Garage Studio Design - Input & Suggestions

Hello folks!! I’m relatively new to the site, posting-wise, that is. I’ve been mulling around here for a while, taking in all the great resources that are posted here. I’m finally taking the plunge and hoping to build my long awaited project studio. I’ve gotten and read Rod Gervais’ book, researched a lot of different materials and suppliers and hope to put some of my remaining questions to rest by getting input from you all. I’ve attached a drawing below in reference of my first question: With the useable space shown in the drawing, would it be better to leave it as one large room and uses mobile partitions and gobos if recording drums and such, or create two separate rooms (control and isolation area) to provide more isolation from the instruments/vocals while recording? Background on the building space: approx 1 1/2 bays of a three car tandem garage, very close to Sharward’s garage layout. I am fortunate enough not to have neighbors adjacent to my planned studio and also no neighbors directly behind our house. A major of the soundproofing will go towards reducing sound transmission to the second floor and into the adjacent kitchen. The drawing is very basic and will get a lot more detail before construction, but I’m throwing it out there for feedback. The units are all in inches. I’m hoping this initial post will lead to more dialog to help tweak my design. Great forum here and I hope to become more involved quickly!!! Regards, Chris

Use resilient channel! Wish someone had told me that.

no! no! more mass, you need mass! Wish someone... aah, stuff it. ;) Welcome Vox, great to have you here. first: http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3231 second: why don't you first take your "plans" to the "studio design" part of this very forum. From there you can figure out what to do with the space. HOW it's dun can be discussed here in the construction part. But I've to stress that you might wanna take a few weeks more to do some good planning and learning by reading this forum. There's good stuff here which will very well help you already!

Thanks for the warm welcome and I think I will post this over on the Studio Design area. Hope to hear form you both again once I get things rolling on the final design and start the build. Regards!!