New home / studio layout?

We're looking at this house plan to possibly build. I would really appreciate any ideas for a small studio layout using the garage and dining room. I'd prefer the dining room as maybe a dead tracking room since there's a bedroom above it(less noise than a control room). The ceiling will start out at 10ft. I mainly do acoustic guitar/country/folk songwriting work. If possible, I'd like the flexibilty to do larger setups. Is it better to have a large (great sounding) control and one small tracking room or have a small control room and large tracking room? The home studio I use now has a 10'x11' control and the traking room is the same size. Personally I'd really enjoy more room in the control room.(less problems with low end too) Any insight and plans/ideas is geatly appreciated! Aaron

You are always going to have problems with low end, unless you get into a larger space. If it were me, I would go for one large room, with the gear in iso racks or a properly designed equipment closet. That way you could go bo off a smaller space to record, and then have the distance that you need front to back and left to right for proper mixing dimension ratios. That's what I did. It is great, especially if you are the musician that you are engineering.

If you are building a whole new house, you might as well build a real recording studio into it. I mean, why build a house with a garage, and then turn the garage ito a studio, when you can build it with a studio, meant to be used as a studio. The house layout looks nice though.

I plan to use the footage of the garage and dining room. I wouldn't build these seperately, but as a studio space. My other option would be to build the two rooms as if they were part of the house and use RealTraps to control the rooms. This setup would be for the reason that we don't know how long we'd be living there(maybe 5 years) and resale would be easier with transferable acoustic treatment. I could still do a room inside a room effect for each room to isolate from the outside noise? With option 2 would there be an easy room design that would be pretty accurate and still look good if turned into regular rooms? I like the idea of a gear closet for the loud gear and using the whole garage for the control room. Aaron

Any thoughts on layouts?