Studio Control Room Layout

It s a tome of control room best practices the purpose of which is to enhance human performance and promote safety best practice.

Studio control room layout.

The international organization for standardization iso specifies the standard principles for the ergonomic design of control centers including layout and dimensions of workstations. The ideal control room should have a neutral acoustic where the sound engineer can listen through to the acoustical environment of the live room. It s 17 and a half wide 10 foot tall 23 foot long. Since most small control rooms are rectangular in shape we ll detail the design considerations for a room of that shape.

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. However the chances of having access to a room just like this are virtually zero. Ideally what you want is a large room with high ceilings asymmetrical walls and lots of irregular surfaces. 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.