RA The Book Vol 3

The Recording Architecture Book of Studio Design

Roger D'Arcy

• Publisher: M-Y Books
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781909908956
• Topic: Naturwissenschaften
• Subtopic: Physik

Volumes 1 and 2 of this three part series focus on private, in house and commercial recording studios, mastering and cutting rooms and Recording Architecture's built output from 1987 to 2002 with technical chapters covering work stages A to H (including details of sound isolation, acoustic treatment, electrical power and ventilation/air conditioning). This third and final volume concentrates on post production studios (including film mix theatres), educational facilities (including research) and the years 2003 to 2010 together with work stages J to M (including technical furniture and audio monitor accommodation). Together, the three eBooks cover the entire contents of the hard back edition of RA: The Book but they have been edited and compiled to function as stand-alone volumes Established by Roger D'Arcy and Hugh Flynn on April 1st 1987 Recording Architecture has risen to become one of the premier recording studio design companies in the world. First Commissioned by ex Def Leppard guitarist Pete Willis for Blue Room studios In Sheffield swiftly followed by projects such as Hulgrave Hall, for composer Keith Hopwood the company has grown to design key installations around the world. Now for the first time they will be publishing a history of these ground breaking designs covering all aspects of architectural, acoustic and interior design of these studios and spaces specifically related to sound on a project by project basis. In a Career spanning Three decades Recording Architecture has virtually unrivalled experience in the design of studios which range in size and purpose from classical orchestral, residential, mixing, mastering, post production, film dubbing, video editing and rehearsal studios over 40 countries worldwide. Stating his desire to expand awareness with the new book Roger D Arcy states Over the years, and perhaps surprisingly, the only available books on recording studio design seem to have been written by individuals with little or no qualified background in Architecture or design in the field - we are trying show the detailed architectural/acoustic input behind a successful design with each studio study showing drawings in large format. This is not a theoretical guide but a detailed presentation of tried and tested techniques as applied to real, built projects in many of the case studies, the actual drawings issued for construction are reproduced. The examples illustrate not only what we think should be done but what was in fact physically (and successfully) implemented in a wide variety of situations from small, private project studios to large, commercial land mark studios such as Lansdowne and CTS. Examples range in scope from individual spaces and rooms to multi studio facilities and cover the two principal strands of recording and mixing: MUSIC studios recording (tracking), mixing and mastering (including cutting) project to orchestral in scale examples have been taken from the private, commercial and educational sectors. POST PRODUCTION studios voice over (dubbing), FX recording ( Foley ), film mix studios (dubbing theatres) from small voice over studios for TV to large Dolby Premier Certified film mix theatres. Contents include hundreds of photographs together with detailed plans and construction drawings - including comprehensive specifications of materials and techniques - showing exactly how these environments were created.

