John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Hello,

I've been lurking around for a while, but this is my first post. I first ran across John's handbook several years ago. I have thouroghly read that site, the studios under construction site, and the Everest books as well. I think I have a decent understanding of most studio building/acoustics concepts.

Recently, my wife to be and myself moved into our new house which has an unfinished basement. Our house is a split level so when you come in from the garage you can enter the basement rooms via a foyer. The stairs lead to a landing where the front door is. Then another set of stairs take you from the landing to the main floor.

The ceiling is just bare joists with a height of 8' 1.5" from the concrete floor to the joists.

I have attached the current layout and a proposed layout for my control room. There currently is a studded in wall between the smaller room(control room) and the larger room(live/studio room) which can be moved/removed if need be.

In my proposed layout I have each wall splayed 6 degrees in the control room. There will be 2 sliding glass doors for entry into the soundlock from the live room and control room. I will also close up the door from the foyer into the live room. Making the entrance to both rooms through the soundlock.

I think my control room might be to small, but I really want a good sized live room because I do not want to track drums in a small room. This arrangement seems to work best with what I want to accomplish, but I'm sure I am overlooking things.

Thanks,
Brian

(I'm on a Mac....no Smart Draw for me )

How about something like this?

Thanks,
brian

I think I prefer the second one but why not use ther full 19' length. How many booths do you really need ??

cheers
john

Thanks for taking a look John. I updated the pic above by greying out the areas not used by the studio.

Are you counting the soundlock as a booth? I think I'd really like to keep the Iso booth and the machine area(I have a really loud G4 that must be in its own land). I guess I could always throw someone in the bathroom for scratch vocals.

Thanks again,
Brian

I learned how to use Illustrator Here is my revised layout. Suggestions and comments appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian