The dreaded 10x10 control room... a challenge. :)

Hi everyone! I've got a pair of HR 824's on their way, and I want to make this terrible room of mine at least acceptable. I'm moving in about 6 months, so I can't install anything permanent (like John's helmholtz resonating slats) and I'd like to be able to use whatever I buy now in my next room (much bigger, I hope). I don't need soundproofing because I'll only be monitoring in this room, I just want to make it not-unbearable, you know? :) If worse comes to worse should I just forget about this room for 6 months, live with the terrible sound, and really appreciate my next room? Here is a diagram. The main area is 10 feet by 10 feet x 8 feet flat drywall ceiling. Walls are completely drywall, except for the doors and the window, and they're hollow to the adjacent room's drywall. Window's wall is concrete or brick outside of the drywal. I think I may have to make the whole room dead, as Ethan suggests in his FAQ... Which is fine, I just want to be able to do that and still be able to use the materials in my next room. Is that possible? DIY is best, but I'm also looking at Ethan's solution... would that work with such a small room? Oh, and the bookcase (6 foot case, filled with books, near the door) and the second desk have to stay in the room. The filing cabinet also probably has to stay - it is metal. :( Will this make the room unuseable? Thanks everyone!

Oh, I forgot to add my ideas for what would work best. :) Either put the bigger desk up against the right wall, or put it facing the corner with the window. Either way I'll need to put up lots of dampners around the front of the control desk, a slanted one hanging from the ceiling directly above and in front of the control desk, and put the second desk facing the left wall. Possibly hang dampners and cover the entire ceiling, put them up on the left wall, one slanted 45 deg. against the bottom left corner, and one slightly slanted (maybe 15 deg.) against the top left corner (because I need to let the closet door swing out). Does this sound good for a temporary solution? Would the 15 deg. slanted panel in against the top left corner really make a difference? Thanks!

i'm not an expert here. but what if you shrunk the long dimension by a foot and put a foot worth of bass trapping in the back. so it would at least be 8x9x10. i would get like a zillion panels of owens corning 703 and rig something up in the back (like a cheezy light framed wall). and then chop off the rear corners and build them into bass traps too. then you could take the 703's when you move. just a thought.

Hey Chris, Build 8 or more 6' 703 boxes. Hang them cabinet style, move them to and fro -- take them with you. Keep the door open, in the back (let the bass out). 703 panels inside closet with file cab. Easy to build and protable. 6" 703 get's very good down to 60hz and is about as easy a broadband absorber that you can build. Best, Dave