Studio @ office to big?

[audioeren]

I got a empty room now in a office in the Netherlands
Width = 4.5 meter
Length= 6.2 meter
Height= 2.83 meter (old place is 2.4. And i dont know if there is a limit on the height.)

Is this possible?
-Im going from a much smaller room to this new place. Is it harder to get a better sound in a much bigger (also taller) room? is the room to big (to expensive to tame?)

I got 5 absorbers/basstraps) wich was enough in my small place. But im planning to Build Corner traps in all 4 corners from top to toe (corners are 90degree). plus some extra absorbers on the ceiling. Sorry for my wacky English.

[Tibbon]

Sounds like a good sized room. As all rooms that weren't specifically designed for this purpose- you'll have your own interesting problems. It is a slightly big room, but I could totally see it working. I've never seen a room 'too tall' for a studio.

If anything having a large room will give you lots of options for placement of things. You'll probably need more treatment (of various sorts, not just fuzz) than in a smaller room, and the standing waves will be far different for sure.

Sounds like a nice place though!

[audioeren]

thnx man.

I've brought one KRK VXT8 to the empty room today. When i placed it on the floor front corner there was alot of bass. i went to the room next wich is slightly bigger. There was more bass coming from the other room.

Then i placed the speaker on a table but somewhere in the mid/front of the room. The Bass was totally gone (playing boom boom pow) no matter where i was standing, even in the back corner. Then with the same speaker placement i went to the other room again, because i was thinking maybe the bass is escaping to the other room or something. But nope. Totally no bass. Only mid freqs.

Because of this test i was scared to settle on that place

[Tibbon]

That's a bit strange. Are there switches on the back that you had the bass rolled back? I can't remember those speakers too well.

I'm unsure how well those will work as mid-field speakers, but the room sounds like a good candidate for mid-field speakers overall. Allowing ~1.5-2m or so for the waves to develop can sound quite nice.

[fossaree]

For sure it is !
You can make a great studio on your space .

What will you be tracking over there ?

[vespiz]

Our CR is pretty much the same size. Tho' we built a second wall to have a bit more separation between the live room that took a bit from the length.
We have panels all around, decent size cloud above the mixing spot and superchunks in front of the room. Some flutter echo in the back of the room that will have to be dealt with at some point.

I like the size, makes it easy to access gear and I like to record singers in the same room and we still have enough room for the rest of the band to sit on the couch!

[Syncamorea]

I'd rather have the problem of a room that is too large. You can always size a room down, while simultaneously tuning it. But making a small room sound great is more of a challenge. Yours is certainly not too large, but please detail your plans - how will you use the studio? Good luck!

[audioeren]

Originally Posted by Syncamorea

I'd rather have the problem of a room that is too large. You can always size a room down, while simultaneously tuning it. But making a small room sound great is more of a challenge. Yours is certainly not too large, but please detail your plans - how will you use the studio? Good luck!

Hey man, hope ur fine.

Im going to use one computer using Cubase 5. Im not going to build a booth for recording live drums or so. I will be recording vocals but not in a booth, just simple in the same room by placing it on the right spot. Done this before in a smaller room. Beautifull results on the vocals. Nice albums created.

But yeah, mainly computer based music. urban/pop.