Basement Studio Questions...

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hmmmm....

(I'm printing all of these out)

I like that one, but I think we'd be giving away space... what if we put it square up against the corner (like the layout just before this one, only in the opposite corner)... then we can maximize the room space.

btw - I'd LIKE to be able to record drums in one of the rooms :)

Velvet Elvis

(I've GOT to get me a nice CAD program)
 
frederic...

Close... slide the control room all the way to the left :)

(since my water lines and such are on the right)

You MAY have sold me on the layout :)

Velvet Elvis
 
Velvet Elvis said:
frederic...

Close... slide the control room all the way to the left :)

(since my water lines and such are on the right)

You MAY have sold me on the layout :)

Velvet Elvis
 

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Sorry, forgot the doors again.

And sorry the walls are shifting, I've grouped items to make it easier for cutting and pasting and rotating as a unit, and seemingly its not working right.
 
No problem Frederic... I appreciate the efforts!

hmmmm.... this is gonna take some thought.

Just when I though I had it the way I wanted it :)

The more I look at it, the more I like my space.... the idea of fitting a control room and possibly *3* lives spaces is great :)

Velvet Elvis
 
hmmmm.... this is gonna take some thought.

Yeah, I have probably 70 designs of my garage loft, and probably 20 of the commercial space I don't quite have, plus the three well-done overview designs John did for the latter.

Very easy to never be satisfied.

The more I look at it, the more I like my space.... the idea of fitting a control room and possibly *3* lives spaces is great :)

Personally, I'd section the room off into two spaces. One booth large enough for percussion, and the remainder of the space for a control room.

Unless you do intend to record vocals, drums and guitar simultaniously.

If the drum room is a nice live sounding room, you can stand up gobos to change reflections, and absorb/baffle sound if you make one side reflective and one side absorbing.

Or, you could do what i'm doing for a home studio. I'm building a large control room, and the drum kit goes in the control room. Record dry with headphones watching the meters, then add stuff during the mixdown phase.

See, I want the largest control room I can. I can get away with this because my drumkit is huge, but electronic, and packs away into the attic very quickly. Takes me about an hour to set it up, get everything in the right place, but for tear down, I put a drumkey into a cordless drill and just zap it apart in like 5-10 minutes, plus however long it takes me to tuck it somewhere.

You've seen my drawing on "the mess" thread, correct?

Anyway, doing your drawings was a nice distraction from figuring out if I need stringers or not. I'm sooooooo struggling with it still.
 

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frederic...

wow... another nice design.

Here is what I am trying to accomplish...

1) Large enough control room for me and 2 or three others to be in there

2) Small room for acoustic/vocals/amp tracking

3) Larger room for drums/group vocals/etc

I MAY do multiple people at a time (so I do want at least a vocal booth and a drum room)... but I don't have to have three iso booths... two would suffice.

I do want to have room for the producer's area/couch in the control room.

I REALLY appreciate the work you've put into drawing... VERY cool of you.

Velvet Elvis
 
Paper Dolls

Since you don't have Visio, another way to colaborate...

Print out this jpeg, then use scissors to cut out the sofa, the rack unit, and the mackie console with two sidecars. They are dimensionally correct matching the layout of the room as I went onto the web to get the dimensions

You can then move the paper "dolls" around and draw lines for walls, until you have another layout that might meet your needs.

Even though Visio is great, moving stuff around is a pain, so I often print out "to scale" items that will be in the space, and move them around on the coffee table. THEN I draw it into visio and tweak.

Might be easier to colaborate this way... when you have an acceptable coffee table layout, you stand on a chair with your digital camera and snap a high res picture of the whole thing LOL.
 

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