advise on studio, please

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I want to finish my now partially finished small basement studio.

My kids have moved out, so it's just me and my wife, and we live in a quiet suburb so soundproofing is not as important for me as it might be for other people. Anyway I was a building contractor for several years so I know how to soundproof OK.

What I need is advise on room treatment, and the best place to put monitors and etc. I want to record and mix piano, guitar and vocals in the same room (due to size limitations). Later I hope to convert the spare bedroom off the south wall into more studio, a live room maybe.

I plan on using acoustical tile on the ceiling and drywall on walls. Carpet on floor.

Room size and ceiling height and other notes on attachment.

ANY advise would be appriciated.
 

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Larrye,
Looks like you have plenty of room. I would put your set up against the long wall...The room will be totally dead with all the tile up...You won't need all of that unless you'll be doing vocals.
Some acoustical treatment in the right places, corners, long flat surfaces,and bass traps... will keep the ambient reverb to a minimum, and your playback reference true.
I converted a garage plan while I was building my new home into my studio. I spilt the area into 3 seperate rooms... control/guitar(bass)/drums. Because I was recording mostly live. I wanted to isolate the drums. The rooms were long and narrow. I had to treat each room differently.The drum room I just used ceiling tile half way up all the way around. The guitar room is used for dubbing in the vocal tracks...its was tough to treat...Pyramids from the ceiling, corner treatments and six portable bass traps.
On control room reference. I used 2x2 ceiling tile on the end walls and carpet half way up on the other two and checker boarded the rest of the area.
I had to soak up a lot because I made the glass opening 3x8.
Nice but I should have made it smaller...
Experiment on different areas where to set you stuff up...that 6'6" area don't leave much headroom (literally)
Have fun and good luck..

Gidman
 
Thanks for the reply Gidman,
Do you think I have enough room for a vocal booth? What would be the advantage over deviding up the room vs over just the one larger dead room.
 
Vocal room

Larrye,
I would put it to the right. Right after you come in to the room.
That way its in the corner, out of the way. It doesn't have to be very big. Say 4x3'3"?

Gidman
 
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