How bad does it look?

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Good or Bad design?

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  • Crap in a box

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BlindCowboy

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As with most I have no budget, and I want to build a studio... Right now i'm working out of a corner of my garage. I need half of the garage for well, garage stuff, but I can build in a 12' x 8' room. So, i've drawn one up, and I need ya'lls input. All critics appreciated: Room dimensions, absorbers, funtionality, etc..

My only requirements are that I will need to comfortably fit two people and i'm going to be playing/recording/mixing in the same room.

I designed the drawing in paint, (scale is 1 pixel = 1/4 in.) and I can e-mail the .bmp if anybody wants to tear it up.

Thanks again,

Blind Cowboy...

http://www.geocities.com/chrislafavers/pictures/CStudio4.jpg
 
Thats a small space. What do you hope to record in it?
What type of instruments?
 
Most of my stuff is acoustic. I use sequenced drums for my arrangements, and hand percussions. Also looking at recording electric bass and guitar.

What is a sufficient space? What would you consider to be a minimum in a room?
 
This has been looked at 30-something times and i've only got one reply?!?

Come on guys...
 
John Sayers site (check his profile for a link) has some great primers on acoustics. You are going to have a tough time in a room that small. I would consider about 10'x15' to be minimal and twice that to approach being good.

Plan on needing some bass traps and low mid absorbers. Small rooms are usually pretty boomy sounding.
 
Well, unfortunately the link is down at my geocities site. Too much traffic I guess.

So, for those that saw it, and those that can see it when they reset my site, it is small. Like I said, it's half of a 2 car garage. 12' x 8'.

I know it's small, but it's all the space I have. What I need to know is will the construction, as I have it drawn out, be sufficient for isolation? (2x6 with staggered 2x4 joists, 1/2 in. sheet rock and filled w/ cellulose. Double doors w/ insulation.)

As for small, i've recorded and demo'd several professional studios and every time they put me in a vocal booth for my vocals and acoustic guitar. So, what's the difference between this and a vocal booth at a professional studio? I don't play drums, or piano, other than my MIDI work. So, i'm not requiring alot of space. I do realize that I will be "adding" room to my sound digitally for lack of a large recording space. I've researched Sayers site several times and adopted this design from his Bedroom studio and Garage studio examples.

Though I appreciate the "It's small" replies, I would prefer some criticism concerning the construction or layout. I can perhaps add to 13' x 8' - 6", but that's pushing it.

Anything else?

Blind Cowboy...
 
You just have to figure out how to work with what you've got. 12x8 may seem small, but it's 50% larger than my mixing room (8x8) and with what I've done acoustically this room is working fine. Work on eliminating parallel walls as much as possible; if you intend to mix there, make sure your mix position is symmetrical within the room; setup your mix position on the shorter wall to take as much advantage of the room depth as possible.

One thing I picked up on for small rooms is that since a small room doesn't allow bass frequencies to really hit full stride (think in terms of wavelengths), I think personally that the best idea is to make the room fairly dead acoustically. I have one corner bass trap and my walls and part of my ceiling are lined with rigid fibergalsss, and what I hear through my monitors is really close to reality. Bear in mind, all I do is mix and some occasional voice overs, I don't record in there. But that being said, you can work in your given space by being careful with how you handle the layout.

Darryl.....
 
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why dont you upload the picture isntead of puting the geocities link?
 
the link is not incorrect

what happened is geocities won't let you link a JPG from a different domain. It knows your last page was from homerecording.com and you are now grabbing just a JPG, not one embedded into a webpage so you are using badwidth without seeing advertisements, that is why it didn't work.

you want my take? you can work in that space and have fun, you know it isn't professional, but you will get claustrophobic if you have someone else in there. Other problems are noise, you will pick up your comuter in your microphone a lot. It is just really small, don't spend a unch of money that will just end up being an eyesore and unworkable space in the long run.
 

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Thanks Kristian for the post and the help. I thought it was Geocities causing the problems....

I've got a similar post on Mr. Sayers site, and have gotten the answers that I need.

Sorry for any confusion with the link.

Blind Cowboy...
 
"have gotten the answers that I need" - Not quite ALL the answers you need - check your thread at John's again, if you haven't already... Steve
 
Cheers!

Yea, Knightfly. That's the kind of stuff I needed.

Thanks for the thoughts and advice...

Blind Cowboy...
 
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