Studio Control Room Dimensions

Size of the room is the dominant acoustic feature.

Studio control room dimensions.

A 10 12 ceiling height is good in a control room and the 17 or 18 foot width is wonderful. Let s start with size and shape. The ratio of the length to width to height will influence regardless of what you may put into the room. Why did we pick those ratios.

Good starting points we like to recommend when listening room dimensions can be chosen or adjusted are 17 foot width 10 foot height and 23 foot length. To use the calculator simply slide the height dimension to match your own and the depth and width measurements automatically calculate. Equal dimensions are fatal. The ideal control room should have a neutral acoustic where the sound engineer can listen through to the acoustical environment of the live room.

A 10 x 10 x 10 room is an anomaly that no audio person should experience. For recording studio control rooms with flush mounted main monitors that are not tilted down the mid range drivers are often located 57 58 145 148 cm above the floor see newell s book. Consider a studio engineer mixing in a control room that is smaller than the live room where the musicians are performing. Even with splayed walls right angled walls for reflection management the angled ceiling for reflection management a diffused rear wall for reflection management these are ideal control room dimensions.