OK, newbie to the recording stuff, been a musician since I can remember. I want to redo my garage and make it into a recording studio. I have looked across the internet and this is what I have come up with. I have a 22' x 25' area, basic square four walls and an 8' high ceiling. Now in one corner is my heater and water tank by the entrance to the house. The rest is all open except an insulated two car garage door. I don't have neighbors to deal with or anything like that, country setting. My plan is this, in the corner opposite the heater and entrance, build an angled control room, with double studded walls, insulated, ceiling to floor. Building corner shelving units in the front corners for basstraps. See attached sketch. Any ideas or whats missing? Bad idea, good?
I just purchased two Presonus Firepods, so plan to do all PC based stuff. Thinking of also building on one wall a vocal booth/instument isolation booth.
Is this studio mainly for your stuff or for working on other people's music? If its for you're stuff I would suggest a much larger control room. Control rooms in general are getting bigger these days because thats where the most time is spent. Do you need a large performance area or could you get by with just a booth?
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