And yet another basement studio project ...

Just had some time to kill.. is this design any better then my previous? I did away witht eh double doors entering the vocal booth and replaced it with a single sliding glass. Main reason is I'm not so worried about sound leaking between the two, but moreso from outside my area. Using the center sliding glass allows room for soffit mounted monitors. Again half the time this room will be used for live band practicing, so I didn't want to eat up too much square footage. But if I'm going to put my time, money and effort into building something, I want it to work and be as functional as possible! Thanks -Scott ps. note that the rear wall would have sufficient sound treatment. I didn't want to angle the wall because 1) it would eat more floor space and 2) the existing wall is new, fireproof sheetrocked, and has electric and a switch on it. I'd be adding outlets and lights to their own (separate) electric add on box for the rest of the room, but was hoping I could use what's there for that wall. Thoughts?

Loose the sheetrock wall that angles back inot your mix field. Just keep a straight resonator style wall all the way from your soffit to just past mix position. You dont want to have sound reflecting all around in your mix position. Bryan Giles Just putting this design up as a reference for your style of room. This is actually the design I used to build my room.

Thanks again Bryan, That certainly makes sence and I was thinking of that as well. Course I'd probably cover the walls with something, but nothing absorbant enough I'd imagine to make much of a difference. Question, the rear side walls in this design, are they sheetrock? So just the front half is slot resonator? and what about the back wall? I noticed on the Blue Bear design the rear wall is Slot Resonator. Man that's a nice looking room (studio in general). I just wish I could get the wife to allow me more of our basement. Heck, I've got just over 1300 sq.ft of basement room, (it's a walkout basement in the rear of house - front is underground). Currently it's pretty much wide open aside from the furnace/water heater and the 1st floor AC handler. And all I can manage to 'aquire' (and I'm actually overstepping a bit as it is!) is the 330 sq. ft that's shown. Well my tools take up a bit of room, but not that much! Ah well... be happy with what I've got I suppose :) Just trying to make the most of it. Oh yea... I was trying to increase my width as much as possible, but unfortunatley I have those immovable lolly columns. So I was looking to work the innerwall/resonator around them - which is where the silly bump came from of course.

The rear side walls in this design are (a door for one that you dont see in the plan) and Absorptive walls, no Hard walls back there. Bryan Giles