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I'm finally ready to start building my recording studio in my parents basements and i really need some help on the design.
Unfortunately, that site is for listening rooms such as home theaters or stereophile rooms, not for studios. There's a lot of questionable advice on there as a well: I would not take that too seriously.After my research (knowing i can't move walls around, but i can build some inside), i've found a website that does Acoustic Calculation Online;
There's a fairly standard way of laying out the control room: start by setting the speakers up right against the front wall (your room is too small to do it any other way), leaving a gap of about 10cm between the back edge of the speaker and the wall, and at about 89 cm from the side walls (distance from side wall to the center of the speaker). That means your speakers will be about 140 cm apart from each other. Set up your chair about 1.8 m from the front wall. Or rather set it up so your ears will be about 1.8 m from the front wall when you are seated normally at the desk. Angle the speakers so that the imaginary "acoustic axis" line coming out of each speaker goes just past where your ears will be, and the two lines meet at a point about 20 to 40 cm behind your head. The speakers must be set up very heavy, rigid, massive stands, not on the desk or on top of the console meter bridge, and they must be set so that the acoustic axis of each speaker is 1.2m above the floor.What would be the perfect layout? I'm not sure about how to choose the right angles even though i had a look at your "The Control Room" layout.