My first studio

[coolsoundman]

I hope this works, talking about the attachment. Anyway, this is a plan that I drew up on a home planning software that I have had for a while and wanted to share what my studio would be like. The design is drawn up using the configuration of my storage room that is in our backyard. It's a pretty big storage room. It's about 17x15 room. At first, this small room was pretty full of junk and after about a full day of cleaning it out, it looks pretty big. I'm looking into puting 3 small rooms that are about 6x8. The rooms would be insulated for sound proofing and there would be some electrical work. I would like some feed back on what other things that I might need to change/add to it. It would look pretty tight or cramped, but that is pretty much the best that I can make out of the building.
thanks for your input.

 

[bennychico11]

that seems like a really really small room. too small for comfort. i'd say knock down the walls in your drawing and make on big live room and one control room. no need to separate guitars, vocals and drums in different rooms like that unless you have a ton of space

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....you've got it all wrong. It looks like you are trying to isolate each of these rooms. But here is the reality. IT WON"T in any way shape or form. You will isolate nothing. Especially if all instruments are playing ensemble. Single wall, two leaf systems are ok, IF one leaf is decoupled on two diagonal rooms and there is LOTS and LOTS of mass, but structural transmission and LF resonance will bleed through the ceilings and floor as well as the walls as you have it designed. Not to mention modal resonance and standing waves.......you name it....you got it there. Terrible.

If you want to truly use this space for recording, I suggest the following.

If it were me, I would make this into 2 spaces only. Use one as TOTALLY isolated drum/amp/vocal booth and multrack overdubs or use the bass and guitars in the control room and reamp the guitar tracks. Or something similar. If this is a rehearsal space, you are STILL defeating the purpose. If you want more info, just say so. There are plenty of people here, WHO I think will agree, and can help straighten this design out.
fitZ

 

[thane1200]

I would try this...

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

You got it thane. Even then it is VERY small. Look at this scale. And it IS to scale. Thats what most people miss when they lay stuff out, is HUMAN SCALE.

 

[coolsoundman]

rick,

where or what kind of program do you have to where you actually had a configuration with the use of the stick figures? is it a special studio design program?

 

[Carter]

Its called Autocad! BTW What versoin are you using Rick?

 

[coolsoundman]

ok, here's another design and I did take into consideration all of the ideas you guys have given. I made it into a two rooms. the live room and then theres the control room. I've added a window in between both rooms, in which i'm thinking of making it into a two pane window to help with sound control. Or how should I do with the window, single or double pane (layer)?

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

Hello guys. Yes, it is Autocad. The human figures did NOT come with it. I drew them just for the purpose of scale. When you look at a plan view of rectangles and rooms, you get NO feeling of the scale without them. It's very important to see it. Human ergonomics are something that are usually left out till its too late.
Hindsight is both expensive and time consuming. coolsoundman, I would suggest you hold on to your horses, and do some reading about sound, sound transmission, sound transmission loss, acoustics, and a few other things BEFORE you put your plan into motion. Design does nothing if it doesn't provide solutions to the problems PRIOR to building. Identifying them is the REAL work. Here are some links to things you might want to read first. This is only the tip of the iceberg.
http://www.saecollege.de/reference_material/index.html
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar98/articles/soundproofing.html
http://searcht.netscape.com/ns/boom..._url=http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html
http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=f8f186822f24bb012e5d73978154c7ca


fitZ

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

One other thing. I see in you picture, the desk with a computer. That means nothing. The REAL thing, is your monitors and how they relate to the room geometry. Side walls, rear wall, and ceiling have a bearing on the stereo image if you are REALLY interested in recording. Your engineering position has EVERYTHING to do with how your recordings will translate to other systems.
fitZ

 

[bennychico11]

Hello guys. Yes, it is Autocad. The human figures did NOT come with it. I drew them just for the purpose of scale. When you look at a plan view of rectangles and rooms, you get NO feeling of the scale without them. It's very important to see it. Human ergonomics are something that are usually left out till its too late.
Hindsight is both expensive and time consuming. coolsoundman, I would suggest you hold on to your horses, and do some reading about sound, sound transmission, sound transmission loss, acoustics, and a few other things BEFORE you put your plan into motion. Design does nothing if it doesn't provide solutions to the problems PRIOR to building. Identifying them is the REAL work. Here are some links to things you might want to read first. This is only the tip of the iceberg.
http://www.saecollege.de/reference_material/index.html
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar98/articles/soundproofing.html
http://searcht.netscape.com/ns/boom..._url=http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html
http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=f8f186822f24bb012e5d73978154c7ca


fitZ

good read....props