Is this an efficient use of space???

[FZfile]

Hi.

I currently use a corner of our mostly unfinnished basement and i am planning on building a room around my stuff so to speak.

I mostly record by myself but sometimes have a few friens over to jam acoustically or with the drum machine.

I want to have a small iso booth for vocals but mostly for re-amping fromy computer or VS880EX tracks.

This is what i've come up with for a plan so far.
I want to be acoutically efficeint but my major limitation (besides money) is the total area i have to work with is only 14'6" x 11'6" x 8'tall.

excuse the childish picture (if it attaches).

The left and upper sides are the block wall and the upper side faces the road and has "traffic bleed".

About 10' to the right of the right wall is our furnace but none of the duct work will run with in the room area.

About 10' from the bottom wall is the washer and dryer whitch always seem to be going when i want to mic something (and we dont even have kids).

I figure on insulated 2x4 walls with 2 layers of 1/2" sheetrock on each side for the right and bottom walls(the entry door will be there) and covering the block walls with pool wall-foam (1/4") and 2x4 insulated walls with 2 layers of sheet on just one side.

I would like to not have the ceiling anchored to the houses floor joists at all and have 2x4s, 1/2 sheet, and 3/4" acoustical cieling tile glued the sheet.

This should leave me with about 13'6" x 10'6" x 7'6" on the inside of the room......give or take a little.

I only want to make the right half of the upper wall (behind the desk) angled/non-parallel because i dont want to give up too much space.
Home made bass traps in the corners and some pannel/slat absorbers in the walls.

Is this a wise use of this space?????

What would you guys do to improve it???

Is it better for monitoring to put the monitors against only 1 wall??

I have a zillion questions but i've taken up waaayyyy too much space already for this.

Thank you for any input in advance.

-mike

BTW is everybody in this forum from Oz or the UK because it seems like everybody says..." cheers"....??

 

[John Sayers]

i think you have worked out your space Ok - I'd go with it

<oz>cheers</oz>
john

 

[FZfile]

Thanks John...

Will it matter if the monitors are both on the "top" wall as opposed to one on each wall of that corner???


Also, what is the best type of absorber to put behind the monitors??

Thanks agian......

time to start gettin materials together and run into the REAL questions on gettig this done.

-mike

 

[frederic]

I like your layout, should be quite successful for you. You might need (try without it first) a bass trap to the left of the sofa in the corner, and diagonal to that behind the monitors, in the corner.

Try without it first though

<NJ USA> Cheers! </NJ USA>

Frederic

 

[FZfile]

Thanks guys....

This is getting me pumped.
I started moving some of my gear around and getting a "feel" for how the setup will be.

I am definitley going to put some base traps in the corners you mentioned Fredrick.
I think I'm gonna use the indutrial pipe insulation kind because they are cheap and moveable.

I do want to build some slat pannels eventualy but the rigid 703 fiberglass is very hard to come by, it seems.

I did some calling around today for the pipe insulation and the fiberglass and had no luck with either.

I am going to talk with the guys who do the heating and cooling for my work. They can probably hook me up for the pipe insulation at least.

Is acoustical ceiling tile in a panel absorber any good.......????

.....just a thought.

-mike