Help/Advice Control Room Construction

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I printed out Ethan Winer's "Acoustic Treatment and Design for Recording studios and Listening Rooms" so that I could read through and make highlights where needed. I learned*a lot from the article*and since I recently moved into a new home, my old music room/studio is gone. I want to get things as right as I can at this location as I have enough room for a control room and live room. As it stands, my control room can have a "real" ceiling height in the basement of 8'7" and the "drop in" acoustic ceiling height of 7'6".*

It appears as though my maximum length of the room will be 19'9". I could push the length three more feet with a lower ceiling there as I might benefit from the extra cubic feet. I have no restrictions to the width of the room.

I have three sizes in mind for the width. 11 feet, 13 feet and 14 feet. I know that Ethan's article states a target of 2500 cubic feet so the 14x 19'9" gets pretty close to that without getting "too" square. And if I were to add the extra three feet I would be slightly over 2500 CF.

The walls will be 2x4 with drywall on the interior covered by a rough sawn cedar siding for warmth (appearance) and some slight absorbtion. Laminate wood floor and I plan to use double drywall on the exterior walls. I plan to have a space between the control room and the live room. The live room can be quite large (roughly 19-20x 22-26). I plan to fill the space between the acoustic tile ceiling and the "real" ceiling with open insulation.
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I do plan to use acoustic treatment in the control room as I was able to salvage my bass traps and diffusers from the old studio. Am I on the right track?**
 
So your whole useable space is 20 X 40 give or take a foot?

That's definitely enough space to have a nice control room and live room.

SAE's site has some good designs that you can use in your space. I don't have the link. Just do a search for "reference material" It'll show up somewhere. I didn't get any red flags from reading your post and since you've studied Ethan's article (and understand it?) then, it sounds so far so good.
 
Thanks Chris, I will check out the SAE sight and see what trouble I can get into there. By the way, where are you in Ky. I graduated high school at Bath County High School. My Mom and many relatives still live in that general area too.
 
You're from a different neck of the woods than me. I'm not far from Frankfort. I noticed you play guitar in church. So do I. I play drums for the praise band and I play guitar and sing for the youth group's worship time. It's cool that you play in church. Keep it up!

There's a wealth of knowledge on the SAE site. Combining that with Ethan's atricles and you should be able to put together a killer space. Have fun!!
 
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