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Hello my name is Jr Cervantes and I have been reading here for a while and have learned quite a bit from all who share their knowledge with us. My family and I are going to be moving to a new house within a month and my dad gave me the garage to build into a studio. It is a 3 car garage 30x21x8.5 with concrete floors. I know close to nothing about costruction and even less about getting the acoustics to sound good. For that reason I am going to hire someone to come and do the acoustics for the rooms. All I am going to build is a control room and a live room. The control room is going to be around 16x20 and the live room is going to be around 12.5x20. I am goin to put a wall in the entire length of where the garage doors are at. Sound isolation is a must between control and live rooms. I also want to put wood floors in the live room but do not know what kind of wood to use. Also I dont know what kind of floors to use in the control room. I would like to put carpets down but dont know. I really need help in choosing the right materials and stuff like that. I am going to have a bunch of friends who are construction workers(a couple of them are liscensed) help me with the construction. I tried posting a design but I couldnt get it to work. this is the 3rd time Ive have to write this message, it keeps telling "invalid session" thanks for all of your time and patience Junior Cervantes

got it!!

If you're after separation between the live and control rooms, as well as keeping noise from bothering your nearby neighbors, you could float the floor in the garage easily enough. There's plenty of stuff on that over in the Construction forum. As far as the design goes, you could make the wall between the 2 rooms straight, instead of broken into 3 faces as you show it above; just kick the angle off by 12 degrees. See if laying it out like this will work- I don't have much time today, so this is rough and without any windows or doors, but this is what I'd try to do. Kase www.minemusic.net

hey thanks alot; how about this?? Also, Does anyone know what kind of wood to use in the floors? Is there a difference in sound between laminated and real wood? Should I angle the ceiling above the mix position a bit? Thanks for your time and patience Junior Cervantes

Try to make your room symmetrical around your mixing position. Otherwise your stereo image will be skewed. If you build your walls using the 'inside-out' theory you can get decend absorption without taking up any more floor space. Then you can dedicate the back wall to absorption. Kase www.minemusic.net

Hi I think this is in the wrong forum. If it is, can someone please move it the construction forum, or should I start a new topic in there? Thanks and sorry for the misshap Junior Cervantes

It started out as a layout thread, so I think you're ok. ;) Angling the ceiling in the mix position will help the sound a little, if you can do that. If you do have a flat ceiling, make it absorbant. You could hang an insulation cloud over the mix position, too, if angling the ceiling doesn't work out for you. If you can do it, try to angle the ceiling in the tracking room, too- that'll help out a bunch. As far as the floor goes, anything reflective is good. That one is pretty much dealer's choice. Good luck! Kase www.minemusic.net

thanx. yeah about the floor I was trying to see if there was a difference in sound but I read that there isnt so cool!! Where in the tracking room should I angle the ceiling? How much of an angle should it be in both the live room and control rooms? Thaks for your help. Junior Cervantes