John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Greetings All:

Having lurked about for the last several months, I felt it was time to ask some advice. I'll be installing a basement facility which will see use mostly by me in the control room, but some outside people as well. Occasionally, a full band will be recorded at once.

My space currently has no walls. The ceiling is 9 feet 6 inches, unfinished. In the drawing, the little red dots are posts, which cannot be moved. I wanted to enclose the posts in two walls of the control room, but then I'm unable to get a good acoustic ratio, so I moved one wall in from the post.

I'll have no soffits, so I'm not sure about the appropriateness of the angles I've used in the control room. Is the shape I've chosen inherently inferior to the ovoid I see so much on this forum, even without the soffits?

I'm aware of the parallel issue in the large room, and I'm open to suggestions. Any opinions regarding the current drawing are certainly appreciated. The original SmartDraw file is located here:

http://www.pmerecords.com/images/Facili ... tudio1.sdr

sorry mate - I must have missed your post - wow that's a big area and a good sized control room - looks good so far

cheers
john

Thanks John! I appreciate the input. Here's a revision of the same design. (by the way - the dimensions shown are for the entire wall on each side, not the wall in each room.) I'm trying to concentrate on the control room because the whole project is big enough that I need to start using the studio before I can possibly complete it. Thus, I'd like to do as much as possible with the control room first, then deal with finishing the other sections. (At least, as much as I can, considering that I'll need to stud and sheetrock the whole space at once for the sake of economy, right?)

I still need to research the amount of space I have to leave on one side of the furnace, so the walls may need to be tweaked once I know that. I'll also cheat the control room wall corner in so it doesn't hit the window.

I also need to find out whether steel stud walls are allowed in my area. Does anyone else have knowledge of the allowability in a residential structure? If I can't do the steel, I'll stagger stud with standard 2X4s.

As before, any opinions on things I'm forgetting or doing wrong are certainly appreciated.

Thank you all!

-Craig