John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Hi

Great forum!

I'm in the process of constructing a basement/project studio, I've been designing the shape of the rooms and come out with something that seems all right to me.



Anyway, my main questions were about paralellism in the control room and about sliding glass doors between studio A and B.

First, the control room. The walls are not up yet, except for the bathroom ones, so any changes are still possible. The outer and main walls will be made of cement, and the inner walls that define the geometry of the room will be made out of wood. I was reading that wider control rooms are a good idea in home-project studios since the side walls are farther away from the listening position and therefore don't interact too much as if they were closer. Anyway, I was thinking about making the inner side walls with 6 degrees variation each to kill fluttering. The other parallell walls will occur between the front and rear wall, what kind of treatment should I use for that?? should a diffussor will be enough or do I need to make some treatment/move the rear wall?

And I want to have a double sliding door between studio A and studio B to keep comunication and visual contact. Studio B will be in fact some sort of living room that can be used sometimes to record a guitar amp or something, so it will not be in use all the time, but when it's needed I want it to be there with the right acoustic treatment and geometry. I want to have studio A more "dead" than studio B, where I want it to be "liver", you get the idea. I liked the idea of the sliding glass door so the place can have easy comunnication between studio A and B, but if it's gonna be a bad idea as to acoustics/isolation then it just can go out.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot! you guys rock.

Daniel

Daniel,

Welcome to the forum!

First of all, I think you're going to have a lot of problems with that short control room. Standing waves and early reflections from the rear wall will be very difficult to deal with in a room this size. You might seriously consider using the space in "studio A" for the control room as well. The acoustic treatment in "studio B" could be variable, so you could easily make the room more live or dead.

Would a two room configuration work for you?

Thomas

Hi barefoot, thanks a lot for the quick reply.

About the two room configuration, even though I understand what you are saying, I need to have a 3 room configuration. See, studio B was in fact going to be a simple bedroom for ocassional visits at our house; after long hours (days or months even) of fighting with my parents, we've come to the agreement that studio B will be separate so it can also have some sort of couch/bed so it can function as a bedroom very ocassionally. I know it's not the best thing to do, but anyway it just has to be a 3 room config since studio A will be used for practices with my band also.

By the way, the article I read about being better wider than longer is here:
http://www.wsdg.com/resources/resour.php?SL=ta&BL=1

Do you think I'm gonna have A LOT (and that means A LOT) of problems with my short room? I was thinking about putting the inner walls something like this:



and the door to the control room will be in the left side wall, the one that's on the upper side of the picture.

I know it's not the best scenario, but I'd really like to stick to this 3 room config, it seems like the most practical way to work. Any ideas are welcome though.

Thanks a lot.

Daniel

Daniel - please don't post the same question in all forums - cross posting, as it's called, is frowned on.

cheers
John