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From: audiofilesound on 14 Jan 2006 00:11
Hi everyone. I am building a studio in my basement. Before planning, I
want to know if a rectangular room is a bad way to start. Roughly 15x8.
This will be a mixing room. No recording done, here! I will be building
non parallel walls. If it is this design, would the mixing along the
15' wall be ideal, or would you mixing from the 8' wall. (meaning of
course facing the 8' wall). I could go farther than 8', but would start
uncovering a pole in the room, that can't be moved.

Another option would be roughly 11'x11' starting point.

Should I go with a more square-ish dimensions?

If I haven't included enough info, let me know. Ultimately, I am
curious what an ideal sized room would be for mixing. I mainly do
"industrial" post work for video. I have a VO booth planned, working
off the studio plans, hopefully. Depends on which area of the basement
I go.

Off, topic...has anyone run into fire codes when designing a room in
the basement without a direct exit outside?(ie., window, or door in
room).

Thanks for all your help

Mike

From: Jay-atldigi on 14 Jan 2006 01:32
In article <1137215496.877996.76120(a)g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
audiofilesound(a)hotmail.com wrote:

>
> Another option would be roughly 11'x11' starting point.
>
> Should I go with a more square-ish dimensions?
>

Square is bad. There's a little chart available that plots favorable
room ratios. To get the best results, you need to take into account
height along with width and depth. An internet search for "room ratio"
along with the names of some researchers on the subject, like Bolt,
Sepmeyer, Louden, or Barenek may yield some results. Books by F. Alton
Everest will also do the trick.

--
Jay Frigoletto
Mastersuite
www.promastering.com
From: Don Nafe on 14 Jan 2006 07:20
Pop over to

http://www.recording.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=34

and

http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/index.php?sid=ead168302f764825757f16cb1417c80f

Good people, good advice

DOn


<audiofilesound(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1137215496.877996.76120(a)g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi everyone. I am building a studio in my basement. Before planning, I
> want to know if a rectangular room is a bad way to start. Roughly 15x8.
> This will be a mixing room. No recording done, here! I will be building
> non parallel walls. If it is this design, would the mixing along the
> 15' wall be ideal, or would you mixing from the 8' wall. (meaning of
> course facing the 8' wall). I could go farther than 8', but would start
> uncovering a pole in the room, that can't be moved.
>
> Another option would be roughly 11'x11' starting point.
>
> Should I go with a more square-ish dimensions?
>
> If I haven't included enough info, let me know. Ultimately, I am
> curious what an ideal sized room would be for mixing. I mainly do
> "industrial" post work for video. I have a VO booth planned, working
> off the studio plans, hopefully. Depends on which area of the basement
> I go.
>
> Off, topic...has anyone run into fire codes when designing a room in
> the basement without a direct exit outside?(ie., window, or door in
> room).
>
> Thanks for all your help
>
> Mike
>


From: "Ethan Winer" <ethanw at ethanwiner dot on 14 Jan 2006 09:20
Mike,

> Roughly 15x8. This will be a mixing room. <

That's not too bad.

> Should I go with a more square-ish dimensions? <

No, that will give a worse low frequency response.

> mixing from the 8' wall <

Yes, the loudspeakers should face the long way down the room.

Have a look at my Acoustics FAQ:

www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html

It's a fair amount to read, but it has exactly the info you need BEFORE you
build a room wrong and treat it incorrectly.

--Ethan


From: audiofilesound on 14 Jan 2006 12:36
Thanks for all the links and info guys. Since it's the basement of my
house, an 8' ceiling is the max, and that's without subfloor or
ceiling. Would that be too small? Thanks again.

mike

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