Post production and film mix studios

APS Abbey Road Ace Records Adlabs Albert Productions Thierry Allard The American College In London Amplisound Dev Anand Ian Anderson Angel Studios Angellsound Mark Angelo Studios Angelshare The Aquarium Artezium Rick Astley Astoria Aurora B&B Burbank The BBC Babajim Backstage Studios Russ Ballard Balea Music Martin Barre Battery Studios Beechpark Beethoven Street Ned Bigham Black Rock Blue Post Bluechip Bongo Post + Music Boogie Park Brahma Kumaris British Aerospace Terry Britten Brixton Academy Rose Bruford College Brunei Royal Palaces Bullfrog CTS Canon Audio Paul Carrack Cavern The Chemical Brothers Neneh Cherry Cineom Vince Clarke Commercial Breaks CONEL The Core Neil Costello Crazysound Cream Criterion Crystalphonic George Cuff The Cure Cut & Run The Dairy Ray Davies De Lane Lea Derby University The Digital Audio Co Digital Creations Digitalmix Dolphin Doncaster College Double Trouble Le Doyen Bruce Dunlop Associates ECAM EMI Music East Point Electronic Arts El Rom Eltham College Euphonix Evolutions The Exchange Exit Studios Farasan The Farm The Farm Group Feltwave Bryan Ferry Magnus Fiennes Fiesta Film Mix Film Labs Fluke Forwardbeat Fullard Multimedia Front Line Music GIANT Pascal Gabriel Gaurav Digital Noel Gallagher Ron Gariasco GearBox Geising Team Gemini Audio Glenrothes College CCI Gloucester University Grange Farm David Gray Great Linford Pavilion Ground Control H20 Steve Hackett Halwani Audio Hammon Studios Harman UK Hackney Arts Centre Haringey Arts Council Jeremy Healy Heathman's Mastering Pete Heller Steve Hillage Rupert Hine Hljodhamar Home Hum ICC INX TV Infogrames Izabelin Studios JCA Jnanapravah The Joint Jungle Kash Productions The Kinopalace Koh San Konk Studios Lenny Kravitz LMN London Weekend Television The LSE Yusuf Lakdawala Lakeside Studios Lansdowne Annie Lennox Lennox Lewis College The Levellers The Limehouse Liquidspillers Loco London College of Music London Post Louis Lahav Loxley Post Magmasters Manfred Mann Magneto Electric Works MANCAT MCA Music MIAM ITU Maison Rouge Macasso Music Marmalade Martha's Studio Dru Masters The Master Recording Company Matrix Maximum Music Jason Mayo Media Tools Metrophonic Robert Miles The Mill Daniel Miller The Mix Room The MixltPro Co Amar Mohile Momentum Monster Music Peter Moon Trevor Morais Jacob Moreno Mosfilm Will Mowat Mustache Mute Records NOB Navketan Shmuel Noifeld North Notts College Numb Productions Gilbert O'Sullivan Billy Ocean Off the Wharf Optimum Oxford Digital Orinoco Toyshop PEO Qatar Parrswood Philipp Palm Phoenixsound Picture Production Company Planet Audio Pluto Music Polskie Radio Michel Polnareff Polygram Hong Kong Power Plant Prime Focus The Priory The Premises Die Prinzen Proper Records Pulse Recording Punkt Musik Q-Labs Rainmaker Post Red Tape RIP Records Rimon School of Music Riverlight Roachford Rollover Studios Roller Productions Room4 Studios The Roxy Rushes Freido Ruth SDL Sade Scramble Select Sound Sensible Serious Rope Songphonic Sonoland Studios Sonologic Post Sound City Sound Mastering South Thames College Speech Recording Street Studios Studio 301 Studio One Spectral Harmony Square Centre Bernard Sumner Tony Swain TMV TNT Hong Kong TVU Telegael Ten 21 Studios Terrarium Phil Thornalley Michael Tibes Glen Tilbrook Tivoli Studios Trinity College Tuna UB40 Uncle La Union Flamenco University of Wales Vox Populi Voice Tape Walton & Stone Warchild Bosnia The Waterboys The Waterhouse Studios The Welsh College of Music and Drama The Wembley Drum Centre Westpoint Werner Studios Whistling Woods Whiterooms Pete Willis Steve Winwood Ronnie Wood Worcester College The Workhouse Zaza Zoo Studios

Rainmaker, Richmond VA USA
(RA7430, 1999)

Scramble, London UK
(RA4780, 1995)

Gemini, London UK
(RA4080, 1995)

Plan of Magmasters, London RA 0370 designed 1989

Introduction to genre:

Recording and mixing studios for the television and film industries. The category includes studios for recording voice (voice-over, dubbing) for advertising, documentaries, television and film drama, “talking books”, dialogue replacement for film (ADR) and the recording of sound effects (“Foley” – named after Jack Foley, the first to be credited with the use of post recorded sound in the 1920s at Universal Studios, Hollywood USA, for “The Jazz Singer”). Foley and voice recording generally require an acoustic that is significantly dryer than is usually required for music (but not overly “dead” - a common mistake is to place voice over artists in tiny booths with nothing but acoustic foam on the walls). Some post studios combine voice work with music recording and mixing capacity for jingles and soundtracks (Magmasters/Scramble), whilst a few facilities specialise in providing only music for the post industry (Macasso). Sound mixing for TV programmes and advertising (including big-screen trailers and advertising) can be managed in smaller, music control room sized spaces. Full formats for the big screen film require larger, almost cinema-sized film mix theatres (also known as “Dubbing Theatres”) – these facilities are generally required to comply with the various acoustic/equipment installation standards and surround monitoring formats of DOLBY, DTS, and THX (all registered trademarks).

The main design considerations are to address low noise floors (especially in the studio or VO booth), to provide for 5.1 surround formats i...