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Old 9th August 2009   #1
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Odd shaped room - should I buy this house?

Home prices are becoming reasonable again in my area !

I am looking to move out of my rental and buy a house.

I want this house to have a great room in it for recording.

This would be for recording my band, so drums, loud guitars, etc.

The room that would be the potential "recording/jam room" is very weird.

I am looking for opinions such as "run away FAST" or "go for it"

If this room were more normal I wouldn't need to ask here.

The room had an addition built on. its in the corner of the house. So basically it has a sloping ceiling, it is about 12' on one end, then slopes down until it becomes 8', and forms an "L". The long part of the "L" is about 20 feet I think, the short part is about 10 feet. the short part is all 8', and maybe 6 feet of the long part of the L is also about 6'.

put differently, the room probably started out 14' by 10' sloping down from 12' ceilings to 8' ceilings, then they added a bunch more 8' space.

I am concerned that because of the 8' area it will sound bad, and also that the sloping ceiling will cause sounds to bounce back "inwards" at the sound. so if the drums were placed under the highest peak of the ceiling, sound would bounce off the sloped ceiling focused in on the mics. this might sound really, really bad.

any thoughts?

thanks in advance
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