What's the best flooring for a home studio on the ground floor?

Please, just a little advice re: the flooring / underlay, for a home studio. Seems to be some conflicting answers...e.g. carpet / wood /laminate.

Hey,

I presume your talking about in the control room?

Can't give you specific details but I've been in more control rooms with wooden floors than carpet. Obviously you don't want a big empty space with a sea of wood on the floor, it needs breaking up with furniture, rugs maybe, couple of dogs I don't know. Make sure the rest of the room is correctly acousticly treated and I'm sure it won't make that much difference. I'm not an expert so don't take that as golden knowledge.

I'd go for carpet really, as a safe bet make it as 'dry' sounding as possible.

you can add all the 'room ambiance' with reverbs and stuff after, however if you have too much, or the wrong sound. you cant take it away.

Thank you Andy and Ash!
Much appreciated and noted.

id lay wooden flooring as well as all the god studios ive worked in have had wooden flooring. using carpet can absorb frequencies and deaden a sound but wood can be a little more reflective. if you are on a budget but want to add a certain degree of acoustic treatment to control reflected sounds simply adding a sofa on an opposite wall can absorb lower end frequencies but also having a a bookcase full of different sized books can diffuse frequencies to eliminate problematic standing waves.

Hmmm a little more thinking to do on this one...your comments are appreciated. Thanks Johnny.

With so many people now able to produce tracks from home the main strength of a studio these days is the live room qualities/ambience. Your control room should be proffesionally designed/treated to offer you complete honest monitoring, your live room should be the room that has character and adds to a drum take/vocal etc. One great way to cover all options is to have different floor coverings that can be pulled out/put away, and curtains that do the same. Budget allowing obviosly! Match that live room flexibility with a pro monitoring/control room, equipped with choice outboard and quality monitors, and you'll be on your way to creating some pro tracks! traaaa. Tommie Vox
www.TommieVox.com

Thank you Tommie for the advice

Had a browse at your site... keep up the good work!