Studio Build Series.
As we have progressed with the building of our new studio, we have been taking photos. This has inspired us to document this build in a series. Part 1 will be released soon, as we shuffle through the photos to select the best and worst times in our build.
A lot of research went into the studio build, as we wanted it to be different, from hollow floors, to give a stage sound, and in the vocal both a concrete floors with carpets.
Just a taster, we raised our floors to give it a live stage effect, we dropped our vocal booths floor to give it a solid effect and to crown it all, we done this all in wood.
All is hand made, mix console desk, vocal booth, wooden flooring, shelving, 19″ racks for the studio equipment and DAW to be placed in.
We moved the server room away from the studio as it was making too much noise. So a reshuffle needed, and placed it in an air conditioned room, outside.
To put you in the picture, South Africa, we are NOT! a wood building country. Our houses/Offices are built with mortar inside and out, flooring concrete, with tiles and if wood, it is solid on the ground, but let’s move on to the studio build.
Keep coming back to see the our studio build series.
My thoughts as I sat designing this studio.
I want a studio to have a live staging sound, especially for acoustic instruments, like drums.
A DAW system that I can control remotely from any point in the studio. A remote wireless keyboard/mouse pack with monitors all over the studio.
Split all the different areas into their own consoles E.G. “Vocals, Drums, Instruments”
Make full use of 12 of the DAW recording channels, by attaching all the mixing consoles and recording Chanel card, to a patch panel that we can route all the recording output from a single console. My small mixing consoles output 6 and my main console outputs 8. In addition I have cables in balanced recording cabling, dual from each console, as the recording card has 2 balanced inputs.
Separate video editing station with sound effects desks and mixing console, this must connect to the studio mixing consoles to extend the video editing with additional sound effects and quality of sound output. These are connected to the patch panel, for ease of patching into the main consoles.
The studio, can be used as a live streaming event platform, podcasts, live band streaming, and to create any video performance. For this we have an old tape driven video camera, gives some crazy time capsule effects, 2k video cameras, 4k video cameras, still cameras and an underwater camera.
We added, Projectors, stage lighting, video lighting to create additional atmosphere when and if required.