Recording studios.

John Sayers

Here's a couple of videos of recording studios I'm designing.

The first is a home studio in the basement of a typical US McMansion.

the second is a Pro Studio in an industrial area in the US NE.

Thankyou FormFonts, your "people" are gaining star status - one client asked me why was HE sitting in that other guys studio!!

cheers
john

JuanV.Soler

I think both videos play far too quickly, one does not get the idea of the spaces you design and how they are related.
Maybe showing more the plan view would help.
The quality of the video is pretty good.

dylan

Agree totally with Juan.
It is a very nice movie and setup of model, just way to quick in my opinion.

I would like to see a slightly slower version John if you can make one.

Dylan

John Sayers

Will do guys - point taken - thanks.

cheers
john

John Sayers

OK - I've slowed them down. The originals were at 3sec transition. The new ones are at 5 sec transition with a 1 sec pause.

I've replaced the original files with the new versions.

cheers
john

JuanV.Soler

That´s much better John
though i still think plan´s view deserve more attention.
cheers

John Sayers

Hi juan.

So what is a plan view?

Here's Jamie_16.avi where we have progressed to.

My business is not about showing beautiful renditions about beautiful buildings, it's about what needs to be done within our limitations.

It's about creating a space where a recording engineer, such as my client, can record a band of drums and loud guitars etc, within a suburban community of McMansions without upsetting his family above or the neighbours.

It's about sound isolation and acoustics.

The control room space, i.e. the first space shown in the video, is where he will sit with all his expensive recording equipment and most importantly his speaker system from which all sound judgements are made. It must be acoustically correct.

Off that room are a series of rooms that are suited to individual instruments. One room has a "live reverberant sound" like the drum room in front of the control room, the other two are designed or guitar amps and singers. Each one designed for it's application.

His father is a builder and is following my designs, he's already acted upon recommendations I've made such as moving jack-posts etc, and will build the studio off the 3D Sketchup plans I provide.

It's a very different area from the general posts on this site, it's actually closer to Joe Wood's designs if anything.

From my perspective I oggle at Ross's beautiful swimming pool, yet on the other hand I ask myself - what would that pool sound like?

I say it would have a reverberation time of around 4 -5 secs - if there were 20 old-timers and their minders in the room they would all be turning up their hearing aids because the acoustics of the room would not enhance their sound perspective. Whilst I can admire the space I see no attention to the acoustic of the space.

The other night I had dinner with my ex and my eldest daughter in a fine restuarant in North Sydney. We ended up shouting at each other because no one had considered the acoustic of the room we were in.

that's my field.

cheers
john

JuanV.Soler

John,
what i mean is that the plan view, what is called Top view in SketchUp, should be more time in your video.
That way, i think it would be more comprehensible the transitions you make between the rooms.
that´s what i think.

(maybe its because i like the way you plan the rooms in the given rectangular´s shapes)

salud

the link you provide does not work for me