The Control Room

The Control Room is designed for the future of recording. 

When we first started designing and measuring studios, we quickly noticed that they all shared one major culprit causing poor acoustics: Desks.

Whether its a $100 "mixing" desk from amazon or a $100,000 console, the issues still remain: Reflections and Resonances. For this reason, we set out to design our control room around being deskless, and the results do not disappoint. No more under-the-desk low end build up and no more top-of-the-desk first reflection points. But thats not all. 

bUT WhAT aBOuT tHE cOnsOLe? 

Dont worry, there is no lack of analog goodness. Flushed into the right wall is a rack full of pre-amps- EQs, and compressors that provide all of the flavor your tracks need. 8 channels of SSL channel strips, 8 channels of Neve pre-amps (with summing), 4 channels of API pre-amps, and much more. check out our equipment page to see what all we have.

The rear wall of the control room is fitted with a one of a kind Quadratic Residue Diffuser built precisely to fit the room. Standing at 8ft tall and 9ft wide, this behemoth had to be built in the room and assembled in place. In order to avoid lobing effects, the design uses a sequence in a sequence design, with a pseudorandom arrangement of n=7 QRDs and their inverse. 

The entire front wall is treated with light absorption to combat back waves from the A7x monitors which are suspended according to standard isocelese triangle placement. 

First, second, and tertiary reflection points. are treated with 3.5in mineral wool panels hung with a 2in air gap behind them. 

The ceiling has an 8ftx8ft cloud inset around a 2ft wide soffit, providing low mid absorption at the point most effective due to particle velocity. Above the soffits are 6 specially designed bass traps: four Helmholtz resonators tuned to trouble frequencies and two proprietary suspended dual loose membrane Helmholtz resonators targeting the remaining low end bumps. 

You're goingg to want to hear this for yourself.