Just before Thanksgiving of 2013, we met with the owners of Pirate Studio LLC. After deliberating and some preliminary design, on December 16, 2013 we (Advanced Acoustic Solutions) were tasked to design and build a vocal booth, 2 master editing suites, and a video editing suite... By February 10th of 2014 on the third floor of this building in downtown Nashville!
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| Pirate Studio LLC location |
Pirate Studio LLC is an extremely talented group of people! The chief engineer has a voice that will blow your mind! Here is an example of the work they do!
Pirate Studio LLC Miranda Lambert Tour
To start the project, we began by sitting down with our architect to figure out a way to fit a "Pirate" theme into a modern studio design. As most know in the industry, architects are very good at making things look good, but they are not always as critical of sound as an acoustic consultant! We are fortunate to have an architect that loves sound and is willing to work very closely with us in the design aspect to make sure the sound is perfect, and the look is perfect! We quickly landed on a design scheme that incorporated a dark rustic feel that also incorporated a little bit of a modern taste. Because of the unique time frame and budget, a large portion of the project could not be pre planned. Most of the details had to be calculated on site!
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| Control room A concept |
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| Control room A seating area concept |
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| Vocal Booth design concept |
Jan 1st began the construction phase. AAS was responsible for all of the demolition and construction minus high voltage electrical work.
By mid February, we were finished. There we several construction complications throughout the process and a lot of 16 hour+ days of work!
A lot of the design parameters were preset. We had a little play, but in was only 1 dimension usually in a room that we could adjust. So we got creative with angles and clouds! Without getting into to much detail, the sound of the rooms came out great! There were a few small issues in the main room due to its length (non changeable) in the bass frequencies but compared to the previous location was a night and day difference in quality. The vocal booth (even with all the wood) is a nice quiet location with a decent amount of space and will be great for multi use purposes!
Studio B (audio) and Studio K (video) are both clean quiet and the engineers are extremely happy! Once again I am not going into great detail... although I could...
Below you will find some quick pictures I was able to grab after the process was complete!
In future posts, I will go further into detail on each room!
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| Door Decals |
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| Main control room with gear in place |
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| Closer view of mix position |
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| Front cloth wall with decal |
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| Studio B used for ISDN sessions and other rented sessions |
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| Video production suite |
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| Color changing lights behind panels to set the mood |
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| Vocal booth |
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| Vocal Booth |
