are the sizes of these rooms ok?

[wes480]

Here is what my new basement studio is going to consist of:

Main Recording room:

Carpeted floors, acoustic treatments on the wall. Mainly do drums and guitars and such here, should be good for a dry sound.

"Acoustic Performance Room":

A smaller room with room enough for 2 people with acoustic guitars. i wanted to have a room with tile floors, maybe some other reflective surfaces, just to have a nice natural presence for acoustic instruments. I figured also if a few people wanted to do vocals at the same time, this would work well. Going for kind of a "live" room - if this is a really bad idea, and I won't like the tracks...let me know...

Vocal Booth:

Obvious.

Control room:

I am kind of concerend about using near field montiors and such in here...becuase I am afraid the room partition might be too small. I am going to do wood floor, and the walls will be treated as needed. Small window into recording room...

What I am wondering is are these rooms big enough (esp. the control room!) for their purpose. i know the recording areas will be fine...but, do you think the mixing enviroment I described for the control room will work well? Would I be better off just leaving the 15x11 room totally open and doing recording and mixing in there, with no walls?

Here are the "final" blueprints with the dimensions...going to get started on this on Monday...so, I would really like some input before i start. Thanks guys.

-Wes

 

[wes480]

btw: isn't autocad neat? I love those blueprints...friend at GA Tech whipped them up for me...I need to learn that program

 

[Newest User]

I think its a good Start

Its difficult sometimes to layout a studio. I would also lay out where the equipment is going to go, layout electrical outlets, lights and HVAC obstacles.

Nearfield monitors are meant to be listened to upclose, with proper treatments you can minimize and or modify the reflective qualities. You could look into a foldable partition instead of a complete vocal booth. Try making the number of orthogonal corner as small as possible. Be Creative.

The idea is to optimize whatever space you have with what monetary limits you have.

 

[DrFrankencopter]

Think big (er)

Were those dimensions in feet or meters? If it's meters, then you're doing fine, if it's feet (which I'm guessing it is based on the size of the doors), ouch, it'll be cramped.

I can't tell which room is which, but I assume that the control room is the one adjacent to the 5X11 L shaped room, and the vocal booth.

Your 'acoustic performance room' is frightfully small.... I think you'd be better served by nixing it entirely. Perhaps take some of that space, and use it as amp closets...places to hide amps, and mic them up without major bleeding.

Actually, the control room is bloody small too (assuming it's feet again). I think you'll have a hard time mixing on anything but headphones in a space that small.

If you're set on having control room, I'd suggest converting the acoustic performance room into your control room, but make it bigger....go the whole length (9 feet), and make it wider (7 feet). I am currently in an 8X8 control room and it's a nightmare; far too small, and an acoustic disaster that has required much effort to fix. FWIW, my next studio will be a large tracking/control room (14X20) with a small booth (8X10). I've had it with stuffy rooms...

So, my suggestion would be to have less rooms and make it bigger! If I only had a 15X11 space to play with, I'd want it to be one room. Perhaps just go for one room, plus a booth (bigger than 3X3 though...by the time you account for drywall thickness and acoustic treatment it may be closer to 2.5X2.5 I don't know how you'd fit a person and a mic in there, and have any degree of comfort whatsoever...not a good combo for getting good vocal tracks), plus an amp closet (this can be small).

Cheers, and good luck!

Kris

 

[John Sayers]

Yeah - I agree with Kris - Trying to build multiple rooms in a small space ends up with many toooo small rooms.

With so many people wanting to be in the control room (i.e. bass, keys, guide vox etc) I'd go for a much bigger control room.


cheers
john