John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum

Okay, so within the next few weeks I will be building my studio. I have attached images.

To start off, the room box dimensions are 17' x 17' x 8'8", however as the images show there is an offset wall and 2 sections of lowered extended ceiling.
I need help with the following three things:

1. What do I do with those extended ceiling sections, and the offset wall?
A. Do I build a wall that would both get rid of the recessed wall, and the one section of the extended ceiling simultaneously.
B. Leave the wall how it is and work around it?

Comments: I feel leaving the wall would create more work for acoustical treatment, and possibly some acoustical issues. Unfortunately, the other section of dropped extended ceiling is there to stay, and the only thing I could do with that is lowered the rest of the ceiling which isn't going to happen.

2. Once I figure out what to do with that one section of the wall. What orientation of my desk and monitors should I look at?

3. Once orientation is figured out, what should I put in regarding treatment?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Euklid and welcome!

I'm a very new user on this forum but I can already tell you that you need to go read this sticky as it seems you've left out a couple important things!

I know most of the experienced members on here will not even bother to help if the above guidelines have not been followed. It's not much though!

Anyways...if I were you, I would order Rod Gervais's book, Home Recording Studio: Build It Like the Pros, and read it cover to cover ASAP...if you have not already done so. Another great resource is the Master Handbook of Acoustics (often shortened to MHoA around the forum) by F. Alton Everest. It's kind of a religious text around these parts...as far as I can tell. To be honest though, I still have not made it all the way through (it's intense!)...but I'm working on it!

The other thing I would question is why are you starting to build in a couple of weeks? That seems so soon for the amount of design work you have left!! The best advice that I have been given on this forum by several of the members is that great studios are 90% design and 10% construction. If you jump into building before you have a COMPLETE design that has PROVEN acoustical reasoning behind it, you might be spending a lot of time and money on a room that doesn't work/perform (acoustically).

Hope that helps! I'm sure you will gain a lot of great advice from some very experienced members after following the guidelines in that sticky...

Cheers and good luck!
Trevor

Thank you very much for all of your advice, i'll definitely take it!