Studio Control Room Layout

Ideally what you want is a large room with high ceilings asymmetrical walls and lots of irregular surfaces.

Studio control room layout.

You on the other hand will most likely need to compromise. However the chances of having access to a room just like this are virtually zero. It s 17 and a half wide 10 foot tall 23 foot long. Our primary goal is to eliminate severe resonant modes in the room and establish the low frequency response of the room through the proper selection of room dimensions.

Consider a studio engineer mixing in a control room that is smaller than the live room where the musicians are performing. Since most small control rooms are rectangular in shape we ll detail the design considerations for a room of that shape. The international organization for standardization iso specifies the standard principles for the ergonomic design of control centers including layout and dimensions of workstations. For ideal control room dimensions the best thing to start with is a dimension that we keep in our minds all the time as kind of an ideal control room or a listening room.