music studio projects
Aiko Rohd, a multiplatinum record producer from Berlin, commissioned us to come up with an acoustic treatment solution for his private studio.
We wanted to create something that offered premium functionality while simultaneously inspiring creativity. Our simple and cozy design both functional and aesthetic with natural materials strategically fitted throughout the room, including textile & wooden panels cut in a unique geometric pattern.
SPECIFICATIONS
- complex polygonal surfaces: good for acoustics, but tricky for manufacturing; just one wall needs 5 unique trapezoid absorption textile panels.
- the ceiling has niches (between the beams) where we placed 6 tuned bass traps (rectangular blocks wrapped in raw linen textile)
- for the rest of the walls we designed compact lightweight wooden modules, which contain our custom 3D Diffuser 50 made from plywood covered with oil and wax; for the desired acoustic parameters, a small room like this needs diffusers in order to counteract its's inherent dry sound (if only absorption panel are used)
- due to the mobility of the panels, we only needed 6 hours for installation on this project, allowing the very busy Aiko Rohd music studio to hardly miss a beat.
The existing studio was built and founded by the Vladimir Yudanov, well known designer and architect in Moscow, and is equipped with world-class gear and monitoring systems.Challenge:Because of using only absorbing materials in the existing design, despite the large size of the room, the sound of the records was too demped, muffled and not alive, like it is often happens in ordinary rehearsal rooms. Room modes spoil the solidity of a sound wave front and decrease the quality of records significantly. We offered and idea to use diffusers to redesign and reconstruct this studio. In the recording room we used different custom constructions such as 3D Diffuser 50 and 3D Diffuser 80, natural stone wall, and fine-tuned bass traps..
Small control rooms as this one are always in need to have their reverberation time increased. But since the surfaces is placed too close to the engineer, only Diffractal 21-GL could solve that problem effectively.Because of that we deal with person from art scene we were required of luxury and artlook of acoustic treatment systems and same time of effective acoustic performance.As a result of precise design and creative approach in manufacturing of panels we provided an original eco-friendly style, combined with the hi-tech elements of the studio.
The new Berlin “home” of an Italian producer from Florence has been redesigned and rebuild in the industrial heart of Berlin on the Spree river. The huge 60 sq.m . control room was redesigned for better-balanced bass response. A 3D Diffuser 50 cluster was installed to make the room sound more alive and thus let to use it as third recording room within the studio.
The proper method of simulation and combining adsorption and diffusion elements with the right proportion lead to perfect results in acoustic and in aesthetic aspects.
The 12 pieces of 3D Diffusers 50 mounted on the walls significantly changes the sound of the recording room, especially as it was reducing flattering echoes, caused by the large glass surface of the studio window and the intransparent heavy fabric of the walls.The control room was designed from scratch, giving the opportunity to capture and mix the highest quality records, using just a 16 sq.meters room. The DIffractal 19 made of wood provides diffused soundfield in a wide frequency range.
The great transformation of an ordinary rehearsal room into the best sounding recording studio in the city was reached by proper acoustic simulation. As most of such DIY rooms, the ARS studio suffered from a lack of diffusion and a muffled sound. In addition, the bass-response was not very punchy.Installing additional absorption on most strong resonance mode lines solved the problem of bass instruments recording such as drums and bass.
Bruno Grife -music producer/remixer from the USA - has settled down with a new studio in St.Petersburg. The Studio is located in a penthaus within a residential building, so soundproofing was one of the main challenges in this project. To reach a desirable soundproofing of the given wooden lightweight walls we needed to build a room in room construction using 3-4 layers of gypsum board.The studio has a unique design as it must fit into the home environment of Bruno’s flat. The most common task for any studio is mixing which is the biggest part of EDM production .
The bass tightness desirable in such productive studios could be achieved only with proper simulation and constructing special bass traps. At the same time it should provide comfortable long term working possibilities to the producer, so 3 modules of Diffractals-73 GL will provide a diffused sound field a in wide spectrum of 340-18kHz. Natural materials such as linen and wood finished with oil and wax provide an eco-friendly comfortable atmosphere.