Very small home studio room design

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twarch
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Very small home studio room design

Post by twarch »

Hello,

I plan to do the acoustics of my poor little home studio. I do not plan to stay long in this house So I am looking to do something that I can reuse it in another future room.
By registering on this forum, I found a design for small studio named "components.skp" and I found that this idea was really great.
My question is whether I could adapt this idea to my current room and then can be reused in another room. I say yes, but the problem is not the future part but the current room. In fact, I'll let you judge for yourself with the Sketchup file attachment.
room.skp
For details of the room, she 2,86m wide extent, 5,60m long and 2.4m in height. In the background is a huge closet that I can not condemn and both doors can not be either.

Regarding the budget, I did not have much money so I only intended DIY.
I can not do heavy work because I'm renting.

Regarding the use of the room is essentially for mixing and some composition.

I think I have said enough but if you need more precision, I can give you.

Well, I thank you in advance for your help.

EDIT: here are some pictures if it can help.
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twarch
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Re: Very small home studio room design

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I've updated the first post to add pictures if it could be useful.
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Re: Very small home studio room design

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No answer, I did something wrong?
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Re: Very small home studio room design

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Ok so I've done something wrong but I do not know what. I have read the conditions to post but I have to miss something. I'm not very good in English sorry.
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Re: Very small home studio room design

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Sorry for the delay in replying. I meant to reply earlier but got tied up with work.

To be honest, I'm not seeing much that you can do with this room. The angled celling by the window makes a bad choice because it is not symmetrical around the window. Really your best option is to turn your control room around to face your closet doors. Pull the desk back far enough that you can still get into the closet. Then build some acoustic absorbers to put on the side walls to the left and right; the ones on the right you would have to hang or attach to the doors.

Without being able to do any real construction, you can't do much in term of real isolation. I guess you could build an insert to place into the cavity by the window when you are mixing. That might be a half decent option, and then place your absorption on the side walls at the early reflections points.
twarch
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Re: Very small home studio room design

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Thank you for your answer :)

Due to the width of the room, it seems difficult to position the desk in the opposite direction, access to the bathroom would be too complicated. However the idea of doing an insert to the window seems to me interesting. I can not do heavy work but put a wooden board at this location is possible without major work.

If I go on this solution, do you think it's possible to do something similar to what I put in the Sketchup file (John design)? I have a big problem in the bass at my listening position. And make a real demand basstrap major work right? Or third-party solutions that are expensive. The RFZ design would be a good solution for this problem?

EDIT:

Doing something like this would be a good idea? It does not mind losing space for better acoustics.
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Re: Very small home studio room design

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up :inn:
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Re: Very small home studio room design

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That design looks like it would work for your room. I guess maybe our definitions of what constitutes heavy work or construction may be slightly different.

Building a front wall that would close off the window, which would also house your speaker sofits and some treatments for the wide walls will probably get you a decent room, but not necessarily isolated to the fullest level that a full room in a room would.
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