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The not fountain head
Edit: While writing this thread, my plan took a different direction than the title.. See the link at the bottom of this post for cool modular room stuff...
I've been reading a book called Studio Stories, which I highly recommend to all. In this book, there is a detailed description/account of Columbia's 30th Street Studio, a converted church with 100 foot ceilings.
Just for the sake of discussion, I will simplify the idea(s) behind this studio....
One HUGE live room:
wood floors, super-high celings, one end with thick drapes, "live" style tracking and recording (aka "mixing, before/during recording" aka "many mics to one or two tracks")
Control room:
main detail being is that it is separate from the live room
Chamber (send channel from control room):
large underground concrete storage room, basic speaker to Neumann U47 to return
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Here's my 30th Street inpired plan (This is all brainstorming only. I do not have the space or money to do this in real life.):
Building/live room:
Leased/rented
Large vacant industrial space (Let's say, 80 ft x 100 ft)
20-30 ft high ceiling (corrugated steel, most likely)
bare concrete floors
concrete block walls
various gobos...modular/portable 3-D gobos (alcove with partial ceiling elements)
Back room/chamber:
various speaker cabs/pa speakers (switchable via patchbay or maybe dedicated mixer)
various microphones (ditto on the patchbay vs. mixer)
Control room (here's the main topic I wish to explore):
room within room (you must swing two doors to enter the control room)
ouside shell:
consists of concrete block walls and poured concrete ceiling (on top of rebarred industrial steel framing)
hvac hookup/etc in back of room
Inside structure:
wood frame construction, structually independent from shell (
roughly 15 ft x 25 ft (rectangular so I can more-easily predict acoustics)
20 ft high ceilings
floated floor
two entrances: on left and right sides of room, behind mix position (OF COURSE)
moderately sized control window dead center in front of mix position, 4" plexi (haha), double paned?
soffit mounted monitors
elaborate John Sayers style acoustic treatment (MASS BASS TRAPPING)
couch on raised platform, behind mix position (for clients)
etc, etc, etc...
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I think I'd try to do most things two track Nagra T-Audio (and get the sound), but I'd use digital rig as a "for the remastering people (lol)"......I suppose I'd use SSL's new console
Oh well.. I like fantasizing random things... I'm sure the place would sound like no other and the overengineered control room would counter-balance the wildly untamed live room
And I love it when a plan comes together... Too bad it would be impossible to make a profit in a place like this....
P.S. I considered the shipping container control room (like J.S.), but I think'd just be too small....
Here's something else to think about:
http://www.portaking.com/modular/gallery-cat_id-36-uid-235.html
I've been reading a book called Studio Stories, which I highly recommend to all. In this book, there is a detailed description/account of Columbia's 30th Street Studio, a converted church with 100 foot ceilings.
Just for the sake of discussion, I will simplify the idea(s) behind this studio....
One HUGE live room:
wood floors, super-high celings, one end with thick drapes, "live" style tracking and recording (aka "mixing, before/during recording" aka "many mics to one or two tracks")
Control room:
main detail being is that it is separate from the live room
Chamber (send channel from control room):
large underground concrete storage room, basic speaker to Neumann U47 to return
--------------------
Here's my 30th Street inpired plan (This is all brainstorming only. I do not have the space or money to do this in real life.):
Building/live room:
Leased/rented
Large vacant industrial space (Let's say, 80 ft x 100 ft)
20-30 ft high ceiling (corrugated steel, most likely)
bare concrete floors
concrete block walls
various gobos...modular/portable 3-D gobos (alcove with partial ceiling elements)
Back room/chamber:
various speaker cabs/pa speakers (switchable via patchbay or maybe dedicated mixer)
various microphones (ditto on the patchbay vs. mixer)
Control room (here's the main topic I wish to explore):
room within room (you must swing two doors to enter the control room)
ouside shell:
consists of concrete block walls and poured concrete ceiling (on top of rebarred industrial steel framing)
hvac hookup/etc in back of room
Inside structure:
wood frame construction, structually independent from shell (
roughly 15 ft x 25 ft (rectangular so I can more-easily predict acoustics)
20 ft high ceilings
floated floor
two entrances: on left and right sides of room, behind mix position (OF COURSE)
moderately sized control window dead center in front of mix position, 4" plexi (haha), double paned?
soffit mounted monitors
elaborate John Sayers style acoustic treatment (MASS BASS TRAPPING)
couch on raised platform, behind mix position (for clients)
etc, etc, etc...
---------------
I think I'd try to do most things two track Nagra T-Audio (and get the sound), but I'd use digital rig as a "for the remastering people (lol)"......I suppose I'd use SSL's new console
Oh well.. I like fantasizing random things... I'm sure the place would sound like no other and the overengineered control room would counter-balance the wildly untamed live room
And I love it when a plan comes together... Too bad it would be impossible to make a profit in a place like this....
P.S. I considered the shipping container control room (like J.S.), but I think'd just be too small....
Here's something else to think about:
http://www.portaking.com/modular/gallery-cat_id-36-uid-235.html
