John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Hello All,
I just recently found this forum and I am pshyched. I am in the process of building a home studio and I am looking for advise. The studio is all new construction. It is 17ft x28ft x 9ft (ceilings). I have been doing some layouts for the room, but doing have a real grip on how it should be done. Please any advise will be greatly appreciated. I have supplied a basic drawing.

Thanks ahead of time,
Rich

Welcome to the site Rich!

You have a nice space for your studio. Looks like you'll need to look at some other ideas to get a feel for the best use of space for sound quality and so forth though.
Start here.
http://www.saecollege.de/reference_material/index.html

You can see some sample layouts and learn tons about acoustis properties.

Good luck!

Ron

Ok here is a new layout. I tried to incorporate all the new ideas I have read. I cut out some of the traps (due to space) and concerned myslef more with the room shape itself. Is this wise? Please any help will be greatly appreciated.

Also I really want to create iso booths for guitar amps. I play in a band and I was hoping to just close the doors and get some rough mixes while still having a decent isolation. Also the doors themself could possibly work as sound reflectors and bounce sound directly at the drummer when we are just rehearsing. (he is always complaining he can't hear the guitars)

Please any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rich

Looks good to me. A little sung but I'm sure you could make it work.

I agree about the doors in the back of the CR. I would just use that for bass trapping and treat the sound lock for scratch vocals is you need to.

Ron

Nice layout however, I see a need for better basstrapping and the space necessary for it.

Possibly use your sound lock as your alternate vocal booth. Just angle the walls accordingly. and use the vocal booth and under stair storage for your bass trapping areas.

Bryan Giles

Thanks for the advise. I will add the bass traps in to the suggested areas. The more I read on the subject the more I realize I need them.

The other question I have is "how important is it to have a room inside a room with a floating floor for my live room, compared to room inside a room with no floating floor." I have a 12" slab under the studio. I can't imagine that much sound could transfer thru the concrete that is placed on a couple of feet of crushed stone, or can it? Please any advise will really help.

The determination is how much isolation do you need.

If you plan to cut drums down there, I'd float the floor.

Of Course Me personally, cuz I personally feel the cost is not exorbitant, I would make sure all the floors were floated. but that is just me.

I Like overkill. LOL

The Only drawback is that you will lose at minimum 5.5" of head room. Assuming a 2x4 floated floor with 2 layers of 3/4"sheeting and 1/2" neoprene.