Construction of a Recording Studio

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For this task the brief was to design the construction, soundproofing and acoustic treatment of a recording studio complex within a series of set constraints. The complex had to include a control room, live room reception and bathroom, within an overall floor space of 15m x 15m. The main focus was to be on acoustic design with the use of scale drawings to make the studio clear and easy to understand. For this studio the idea was to design a space suitable for recording large ensemble groups such as orchestras and so the space was designed with this in mind when regarding the size shape and layout of the space.

Arguably two of the most important aspects when designing a studio complex are that the live and control rooms included a lot of natural light and that the communication between the artists and the studio team is free and easy. In the studio this has achieved this by creating a design similar to and inspired by ‘The Big Room’ at Real World Studios (Realworldstudios.com, 2013), where the ‘control room’ and ‘live room’ are actually all within the one space utilising the live end/dead end theory. (See Appendix A)

The studio consists of one large room where there is a live area at one end and a control ‘room’ at the other (See Appendix B) at the live end of the room the wall consists of large windows, the air conditioning in the room is a fully external system with isolated ducts. The control section of the space will be arranged so that the desk faces the live space and the monitors form an equilateral triangle with the engineer’s head so as to achieve the best listening position (See Appendix C).

(See Appendix D for more information on studio design)

To achieve the necessary isolation in a studio it would be important...

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