Control room layout - general question
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:27 pm
Hey all;
I’m pondering a new studio build, but it is all hypothetical at this point - at least a couple of years away. I’m thinking about a double garage with a control room and a live room - maybe a booth.
I’d like to be able to see from the control room into the live room. I tend to see only an either/or when I browse images of other studios.
It seems that *either* people have consoles with teeny computer monitors / screens and a window to the live room, OR a DAW-based setup with one or two large video monitors and a video monitor / camera interface between the control room and the live room.
What I’m pondering is having a DAW-based setup with one or two video monitors (currently getting by just fine with one 32” 2550x1440 monitor) and a window to see in to the live room.
Then I visualize trying to look over - or past - my monitor somehow to look through the window.
Then I visualize maybe having the computer screen facing perpendicular to the window.... but then there goes symmetry, and having the window as a big reflective surface along my right or left side as I’m trying to mix.
Then I visualize having the computer screen and window facing each other - turn my chair to see into the control room - turn it back to see my video monitor. Symmetry is roughly there, but then I have a big reflective surface in the window right behind my mix position.
This seems so shockingly simple, but yet.... it just doesn’t seem to be.
What do people do that works well?
The only thing I have seen that might work is having the monitors set just on the other side of an otherwise fairly shallow desk on stands that allow them to be presented at a fairly low profile and at maybe a 60 degree angle.... but then... visibility?
Thanks!
Chris
I’m pondering a new studio build, but it is all hypothetical at this point - at least a couple of years away. I’m thinking about a double garage with a control room and a live room - maybe a booth.
I’d like to be able to see from the control room into the live room. I tend to see only an either/or when I browse images of other studios.
It seems that *either* people have consoles with teeny computer monitors / screens and a window to the live room, OR a DAW-based setup with one or two large video monitors and a video monitor / camera interface between the control room and the live room.
What I’m pondering is having a DAW-based setup with one or two video monitors (currently getting by just fine with one 32” 2550x1440 monitor) and a window to see in to the live room.
Then I visualize trying to look over - or past - my monitor somehow to look through the window.
Then I visualize maybe having the computer screen facing perpendicular to the window.... but then there goes symmetry, and having the window as a big reflective surface along my right or left side as I’m trying to mix.
Then I visualize having the computer screen and window facing each other - turn my chair to see into the control room - turn it back to see my video monitor. Symmetry is roughly there, but then I have a big reflective surface in the window right behind my mix position.
This seems so shockingly simple, but yet.... it just doesn’t seem to be.
What do people do that works well?
The only thing I have seen that might work is having the monitors set just on the other side of an otherwise fairly shallow desk on stands that allow them to be presented at a fairly low profile and at maybe a 60 degree angle.... but then... visibility?
Thanks!
Chris