Studio Floor Plan! Please give recommendations!

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The room is (as you can see) 14' by 12' - it is carpeted but I want to pull that up and put in bamboo wood flooring (I put a sample of the flooring I want to use as the walkway area that needs to be clear - the whole room would actually be the wood flooring). I think the wood will brighten up the room (it has dark navy blue carpet right now)...

So the only big concern I have is that the entire south wall is two 6' wide mirrored closet doors, floor to ceiling. There is a 2' slatted closet door in the middle. That's gonna create some hardcore reflections. (LOL mirror puns :laughings: )

I was thinking I could, if needed, hang some removable panels in front of them

but seriously I don't even know how important that is since I am not recording live drums - just mic'd guitar cabs and some vocals, I can always get a vocal sound trap mic stand if it becomes a problem. I was also not too sure about the monitor placement because of the L shaped desk!

So let me know what you guys think - think this will work ok? any tips or suggestions?

I haven't even cleared the room yet so this is just the first layout plan... Also - this is a basement room -think a drop ceiling help reduce sound leaking upstairs?
 
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From a mixing perspective it is always best to be centrally placed in a symmetrical layout and usually facing the monitors down the longer wall, so I would experiment with having your mixing desk centred on the right hand wall. That will bring the monitors away from side boundaries, and hopefully you can come a little way off the front wall too so that your listening position is nearer 38% of the length of the room. With the desk on the wall you wall have SBIR problems and you may not find a sweet spot for listening ... but you might, so test the room and see what you can find.

Probably opening the mirror doors when listening to your monitors would help reduce some unwanted reflections. Absorption on stands will enable you to place them where you need while not permanently blocking doors.

Finding the sweet spot for recording guitars and vocals will benefit from the option to have the mirror doors open or closed, helping to create livlier or deader sounds as required.
 
Yeah man, the corner is probably the worst place possible for your listening position man. Put your head in a corner with music going and see what you hear. Not very pretty. I know it looks like the best place as far as layout goes, but not ideal for sound. If you must place it there, at the very least, fill the whole corner 3' wide with rock wool.

Oh yeah, gobos are just portable panels. :D
 
jimmys69 said:
Yeah man, the corner is probably the worst place possible for your listening position man. Put your head in a corner with music going and see what you hear. Not very pretty. I know it looks like the best place as far as layout goes, but not ideal for sound. If you must place it there, at the very least, fill the whole corner 3' wide with rock wool.

Oh yeah, gobos are just portable panels. :D
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3' wide bass traps - really? they have to be that wide! Sheeyaat -

I can move the monitors to the right side of the desk - I will put up a new diagram :D

thanks everyone.

How important is the hardwood floor versus carpet? does it matter much? Seems like it would be nicer and bamboo isn't that expensive.
 
Super chunks buddy! Search it. I actually get good results in my isolation room with rolls of pink stuff (no paper) still in wrappers, stacked from floor to ceiling. Its a 10 X 10 square room that sounded of ass before I trapped it.
 
Ok, I updated the layout - moved the monitors to the middle wall instead of the corner. Any other suggestions?
 
Much better! Symmetry is key tho for your stereo image. Ideally, you want your listening position centered between the side walls. Make sure to hang panels at first reflection points on side walls as well as ceiling. Watch out for gators on yer trip!
 
I decided not to spend the $500 to do the wood floor. It's carpeted on concrete slab right now and that will have to do - I won't be recording live drums anyway so I think the money can be used in better places - I need to build bass traps and stuff anyway so my budget is limited.

But - I got the room cleared yesterday. Today I am going to paint! Will post some pics... going to home depot to get some neon magenta and electric purple for the walls.
 
arcadeko said:
Today I am going to paint! Will post some pics... going to home depot to get some neon magenta and electric purple for the walls.
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That sounds interesting ... and a good start. I look forward to the pics. I chose less bright colours on a food theme: olive green and banana yellow:

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Capriccio said:
That sounds interesting ... and a good start. I look forward to the pics. I chose less bright colours on a food theme: olive green and banana yellow:

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Awesome man I love it

- i was kidding about the colors (just wanted to see who was paying attention :)). gonna do one wall in bright electric blue and the rest in an off white. The carpet is dark blue so I wanted a brighter color on most of the walls - I got the track lights wired and hopefully will be done painting today.
 
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