Acoustic Design Projects
Cutting Room… In Progress
Uniquely shaped studio requiring custom materials and specialized acoustic techniques to create a standard mixing and listening environment.
Driver Digital
Large shooting stage with acoustic reflections and exterior sound leakage.
Elanus Capital Management
Large Telephone conference room with many reflective surfaces. Acoustic design to alleviate reverb and hollow quality to phone calls.
Broadcast Shooting Stages
This build consisted of (2) 1200 sq. ft. shooting stages & 11,000 sq. ft of office space. The office ceiling was treated with an acoustic spray and white noise emitters to control the reverberance of the large open space. The stages presented many acoustic challenges due to the shear size of the rooms and the amount of hard reflective surfaces. Stretched fabric walls, sound absorbent materials, HVAC noise dampers all helped to create a dead silent acoustically perfect shooting stage
Big Sky Editorial
12,000 sq. ft state of the art post production facility. The 5 edit studios required extensive sound isolation between the common walls. The cement floors and ceilings required creative solutions to control the reflective surfaces. The audio recording booth’s location near a working elevator shaft was triple isolated and floated to establish a solid sound barrier. The finish treatments needed to not only be acoustic but fit in with the overall design.
Definition 6
A 12,000 sq.ft. facility with five audio mix studios, 8 video edit suites and 2 custom multi-studio VO booths. VO booths are accessible by all studios.
Intermedia Labs HypeQ
Live interactive shooting stage with green screen.
Feature and TV Mixing Stage
This Modern facility setup on two floors, incorporates the best of everything. Upstairs is Video Production, downstairs is the Audio facility. There are theatrical JBL’s nested in an infinite baffle design behind the 12′ micro perf screen. The stage has the full complement of JBL front, sub, and surrounds for Theatrical monitoring powered by 12,000 watts of QSC amplification. There is also a set of Genelec Nearfields for TV and Music Mixing. The side walls move up to 25 degrees on their vertical axis for optimal acoustics.
Shooting Stage in Progress
In the early stages of design and budgeting. The facility will ultimately have 2 shooting stages, a working kitchen, office space and a conference room.
Concept Studio
30’x40′ studio. Designed to work easily with both Long Format Film and Video projects. The design included a VO booth and a unique ceiling that was specifically designed to counter the columns intruding into the space. The use of Pilaster lighting, soft colors and natural wood made it a very comfortable environment.
Project Studio
The booth is 12’x12′ and has a floating floor with 6 Foley Pits. The booth walls are 16″thick. The ceiling also is floating and separate from the true ceiling. The entry doors are 2″ thick solid wood using an air lock style installation. The walls can be moved up to 20 degrees on their vertical axis to eliminate any standing waves, reflections, nodes, or anodes.
Feature Studio
30’x35′ studio. The Lion’s share of the budget went to new equipment including a custom made SSL Avant Digital Console ($480,000). Wiring, labor and construction material accounted for the rest of the budget. Construction was completed in 3 months. The finished studio is Dolby 5.1 Certified with an 18′ micro perf projection screen.
TV Mixing Studio
20’x13′ studio. This studio was designed to service Television Long and Short formats. The 32 fader Protools ICON D enabled the room to mix independent features as well. The Genelecs (although they were nearfield) were routed through 1/3 octave equalizers to emulate the Dolby EQ curve. The JBL surrounds and Subwoofer were also routed through the proper delays and EQ’s to make a medium size room, sound big.
Wall of Sound
20′ x 20′ studio built in a private home. Capable of 7.1 and 5.1 mixing for Film and TV. The studio has an 8′ x 6′ free floating VO booth with 7 foley pits built into a removable floor. The studio makes use of live end, dead end construction which helps make the room seem larger than it is and helps control the powerful near and mid field Genelec speaker system. The entire studio is built on a 10″ thick cement slab.