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Case file
Recording studio design, post-production suites, broadcast booths and nightlife audio — acoustic isolation, monitoring, console integration and DJ infrastructure.
/ The discipline, in detail
How we approach recording studios & nightlife.
A studio is the union of the acoustic envelope, the monitoring chain and the signal path. We engineer all three. Live rooms isolated to NIC ≥ 65, control rooms with non-environmental design and tuned LEDE, and a console-and-patchbay layout the engineer can work without looking. For nightlife — clubs, lounges, rooftop bars — we design JBL Professional, K-array and Pioneer DJ infrastructures with structural rigging, power and acoustic coordination.
On record
Every recording studios & nightlife engagement is documented end-to-end — design, programming, commissioning, calibration — and handed over with the files our successors would need if we were never to return.
/ Where we deploy this
Active across 2 sectors.
Recording Studios & Nightlife is rarely a standalone brief — it sits inside a wider sector practice with its own codes, expectations and operating rhythm.
/ Sister services
The rest of av.
A serious brief usually crosses two or three of these. Read across the discipline — we deliver them as one contract.
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Home Theatre
Reference cinema, in your living room.
Custom-engineered private cinemas — projector, processor, screen, seating and acoustics designed to a single sweet-spot, certified to THX or Dolby Atmos.0 - 02
Multi-Room Audio
One song. Every room. Or six different ones.
Whole-home audio on Yamaha, Sonance and BluOS — invisible in-ceiling speakers, hidden subs, room-corrected and zone-routed.1 - 03
Acoustic Solutions
Rooms that sound the way they look.
Acoustic design and treatment for cinemas, auditoriums, recording studios, places of worship and conference halls — engineered absorbers, diffusers, bass traps and ceiling clouds.2 - 04
Video Walls
Pixels at the scale of architecture.
Direct-view LED, fine-pitch LCD and rear-projection video walls for command centres, lobbies, broadcast studios, control rooms and event venues.3 - 05
Smart Classrooms
Every student. Every word. Every time.
Interactive flat-panels, lecture-capture, voice-lift and learning-management integrations — engineered to NCERT, NEP-2020 and university lab specifications.4 - 06
LED Panels & Projectors
The right pixels for the room.
Direct-view LED, OLED, microLED and laser projection — selected to the room's lux, throw, sightline and content.5 - 07
Auditoriums & Boardrooms
Rooms that begin on time.
Turnkey auditorium, boardroom, training-room and conference-room AV — display, audio, control, video-conferencing and lighting integrated to a single touch.6 - 08
Digital Conferencing & Voting Systems
Sittings, voting, interpretation — one system, every seat.
Parliamentary-grade digital conferencing for legislative chambers, council halls and corporate boardrooms — mic management, electronic voting, 8-channel interpretation, camera control and chamber recording, integrated through Bosch DCN, Dicentis and Integrus.7 - 10
Stage Lighting
Light that performs.
Theatre, concert, event and place-of-worship stage lighting — moving heads, washes, profiles, pixel-mapped LED and DMX/Art-Net control.8 - 11
Conference Room AV
Single-touch join. Every meeting.
Microsoft Teams Rooms, Zoom Rooms and Cisco Webex-certified meeting rooms, with auto-tracking cameras, ceiling-array microphones and one-touch room controllers.9 - 12
Restaurant, Bar & Nightclub AV
The room that the night needs.
Hospitality venue AV — JBL Professional, K-array and Kgear audio with stage lighting, façade scenes, DJ booth integration and acoustic isolation from neighbouring premises.10
/ Frequently asked
Recording Studios & Nightlife — what buyers ask first.
Can a project studio sound like a commercial studio?
Yes — a project studio with the right acoustic envelope and monitoring chain can sound like a commercial studio; we have built 250 sq ft rooms that out-mix half-treated 1,500 sq ft commercial rooms. To a remarkable degree. The rest is monitoring and engineering. We've built rooms in 250 sq ft that out-mix many half-treated 1,500 sq ft commercial rooms.
What's a non-environment (LEDE) control room?
Live-End-Dead-End — a room treatment where the rear (live end) is reflective and diffusive while the front (dead end) is absorptive, creating a sound field where the speakers' direct radiation reaches the engineer cleanly. It is the reference standard for music and broadcast control rooms; we design to it where the brief allows.
How is a studio isolated from the building outside?
Through decoupled wall and ceiling construction — independent inner and outer leaves with no rigid contact, dense fill in the cavity, suspended floating floor. The civil work for true isolation is significant; we engineer it in coordination with the architect at the design stage.
Genelec, Neumann, Adam — which monitors are right?
Genelec is the broad-spectrum standard and our default for most rooms. Neumann KH-series brings a slightly different translation reference that some engineers prefer. Adam Audio S-series is excellent for mastering. We supply and calibrate all three; the choice is artistic and we let the engineer drive it.
Do recording studios need backup power?
Yes — losing power mid-take is unacceptable for any session work. We specify online UPS for the entire control room load (computer, monitors, console) plus the live room's microphone preamps. A 2–4 kVA UPS covers most home studios; commercial studios get larger units sized to the actual load study.
How do you handle the studio-to-live-room audio link?
Through Dante or analogue snake depending on budget — Dante is now the default for new builds (24+ channels over a single Cat6 cable). Dante allows monitor-mix routing, talkback, and remote mic-preamp control without dragging cable. The price-point on Dante interfaces has crossed below analogue parity for any studio above 16 channels.
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