interior design student looking for advice

[lemurb2]

I do not have a music background. I'm an interior design student. I'm in the research and planning stage of designing a professional recording studio as part of a school assignment. My design is limited to 800 square feet. It will be a freestanding building that includes a barrier free restroom. There are not neighbors or businesses that are close enough to worry about noise. The building site is located on a main road that might be noisy though. My psuedo site is in Buffalo, New York. I am not looking for a design but for critical information that is important to consider when designing a recording studio.
Please let me know if I have my facts right. From reading information on this and other sites this is what I believe is important: wood floors, angled walls - no parallel walls, sliding glass windows between the control room and the tracking room, access to control room without cutting through tracking room and vice versa, a machine room to house the noisier equipment. Am I right?
Is it alright for the floor and ceiling to be parallel to one another? Does it matter if the ceilings are low or high? Besides the absorbers or diffusers spoken of, should the ceiling be soft like the panels of a drop ceiling or should it be a hard material like wood or drywall?
Are glass panels or windows allowed within the control room and tracking room or do they affect the sound too much?
What are the most important things you think a designer should keep in mind when designing a recording studio?
Thank you for your help, Brenda

[kendale]

Aloha,

Here are few links that might prove helpful -

http://www.saecollege.de/reference_material/index.html
http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5670
http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2125

Happy reading and good luck with your project

Aloha

[AVare]

You are asking for a course in studio design. Read the Recording Manual at the main page here, the NARAS mulitchannel recomendations from the link in this section, and Rose's Guide to Acoustic Practice

A couple of corrections, to what you wrote. Wood floors are not important acoustically. Non-parallel walls reduce/prevent flutter echo, but make predicting standing waves more difficult. Sliding glass doors have advantages, and disadvantages.

Good luck!
Andre

[lemurb2]

Thank you, Kendale. This forum has been very helpful. I already found the first link but the third link is new to me and looks like it has a lot of valuable information posted. I'm going to go finish reading... Thanks again. I appreciate it. I'm having a lot of fun designing this studio. Even though it is only a make believe studio, I have this insane need to provide realistic solutions. This project is not due until March 17th. I'll post pictures of how it turns out after that. Thanks again.
Respectfully,
Brenda

[lemurb2]

Thank you, Andre. The link you provided is very helpful. I appreciate it. As for the studio course comment, I'm simply researching what the realistic basic needs of a recording studio are. This is information I don't have to provide in my project. I just feel the need for my designs to have a possibility of working. Thanks again for the link. I appreciate your help.
Respectfully,
Brenda

[lemurb2]

I've gathered a great deal of information from this forum. Thank you to everyone who shares their knowledge on this site. I won't be able to visit this site for a couple of days. I have to switch gears from gathering information to drafting designs. (time management) Please do continue to post anything you believe is important for me to consider while designing this psuedo recording studio. I'll check back in a couple days. I appreciate the input. I'm having fun with this design so I'm not going to follow all the rules but I want to know what they are. Thanks.
Respectfully,
Brenda

[AVare]

I hope the drafting goes well. To give a quick idea of how much can be vague on a seemingly simple question about splaying surfaces, read this thread

Enjoy!
Andre

[Ro]

You are asking for a course in studio design. Read the Recording Manual at the main page here, the NARAS mulitchannel recomendations from the link in this section, and Rose's Guide to Acoustic Practice

That doc has some serious doubtfull solutions. 4 leaf constructions etc. So be carefull not to take all for granted in that doc. This forum in combo with Rod's book might still be the best resources you can get on building soundrooms

[lemurb2]

Thank you everyone. My project's turning out quite well so far. Thank you for all of the information. I appreciate everyone's advice.

