New house new control room????

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I'm buying a new house and have claimed the Bonus room as mine :) The Bonus room is 14' W X 22' L w/ 9' ceilings.

There is a closet/office off of it that is apx 6' W X 8' L w/ 8'' ceilings. Is this closet/office large enough for my control room to get a good mix? The walls are Sheetrock which I can treat with whatever they need.

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No, split the 22' room for control room & drums and use the closet for iso booth< Mix in a box and it'll sound like it was mixed in a box

14 x 9will make an ok drum boothl leaving 14 x 12 for the control room and 1' for wall seperation. The 8' x 6' will make a great iso booth for amp micing & vocals. With small rooms make them as dead as possible. Good luck

Alec
 
LemonTree read my mind. 6x8 is way too small for any kind of decent control room (believe me, I have an 8x8 room and the problems with this small of a space are difficult to deal with come mix time).

Darryl.....
 
I concurr with the closet/office as the iso booth. The bigger question is whether to split the big room or have a combined tracking/mixing space. If you were building a professional studio the answer would be simple, but if you are thinking of the resale value of the house the answer is not so simple.
 
All I mainly do at home is mixing and my wife sings with sound tracks for weddings and such. On occasions about the only tracking I'll be doing at home are vocals and maybe some guitar/keys. Everything else is done at my church or elsewhere. All I mainly do at home is mixing and my wife sings with sound tracks for weddings and such.

I can't split the room because of resell (as noted above) I'll just treat the smaller room and us it as my iso. Booth and put the control room in the bonus room. I had a feeling it would be too small
 
The nice thing, then, will be having a large room to mix in. You will probably want to do some treatments at least around the mix area to minimize reflections (take a look at some of the control room layouts posted in the Recording Manual at www.johnlsayers.com to get an idea of some basic treatment ideas).

You mentioned that you record stuff at your church. What type of recording gear do you use for this? I record our worship services periodically (once a month or so) myself. I've got a Mackie MDR 24-track hard disc recorder that I haul over to the church. I've got a patchbay connected to our Midas console so I can pick up to 24 channels of whatever I want. I dump all the tracks into my PC and mix in Cubase now (used to be through a board but I don't have enough good outboard to do it as well as I like it). It is a lot of fun and after 2 years I'm finally starting to like the results I'm getting from my mixes (partly ear training, partly learning how to mix, partly too small of a mixing room that takes too much trial and error to get good mixes).

Anyway, good luck with getting your room setup. I'd love to have that kind of space now that I know more than I did 2.5 years ago when I built my room.

Darryl.....
 
Pretty much the same thing. I use an HD24 at church and bring the Drive-caddy home to my fire-port. I'm using the direct outs of my Soundcraft at church into the HD24. I had a patchbay, but until I got the fire-port I just took it out and hooked the Alesis up direct. I also do some small stuff for weddings and funerals that people want prerecorded. I've even had a few choirs come in and record at my church.
 
deep man, you just got a new house and already you're thinking about the resale...

Split the big room and give yourself the option of recording a full band with drums. Build it and they will come. A room within a room that size is gonna cost about 2 weeks wages. Think of the makeup on that when you can charge a weeks wages for 1 weekend in your space. It all makes sence
 
LemonTree said:
deep man, you just got a new house and already you're thinking about the resale...

Split the big room and give yourself the option of recording a full band with drums. Build it and they will come. A room within a room that size is gonna cost about 2 weeks wages. Think of the makeup on that when you can charge a weeks wages for 1 weekend in your space. It all makes sence
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If I recorded bands it would be fine, but I mainly just need a mixing location. Thats why I asked about the 8X6 closet office area off the bonus room. I could build a removable wallin the bonus room that could be taken out. That would give me a 7' X 11" control room. However, I can't see where that is much better than using the 8' X 6' office thats there now as the control room.
 
deepwater said:
Pretty much the same thing. I use an HD24 at church and bring the Drive-caddy home to my fire-port. I'm using the direct outs of my Soundcraft at church into the HD24. I had a patchbay, but until I got the fire-port I just took it out and hooked the Alesis up direct. I also do some small stuff for weddings and funerals that people want prerecorded. I've even had a few choirs come in and record at my church.
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Guess I forgot to mention my patchbay was connected to the direct outs of the Midas. Sounds like we've got a similar thing going. Most of my work (unpaid, that is) is mixing the worship services I record. I do some paid tracking and mixing at home as well for local Christian groups (although I only really have one current paying customer since the other band is my teenage son's that I'm working with right now). I do a lot of cassette to CD transfers and editing songs down for time, etc as well.

As far as your room goes, man I would highly recommend using the whole large room instead of chopping it up if you don't plan to do any major tracking. I don't know if you've seen the plan that Ethan Winer has for a room that is similar in size, but I would be tempted to look into that. You could do the walls such that they could be removed later if you sell the place and it will be a great place to mix in (or so I believe)..

Cheers,
Darryl.....
 

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A room-within-a-room for two weeks' wages? I doubt it unless you are making some really big bucks.
 
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