diakonos1984
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I have been dreaming of setting up a home recording studio for 15 years. After saving my money for a long time now, it's finally going to come together this year!
I have:
PreSonus StudioLive 16.0.2 mixer/interface and a rackmount PC, mounted in a portable rack
Wharfdale Diamond 8.2 studio monitors
I will be recording typical vocals, guitar, keyboards, drums. If I ever record any serious drum tracks, they probably won't be done in this room...
Within 5 years, I hope to build a garage with a mother-in-law suite (read: properly designed studio). However, for the time being the room that I have available looks like this:
It will have to be control room and live room.
It has several obvious negatives: 8' ceiling, nearly square, small.
It has a few things going for it: Hard surface floor, only one window, and is the largest room available in the house. But the main thing it has going for it is that my wife says I can have it...
...IF I also include a guest bed and a bookshelf.
I plan to build a Murphy bed (folds up to the wall). It's a queen size bed, so it's 5' x 7' when it's out, but only 5' by 12" or 16" when folded up. I use standing desks, and will have very little actually on the desktop (PC keyboard & mouse, small MIDI controller), so I expect I will probably just build it into the back of the folded-up Murphy bed. Monitor would either be on a swing arm mounted to the portable rack or mounted directly to the back of the folded-up Murphy bed.
Bookshelf doesn't exist yet. It needs to span one wall. It could include the Murphy bed.
So how would you orient all of that?
If I were going on aesthetics alone, and didn't care about audio, I would build the bookshelf on the 10'6" North wall and center the Murphy bed/standing desk inside it. Studio monitors would go on the bookshelf on either side of the bed. How bad would that really be? I know it would make the room more square...
So I'm concerned about room treatment after that. How do I treat the South wall that would be opposite the studio monitors-- it's half wall, half closet? What about bass traps on the bookshelf wall? I could lose a foot on each side and make it solid and flat with the front of the bookshelf and put bass traps in this pseudo corner. Or I could tuck them back INSIDE the the bookshelf?
Or is there a totally different way all together that you would orient my mixing station, bookshelf, and Murphy bed in this room?
Thanks a lot!
I have:
PreSonus StudioLive 16.0.2 mixer/interface and a rackmount PC, mounted in a portable rack
Wharfdale Diamond 8.2 studio monitors
I will be recording typical vocals, guitar, keyboards, drums. If I ever record any serious drum tracks, they probably won't be done in this room...
Within 5 years, I hope to build a garage with a mother-in-law suite (read: properly designed studio). However, for the time being the room that I have available looks like this:
It will have to be control room and live room.
It has several obvious negatives: 8' ceiling, nearly square, small.
It has a few things going for it: Hard surface floor, only one window, and is the largest room available in the house. But the main thing it has going for it is that my wife says I can have it...
...IF I also include a guest bed and a bookshelf.
I plan to build a Murphy bed (folds up to the wall). It's a queen size bed, so it's 5' x 7' when it's out, but only 5' by 12" or 16" when folded up. I use standing desks, and will have very little actually on the desktop (PC keyboard & mouse, small MIDI controller), so I expect I will probably just build it into the back of the folded-up Murphy bed. Monitor would either be on a swing arm mounted to the portable rack or mounted directly to the back of the folded-up Murphy bed.
Bookshelf doesn't exist yet. It needs to span one wall. It could include the Murphy bed.
So how would you orient all of that?
If I were going on aesthetics alone, and didn't care about audio, I would build the bookshelf on the 10'6" North wall and center the Murphy bed/standing desk inside it. Studio monitors would go on the bookshelf on either side of the bed. How bad would that really be? I know it would make the room more square...
So I'm concerned about room treatment after that. How do I treat the South wall that would be opposite the studio monitors-- it's half wall, half closet? What about bass traps on the bookshelf wall? I could lose a foot on each side and make it solid and flat with the front of the bookshelf and put bass traps in this pseudo corner. Or I could tuck them back INSIDE the the bookshelf?
Or is there a totally different way all together that you would orient my mixing station, bookshelf, and Murphy bed in this room?
Thanks a lot!