New Plans

The dampening on this drawing is not solid, but a general guideline for placement once the rooms are built. (you might recognize the layout, what can I say, I like it) All of these rooms have cielings of about 9 feet give or take not counting overhead angled absorbers or dampening. So my main question is I don't really like sliding glass doors that you see in a lot of multi-room studios. So this design has employed traditional solid doors. Is there any rule of thumb or good/bad that I should be aware of with solid doors vs. sliding glass doors? I just figure a door is a door as long as it makes a good seal and is relatively heavy. But I'm new to the design so I'm making some typical newbie mistakes in the process. Thanks!!

Not too bad, looks like your CR is sorta squished tho - no speaker shown, soffited or otherwise, and if you want a 60 degree monitoring setup the chair/desk will need to be further back in the room (or the front of the room pushed toward the live rooms) Doors - sliders make things open, which is really nice - but decent ones are expensive and getting harder to find in this country anyway - almost everything is double pane, so two of 'em make a 4-leaf wall :cry: Swinging doors - less open feel, better seal, cheaper, need room to swing. Don't make the mistake of thinking a raised panel door is what we mean by "solid core", some have. You want a full, solid, 1-3/4" slab door minimum per opening, adding sheet lead or MDF can help even more. Corner traps - that small (if they're to scale) won't begin to be noticeable. Figure on at least 3 feet across the face, 4's better. If you don't want to take up all your corners, consider wall/ceiling corner traps instead in some areas. Reverb time - http://johnlsayers.com/Pages/Reverb_Calc.htm for CR, shoot for even RT of around .2-.3 seconds, longer in live rooms; somewhere around .4 is about right. Keep at it, you've got a good start... Steve