John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Hi there,

I am look to improve the layout of my music room which I use for home recording and mixing.
Here is a rough sketch of the room with dimensions: It is a carpeted room that also has a sofa in it, both of which seems to dampen/absorb sounds in the room.
I have 2 KRK speakers on the desk. You will see the room is slightly irregular as the left wall has a step in it and the upper left corner has a boiler cupboard. I would also note that I do not want to sit facing the wall at the top of the image as there is a radiator and window on this wall which I do not want to obscure.

At this stage I would like some advice on where best to place my desk, and what basic treatment would be beneficial to install and where. Having done some research I am thinking that facing the bottom wall of the image may be best, with speakers offset from the wall by about a foot and my chair roughly 38% into the room and putting up some rock wool panels on the left and right walls.

I'm just a bit unsure if there are any major pitfalls I will need to avoid.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated - please let me know if any further info is required.

Many thanks,

Paul

Couple of things:

1. Where is the door?

2. Get the speakers off the desk and on to solid stands...seems to be the second best option (short of sofit mounting...which is a whole 'nother level)

3. To do things properly, you should do some acoustic testing using something like REW software with an appropriate mic, to measure the response of the room...modes, nodes etc.... This can eliminate the 'suck it and see' approach a lot of people use.

4. I think you're right RE layout - others may chime in soon. Once you've established the actual layout...work out your first points of reflection, as they are some of the primary concerns for absorption. You should also put some corner traps in the corners....etc etc.

There's a lot of considerations. Kind of depends on how involved you want to get.

Cheers,

Scott

Many thanks for the reply.

The door is in the lower right corner, on the right wall. This isn't ideal given where I want to put the desk, but I can still get in and out of the room fine!

At the moment my desk is facing the left wall, between the boiler cupboard on my right, and the step in the wall on my left. This is a better use of the room from a practical point of view, but I don't think it is good acoustically as each speaker has a corner behind it.

I think I'll look in to doing some testing of the room and see what I find.

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