Professional space
Rooms that tell you the truth about the sound.
Recording, mixing and podcast rooms where what you hear is the recording, not the room — and where outside noise stays outside.
The brief
What a studio has to get right
A studio's job is to be honest. If the room adds a bass hump or a ringing reflection, every decision made in it — a mix, an edit, a microphone choice — carries that error out into the world.
We design the room around the listening position: the geometry, the treatment behind and beside the monitors, the low-frequency control, and the isolation that keeps the outside world out of the recording.
- 01An accurate monitoring position
- 02Low-frequency control, not just absorption
- 03Isolation from traffic, neighbours and other rooms
- 04Very low background noise
- 05Sightlines and comfort for long sessions
How we engineer it
Services involved
Acoustic design
Geometry, reflections and reverberation designed around the monitoring position.
Acoustic treatment
Broadband absorption, bass control and diffusion where the room can carry it.
Sound isolation
Construction that keeps traffic, neighbours and adjoining rooms out.
Calibration
Monitors aligned to the room and checked by measurement.
How we work
From brief to verified result.
- 01
Brief
Goals, room, budget and constraints. Deliverable: Scope note.
- 02
Measure
Site survey and baseline readings. Deliverable: Survey.
- 03
Model
Predict modes, reverberation and coverage. Deliverable: Model report.
- 04
Design
Treatment, isolation and speaker layout. Deliverable: Drawings.
- 05
Build
Site coordination and inspection. Deliverable: Site checks.
- 06
Calibrate
The system tuned to the room. Deliverable: Settings file.
- 07
Verify
Measure again against targets. Deliverable: Verification report.
Questions
Common questions
Does a studio need to be symmetrical?
Around the listening position, symmetry matters a great deal: if the left and right sides of the room differ, the stereo image and the response at each ear differ too. The rest of the room has more freedom.
Why is bass the hardest part?
Low frequencies have wavelengths measured in metres, so they interact with the room's dimensions rather than its surfaces. Thin panels do nothing at those frequencies — control comes from depth, corner treatment and, sometimes, from where the monitors and the seat are placed.
Can a bedroom or spare room become a studio?
Often, within limits. Small rooms bring strong modal problems and little space for deep treatment, and isolation is usually the harder constraint. We'd measure the room and be straight with you about what is achievable in it.
Do I need a separate live room and control room?
Only if you record sources loud enough to need separating from the monitors — drums, amplifiers, full bands. Many mixing, editing and voice rooms work well as a single well-designed space.
Other spaces
Spaces we engineer
Start a project
Ready to create a better listening space?
Tell us about the room — what it's for, its size and where the project is. We'll reply with the right next step.