Interior designing and decoration Recording Studio Construction with soundproofing

Recording Studio Construction
Recording studio construction refers to the construction and design of a sound recording studio interior which is a facility for sound mixing and also sound recording. An acoustic man specially designs both the monitoring and recording spaces for achieving optimum acoustic properties. The use of recording studios is to record voice-over artists for dialogue or advertisements replacement in film, musicians, foley, animation or television, or to record musical soundtracks accompanying them. A standard recording studio construction is made of a room known as “studio” where vocalists and instrumentalists perform and the “control room” where producers and sound engineers operate either computers or professional sound mixing consoles. Usually there are smaller rooms for isolating loud instruments like electric guitar or drums from being picked up by the microphones that capture sounds from instruments recording quieter music.

Construction Guidelines

The recording studio construction is according to the principles of room acoustics so that the spaces created have the acoustical properties needed for recording sound with accuracy and precision. This consists of both room treatment (by the usage of diffusion and absorption materials on the room’s surfaces, and also the physical dimensions of the room itself are considered so that the room responds to sound in a desired way) and soundproofing for preventing sound from leaving the room. Double-layer walls are used to soundproof all rooms with insulation and dead space in-between the two walls.

Design of Studio Rooms

An important acoustic feature is the room size. There will be an influence of the ratio length x width x height irrespective of what the room contains. It is not recommended to have equal dimensions. There is a need for control rooms to be symmetrical but studios need not be so. Control rooms have to be accurate and predictable. Studios have to just sound good. The acoustics of control rooms need shorter reverb times. It is usually desired to have longer reverb in the “live” room. The sound effect should be same throughout the control room. It is not needed for the ceiling to have any shape or angles. There are always exceptions. Tall ceilings may benefit in large performance rooms but the angle should not go below 12 feet anywhere in the recording studio construction.
Lighting
Lighting is an important aspect. Three defined tasks must be served by lighting in recording studio construction as given below:
Full lighting should be available for cleaning and set-up.
Work lighting should be available during working hours. There will be a variation in lighting for different times of the day. Similarly it varies during video screening, different simultaneous tasks such as performing, engineering, and producing.
Mood lighting is used for a creative atmosphere in the recording studio construction.

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