How Important is Control Room Isolation?

[barefoot]

Just wanted to get people's opinions on how important it is to avoid sound leakage into the control room. Clearly the control room needs to be well isolated from the recording room(s), but how critical is isolation from say a lounge area or a bathroom?

I've been toying with the idea of using these types of intermittently used spaces as the air volume for a new kind of bass trap. It would still isolate the majority of higher frequencies, for example in the voice range and up, but the low frequencies would be more free to travel between the rooms. Would this be a big deal? It doesn't seem like there would be any significant source of low frequencies coming from a lounge area or bathroom. And any leakage should certainly be far less distracting than having a one or more clients actually sitting in the back of the control room.

What do you think?


Thomas

[John Sayers]

I actually prefer the hangers on to be out in the lounge area rather than sitting on the rear couch spouting their opinions. :) Most time I leave the door to this room open permenantly so I really don't think it matters Thomas.

cheers
john