The Secret Studio - My Invite Experience of the BIG Soundroom - Portland, Oregon
elamental
Published: 28 Jan 2022 βΊ Updated: 28 Jan 2022
The Secret Studio - My Invite Experience of the BIG Soundroom - Portland, Oregon
This studio actually exists in the basement of an event space I previously performed at. The homie who invited me here is a super chill guy, and we had long convos shooting the shit about different studio gear and production techniques.
The space itself has a TON of potential. The room had so many sidewalls that I literally could not keep track of how many there were, which is the perfect setup for recording harmonics - so much non-parallelity. I told my engineer friend, "you already have the hardest part out of the way, a space with enough head room and oddly shaped", which is often the hardest part to achieve when designing a soundroom unless the room is already pre-shaped in such as way (as this one is).
I suggested that he flush the ceiling with slats of choice cut wood. He said that would be good, and adding some cross slats on those would be even better for diffusion. I then discussed various methods of achieving proper acoustic treatment in the room to complete the pro-soundroom experience, but in the end, it all boils down to the building owners funding it. I think we may convince them of this by throwing a fundraiser show, which honestly would not be hard to achieve the numbers for (seeing as how are secondary market building supply sourcing in top notch.
This video displays this amazing soundroom/monitoring area while a couple local producers are crafting a new EDM beat. I made sure to capture the engineer's beautiful 500 series preamp rack on their too - gorgeous (pictured below). I am looking forward to being a part of this local studio's future.
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