John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Here is my proposed control room plan.
Any suggestions?
Does anybody seen anything wrong with it, and how can a fix it?


PS- sorry for the bad drawing

Your angled walls need to be reversed.

Bryan Giles

Something like this Harper

cheers
john

Thanks John that is a kickass layout. That works so much better.

The only thing is that I have a Space in the rear corner that I was going to use as storage for mics and my drum kit and stuff.

I think in your drawing you have Bass traps in those rear corners.
Could I make those traps swing open on a hinge, so i can still access that closet? And if I do, will the open area cause me problems, with frequencies building up in there?

Could I make those traps swing open on a hinge,

you could use the whole space as a cupboard and put you bass traps in the ceiling at the rear of the room - what's you ceiling height??

cheers
john

Well my ceiling is a whole other story.
That I have questions about too...

but the height is 8'...

why not store your drums and mikes in the studio? then you can use the whole cupboard as a bass trap.

Or you could use the storage as a bass trap (open) and store your gear in the bass trap area with an open cloth door??

cheers
john

Uh...I'm lost on that one John
I'm not following what you're saying...

Use your mic closet as storage and a bass trap. Just put a door frame (remember the old wooded screen doors??) with a cloth cover to fit the decorum of your studio to allow sounbd to enter in and get trapped.

Bryan Giles

But the other side doesn't have a closet, so won't that through the room off balance?

Maybe i should just build over top of it...?

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But the other side doesn't have a closet, so won't that through the room off balance?

That won't cause a problem.

cheers
john