Hi all -
I've decided to turn my "office" room into a music production room. I'm a freelance engineer and go to studios when I'm working on projects, but lately I've been venturing into production. I've been working it where the client pays me a lump sum and I have to pay for everything (including myself, studio, engineer if not myself, etc). OR it's an artist that I'm developing, in which it's all coming out of my pocket or the artist's pocket.
So.. I've decided to build my own "production" room where I'll develop songs, work out arrangements, editing, overdubs (like guitars, keys, etc). Also.. a room where I can save my engineering clients some money by doing edits and pre-mixing (or maybe even final mixing) at my house instead of having to buy studio time on top of my time.
I'm attaching my empty room plan in hopes that I can get some ideas of those on this forum. Right now, it's a carpet floor, a closet at one end, a window at the other, 8' ceiling. I can do whatever I want to the room. I own the house and my wife says, "It's your room". So.. I can change stuff like flooring, the closet can be altered/removed, I could probably even change the ceiling to follow the roof line at an angle, etc...
How would you do it? It'll be DAW based without console. I'll probably have a couple of racks of gear, two displays, a 5.1 set up. I'm not necessarily looking for accustic treatment advice, but more like where you'd position the desk, speakers placement, rack placement, etc... Construction ideas, etc...
Thanks,
Thomas