This This studio is being built in the basement of our house near Long Sought for Pond in Westford Massachusetts . Thanks go to John Sayers and the rest of the contributors to the homerecording.com forums for design ideas, theory of how and why and other help along the way.

The plan is shown below. My wife and I decided to go ahead and use as much of the basement as possible. The 'lounge' area in the upper right is a pipe dream for now. Until we get a shed or garage, it is where the lawnmower, toys, tools, paint and other detritus live. The room in the upper left is the A room, it will be the main recording area. The room in the bottom right is the B room, it will be smaller and will be primarily for vocals and overdubs. The control room is in the center bottom. I tried to position it so that the lowest part of the ceiling is over the console.

Studio Plan

Click on image for PDF file of studio plan.

This is a shot of the basement prior to really starting. The stairs have been framed in and the area underneath is for one of two air duct boxes

The floor is floated on 2x4 " sleepers with rubber pucks glued to the bottom. This shot shows a bunch in place waiting for the plywood deck. One is turned over to show the puck placement.

This is the air return combiner. From the picture, the two ports on the right are inputs from different rooms. The left port connects to the main return duct in the house.

This shows how we framed in the heat ducts. The two registers shown conect through a long flex duct to the box above.

Control room floor sleepers down, heat duct framed and covered in 3/4" particle board. Notice the wall on the right is the new home for the ping-pong table... very good mass!

Control room rear wall. The outside wall was built using John Sayers space saving method (As were most walls). The inner angled pieces are for absorbtion. The Diffusor in the center is homemade.

Shows the wall(s) between the control room and the A room. Rather then angleing the glass top to bottom, we angled the walls. The glass is recycled windows from a neighbors family room. The floor in this room will be hardwood.

Another view of the A room. The door is a double door that acceses the heater. To the right of the door behind the wall is our oil tank which extends below the window. We built a full wall over the pipes etc and the angled part over the remainder. Further to the right, you can see the walls stuffed with rockwool.

This shot is of the B room (realy and oversized vocal booth) from the control room. The two openings you see are the doorway on the right and an opening for a glass brick wall on the left. The remaining walls and ceiling will be completely dead. This room and the control room get carpet.

This shows one rear corner of the control room, this is the tape nook for the tape machines. This picture also shows the angled ceiling in the rear of the room.

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