Help with Studio Dimensions

[siteslinger]

So I've got a master bedroom in my house that I've been building into a home studio. It consists of an approximately 11'x8'x8' room, with a large walk-in closet for a proposed control room (almost 8'x8'x8'...yikes!) The exact dimensions for the control room, as it stands, are 100 inches long by 92 inches wide, with a 95 inches from the floor to the ceiling.

I was thinking that by moving the wall that separates the two rooms over a few feet, I could get both rooms closer to the golden ratio (that is, about 13x8 and 5x8, respectively).

Is this a good idea? Would a 5x8x8 room be better than 8x8x8?

 

[Ethan Winer]

Best is to remove the wall completely and have the studio be a single room. You'll never get real isolation anyway in a home setting.

--Ethan

 

[siteslinger]

Best is to remove the wall completely and have the studio be a single room. You'll never get real isolation anyway in a home setting.

Well that's probably not an option at this point. I'm not really worried about isolation, but I don't think the landlord would agree to removing the closet completely.

 

[SimpleMeasure]

Is this a good idea? Would a 5x8x8 room be better than 8x8x8?

Not unless you are monitoring at really low levels. It would have to be fairly dead sounding, but you could build a couple of portable diffuser/absorber combo gobos and make the room 8x7 with some angles. This would make the 8x8 work better than compressing everything down to 5'.