Building my first recording/mixing room.

Im writing just to say hello and thank you for this forum, you seem like a nice bunch! Im finally getting to realize my longtime dream of having a place of my own to make music in, so this forum is just what I need to (hopefully;) get it right the first time. The space I am renting is a 12 squaremeter rectangular room in a practicespace complex and I´ll be converting it for recording and mixing. I just dig experimenting with sound and music and will be making all kinds of stuff. The work on the room starts next week, can´t wait! :P I have gathered lots of stuff along the years but heres a list of the main ingredients: A PC with a 22" flatscreen running Cubase 5 Genelec 8030A monitors rack micpre/converters 8ch analogmixer Drumset (with 24" Bd) 12" guitarcombo Guitars, mics, keyboards, taperecorders etc. ..this and more will be stuffed in this small space :shock: So all tracking and mixing will happen in the same room, and I am looking for a good balance between a flat frequency response for mixing and a "live" enough room for recording... (thinking about removable panels(?) Anyways, I´ll be reading on the forum for the do´s and do not´s and get back to you with my (propably more than a few) questions. Luckily Im not a total novice in acoustics so I propably won´t bother you with the most obvious things ( I hope :oops: ) Feel free to drop me some links to stuff you think I might need in my situation. I promise to document my progress here so it might help someone with a similar task ahead. OK, thats it for now, I hope to hear from you! T. Reko

Hi and good luck. 12 m/sq divided how?

Thanks! The room is 2,5m high and the sides are 3m by 4m. Maybe my first decision would be speaker placement. For such a small space I would like to consider soffit mounting the 8030´s... I heard of soffit mounting the much bigger 8050A´s, but how it´ll work with 8030´s is unclear. At least there´s that 6dB dip switch :) Here´s what I see as the advantages of soffit mounting (in addition to the improvement in monitoring): 1. Saves space ! 2. Can be built into a basstrap ( I´ll have one in all corners ) 3. It will act as the reflecting end of the room with all the hard surface around the speakers ( the opposing wall will be absorbing) This should be in line with the "dead end / live end" concept recommended for recording acoustics. 4. The usual improvements in frequency balance and stereo imaging with soffitmounting. So what do you think? Am I on the right track? Is soffit mounting the 8030A´s even sensible? Just to provide more info: -No need for sound insulation, 24/7 permit to be as loud as I want. -Budget around 1000€ -One door opposite to the speakers, no windows.

Hai indoorfella! 3x4x2,5 is a very tiny room. adding a soffitmounted speaker system seems like wasting space imho. dunno.. Adding speakers inside a basstrap seems cool, but you should be shure you have a descent absorbing material behind the speaker as well. What's the room used for, also tracking?? (that's virtually impossible in such a small room) You speak of LEDE, in a tiny room like that it'll never happen. forget about that. Make a plan, draw it and post it here. keep it up!

Hi Ro! There is a new thread for my plans, you can check it out here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13790 I have scrapped the idea of soffit mounts. The room is a rental so building something that custom for the space is a no no.. and my monitors are not exactly ideal for that also. Im curious as to what makes tracking and mixing "impossible" in this space in your opinion? I have made recordings in "eggcarton" rehearsal spaces this size, even smaller with no basstrapping, and have been happy with the results. I know I wont be getting a big drumsound etc. and there will be limitations in what I can do, (no live bands or anything) but thats life.. you work with what you have :| If you have the time to checkout the plans and pics in that other thread and have any suggestions, I´d be more than happy to hear them! (it hasn´t exactly been a magnet for posts so far :)