Basement Studio Design. Please give any help you can!

Hello everyone I've been looking to build a studio in the basement of my home for quite a while. I've designed (to the best of my abilities) the layout of how I would like the studio to be built using SketchUp. I would like to have a live room, a control room, and a vocal booth/room. I want to use the studio mainly to record a drum kit, guitar/bass amps/cabinets, vocals, etc. It will most likely be a lot of loud equipment. I have neighbors to my left and right (window wall and wall way opposite). I drew the sketch exactly how the real room measures out in ft. and in. (except for the wall height in the control and live rooms. the height of the vocal booth has to be 6ft 6in) What I am looking to figure out is: 1) Do the dimensions of my vocal booth allow for capturing good sound or is there another way I should design the room to better capture sound? Ex: different dimensions, acoustic treatment, etc, etc. 2) What ways can I treat the control room and live room to get the best sounds without losing a lot of space? Any other suggestions or tips, please feel free to post them and help me out. I need all the help I can get. Thank you all very much. A link to my SketchUp file can be found here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/eyi1lv

Hi knicotera, and welcome! Your vocal booth is probably fine. Maybe a bit small, but if that's the space you have for it, then that's what it is!

2) What ways can I treat the control room and live room to get the best sounds without losing a lot of space?

Can you move the dividing wall between them? I'd try to make the CR a bit bigger, and sacrifice some space in the LR. Is drums the only ting that you plan to record? How much of that exists already, and how much is going to be built? In other words, do those walls already exist, or are you going to build those? - Stuart -

You did not mention which room is which, but judging from the coach, I would think this is the control room. So if this correct, I would move the isolation booth into the live room, get it out of the control room, it isn't helping tat room at all. To have this room(s) perform as best as possible, we need a budget. We also need to explain that treatments do not isolate sound but merely subdue the higher frequency. The low end of the spectrum, the one that you will be dealing with will require isolation walls. Are you prepared to go this far?