John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Ok, currently I'm situated in a space that's not really big, it's more of a closet size, however, it has worked for me up until now.

The room I now have is 3.5m depth, 2.2m width and 2.1m ceiling height, not what you'd call big.

I have a new room I can move into which is a bit bigger, 410 x 310 cm with and angled ceiling of 200 cm to 250 cm.

But the room has a few odd features, on of it is, it has 2 doors. I can remove one of the doors (doesn't matter which one), and the angled ceiling.

From what I've read here and on the John L Sayers forum is that it's best to sit from low to high. Which isn't a problem, however, with the depth being 310cm wall to wall, how should I treat the entire room, with atleast 1 door in the way do do some good corner trapping.

Included are the dimensions and a sketchup file.

So my questions are:
- Is it still, with these dimensions wise to sit from low to high
- Any suggestions regarding treatment of the room/back wall?

I would place myself "low to high" as you've put it. Your front corners are good candidates for big bass traps. Your rear wall could have good thick insulation between the two doors. I would also bass trap along the ceiling above the doors as much as possible as well. If you need more bass trapping (we can never seem to have enough!), you could cover one of the doors with a bass trap as well. This shouldn't skew your stereo image enough to worry about since it's in the rear portion of your room. The biggest concern here is your ITDG since you're shooting down the short length of your room. This is where your rear wall treatment really needs to shine (at least 6" thick) and no flat/untreated surface.

Greg