Good idea for a small home studio?

[moneycat12]

Hey everyone

I am setting up my basement studio now. Currently I have one room that will soon have some DIY acoustic treatment. It isn't optimal, but It's all I got.

I was planning for this room be my live room as well as my control room, but after reading that thread discussing this situation, I got an idea...

Adjacent from my main room is a storage room. It would be an awful room to make a mix in, so that's out of question. I'm running my DAW on a laptop and think it may be useful to move the laptop to the storage room and have the drummer record in the main room. I would leave the desk set up with monitors and all in the live room, then when I'm ready to mix, move the laptop back to the live room. I want to do this simply for comfortability for the clients I am going to be recording.

The only thing is that this may cause some trouble with the interface since I'd have to move that as well.

Any suggestions?

[bozmillar]

Why would you want the laptop in a separate room? Unless it is acoustically isolated, there's really no benefit to you being in there.

[moneycat12]

Just so I can sit in the other room, hit record, stop, record again, stop, start in the middle of the song, stop, record, stop. That way, I don't have to sit in the same room as the drum kit.

As I said, just for comfort purposes. Then when the drummer is done, I move back to the main room.

[ankursamtaney]

That's confusing. Why can't you hit the record / stop buttons while being seated in the main room? Like 'boxmillar' said, it might make sense if you'd like isolation; i.e. if you're monitoring the drums while they're being played without actually hearing the real sound of the drums from the main room. But I don't see much sense or even comfort for your client, in doing so otherwise.

[Whistlin' Pete]

Exactly. I don't see how this is any different from simply wearing earplugs, except it's slightly more of a pain in the arse. If your client is too shy to play in front of 1 person, maybe they aren't cut out for this whole music thing.