Scoping out a Place

[Bobalu]

Hello Everyone,

First post. Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

In the next year or so I'll be buying a house. My goal right now is to land one with a large, unfinished concrete basement with at least a 9 foot ceiling. The dream is to build it into a two room studio (control and tracking). Also, a small gear storage and machine area.

I'm looking to:

1. Create a tracking room that doubles as a great sounding jam area for having friends over (fitting 5-6 people in there comfortably)
2. Create a control room big/shapely enough to mitigate common reflection/bass issues and offer solid audio representation during mixing

I'm aware I'll have to make some compromises (once I have a place to work with). My question for members are, at the onset, would there be "minimum size" room dimensions for making the two-room studio work effectively? I'm sure, as heights and widths decrease, there's a point where it just wouldn't sound good to have two rooms built.

In thinking about this, assume I have unlimited budget for things like isolation/HVAC/etc. I'd just like to know rough limits while I'm out looking (or useful things to look for). I'm a novice to the engineering involved in studio construction (currently reading Rod's book) and appreciate any helpful ideas or perspectives. Thank you all!

Bob

[Soundman2020]

Double post? Or you want to build two identical studios?


- Stuart -

[Bobalu]

Haha! Studio's for everyone.

My bad.

[Soundman2020]

Link to the REAL thread: http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewt ... =2&t=20585

- Stuart -