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Greetings earthlings and other pilgrims, While the previous OT discussion was being kicked about, it suddenly dawned on me that this question is perhaps NOT so off-topic for loopers per se. As often as not, perhaps even more often, looping is a solitary occupation not needing a large room for a whole band to fit in -- even though some of us do have a lot of gear to consider. And, sometimes being the painfully weird, experimental noise-makers that we often are, practicing in the family living room (or even out in the garage) does not make much of a recipe for domestic bliss. A safe and sane sonic sanctuary situated somewhere in the sideyard (or the south 40) sounds like a simply splendiferous idea. I am contemplating building a small, detatched studio room/structure beside my home here in Oregon. The funny thing is, in this area you can legally build up to a 200 square foot building without any expensive building permits -- which suddenly makes it not only a rather feasable but even an affordable idea -- no permits, fees, licenses and I can more-or-less build it myself (with a little help for parts where I either don't own the tools or have adequate knowledge). Since, as the discussion last mentioned that "SIZE MATTERS" (as well as shape and sound baffling/controlling surfaces), what sort of layout might anyone here recommend for a room of that size. I was a thinking of a just a 16' x 12.5' rectangle. But, I sort of surmised that perhaps those dimensions might not be ideal. I was thinking of modifying a regular garage/shed kit of some sort -- so trying to build the perfect seven-sided saucer-shaped audio igloo thingy won't work either. I gotta think WITHIN THE BOX as it were. Do any of you have any expert thoughts about shapes and sizes for MUSICALLY pleasing recording rooms at or under 200 square feet and are still fairly rectangular? This is not the sort of thing one can log on ans ASK THIS OLD HOUSE is it. So . . . I am asking you all. Cheers, Best regards, Ted Killiansmall monitors, >> though). It's also good to keep big objects in the >> room. Tony's >> Spaghetti Sofa is a good bass trap for example, but >> even hard >> surfaced big objects are good for splitting up >> reflections to prevent >> standing frequency peaks in the rooms resonance >> character. The rooms >> listening environment is really the most important >> factor because >> even top speakers can't deliver what you need them >> for if placed in a >> bad room. >> >> Greetings from Sweden >> >> Per Boysen >> www.boysen.se (Swedish) >> www.looproom.com (international) >> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) >> http://www.myspace.com/looproom