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We have the good fortune to have a barn/workshop on our property that we are planning to renovate and turn into a flex space which will be used as a home production studio / office / rehearsal space / hangout. The space is about 1000 square feet. My wife is a musician and music producer - primarily working in the electronic realm. Her tools are mostly Ableton, [url]Endlesss.fm[/url], and an assortment of keyboards and other desktop devices. I am a hobbyist rock guitarist, who gets together with local dads occasionally to jam on the weekends. We also work from home full time, and have been working out of our bedroom and living room for the last couple of years. So, we are planning to renovate this old workshop to suit our needs. However, we have no idea what we are doing! So, we have been reading a lot on this site, while simultaneously plowing ahead with an architect to design the space.
Before we found this forum, we had read that angled walls were a good thing to help avoid flutter echo. However, after reading this post: https://digistar.cl/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=428 it seems that is not as necessary as we thought. In any case, the current iteration of our design still has some angled walls. According to the architect, this design is not any more expensive to build than rectilinear walls, so the only downside to this design would be the acute angled corners in a couple of places.
The design currently is to divide the space up into two rooms (not including bathroom and closets): a "studio" space for my wife who will be primarily working at her desk and computer as she creates and masters music. This is the smaller room, which will have some sound-proofing - a double wall between this and the larger room, as well as some sound insulating windows. It is not necessarily a "control room" or " voice booth" designed to have total and utter silence - though she does frequently record herself singing as she creates music. For this room, we want to strike a balance between good sound control and an inspiring and creative place to be. That is - we don't want the room to be a dark, artificially lit cave, as she will be spending most of her day in this room.
The larger room is meant to be a flex space, which will sometimes be used for live music rehearsal, solo practice (on piano, guitar, drums, etc) and performance (though most of the time, it will be used as a home office or just hanging out).
Here is our layout, and we are curious what the opinion of the community here is: (measurements are in feet). The angles of the walls are approximately 8.5 degrees from the perpendicular (we may change these to be perpendicular if there really is no benefit at all to the angled walls):
