I, like so many others, have benefitted immensely from hanging around all of you. I am very grateful
I have the privelege of designing a studio for the media company I work for. As you'll see I've tried to incorporate many of the ideas I've learned here and at the SAE site.
I am attatching the old layout and the new proposed layout.
Bring both barrels men/women...I can take it...I would rather change little lines than real walls.
I have several other questions which will surface during this process regarding materials, but this is the first big step.
So what in this drawing is currently built? What can be moved?
Its clear that you are trying to fix the current design with what you have learned here. Why not just redesign using your newfound knowledge? Reason I say this is I see a nice big space, with a lot of wasted space. I would also try and make the control room more of a central type location that can see. This is a quick something or other of what I mean.
Your design really gets rid of the parallel walls better.
With my design I was trying to keep as many of the existing walls as possible. This was more from an ease standpoint.
The walls are only stud walls, so your design is feasible...I want an excellent sounding room so I'll do what I have to do...but If I dont' have to know down every single wall in the space I'd rather not
What room did you forget?
Also, would that be annoying to have to get to the control room through another recording room?
Another ? Where the heck to I get owens corning 703...I'm trying to do research on prices...
barguitar - Am I correct in assuming you are extending the building in the top left of your plan?? It appears that way from your drawing.
First off my reaction is why such a small control room when you have so much space. Typically a control room should have around 18 - 20 ft depth whereas you are only looking at 14'.
Your studio and booths resolve OK but I'd relook at the control room section - perhaps turn it around 90 degrees and use the 13' + 6' dimensions to have a 19' deep control room with entry from the rear and with side doors or window to the studio??
John Sayers wrote:barguitar - Am I correct in assuming you are extending the building in the top left of your plan?? It appears that way from your drawing.
First off my reaction is why such a small control room when you have so much space. Typically a control room should have around 18 - 20 ft depth whereas you are only looking at 14'.
Your studio and booths resolve OK but I'd relook at the control room section - perhaps turn it around 90 degrees and use the 13' + 6' dimensions to have a 19' deep control room with entry from the rear and with side doors or window to the studio??
cheers
john
Yes John, that is correct...I was extending the left side of the drawing out into an unused area.
Before I had the console facing west, but then I would have to look to the side and behind me to see some of the recording rooms...my boss didn't like that from an asthetic standpoint.
Let me take a stab at how the control room could look...
Okay, I'm not at home where all I have is paint, so this won't look very good....
The problem I have with the above design is loss of sight to either of the isolation rooms.
I can extend back the control room in my existing design as far as I want... It would preserve some sight...
What if I extended the room back an additional 5 or 6 feet? Would the hallway be alongside the control room be wasted space (Please forgive the distorted drawing)
The hallway is definatley wasted space. You could do John's patented double sliders in between the monitors. Take a look at some of his other designs.
Ron
That's why this is your forum John....I love the spaciousness of the control room....that's excellent.
Also, having the doors that lead from the control room right into the main recording area would be excellent for visibility and very convenient.
We wouldn't need to build south yet into the empty studio area for this design. That could be a later phase 2...build another room or two to the south...This would cut down on work load...
VSpaceBoy wrote:The hallway is definatley wasted space. You could do John's patented double sliders in between the monitors. Take a look at some of his other designs.
Ron
I'll have to do a search to find out what these double sliders are...thanks for the tip. And you're right, that hallway was wasted space...
On the sliding doors above, sliding glass doors can be a bit pricey, are french doors a decent alternative?
Also, anyone have hints on where to buy Owens Corning 703?
I'm retarded . I didn't even see Johns layout when I wrote that but he was showing you hhis double sliders I was refering to. And yes, John does RoCK!
The OC703 you'll have to find from a commercial insulation and or building supply company. For me... I had a tuff time so I used mieral wool instead which is not as fun to work with but has much of the same benefits.
. I didn't even see Johns layout when I wrote that but he was showing you hhis double sliders I was refering to. And yes, John does RoCK!