Setting up a good size basement studio..please advise!

My friend is a DJ and his dad said we can use as much of the basement as we need..its decent size...the area we'll be using is approx 1000 sq feet. We want to record demos for bands and also our own stuff. (with room for future expansion) I've been studying, but I've never actually set a studio up before. We have the space and the money to set up a live room, control room, vocal booth, maybe a drum booth and a small lounge. The neighbors shouldnt really be a problem. Our recording will be done on a custom dual platform computer with 3 firepods..24 digital tracks. We have most of the equipment including large and near field monitors, hard synths, acoustic drums, guitars..etc. We get auralex products at cost, so feel free to recommend those products. Its a run of the mill unfinished basement, so we have the opportunity to use whatever insulation and drywall we need to. We have a furnace and all that so we would need to wall that off, preferably on the cheap. We'd like to try to use the existing walls instead of creating new ones, but if theyre neccessary we can do a few. Our budget for construction and sound treatment right now is about 3-5 thousand dollars. All other details should be explained in the diagram. Thanks in advance for any help!

I was thinking about using the 14'x8' area at the entrance as a temporary vocal booth. When we get the money to expand we'll change it into a lounge. The 16'x14' area to the left can be used as a control room. the 16' dimension is negotiable because we're building the wall. The big room can be the live room when we expand into it. How would I arrange the monitors and mixing desk in the control room, and how would I treat the walls? Thanks!

I think we're going to need some pictures, particularly of the ceiling as it stands now. Also, as Sharward suggested in your other thread, you have a long way to go to answer the questions/points (in bold) in the VERY FIRST POST in every thread. Why do the walls have to be temporary? So you can tear them down when you eventually move? We might be able to determine if the two existing walls are load bearing or not but it would be well worth the money to get a structural engineer to come in and give it a look and tell you how much additional weight your ceiling can handle. It's possible you could replace at least one of the walls (the one between your control room area and your live room) with a steel beam and a few supports that you could build around. I'm assuming that your floor/ceiling joists are running up and down on your drawing (as opposed to left and right). You mentioned that you want to make demos for other bands in addition to your own. Have you checked with your local authorities about the legality of running this kind of business in your home? Some places won't allow it period, others have pretty restrictive rules. Check before you start. Make sure you have all the proper permits BEFORE doing anything. Even "temporary" walls could cause you a lot of trouble later. See Keith's "Why you need permits...." thread in the stickies if you don't think it applies to you. You mentioned that neighbors shouldn't be a problem, but what about the people IN the house? How much of the basement walls are below ground and how much are above? Are there any windows. If I was doing this project and had your limited funds, I would spend a LOT of time to design the FINAL space you want (when funds permit) and then choose ONE room, perhaps the live room [largest]), and then spend the majority of your money building and treating that room correctly (mass-air-mass). You can do your recording and such in a corner of that room until you get enough money to do the control room properly, then the vocal booth, etc. In terms of money spent, most of the money you spend now on temporary walls and treatment is going to have to be thrown away when you get around to doing it right so why not do them right (but staggered in time) correctly from the beginning? Just my thoughts. len