Studio One
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Soundhouse Aclick image for a larger view
Soundhouse BResources
Studio Technology
| Aviom Headphone System | Modular Panel System |
| BSS Microphone Splitter | Patchbay Basics |
| Furman Headphone System | Z-Systems Router |
| MIDI IO |
Background
Studio One is the largest control room in the Music Technology area dedicated to tracking, editing, and mixing music. Originally designed around a three-quarter ton 64-fader analog console, the environment now features the world's first Digidesign 64-fader control surface. Don’t believe other studios claiming they have the first. We signed agreements and purchased the first two before the world and even most of the employees at Digidesign knew of the console. In addition to the control surface, audio preamps, MIDI interfaces, synchronization devices, audio interfaces and Pro Tools software integrate seamlessly into a high-end production workspace.
Studio one has an expanded ProTools|HD3 system including five DSP cards and six Digidesign 192 audio interfaces capable of 96 simultaneous inputs and outputs. There are 94 microphone inputs in the studio spaces surrounding Studio One that can be patched into 55 channels of microphone preamps. Microphone inputs from the Choral Rehearsal Room can also be directly patched. Inputs and Outputs from the Instrumental Rehearsal Room and Sursa Performance Hall can be accessed via a 32 channel Whirlwind ESnake.
Soundhouse A, Soundhouse B, ISO A, ISO B and a few rooms in between contain microphone, line level, cue send, video and CAT5 connections to Studio One via patchbays adjacent to the control room in the North Machine Room (NMR).
Traditionally in recording studios, the room with the recording console is called the control room and the space where the musicians play is named the studio. In the Music Technology area, control rooms and called studios and the space to place musicians are called soundhouses. Other rooms for creative production and evaluation of sound, llike media labs, DAW rooms, and the critical listening room are also called studios. All of these studios are important to the development of the music technology student and are named with a studio number. We did not limit the name “studio” to only the recording spaces.
The name soundhouse was carried over from the previous music engineering technology studios on Bethel Avenue. Cleve Scott named the main recording space a soundhouse because of its purpose beyond the boundries of the traditional recording studio space. It was a creative space for traditional and experimental music. Its functionality borrowing from Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis text written in 1626.