Bought my first house yesterday 
so now comes the time to start planning the studio! The layout in the basement is good enough to accommodate my project studio without doing any structural changes, and isolation isn't a big deal to me really so I don't intend on building any more walls or anything like that. Anyways, here's the layout in the basement...
The rooms that I've labeled A and B are the rooms I intend to use for a control room and a live room, just not sure which is going to be which!
Each room has obstacles to deal with as far as acoustic treatment goes... Room A has the big fireplace built into the corner, so I don't know how I would effectively add bass trapping to that room in a symmetrical manner since I could only really put a trap in one of the corners in that half of the room. At the same time, because of the fireplace, there isn't a 90 degree corner there, so maybe the bass trapping isn't a huge deal in that corner of the room?
Room B has doors in 2 of the corners, so I can't mount bass traps in those corners either. I've seen the acoustic dudes on gearslutz recommend putting traps on the wall and on the back of the door instead of the corner itself in these situations so that's an option.
The little room that the staircase goes down to right now is being used as a little den, with a couch and a TV, so I'll probably do the same to leave it as a sort of lounge in between the two rooms. It also should help with isolation since the control room and live room will have an entire room in between them...
Anyways, what do you guys think? Which room should I use for what and how should I go about treating them?
so now comes the time to start planning the studio! The layout in the basement is good enough to accommodate my project studio without doing any structural changes, and isolation isn't a big deal to me really so I don't intend on building any more walls or anything like that. Anyways, here's the layout in the basement...
The rooms that I've labeled A and B are the rooms I intend to use for a control room and a live room, just not sure which is going to be which!
Each room has obstacles to deal with as far as acoustic treatment goes... Room A has the big fireplace built into the corner, so I don't know how I would effectively add bass trapping to that room in a symmetrical manner since I could only really put a trap in one of the corners in that half of the room. At the same time, because of the fireplace, there isn't a 90 degree corner there, so maybe the bass trapping isn't a huge deal in that corner of the room?
Room B has doors in 2 of the corners, so I can't mount bass traps in those corners either. I've seen the acoustic dudes on gearslutz recommend putting traps on the wall and on the back of the door instead of the corner itself in these situations so that's an option.
The little room that the staircase goes down to right now is being used as a little den, with a couch and a TV, so I'll probably do the same to leave it as a sort of lounge in between the two rooms. It also should help with isolation since the control room and live room will have an entire room in between them...
Anyways, what do you guys think? Which room should I use for what and how should I go about treating them?
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