Oct 1, 2011,
By Sarah Benzuly
Studio owner Henry Gooderham has opened the doors to his 800-square-foot, purpose-built Noble Street Studios (Toronto), hoping to attract local and international music projects, as well as film and TV clients with its 5.1 surround system. Acoustic engineering was handled by Terry Medwedyk of Group One Acoustics, while Athos Zaghi (AZA and Theatre Consultants Collaborative, LLC) and Robert Kastelic (AKB Inc.) handled the facility design.
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Sep 1, 2011,
By Sarah Benzuly
Welcoming such artists as Snoop Dogg, The Matches and others for personal use, The Hideaway Studio’s (Minneapolis) founder, producer/engineer/mixer Joseph Mabbott, is opening the space’s doors to the music-making public. Incoming clients can take advantage of the Pro Tools|HD Accel 2 and 3 systems; monitoring through Tannoy, Yamaha and Mackie speakers; and a jam-packed mic closet and numerous effects. The studio also offers video production support.
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Sep 1, 2011,
By Matt Hurwitz
After years of using a converted walk-in closet in a rental in Malibu, Calif., as a demo production studio, Oscar-nominated film composer Marco Beltrami (The Hurt Locker, 3:10 to Yuma and the upcoming remake of The Thing) decided it was time to build the kind of facility that would provide him and his sound designer/co-composer, Buck Sanders, a place to compose, record and mix final score recordings.
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Aug 1, 2011,
By Sarah Benzuly
Orbit Audio (Seattle) recently had an acoustic (by Guy Staley) and aesthetic makeover, as well as installed an SSL 4056 G Series with Ultimation. The control room features eight inches deep of 705 Corning in the front wall, covered with FR701 purple and black acoustical fabric. The back-corner bass traps offer 30-inch-deep Rocksol. Six acoustical clouds hang over the listening position. Helmholtz resonant bass absorbers line one wall in the live room....
Jun 1, 2011,
By Tom Kenny, Editorial Director
This was supposed to be a note about Mix. About how we have new owners in NewBay Media and a new design with a wider format. A new column by longtime tech editor Kevin Becka and a new position and focus on our Big Three: Music, Live and Sound for Picture. New energy. New approach. New. New. New. But then I got sidetracked by New York. Something is happening there. Right now.
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Jun 1, 2011,
By Tom Kenny
We’re taught from a very young age that hard work pays off, that if we practice, put in the hours and hone a skill, we will find success. Parents tell us this almost before we can talk, then teachers, Little League coaches, instructors of private music lessons. Then later we hear it from college professors, who tell us that with good grades we will get a good job, if we do the work and do it well, we will be rewarded.
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Jun 1, 2011,
By Sarah Benzuly
Boutique recording spot Music Works NYC was designed by Platinum-winning engineer/consultant Christos Tsantillis (50 Cent, Patti LaBelle, The Roots, Diddy) and built by Michigan-based custom studio builder Ken Capton (Eminem, Kid Rock). Geared for mixing, overdubs, voice-overs, sound design, film scoring, radio production and audio for music videos and audio books, the space offers Avid Pro Tools HD3 systems and Apple Logic Studio. The facility is the vision of Theberge Music Works founder Chris Theberge, founding member of Grammy-nominated contemporary jazz group Groove Collective.
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May 1, 2011,
By Tom Kenny
Projects like Manifold Recording don’t come around often in a studio designer’s life. A client with knowledge and passion for the way music works in a space and the way every bit of detail contributes to the whole. A proposal for a carbon-neutral, ground-up facility that starts with the sweet spot in the control room and the musician in the live room and develops from there. A request for drawings that include 24-foot ceilings and visual continuity from control room to music room to three iso booths and two sound locks, through windows onto the 16-acre property in the hills south of Chapel Hill, N.C. A budget that was comfortable—not unlimited, but better than most. It did, however, grow over five-and-a-half years while other projects started and finished. And studio designer Wes Lachot had no idea what he was getting into.
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