need help with floorplan

[Foo-bu]

can anyone suggest what i can do with my basement. its already finished and it seems like a pain in the arse to modify for studio stuff. right now i keep my mixer on the angled bar in the kitchen area (not the greatest place for it). the laundry room would be a good place for my mixing room except for the machines and the heating/AC equipment. i think im gonna move the table in the open space and just set up a desk there to do all my mixing however i dont know what to do in terms of sound absorbers etc, since it is such an open space. o yeah...the basement has open stairs too.

anyone have suggestions?

thanks!

 

[frederic]

Hey Foo...

Floorplan is very helpful... but do you think you can provide some dimensions? Would be easier to make suggestions if we knew a room was too small, or too big for certain applications.

Your thinking of yanking the table out of the center of the pic is good... since its a finished basement and you don't want to rip down all the walls, you could build a new room where the table is, call it a console room, and have a window in it facing a window in the "recording room" as you have it labeled on the diagram.

Not necessarily the best idea, but its something that might work considering you have a stairwell in the way. Windows are typically above waist height so if your drawing is to scale, you can peer from the new console room right across into the recording room.

Obviously the console room you'd want to avoid parallel walls if you can, and you might need to put in some acoustical treatments into the recording room for the same reason. Bass traps in the corners, possible angle one wall, things along those lines.

 

[Foo-bu]

thanks for the suggestions. the diagram isnt really drawn to scale. i'll get measurements asap. i was just thinking of how i plan to take over my basement when i move back home in april so i thought i'd plan ahead