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An Introduction to Recording Studio Design When you think about Recording Studios, the first thing that comes to mind is a state-of-the-art, private, recording studio featuring some of the best gear, ranging from the vintage classics to the latest technology, set in a friendly and creative environment.

There are loads of different types of recording studios, all designed for specific purposes. Speech and drama studios are optimized in terms of acoustics and equipment for speech recording. The acoustics of a recording studio or listening room are arguably more important than almost anything else!

The room dimensions are specifically calculated for acoustics, which makes it a bit like the chicken and the egg, you find out which dimensions work before you say how big the recording studio is going to be. The Highest Industry Ratio for a Successful Facilities include: – acoustics, recording studio, design, acoustics, installations, recording, studio, construction, acoustics, contractors, contracting, construction management, acoustical, design, installation, wiring, and even the air conditioning. Technical Advice is a professional and reliable service offering interior design, custom designs, and acoustics.

Technical Advice offers professional custom design and consulting in architecture, acoustics and sound proofing, interior design, and custom designed furnishings. This involves two different aspects of sound, sound proofing and acoustics. The cost of low-end professional-quality equipment has dropped, so the output-quality distinctions between studios are less clear-cut nowadays. A lot of high-performance economical equipment is available now to enable the creation of release-quality material in home studios. Radio studios have to deal with a broad range of material. Small studios tend to be used for voice material such as interviews and drama; slightly larger ones can also deal with small-scale music recording.

Speech and drama studios are optimized in terms of acoustics and equipment for speech recording. There were once two main categories of pre-production studio – MIDI based and ‘track-laying’ studios, though they now are merging into an indistinguishable whole. Sampling-oriented studios are now common place, in fact almost all chart-oriented work includes some sampling. All of these studios can be constructed on a small or large scale, depending on the intended market and budget. For example, many studios are located for easy access by local clients – local meaning, for example, the same city. Some studios are located in the country for a quieter working ambience, or higher pretentiousness factor.

Many larger commercial facilities have several separate studios within them rather like a cinema complex, offering sometimes-overlapping spaces for different types of work. Studios normally require twenty-four hour access for arriving and departing clients. Planning or development permissions Studios usually require local planning/zoning permission, and specific permissions may be granted only on various conditions. Cutting studios specifically deal with transfer of material from tape source to master discs, with appropriate ‘final tuning’ for best results.

The expertise of the mastering engineers in getting the best possible result in the final processing is just as relevant to making a CD, so now they cut CD pressing masters instead!

Many filmmakers say that what’s on the screen is only half the movie, the other half is to be found in the soundtrack, carefully crafted by talented composers and musicians to elicit emotions of excitement, fear, sadness and joy in the viewer. Once of the major benefits of watching moves on DVD or hi-def formats is the availability of faithful reproductions of the multi-channel sound that can, when fed through a reasonable home system, sound even better than in many modern movie-theatres.

When most consumers go down to the store and pick up a big new flat screen plasma or LCD TV, they may think that they are all set and ready to go. In fact, the sound provided by even an expensive top-of-the-range TV is incredibly limited, providing little or no low-frequency response, producing only a flat, distorted version of the movies music, and generating little or no directionality. If they are good at anything, it is producing clear, audible dialogue, but that’s pretty much it.

Modern movie soundtracks contain so much more information; they contain multiple channels so the viewer perceives the sound to be coming from a particular direction, such as a plane flying overhead, or dialogue coming from left or the right. They also contain low-frequency information, to reproduce deep bone-shaking sounds such as explosions or rumbling engines. To be able to access and hear all this extra information you need a dedicated home theatre audio system.

The basic home theatre audio system consists of an amplifier and multi-channel speaker set. The job of the amplifier is to decode and then amplify the multiple audio tracks present on the disc. To do this, it needs to be connected to the DVD or Blu-Ray player by a data-cable. A fiber-optic digital audio cable (also known as a TOS-link cable) will be needed for DVD’s, but to decode next-generation hi-def audio will require a HDMI cable connection. The HDMI cable also carries the video stream, so most amplifiers will have a HDMI out socket, allowing the video information to continue on to the TV or projector.

In terms of power, a quality separate amplifier be marked somewhere in the 80-100 watt range, which is plenty for watching a movie in the average family home. Beware amplifiers that are built into DVD players, or into a speaker set, they are usually underpowered and will perform poorly. The most demanding audio signals to reproduce are the low-frequency type; so many speaker-sets will have “active” sub-woofers, which have small dedicated amplifiers built in.

Speakers for home-cinema can be purchased in packages of matched sets, or individually, allowing you to mix fronts from one manufacturer with rears from another. In general, purchasing a set of matched speakers is the best option for beginners and will produce a very good sound. Unlike regular stereo speakers, home cinema speaker-sets are generally split into dedicated low and mid/high frequency speakers, with the sub-woofer speaker handling the low-frequency sounds by itself. This works because it is very difficult to detect the direction of low-frequency sounds, so it does not matter where in the room the sub-woofer is placed. By contrast the direction of mid and high frequency sounds is easier to detect, so speaker-placement is key, with left/ right speakers best positioned level with the screen and widely spaced apart, the central speaker positioned directly beneath the screen, and the rear speakers positioned diagonally facing the viewer from behind. This setup is for a 5.1 speaker set, which is all that is really required for proper directionality, although 6.1 and 7.1 sets are available.