looking for single room studio designs?

Hi guys looks like I'm moving to a new house finally and can build a dedicated space :yahoo: instead of jerry rigging a room under my current house that is a weird shape and too low :roll: . I am looking for any single room tracking/mixing room designs I have been doing searches here and have had no luck. I know I've seen the designs over the years of checking this place out but I'll be damned if I can find them at the moment. I don't have a new location yet just want to take the size and shape requirements into account while looking around. I am currently looking to build a free standing structure in the rear yard essentially a large granny flat (to make the house more re-salable later) Basically a largish live room with a bathroom at the back (we'll call it the vocal/ reverb booth :D ) so it will be easy and quick to convert later if I move. I am looking to make myself a space where I can track bands as well as my own stuff, I prefer single room as I am mostly working on my own so I like having the space available rather than locked away in a separate room, I realize there are compromises inherent in this approach but I can live with that. I mostly record acoustic and rock stuff, occasionally a touch of metal slips in so I need to deal with loud sound sources on occasion. Any advice on this sort of studio idea would be appreciated but really looking for designs to try and get a handle on what I want and so on at the moment. Sorry for the odd post, but I will convert this to a proper design post once I have the location set-up. I apologize if this is in the wrong place, Mods if I'm out of line posting here please to move it to the right location. If you need anymore info let me know and I'll see what I can do. Nathan Far North Queensland Australia

here's one that was basically replacing an existing garage...

Thanks for the reply Glen, will add that to the pile to cut and paste ideas from as I go. I have the books 'Sound Studio Construction on a Budget' by Alton Everest and 'How to Build A Small Budget Recording Studio From Scratch' by Shea but neither seem to cover single room studio spaces really, which as i work alone on my own stuff or with one or two other people I would prefer to have us all in the same space rather than sectioned off or in a control room with the live space empty while I record myself or whatever. Maybe I'm just strange that way, Thanks again for the reply and plans, Nathan Far North Queensland Australia

basically create a single large room with good ratios and consider reversible treatments so you can readily alter the acoustics for tracking or mixing. also consider a bathroom, plus storage. depending on your equipment, maybe a machine closet. you also need to consider your HVAC - in the drawing i think i put in a separate pad for the external compressor equipment.

Thanks again for your help Glen, yeah here in the tropics air-con is a seriously essential part of the equation, both for temperature control as well as keeping the humidity down to safe levels for the equipment. I hadn't considered a machine room, was probably going to build a box into my desk to reduce the noise but I guess if I can put aside the space it does make more sense to get it out of there completely, possibly make an airing type cupboard in the bathroom to use for the purpose which could then also be useful for storage for the 'granny flat' if I ever sell up. Thanks for the ideas, some rusty gears and things are starting to turn in my melon guess I'll see where that takes me. What is considered a good sized studio space for tracking bands etc I know the 1500 rule for minimum size but what would be the space to aim for? Sorry for the newb type question but left to my own devices I would probably go nuts and try and usurp the whole of the back yard, I have only ever had the ability to convert existing rooms in the past so breaking new ground here. Nathan Far North Queensland Australia

the quickest way to decide is to determine how much your per m2 cost of quality home construction is, and divide that into your budget. so if you're cost is $2000/m2 and your budget is $30,000, then you could afford roughly 15m2. that said, most people think that a minimum of 1800ft3 or 50m3 is as low as you can go.

Thanks again Glen will start to do the maths as soon as we have a final location sorted. :lol: Will post as soon as the site is settled and real design can begin, Nathan Far North Queensland Australia