New Design

Chad Pippin · Post by **Chad Pippin** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:19 pm

Wow! What a great forum. Had no idea it existed.

I have been running a small song production company out of my home for over a year now. I have decided to take the plunge and get set up with a commercial space that is better suited for what I do. I am going to be leasing about 400 sq. ft. in the back of a building that some friends of mine run their video production business out of (which will be great for business since a lot of the work I do is audio for video). I don't need a lot of space, just a control room, tracking room and an iso booth.

Taking what I know about studio design (which is very little) I came up with this plan. Knowing that parrallel walls are a major no-no and wanting all of my equipment in another room was what I had to go on. Any input would be great since construction will start in about a month or so. Thanks in advance for your help!

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Chad Pippin · Post by **Chad Pippin** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:33 pm

Some more info,

All mixing will be in stereo (no surround for now). We are going mostly commercial video production like training videos and promotional stuff, nothing consumer.

I do not use a console but the main desk will be against the upper wall in the control room with windows on either side looking into the iso booth and tracking room.

I know that the back wall or the control room is parrallel with the top wall, but I was planning on putting some sort of bass trap there to help out.

Thanks a bunch.

Post by **John Sayers** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:09 am

Hi Chad - that looks fine for the type of work you do. Just a couple of suggestions.

1) move the door in the bottom right of the control room up a bit to allow for that rear trapping you mentioned.

2) YOu can make the top wall in the tracking room parallel but angle it with some slot resonators, you'll need some in that room anyway.

It's hard to tell from your drawing whether the walls a double or single.

cheers
John

Chad Pippin · Post by **Chad Pippin** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:57 pm

Those are great ideas. I guess I wasn't thinking in 3D! I could just leave the two walls in the tracking room parrallel and angle in the other way. Great idea about the door in the tracking room also. Really appreciate all your help.

One more question. I have the option to make the ceilings as high as 18'. What height would you recommend. Thanks.

Post by **John Sayers** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 7:14 pm

well if you have that option don't make them parallel to the floor. Bear in mind adding a foot height to the ceiling will cost a bit eh. I'd make the peak height 10'.

cheers
john

Chad Pippin · Post by **Chad Pippin** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 9:49 pm

Thanks John,

I must say that since I stumbled on this page yesterday, I have read as much as I could. I new that studio design was an instense, in-depth thing but I had no idea. You guys really have a great thing going on here and this site is going to serve as an indespensible resource for me over the next three or four months.

John, in regards to floating floor design; The sight we are building is on a large concrete slab. The main framing is all going to be done in steel. Does anyone have any experience with using steel beams in floating floor design? Thanks.

Post by **John Sayers** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:46 am

Chad - no I haven't seen steel used in a floating floor except when it's in a steel reinforced concrete slab.

But may I ask - are you sure you need a floating floor?? have you got loud machine shops near or you're on a highway?? Why do you need to float a floor? it's very expensive - you are adding over 1/6th of your wall areas.

cheers
john

Chad Pippin · Post by **Chad Pippin** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:19 pm

The only reason that I am possibly thinking of floating floors (at least in the tracking room) is that directly on the other side of my main wall is an office. We have about 2500 sq. feet of a 10,000 sq. ft. building. So there are other occupants who might not be incredibly enthused with a drum set going full bore during normal office hours. Would I be ok without floating floors in this scenario?

Post by **John Sayers** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 11:37 pm

Fair enough - perhaps you should float it then. YOu could build a drum riser that only floats the drums??

cheers
john