A Brief Look At Some Recording Studio Features

By Dan Smith


With the many avenues for getting an audio or video message out, the need for as dependable place to record sounds is increasingly important. Setting up a high quality recording studio is a significant investment. Many customers in need of a place to record are choosing to rent or lease a top quality location for the specific sound capture project. This is a more economical approach to preparing audio files.

A recording or music studio is a facility where sound mixing and capture can take place. The best recording and monitoring spaces are designed by a knowledgeable professional known as an acoustician. The goal of the physical space is to ensure the highest quality acoustic properties. The space is designed in a way that provides acoustic isolation, sound isolation or diffusion of sound. Reflected sound should be absorbed so that it doesn't interfere with the quality of the sound heard by the person listening to the recorded result.

The facilities of a recording studio London area are used to capture the sounds of musicians, voice-over artists for advertising media, as well as dialogue replacement for animated features, television or film. Musical accompaniment is recorded for films and television. Over the years, the equipment and materials used in studios has become more sophisticated and more accurate.

There are two main spaces within studios. These are the live room and the control room. The performances where the artist or artists work is done in the live room. The performances can be vocal or instrumental. The control room is where the sound engineers and sometimes producers work. The equipment in the control room can be audio mixing consoles. For the past three decades, computers have replaced many of the audio mixing consoles.

The computer equipment has dedicated software suites which can manipulate and route sounds for either digital or analog recordings. Some studios also feature isolation booths in order to accommodate louder instruments such as electric guitars or drums. These booths prevent sounds from the more intense instruments from interfering with sounds coming from other instruments. Alternatively, the isolation booths provide rooms in which recording of vocals or some acoustic instruments.

Room acoustics are an important element of the design of studios. The goal is to provide the best acoustical properties for capturing sound with accuracy and precision. There are two main elements of managing the acoustical properties. The first is the materials for absorption and diffusion which are placed on the walls and other surfaces of the room. The second is the physical dimensions of the room. Soundproofing of the spaces prevents unwanted sounds from interfering with the capture of wanted sounds in the music studio London facility.

There is equipment which is found in nearly every facility. This includes the mixing console, recorder and microphones. Keyboards and drums are also common.

In a studio London location, there can also be a digital audio workstation, a workstation for music and an On Air or Recording Light. There sometimes can be outboard effects such as equalizers, reverbs and compressors.




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