Moving to a new house: minimum room size?

[Eric J]

My new wife and I are in the process of looking for a new house to buy. Part of my criteria is a decent sized room for the studio that I am planning on getting acoustically treated. Many of the houses in my area usually have bedroom in the 12 to 14 foot range, usually square or slightly rectangular. I have seen a few that have "game rooms" that were more rectangular, like 17 x 10.

I cant use a second living area, so I'll be setting up in one of the spare bedrooms. Since were still shopping around, I have an opportunity to try to find a place that has a room that will be suitable.

My questions are:

• What would be the ideal room size acoustically, given the above criteria?
• How small is too small? is 12 x 12 enough?

[Ben F]

Try to avoid a square room if you can. No matter what size the room is you will have to do some acoustics treatment for bass trapping, corner traps are best and easy to make. Try posting in the acoustics forum.

[Eric J]

Sweet. Thanks.