Brenda

[mike1234]

I do not have a music background. I'm a [SPAM LINK REMOVED BY MODERATOR] student. I'm in the research and planning stage of designing a professional recording studio as part of a school assignment. My design is limited to 800 square feet. It will be a freestanding building that includes a barrier free restroom. There are not neighbors or businesses that are close enough to worry about noise. The building site is located on a main road that might be noisy though. My psuedo site is in Buffalo, New York. I am not looking for a design but for critical information that is important to consider when designing a recording studio.
Please let me know if I have my facts right. From reading information on this and other sites this is what I believe is important: wood floors, angled walls - no parallel walls, sliding glass windows between the control room and the tracking room, access to control room without cutting through tracking room and vice versa, a machine room to house the noisier equipment. Am I right?
Is it alright for the floor and ceiling to be parallel to one another? Does it matter if the ceilings are low or high? Besides the absorbers or diffusers spoken of, should the ceiling be soft like the panels of a drop ceiling or should it be a hard material like wood or drywall?
Are glass panels or windows allowed within the control room and tracking room or do they affect the sound too much?
What are the most important things you think a designer should keep in mind when designing a recording studio?
Thank you for your help, Brenda

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[Soundman2020]

Hi there "mike1234".

I'm wondering why you are adding your off-topic response to a thread that has been dead for well over eight years, while openly flouting the forum rules for posting?

Is it because you are a spammer? Or because you are just misguided? Or because you accidentally landed on the wrong forum thinking you were posting somewhere else? Or maybe because you are genuinely trying to be helpful, but didn't bother reading the forum rules, and didn't bother checking the date on the thread?

Its also very curious that the "studio design" course you seem to be touting apparently offers no classes at all in recording studio design, acoustics, sound engineering, or any other aspect of what people come to this forum to learn about...

One really has to wonder why you are here, and what your purpose really is ...

- Stuart -

[alidahera]

I do not have a music background. I'm yet another very stupid spammer! You really won't believe just how dumb I am!!! NOBODY IS DUMBER! Not only did I come to the forum to sp am it, but I copied a message that was already marked as spam, in my own spam message! How dumb is that?

I'm in the research and planning stage of designing a professional recording studio as part of a school assignment. My design is limited to 800 square feet. It will be a freestanding building that includes a barrier free restroom. There are not neighbors or businesses that are close enough to worry about noise. The building site is located on a main road that might be noisy though. My psuedo site is in Buffalo, New York. I am not looking for a design but for critical information that is important to consider when designing a recording studio.
Please let me know if I have my facts right. From reading information on this and other sites this is what I believe is important: wood floors, angled walls - no parallel walls, sliding glass windows between the control room and the tracking room, access to control room without cutting through tracking room and vice versa, a machine room to house the noisier equipment. Am I right?
Is it alright for the floor and ceiling to be parallel to one another? Does it matter if the ceilings are low or high? Besides the absorbers or diffusers spoken of, should the ceiling be soft like the panels of a drop ceiling or should it be a hard material like wood or drywall?
Are glass panels or windows allowed within the control room and tracking room or do they affect the sound too much?
What are the most important things you think a designer should keep in mind when designing a recording studio?
Thank you for your help, Brenda

Hi Aloha, I am Ali, I am a really idiotic spammer, and I have just been banned permanently! What's your upcoming project !

[Soundman2020]

Hi Aloha, I am Ali,

Hi Ali! Bye Ali! <Not> nice knowing you! <Don't> call again!

[miftah09]

I have some suggestions for you. For the roof, use of a drop ceiling panels and part of the wall, use wall insulation to muffle the sound.

I have a studio band that is separate from the house. And that is different from my home, I use [SPAM IN A CAN ON MY ROOF] as the outer wall of the studio and combined with the roof insulation in order to reduce heat. I do not know how to make good music and I don't know how to make a studio either. but it was just SPAM from me. Which is why I got myself banned and blocked...

[Soundman2020]

I have some suggestions for you....

And I have a better suggestion! Get lost, run away, take your spam with you, then get banned from the forum, and finally get blocked, permanently, in three different ways....

Great suggestion! Done!

- Stuart -