crew brick the building and frame it on the inside, right? Leave the rest to me....? I have friends that will help and relatives that know a thing or two.

Thanks for the links, by the way. Second one was great.
 
Myriad_Rocker said:
I'd feel more accomplished if I learned it and did it myself
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Excellent attitude! And that is indeed the trade-off. Either spend the time to learn what's needed, or hire a pro. Some people don't care enough to spend the time to read and absorb a lot of info, or they're afraid of making a mistake. But if we never make mistakes we never learn. So I say go for it.

--Ethan
 
Ethan Winer said:
Excellent attitude! And that is indeed the trade-off. Either spend the time to learn what's needed, or hire a pro. Some people don't care enough to spend the time to read and absorb a lot of info, or they're afraid of making a mistake. But if we never make mistakes we never learn. So I say go for it.

--Ethan
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:) Oh, I'm more than afraid of making a mistake. With building stuff like this, isn't it kinda permanent? You make a mistake and you're just up the creek, right?

On the recommendation of members of the John L Sayers, I bought this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Home-Recording-Studio-Build-Like/dp/1598630342/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235080990&sr=8-1
 
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