John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Hi there.

Allow me to welcome myself to this forum

I've attached a drawing of my new studio.

I know that the fundemental design probably isn't optimal, but the walls are pretty hard to move around, as it is a rented facility and they're made of concrete:)

Well, a couple of new-bee studiodesigner questions:

Q1: We're planning to build the ISO booth as shown on the drawing in order to a) reduce spill from the drum room to the CR + make a very dead room for voice overs.
My worries are, that the drum room will be to small then? 4,3 x 2,3 meters (aprx. 14 X 7 feet) and that building the booth will cause an acoustic nightmare in there (the walls and ceiling are concrete and the ceiling rises towards the ISO booth.)

Q2: Any brilliant ideas for creating some sort of "silencers" for our windows? They are about 1 X 1 meters (3,3 X 3,3 feet). They have to be removeable.

What do you guys think? I should mention that we, as always, are on tight budgets.

BTW thanks for a great forum.

Cheers Lasso

I'd look along these lines Lasso
Girstly the window corner will be playing hell with your speakers as they are setup now. A couple of false walls should fix that and the window.

Applying treatment to the drum room and booth will aslo give you what you want.

cheers
john

Thanks John. Looks like a great plan.

Cheers Lasso.

To answer the question in the subject line..........Yes!