New Studio im moving into. Need suggestions!

[OneDaySky]

Need your guys help with allocating rooms in my new studio space ill be moving into next month. Floors, walls and windows are already done in 3 of the rooms. 2 rooms have air conditioning. My desk/workstation is 2.4 meters wide. Any suggestions are welcome. The trick with this space is that I want to live in in as well, to save some costs. So remember there is a queen size bed still to fit in here!
Some Pictures:
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[OneDaySky]

I also need help on which wall should i put my studio desk against if I use the upper room in the diagram?

 

[OneDaySky]

Any1?

 

[MIAnn]

Any1?

get a smaller bed??

 

[ZanetheVocalist]

Alright, here's my suggestions:
No changes to your plans other than the kitchen.
Screw having a separate vocal booth, that room is way too small and gonna be boxy as hell sounding with just the cheap foam inside of it. Only way to make that room sound good is to heavily treat it and that costs major $.
Best thing for vocals is to record it with you in the control room. This is highly dependent on how live those rooms are. Your control room definitively needs to be acoustically treated (dead) so that it doesn't screw with you mixes, while the drum room can have some life to it.
I track vocals in my control room because its dead as a door nail, pretty big, and I can talk to the singer face to face if needed and not feel like I'm on the phone with them. They're more comfortable this way.
If you need more info about the acoustics I have some handy stuff I can send your way.

 

[JeffTD]

I wouldn't bother with the vocal booth; just track in the live room with some gobos around. Otherwise that looks good to me; just keep in mind it'll be a little weird loading gear and bands through your bedroom.

 

[OneDaySky]

@Jeff HAHA, i know right? Ill just build some Chinese room dividers or something so they don't see my "Bedroom"

@Zane - Thanks man, appreciate it. I'm going to scrap the vocal room idea and just leave it as a Kitchen. Ill track everything in the live room.


Any suggestions about the desk position? I'm going to block up the windows I think?

 

[ZanetheVocalist]

I wouldn't bother with the vocal booth; just track in the live room with some gobos around.:

Great idea. Totally forgot about the gobos. I have a separate live room and a room that's already pretty dead so I don't use em. Get gobos and you can have a lively room for drums, then slap up the gobos to tame reflections when recording vocals and guitar. Best of both worlds.

Any suggestions about the desk position? I'm going to block up the windows I think?

Totally dependent on how you set up your monitors. Gonna have to setup the control room for whats best for them and not necessarily the most aesthetically pleasing.

 

[ArthurD]

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[OneDaySky]

I'm not getting any help over at the John Sayers Forum.

Another thing: I'm looking at buying some Rockwool to put in the corners of my drum room. Problem is the density available in my country seems to be way more than required for a studio. This is there exact reply:
'We bring in the Rockwool in 2 various Forms

∙ Blocks – 100kg m3 density∙ Mattresses – 80kg,100kg, 128kg /m3 densitieso Also in various thickness 40mm, 50mm, 75mm, 100mm'

What should I ask for? I assume 100mm but the density I'm not sure about.
And is Rockwool with a density higher than say 45kg/m3 pointless or overkill?

 

[ArthurD]

PM Gulffo.
He did my studio project.
Check out:
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/backline/787472-universox-studio-build-thread-fenixdoido.html