Small Recording Studio Control Room Design

Effective home recording studios are built with proper planning.

Small recording studio control room design.

The names and functions of the rooms are. Design considerations for recording studios this article will explore the most important design considerations for recording studios. Newell p recording studio design second ed focal press oxford 2008. I updated the background music and added a few corrections.

Steven klein s sound control room. Once you ve got a basic collection of recording gear the next big task is designing your room. B petrovic z davidovic acoustical design of control room for stereo and multichannel production and reproduction a novel approach 129th aes. See phillip newell s book recording studio design chapters 5 13 16 and 17 for details on how to create a neutral sounding control room.

This video shows the steps i went through to build a small. We build a dedicated control room at d w. Control room the technical hub of the recording process studio the performance area and is also used to describe a facility booth refers to a smaller performance space. The video illustrates proper acoustic treatmen.

This is the 2nd edition of this video. There is an updated version of this video here. In terms of recording studio ideas this goes to show that you can still fill all your gear lust aspirations regardless of how many cubic meters you have reserved for them. Get your studio started off right with this handy guide.

Watch the process from design through construction to the first session. For this the example room plan below. Acoustic principles and design sugg. A big part of this is broadband bass absorption.