John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

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We are working on our first recording studio/ practice space...this is what I have so far...your help would be greatly appreciated.

Some side notes:
This is a basement to a garage, so all but 1/3 of a wall is concrete. I am not worried about sound leaving...but controlling what is inside.

here is a better drawing using smartdraw (for the first time)

Take a gander around at the basic form of a good control room and adapt it to your space design.

Check the SAE site as well. Then revise your drawing accordingly

http://www.saecollege.de/reference_material/index.html

Bryan Giles

How about something along this line

cheers
john

That is NICE! How about this for an option though? We already have the floor built for live studio, I would kind of hate to tear that up.

Yeah - that was the other option but it has a smaller control room.

cheers
john

are the angles ok? also...do you think you can make it pretty for me?

I love your drawings...we are going to be working on it some more tomorrow night with any luck.

I do like the bigger control room...but this has to be a practice space first and a recording place second. I really want to make sure this will be a good place to record drums though too.

Thank you for your help!

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Your angles do need work. Look around this design forum you will see a number of different options for laying out live rooms. This will be a guide for you to develop some ideas. for example:

<img src="http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/files/plan1_422.jpg" /img>

Bryan Giles

what is the difference between a live room and a dead room...which should I be going for?

also, how are my angles on the vocal booth?

sorry for all the questions, but the buidling process is hapening soon (the main studio floor is built) and I want to make sure I get it right, but also need to use the guys to build it while I have them...thanks.

The main thing to get right while you have extra help is the construction - adding wall treatments, depending on how elaborate they are, can be done without much (or any) help.

Your booth needs to lose the parallel walls if possible. The minimum TOTAL splay between two opposing walls to kill flutter echo is at least 10 degrees - John has had consistent luck with 12 degrees.

If you are splaying a single wall enough to get a 12 degree angle, it takes an offset of 25.5" per 10 feet of wall to get 12 degrees. If you're doing a symmetrical room with 6 degrees each side, then half that, or 12.75" per 10 feet is what you need.

If you can't splay the walls, you may be able to build some of John's angled slat resonator traps, shown here under "Side Wall Absorber" =

http://www.johnlsayers.com/HR/index1.htm

Those could be added after the fact as well - don't rush building this sort of thing, they need to be done right and tight... Steve

Here's it Prettied up :)

cheers
john

is there enough room in my live studio to do that live studio/ dead studio configuration without loosing too much practice space?

how is this? are there any angles I can make shallower? Thank you all for the help!