What are the different rooms in a recording studio?

Answer 1

Every studio is unique in how it is built and maintained. A small studio may just be two rooms, while your large studios can have many many studios included on the premisis. Your typical rooms are as follows:

Live room: large open room for an entire band or chior to record.

Isolation booth: iso booths are used for cleaner recordings like vocals. You can't record vocals out in the same room as the rest of the band (you can but I wouldn't recommend it). Iso booths are good for overdubbing vocals because it's sound proofed. Often times if a band is playing together in a session they will have the guitar amps in isolation booths with mics on them.

Control room: The control room is where all of the sound ends up. The console is in this room and often times extra seating like couches are in for the artists not performing or producers, managers, etc.

Machine room: The machine room contains racks full of gear. Typically it consists of the computers, and the gear that makes noise. Rooms like this help to keep the gear in a cooler space to avoid overheating and excess noise in the control room.

Lounge: most studios will have some sort of lounge for artists to relax before, after, or during a session. Often times it will have a tv, and fridge and anything else the studio can afford.

Offices: like any other business, a studio needs a place to conduct the day to day business.

Answer 2

The typical recording studio layout would have two rooms with a plexi glass viewing window to see into one another. One room would be set up for instrument and vocal recording, and the other would have all of your actual recording, and mixing equipment with a intercom set up to be able to communicate between the two rooms.