Need Help with our new Music Production Studio

[blitz]

After looking at some of john’s designs I’ve come across this case in which I can see clearly my 2nd option, have I misunderstood something? Please help me out because I think that in the alternative Stuart gave me (I do see it is correct and would apply it in case I had another adjacent room) is wasting too much “free” space behind the wall or should I maybe Use this space as something else. Just to clarify what I’m talking about I’ve added a quick sketch without dimensions or anything.

Hi lovely people,

this is my first post and pretty new to on-line forums. My friends and I are going to build a music production studio soon. The research we did pointed out that it is a good idea to have angled walls in the correct ratio instead of having parallel walls to get the best sound proofing and acoustic experience in the studio. Since we are new to this subject we are confused on creating the basic design of our studio. The room that we are going to build our studio is 18ft Long, 12 ft Wide and 9ft high. At the moment we have decided to have 11ft*12ft partition for the control room and 7ft*12ft(rest) for the recoding cubicle . Can someone help us to design our studio to get the optimal output. Hope you guys can help us succeed with our studio project. Your advices and expertise ideas will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Here I have shared the draw of the current idea. feel free to add your ideas. Cheers !!
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1KOR ... zq0os/edit

[Soundman2020]

Hi Blitz. Welcome.

Please read the forum rules for posting (click here). You seem to be missing a couple of things!

The research we did pointed out that it is a good idea to have angled walls in the correct ratio instead of having parallel walls to get the best sound proofing and acoustic experience in the studio.

angled walls (also called "splayed walls") help in some very specific aspects, but are not absolutely necessary. The only time you need splayed walls, is for a control room that is based on the RFZ design principle, or the CID design principle, or in any type of room if you want to eliminate flutter echo. However, there are other ways of eliminating flutter echo, using acoustic treatment, so splaying the walls is not really needed for that.

So there is no need to splay the walls of your live room tracking room, recording room, rehearsal room). It is only useful for control rooms, and only if you are doing a specific type of design that requires it. "You must always angle the walls" is one of many myths that seem to be circulating on the internet about studios, and it isn't true. Yes, you CAN do it if you want to, but there is no NEED to do it, except for some types of control room.

So first you should decide what design philosophy you want to use for your control room. If you decide on RFZ, then you will splay your walls, and in that case you will need to calculate the angle for splaying them using a specific procedure called "ray tracing", as that is the only way to work out what angle you need.

Can someone help us to design our studio to get the optimal output.

Yes, we sure can help you! That's what the forum is for. There are two ways of getting help here. One way is to hire one of the professional studio designers to do the design for you, and the other way is to design it mostly yourself, with help from the forum members. If you would like to hire someone to do the design, then contact John by Private Message (PM). If you'd like to design it yourself, then the best way is to read through the threads of several people who have built studios similar to what you want to do (start on this thread for example: http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewt ... =10&t=5842 ), then do a rough layout based on what you learn there, and post that here for comments by other forum members and by the moderators. I'd also suggest that you read two books: "Master Handbook of Acoustics" by F. Alton Everest (that's sort of the Bible for acoustics), and "Home Recording Studio: Build it Like the Pros", by Rod Gervais. Those will help you learn the basic concepts of acoustics and of studio design / construction that you will need to know, in order to design and build your studio.

It would also help if you post pictures of the space where you plan to build your studio, and a detailed description of what your goals are. And it is also important to mention your budget, so we can orient you on the best way to design and build your studio within that budget.



- Stuart -

[blitz]

Hi Blitz. Welcome.

Please read the forum rules for posting (click here). You seem to be missing a couple of things!

angled walls (also called "splayed walls") help in some very specific aspects, but are not absolutely necessary. The only time you need splayed walls, is for a control room that is based on the RFZ design principle, or the CID design principle, or in any type of room if you want to eliminate flutter echo.

- Stuart -

Hi Stuart.

Thanks a lot for your awesome advices. I will post the other information of the room and the budget information soon.

Best,
Blitz

[Geoffrey]

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[Soundman2020]

if you are building a new studio then you must be installing soundproofing foam

No you should not, because there is no such thing as "soundproof foam".

I already delete the spammer and banned him permanently for violating the forum rules, but I added this reply just in case anybody was confused by his snake-oil pitch. Anybody who talks about "soundproof foam" doesn't have a clue about acoustics to start with, and one has to wonder why a reputable company selling real acoustic products would need "likes" on a facebook page...


- Stuart -

[Soundman2020]

Thanks a lot for your awesome advices. I will post the other information of the room and the budget information soon.

Looking forward to it!

- Stuart -