Half-Room Control Room

Hey Guys: I have a small home studio in my basement that is irregularly shaped and awkwardly divided, as seen in the attached diagram. The ceiling heights are irregular and it is essentially two non-divided rectangular rooms. I know that this is not an ideal room for a studio, but it's all I have and I'm trying to make the best of it. What special considerations need to be taken in in dealing with such an irregular room? Is there anything I can do to make the mixing half sound more accurate and the tracking half sound bigger? Thanks, Brendan Bernicker

Hi Brendan, and welcome! :) It would be good if you could do a more complete diagram in SketchUp, and also post some photos of the empty space you have to work with. But basically the "mixing part" of the room must be symmetrical (left-right). That is critical. So you need a solid, flat front wall with two 90° side walls perpendicular to it, and your desk centered between them. That's the most basic necessity for a control room. - Stuart -

This is the full SketchUp model of my basement studio. I have included one of the empty room and one with my current gear setup. I am new to SketchUp, and I had some trouble getting two of the walls to show up. The lines are there and they should both be drywall, the rest of the walls are either drywall (white in the model), or poured concrete (concrete in the model). The white box in the missing wall is a built-in cubby and all of the doors lead to shallow storage closets that it is fine to block but that I can't get rid of, except the singe door to the right of the desk, which is a utility closet I can't block. Thanks! The SketchUp file was too big, so I have uploaded it to this google drive folder: Basement Studio.skp Longer link in case that doesn't work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzuJJ0j4Lyi6MVFoQmVidzVVeTA/edit?usp=sharing