Just looking for some opinion on a few dimensions..

Hello all. We have got a recording space: 32' long, 18' wide and 12' high. It is purely room 1. Our control room is seperate. It is also partly treated. The walls are slightly shaped so as not to be parallel. My biggest concern is the frequency issues we will have to deal with. Any suggestions?

Well, if that's the size of the space you have, IMO it's big enough where any modal problems will be low enough in freq that they'd even out by the time they got to the problem ranges; they'd also be pretty easy to deal with using bass trapping. That's a pretty nice size for a tracking room- plenty big enough to use more diffusion than absorption. Hope this helps!

what kind of room do you want? live or dead or both.?? cheers john

Thanks for the responses guys. John, I am a romantic. I want to be able to work a record in a "ROOM". I want enough life in the room, without too many modal problems. We are a non-commercial studio, but i am really falling in love with the concept of getting it fairly right during tracking and not having to spend weeks mixing 1 song because there is so much eq'ing to do to remedy everything. We do mostly rock and jazz ensemble. The only thing we will hve to do is, for the rock bands particularly, finding a way of isolating the amps. The room is actually bigger than the dimensions i gave, that is after having a corridor round back. The one problem with the space for us is the ceiling is the floor to a commercial studio above. There are 1.2' wide beams about 1.8' to 2' apart. But, when they are there we can hear them walking on the floor boards. Any ideas for a solution? So John, to answer your question, i suppose a bit of both. :? If i get the chance i will upload some photos.

If i get the chance i will upload some photos

yes please :0 cheers john

Hey All. Sorry. I haven't had a chance to get photos yet. But it turns out the ceiling is more like 15' to 16' up, not 12'. Will get pics up this weekend. Cheers

With a ceiling that high, putting up a structurally isolatied ceiling for your space should be easy. That's about the only sure way you'll keep foot-falls from coming down from the above space. Depending on how much noise you're making there, I'd think you'd want to do this anyway- for both your sake and for the people above. You never know- they may be willing to help you out with the soundproofing; it goes both ways. If they seem doubtful, fire up a big bass guitar amp when you know they're up there, and shake them up a little bit. ;) But yeah- you have easily enough room to get a good false ceiling built in there.