Very Odd Shaped Room

I am looking for some assistance on a layout for an extremely odd shaped room. This room will be used as a mixing/post production room for a large church in Las Vegas. There will be 96 channels coming to this room from the FOH mixer. We have Adam A7 and Adam Sub10 for monitors. Because of the obscurity of the room, I am not sure how best to lay things out. I am hoping to not only have the audio mixing/editing station but also a video editing station as well in this room. We have an acoustics company that is going to build custom panels for us as a donation to the church, so we can get done whatever we need to from an acoustics perspective. This room is directly below the light/video booth in the back of the main sanctuary. Not much sound bleeds out of the main room as it is entirely insulated and treated with acoustic paneling. I am not worried about bleed as we will be recording live what is happening in the main sanctuary and therefore will be identical to what people are hearing live. Of course it is not a perfect situation, but the goal is to be able to mix for recording and for remote broadcasts separate from the FOH mix. Budget is also not much of a factor as we are spending $150,000 on this project in total and I have access to a contractor to do whatever is necessary. This room is also so small that I can't imagine that there are many options. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!! Eric

Start here. You will have done at least two things that will show to us that you have followed it. Andre

Hopefully I have complied. :-)

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Welcome to JLS' RSD! Sorry, but to fit everything you said into such a small an restricted space seems just about impossible. Assuming that you will have a machine room someplace else, the smallest audio board I can think of for 96 lines is a Yamaha DM1000 with additional outboard pres and ADCs. If you place the outboard gear underneath the console, you have still have a 3x3' footprint. Then the video equipment. Is the vocal booth necessary? If not, what about the video in that corner and audio in the east curved area? Andre

i have to agree here - the room size and budget seem odd... if you're actually looking for a 96ch mixer room, you need to find a much better room for it. having the curves and small places is just a bad idea. find the right location to do this right, otherwise you're just wasting money.

Sorry, I guess I should have clarified more. There will be a 96 channel Digidesign Venue FOH mixer out in the main sanctuary. In this room, there will just be a Pro Tools computer that will be doing the recording. This will then be used as the mix/post room to finish the recordings. I have no plans for another board here accept for maybe a C24 control surface. The vocal room is an existing closet underneath the stairs, so it's not really useful for much. The majority of the money is being spent on the FOH system and that is why the high price. In reality, there will probably only be about $30K or spent in this room. I sure do understand that this is a tough room to do anything in, that is why I was looking for some suggestions. Thanks!!!

i'd probably remove that short wall which defines the vox booth and then use the pointed end to create the booth and the deep part of that point (right hand side) to make a trap for the booth. that should give you enough room to position the desk and treatments and hopefully reduce some of the convex wall effect. make the "back wall" very absorptive.

Wow Glenn, does it ever NOT work in your brain? Respect! :idea:

yeah, when i forget the opposite angle treatment :-)

I'm not trying to be negative. Would the video editing slide over and use the same desktop? Andre

you could combine them with a large screen TV in the front wall and sit side-by-side, or have the video station facing the back wall (i.e. having folks work back-to-back) - i guess it depends on how production is going to be done...