Hi all. I recently purchased a house. My original plan was to build a garage/studio in the back, but the combination of all repairs coming in farther over budget than expected & ridiculous city design-review standards for my neighborhood means that's no longer an option. I may just sell the house for a slight profit & start over, but if I can use some of the existing space instead, that would be nice.
I greatly prefer recording full bands (drums, bass, 2 gtrs, for example) all at once, and don't mind some leakage between instruments.
Room 1 is approx. 14' x 17' with 10' ceiling. (All dimensions are as it exists now, with no treatment or room-within-a-room construction.) Could this space be usable for a live room or combo live/control room? This room is at the back of the house so I could even conceivably push it out another 10 or more feet (to 14' x 27', for example) but I'm not absolutely certain if I can afford to do that.
Room 2 (adjacent to 1) is 12' x 12.5' with 10' ceiling, which seems unusable for much of anything, but maybe I'm wrong?
Room 3 (also adjacent to 1) is approx. 16' x 12' w/ 10' ceiling and a bay window area on one of the narrow sides that protrudes out a couple feet. This may be usable only as a CR as I couldn't soundproof as well as the other spaces.
Room 4 (adjacent only to 2) is 10.5' x 13', but the back 4' or so of one of the long sides is an addition with the ceiling sloping from 10' to 7.5'.
(I can't use both Room 1 & Room 4 as studio space as one of them has to be my kitchen, but any other combination of rooms could be used.)
Sorry I can't get sketches up at the moment - I'll get to that as soon as I can. (Is Google sketch good enough for this sort of thing?)
There is attic space & basement space above & below all rooms for acoustic/isolation treatment, storage or even machine room use, but the ceilings are too low (6' or less) for actual recording use.
Sorry about the long post, and thanks in advance for any ideas.
-Darin