John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Greetings all,
Attached will be my early floor plan for a possible new Garage/Studio. Here are my goals:

1. Isolation from the neighbors, this is the key goal
2. I would like to be able to record drums and another instrument at the same time with no bleed, hence the iso room.
3. The live room will also function as the band's practice room so I have to be able to fit 4-5 guys and instruments. Right now we are a three piece but I always like the option of planning ahead and I know its rather tight at the moment.
4. Budget: I figure around $18k for the garage and hopefully under $5k for the studio but up 10k is not out of the question as this will be about a 2 year project starting next spring hopefully.

I would also consider a mixing/live room with an iso room but I'm liking what I have thus far.

I do have Rod's wonderful book but haven't looked at it in awhile.

Any and all suggestions would be very appreciated. Sorry the sketchup file doesn't have more as I am still trying to figure the darned thing out.

Thanks for any input.

Aloha and welcome to the forum,

Nice layout. How tall will your ceilings/walls be?

Here are a few links that that might be helpful -
http://www.saecollege.de/reference_material/index.html
http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2921

Aloha

Thats still kind of up in the air but 8' min. I am going to speck scissor trusses for the garage to get the max ceiling height/$ that I can. I can also print out a pdf with more dimensions as the dimensions did not import into sketchup when I imported the acad drawing into sketchup.

Aloha,

Here's a 2d with 8' walls.

There are a few openings that appear to windows. Is that correct?

If so, it appears that you have a window directly behind your mix position. Left untreated, it may introduce reflections back to the mix position and distorting your imaging.

Aloha

Kendale,
You kick a**. The long block on the control room are actually the monitors I just included them for reference. I know the window in the control room will have to disappear but I am so tired of non-natural light at work all day I'd like to have some windows that actually go to the outside world.

Is there any chance you could post that sketchup file for me to try and manipulate?

Oh, I'll be on Kauai next summer.

Thanks again

Thats still kind of up in the air but 8' min. I am going to speck scissor trusses for the garage to get the max ceiling height/$ that I can. I can also print out a pdf with more dimensions as the dimensions did not import into sketchup when I imported the acad drawing into sketchup.

What is that small room near the control room ? A sound lock ? Vocal booth ?

Do those walls already exist ? Can't you place the control room in the middle of that area the the tracking rooms on both sides so you can have visual contact with both rooms ?

No walls exist. the area to the north of the control room and iso booth will be the workshop/garage/parking. the small area is a storage/computer room whose dimensions can change. The dimensions of the area north of that cannot by edict of the wife.