John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

hey john...great site so i joined...

i have been following you forums and tips for only a short while but have learnt alot thank you..i was telling a good mate of mine who is also my partner in a small production company "dyno productions" that i had found a forum site and there was a guy called john sayers giving advice on studio construction and my mate said "ahhh i know john i have recorded with him quite a few times tell him i said g'day" so a big g'day from Ray Arnott (spectrum,dingos,etc etc etc etc not enough room )

ok so im just about to move into a new place and i have a 2 storey double garage in which to build the new studio i have drawn a basic plan and wondered if you could give me any tips on the design.. i am quite pleased with the layout but am unsure about bass traps and absorbtion...
the walls will be a mix of gyprock and wood panel & the ceiling is about 8 feet.. the control room floor is mixed aussie hardwood flooring and the main room is concrete..the drum booth will have a floating wooden floor..also the building is held up buy 11 big gum tree posts which i would like to leave some of them semi exposed and polished as a feature of the studio.so over all i have a 10.5 x 6.5 metre space to work with.. any thoughts would be much aprectiated
cheers


Pete Dyball

Firstly - say hello to Ray for me - wondered where he'd got to - did he do the Long Way To The Top tour?? Spectrum Rulz!!

Now your design.
1. - too many parallel walls to start with. The control room needs some shaping to project your speakers properly.
2. The drum room seems pretty small compared with the main studio. What kind of recording are you intending to do? It looks like you've allowed for 10 musicians in the main room
3. In the elevation shot at the bottom how far does the upstairs go to the right. It appears that there could be a space above the right end of the downstairs ceiling where you could break through to the roof height and have a high angled ceiling.

cheers
john

thanks for the reply john..rays says hi too..he didnt do the long way to the top tour..too busy in the studio with me

i am intending to be able to record a broad range of music from solo acoustic guitarists to young bands full of teenage angst...the floor upstairs
finnishes between the 2 roller doors so i intended usin the high sloped ceiling above the drum room and havin a removable panel above the drum booth so i could control the amount of reveberant space above..

i agree that the control room needs shaping.... just a little unsure of what shape.... also the shape of my ceilings ...what about the vocalbooth and amp room should i shape those too .... i can extend the drum booth forward to the line between the rollerdoors and also make it longer and maybe a bit wider by loosing a little from the amp room....what da ya reckon???

cheers mate

How about something along this line??

cheers
john