Studio size.......Too small?

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Without expanding my exisiting space I have about 252 sqft (18x14apprx.). I'd like to be able to have an isolated control room, a vox/amp booth and a live room. This is all in a basement room in a quiet rural neighborhood, I'm not worried about sound getting in and out of the live room, just the CR and VOX. It seems like enough space, but those 63db dbl walls are THICK and may eat up too much floor space.

Still just trying to decide if I can do this right within budget or just keep it all in one room.

Here's a goofy idea, My office is directly above the "room", how about more insulation and another leaf on the ceiling and running XLR and TRS jacks up thru the floor and using my office for the control room? Video cams for visual communication? How about another XLR jack up thru to the bathroom for VOX?

Obviously I'm clueless, but at least I've learned I've got a lot more to learn.
 
I would think that room is way to small to split up. I'd go with using the upstairs room. Check out the Studio Forum for some construction and acoustics info.
 
Thanks Tex

So let's keep it all in one room or maybe build an adjacent booth.
Actually I may not even need that. It's just that in order to get a tight rhythm track I'd like to be able to record bass, guit, live drums and lead vocal simultaneously even if the guit. and VOX are scratch they gives cues and the band plays tighter all together live. But for guitar we REALLY prefer sounds of a mic'ed amp vs DI. So how about we put the vox outside the room, (she won't need to iso'ed cause she 's only scratch and we just need to keep her out of the drum mic's but in the mix over the phones.)
Go DI with guit and bass then pack up the drums and mic up the amp and overdub the guitar, then get a BIG cup of coffee before we overdub the VOX.

Does this sound reasonable or am I fuel for the flames?
 
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