If you could create your own studio for either listening to or recording music, what would be your design?
I have dreamt of being able to do so, especially if I had millions of dollars to invest in it.
So, let me ask a few questions:
1) Would a listening room be different from one in which you record music?
2) How much do you think it would cost you to create your ideal "music room?"
3) Would an ideal acoustical room have any carpeting or would it be bare floor only?
4) What would the floor be made of? Wood, marble, etc?
5) Windows in the room or solid walls only?
6) Doorways or entrances - how would these be constructed?
7) How high would your ceiling be?
Room - square or round or other shape? I think sound would travel differently in a circular room.
9) When recording, where would you position microphones? Equally spaced throughout or individually placed according to instruments being recorded?
10) When recording, would you utilize headphones to listen to your music or would you prefer to listen to an open air environment?
11) Would you want to create artificial sound environments such as wind, rain, chimes, storms, etc?
12) When recording, how would you determine the attention accorded to the various music instruments in the room?
13) When recording, what would you prefer? The entire band simultaneously or breaking up the parts and mixing them together later if you could have band members record their pieces separately.
14) Would you want a "live feel" to your recording? Or do you prefer the sort of quiet studio feel?
15) What about echoes and ambience? By ambience, I mean sustain.
16) What do you think of overlaying music on top of other music? This is not exactly an acoustical question; I just thought of it offhand.
Thanks for your input! Have a great day, artists, musicians and experts of one sort or another(s).