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Hell Studios in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts is currently
under construction. This facility will feature an extremely
accurate surround mixing / mastering environment with resolution
to below 10 Hz. The main monitoring will use SLS high power
ribbons and SA amplification.
The Studio has 29' ceilings, a wrap around balcony at 17',
spiral staircase and very carefully designed acoustics with
variable decay time. There are two large isolation booths
with variable acoustics. Each have a grand view into the main
room. All of these rooms are floating and isolated to individual
sub foundations below the building. The facility is protected
against RFI / EMI by a metal out shell with a very low impedance
earth ground.
The
building power is completely seperate from the technical power
which is isolated, filiterd, surge protected and balanced
before it is distributed. Technical ground is provided by
a deep, multi-electrode system surrounded by a non corrosive
slurry 20' below ground level.
The
mechanical systems are designed to provide clean conditioned
air without noise. The control room system is carefully designed
to maintain comfortable conditions without temperature gradients.
The main studios will have a noise floor below NC-10.
There
will be two reverberation chambers located under the building.
The larger of the two is over 3,000 cubic feet and will have
a variable decay time from 0.8 s to over 3.0 s.
The
buildout also includes lounges, kitchen areas, offices, two
great sounding stair towers and other support areas. Scheduled
to be completed towards the end of 2004. |