MIX Magazine honored Allure Sound in the
“Class of 2009 – hottest new recording studios.”
Allure Sound, located in Oak Park, MI, is a new multi-purpose professional recording facility with 2 control rooms, 6 isolation rooms, lounge, kitchen, offices, & server/machine room. A two room studio-b will be open to the public in the summer of 2009, dedicated to audio production and small to mid-budget post-production with video editing capabilities.
Acoustical Features of Studio-A’s four fully isolated rooms
All rooms were designed to avoid standing waves and interfering frequencies. Isolation was achieved by constructing double-studded partition walls, suspending drywall-ceiling grids from iso-mounts, and floating a hickory wood floor.
Our custom acoustical treatment custom was designed specifically for each room to achieve optimal sonic quality. An elegant blend of custom birch slat resonator panels and absorptive stretched-fabric panels cover the walls. The ceilings received acoustical absorptive diffusing clouds. A 9-foot radial bass trap was added to compliment the diamond shape of the larger tracking room. To ensure sound accuracy in the control room a 3-foot cavity along the rear wall contains an ultra-dense sound sealed bass trap, a 12×12 skyline diffuser panel, and a multi-row hanging baffle system is hidden behind diffusing bass traps. Basstraps were added to the four corners of the control room and a 12×12 skyline diffuser cloud were added to optimize the room’s sound.
Allure was established to embrace the changes in technology and music industry. Studio-A is truly multi-faceted and a closer look at the workflow shows how it integrates tracking/mixing with today’s computer production. The console and producers desk were strategically placed for this. The mixing monitors and console are position in the front of the room with the rack equipment directly behind. With a quick switch of the monitors, producers take their position at the rear room where the custom mains are tuned. A baseboard midi-input was installed on the rear wall to accommodate additional gear utilized by many producers today – keeping cables out of the way.
The typical double-pane windows were replaced with LCD monitors in all rooms and a closed circuit camera system visually connects the rooms with the option to monitor any or all rooms at any time. Custom wall and rack input panels were installed to link the high-speed data, audio, and video lines that are run into every room in the facility.
