Opinions on the Studio!

[ehsanspicedigital]

Hello Hello everyone. Hope all are well. Our studio is now fully set up and functional! The Red walls are soundproof foam, covered with red cloth, all the way around, to remove echo. Then there’s a Soundcraft Series 10 Mixing desk. In beautiful condition. I hope to get the hand rest powder coated soon as its pain is started to peel away. Got dual Sonifex Hy-03 telephone hybrid’s, Audio Technica AT3035 for the main presenter mic being fed into a RB-ML2 for level control, and that’s the main, Rest of processing and recording / Computers in a Rack in a seperate room, so there’s no fan noise or anything that could be heard On-Air. What do you think! Does it look nice! Also, What’s your suggestions for fresh air into the room. It’s completely sealed off. The doors are airtight sealed and no way of air getting in and out.. What should i do for fresh air exchange, Without adding any noise? There’s a suspended ceiling so a lot to work with! Thanks lads.

[Mongo82]

Nice, very 1990s. Not sure id want to be stuck in there on a hot summer night djing with a mate after a hot biriani and 8 pints though. Is there air-conditioning in the adjacent rooms?

[Albert H]

That looks pretty good, but extended practical experience shows that it's usually good to have some desk space in front of the mixer. The "Script Tray" in the Soundcraft isn't sized well, and isn't waterproof. You wouldn't believe how many Series 10s I've seen with various liquid stains in the script tray, and signs of the ingress of those fluids on to the adjacent channels!

If your Series 10 has been well-tended, and if it's configured sensibly, it'll be a great workhorse and last for years. Remember - the transformer laminations in some of their power supplies can get rattley over time, and you'll get a noticeable mechanical hum from the PSU box. I've seen various solutions to that, the best of which was to have a custom toroidal transformer wound, to replace the old E - I job. The ones I saw recently in an Irish station had the more pragmatic (and cheaper) approach of putting lots of hot-melt glue over the laminations!

It's never good having things plugged into the top of the mixer panel. I always put the headphone sockets into the desk edge - ideally sunken, so that only the soft headphone lead is beyond the edge of the desk. The number of broken plugs I've had to remove from damaged sockets over the years makes it obvious how much better it is to have those sockets away from the mixer!

I usually prefer to have the microphone stand coming downwards from above, rather than up from the desk. Even the very best soft microphone mount won't handle the conducted noise of something heavy being put on the desk next to the Presenter! "Flying" the microphone stand generally works better, and tends to be less "in the way". Also, a hanging microphone, slightly above the Presenter's face, is less likely to pick up noise from the movement of the Presenter and from the rustling of his or her clothes.

One studio I set up had a suspended ceiling, and we just fitted grilles into the ceiling around the room (away from above the Presenter), and blew cooled air from a cooling unit in the ceiling, two rooms away, with a dozen (or so) square Papst fans (the ones fitted into higher-end computer power supplies). They move a surprising amount of air, are very quiet, and are inaudible in the studio because they're about 20m away. We used simple wooden ducts to route the cool air through the ceiling, so that most of it went down through the grilles, rather that anywhere else in the ceiling. Keep the air-speed down though, because you really don't want a gale blowing across the microphone diaphragm!

That's a pretty good looking job!

[BriansBrain]

Nice........ Old-Skool.....

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