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Bassmankr · 24th June 2009

Like I said, just did the plan to get you back on course and figured there would be others converting 2 car garages that might need a starting point. The drawing was basically a 6" snap, 6" wall just to get the spaces working with each other while minimizing standing waves between parallel walls. Each person using it will have to do their own adjustments/refinements. From a practical point if you change HVAC and Bath access you need to remember you need so much room to get the HVAC equipment in to install and have room to service it, hence the two 36" wide doors in line. If using gas or propane heating a certain amount of room air is needed for combusion and saftey (louvered door on the HVAC).As far as windows, the smaller the better, they will probably be a weak link acoustically. Use LAMINATED GLASS, two basic types are available. Use the stuff that has the thicker plastic layer between the sheets of glass for better sound attenuation. You will spend a fortune for a sliding door with laminated glass, and unless the bottom track is recessed into the floor or a curb is built they are poor acoutically (don't seal up great), just use the paper and tape trick I detailed above to pick the best places for glass and minimize as much as possible while keeping the sightlines good and use solid core or sandwich doors. You may need to put glass in the control room and iso doors for live room sightlines. Figure anyone in the iso will be standing or on a tall stool for glass positioning. If anyone needs to hit the bathroom, take a break, you will probably be getting paid by the hour anyways. I put the bath door in a "dead space" corner of the live room, that corner will probably be trapped heavily and chances are a muso would not be setting up there regardless. You could swap the Bath/HVAC and Iso spaces but I see two downsides to it 1) You would kill most of the Iso's sightline to the whole Live room 2) Most guys are going to be using noisy computers and putting them close to where they are needed in the HVAC room as drawn is a perfect place for them. If you need the Bath in the southwest corner just rotate or mirror flip the plan. Maximize the room layouts for volume and workflow. If you had more workable square footage then you could get away with a bigger "wish" list but a 24'x 24' divided space WILL have compromises. Having the bath off the control room should be near the bottom of a "needed" list.

24th June 2009	#150
Bassmankr Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,907	Like I said, just did the plan to get you back on course and figured there would be others converting 2 car garages that might need a starting point. The drawing was basically a 6" snap, 6" wall just to get the spaces working with each other while minimizing standing waves between parallel walls. Each person using it will have to do their own adjustments/refinements. From a practical point if you change HVAC and Bath access you need to remember you need so much room to get the HVAC equipment in to install and have room to service it, hence the two 36" wide doors in line. If using gas or propane heating a certain amount of room air is needed for combusion and saftey (louvered door on the HVAC).As far as windows, the smaller the better, they will probably be a weak link acoustically. Use LAMINATED GLASS, two basic types are available. Use the stuff that has the thicker plastic layer between the sheets of glass for better sound attenuation. You will spend a fortune for a sliding door with laminated glass, and unless the bottom track is recessed into the floor or a curb is built they are poor acoutically (don't seal up great), just use the paper and tape trick I detailed above to pick the best places for glass and minimize as much as possible while keeping the sightlines good and use solid core or sandwich doors. You may need to put glass in the control room and iso doors for live room sightlines. Figure anyone in the iso will be standing or on a tall stool for glass positioning. If anyone needs to hit the bathroom, take a break, you will probably be getting paid by the hour anyways. I put the bath door in a "dead space" corner of the live room, that corner will probably be trapped heavily and chances are a muso would not be setting up there regardless. You could swap the Bath/HVAC and Iso spaces but I see two downsides to it 1) You would kill most of the Iso's sightline to the whole Live room 2) Most guys are going to be using noisy computers and putting them close to where they are needed in the HVAC room as drawn is a perfect place for them. If you need the Bath in the southwest corner just rotate or mirror flip the plan. Maximize the room layouts for volume and workflow. If you had more workable square footage then you could get away with a bigger "wish" list but a 24'x 24' divided space WILL have compromises. Having the bath off the control room should be near the bottom of a "needed" list.