Need advices for Studio design

Hello! My first time here, I'll try to be as clear as possible even though I'm not really familiar with the technical aspect of acoustics. What we want is to optimize our control room acoustics within a budget of 15,000 CAN. (that doesn't include AC costs) Description: Located in Montreal Canada, this Studio is on the 12th floor of a late 60s industrial building. The Control Room has a fairly big window taking almost 50% of one of the walls and a smaller window allowing eye contact in the Recording Room Control Room Dimension 22.2 X 11.11 X 11.9 Ceiling: Concrete Floor: Hard Wood Walls: double Gyproc sheet Facing wall with window: Concrete We have a Studer 963 mixer as shown on the PDF file (Sorry I couldn't optimize the pict) There are 4 Rackmount units plus a Studer A80 at the back. Goals: We want to have a flat acoustic response in the room as much as possible. We also want to be isolated from the recording studio which is on the smaller window side of the control room. We would like to have a lower floating ceiling if possible. Questions: 1. What would be the best way achieve that within our budget of 15,000$CAN?. 2. Should we do a floating ceiling? 3. What kind of isolation can I use to isolated the wall next to the recording studio? 4. What should be the best listening position in the room? Do I have to put bass traps in the 4 corners? 5. Since this room is not very large can we use acoustic panels instead of making non-parallel walls? 6. Do we have to totally hide the big window because of reflections or can we hang some sort of panel in front to keep the daylight coming in. There will be more questions for sure... Thanks for your support Stef [/u]

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You really need to do some more research here on the forum by yourself. Lot's of stuff has been discussed in detail. Take some extra time to spend on the archives and/or recent threads. There's really some good stuff in there. Start with the design forum, this one, and draw a plan. Then think about construction, what you need, how to do it and what not to do. Gather all info about the existing building you can get like how's it constructed, what materials used, widths, lengths, heights etc etc. Every detail counts. Make/draw a floorplan, and post it here. We can discuss it. When your plan is ready, see what's need to get it working. Last but not least you'll need some room acoustic work. The while shabang will have you occupied for at least a couple 'o months (if not years, unless yer name is Lou ;) ) good luck and don't forget to post your thoughts here ;)