12'x8'6" Control room

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That's 12' long and 8'6" wide

The problem is the 8'6" wall. This is the wall I'll have access from control to live room. Do I go with a door in the corner and a window with the desk to the side?

Or a patio door in the middle and the desk pulled back from it for access (eating into my 12' space)? Door and window is the cheaper option but how practical in a confined space?

my entire space is 25' x 9'7 (before inner walls get built. I've got this down to 12 x 8'6 control room, 7 x 8'6" drum room and 4'8 x 3'6" ISO booth

Anyone with a plan?

Alec.
 
I'd be happy to provide my thoughts, but for whatever reason I can't visualize the space well enough.

Can you slap together a quick drawing, save it as a jpg, then post it to this BBS?

even something in MS Paint would do...
 
Hello again Steve, and thanks for looking in Fredric.

I've revised the drawing a few times after working out my overall wall thicknesess and stuff. I'll get a new one posted up a.s.a.p.

Alec.
 
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pic 1: Door into control room with seperate window to drum room..
 

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pic 2: Patio doors between drum & control room
 

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The seperation of rooms is fine and dandy, but you have parallel walls everywhere... time to angle them in your drawing so you don't have nasty standing waves and flutter and such.
 
Fredric, that's the basic plan to give me an idea of the amount of materials I need. Once I get an estimate for all materials I'll work on the room acoustics and shape.

door to the side of the control room = more floor space + cheaper to build.

Patio doors = less foor space and more expense but give a symetrical mixing enviroment

I guess it's tradeoff time.
 
Fredric, that's the basic plan to give me an idea of the amount of materials I need. Once I get an estimate for all materials I'll work on the room acoustics and shape.
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Except that angled walls are longer than straight walls :)

door to the side of the control room = more floor space + cheaper to build.
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I hear ya, and "cheap" often overcomes many faults. I'm just pointing it out for you to take into consideration :)

I guess it's tradeoff time. [/B]
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Always :D
 
it'll probably look something like this......
 

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Muuuuuuuch better.

Sorry, I took your earlier drawing literally... gotcha and much better.
 
The problem I see with the big sliding doors is going to be in how you manage your cabling and where you locate your monitor speakers. With the desk shoved back from the doorway, you lose some of the depth of the room that is to your advantage if your speakers are sitting on your console/desk. If they are mounted to the wall or soffitted, no problem.

I, personally, would try to work out a way to have the smaller door on the side.

Darryl.....
 
The problem I see with the big sliding doors is going to be in how you manage your cabling and where you locate your monitor speakers.
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good points Darryl.

The cabling I intend to do in two seperate underfloor channels. One for electrics, one for audio.....maybe 2 for audio depending on the final design.

I'll be making my own plates up (XLR & stereo TRS) 8 x XLR from the drum room with two TRS sereo headphone jacks. And two x XLR and two stereo headphone returns from the ISO booth if I go with that (lookin more than likely now) on plates through the floor probably back to the control room. I haven't honestly looked into a cost effective method for this yet. Still the sound proofing, don't anoy the neighbours buzz.

It'll come, and when I find the best way I'll post it here.

Alec.
 
where you locate your monitor speakers. With the desk shoved back from the doorway, you lose some of the depth of the room that is to your advantage if your speakers are sitting on your console/desk. If they are mounted to the wall or soffitted, no problem.
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Not thought that far ahead yet.

I've been monitoring everythig I heard ever since 1987 through a pair of 18litre 3way back ported bass reflex digital monitors made by Aiwa. SX-z200's. Back ported so I can't soffit them, then again...new studio...new monitors maybe.

The setup I have now incorprates two monster 19" computer monitors. Switching to TFTs is gonna save me about 16 inches on my mixing position from the front wall. If I could I'd like to gow with Yam's NS10's or something similar on the sides of the desk. Maybe Genalec 1029A's...it's not a huge room at 12' x 8'6" so I don't need monster monitors.

I'm still firmly in budget mode till I price the UK equivalent of all the building materials......then we'll go mental with the change ;)

Alec.
 
Sounds like you've got a good handle on your planning. Just make sure you list down all the "good" ideas you come up with so when you start construction you don't forget everything you worked hard to develop in the heat of construction (it's kinda addictive once you start putting the pieces together and it becomes all too easy to make compromises in the construction that really screw you up later on if you don't stick to the plan).

Darryl.....
 
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