THE SPHERES STUDIO ODRADEK
STUDIO ODRADEK 350 square meters Steinway D “Fabbrini Collection”, Fabbrini technicians on call Main Room 15 x 9 x 8m. Silent floor heating and cooling. Drum Booth 5 x 4 x 3m Vocal Booth 4 x 3 x 3m
Control Room 8 x 6 x 4m Production Room 8 x 4 x 4m Recreation Room Kitchen, TV, sofa Machine Room, 3 Bathrooms Backyard with BBQ and deckchairs
November 18, 2016. Only seventy-nine days to build before first recording session.
Floating wall is insulated and isolated via rubber decouplers from the structural wall behind
Framing the drum booth
MAIN ROOM Design of the space was done in house using Sketchup. Main room has 8 meter ceilings, and a very controlled by live acoustic. Climate and humidity are strictly maintained.
CONTROL ROOM Completely isolated from the main room and drum and vocal booths below. Communication is achieved via talk back and live video feeds to each room. Up to 5 personal Aviom cue mixers are fed b y o u r Ya m a h a D M 2 0 0 0 d i g i t a l c o n s o l e . O u r m a i n m o n i t o r s a r e A m p h i o n Tw o 1 8 with Base25. We record with Sequoia b u t P r oTo o l s i s a v a i l a b l e . O u r v i d e o mixer has 8 channels for capturing professional backstage footage as well as livestreaming concerts.
Sound isolation achieved by sandwich of 13mm flame retardant plasterboard panel, 8cm of 125kg/m3 dense rock wool, steel studs, plasterboard panel glued to Vicoustic IsoBlanket Pro, resilient wooden channel for 3cm air gap, plasterboard panel glued to Vicoustic IsoBlanket, and finished with Plasterboard panel. Then 8cm of 125kg/m^3 dense rock wool is screwed i n a n d l e f t e x p o s e d t o s e r v e a s a b r o a d b a n d t r a p , s e t b e h i n d w a v e g u i d e s t o c r e a t e a To m H i d l e y i n s p i r e d “ n o n - e n v i r o n m e n t r o o m �. A p p r o x i m a t e l y 7 0 d B o f i s o l a t i o n i s a c h i e v e d .
February 5 2017: Mounting wall “BBC� diffusors and setting up for first recording with full orchestra
First recording session, with ColibrĂŹ Ensemble and Alexander Lonquich
Sheet rock glued to Vicoustic IsoBlanket Pro
First photoshoot in new studio
GREEN 20kW Solar Panel Installation Te s l a P o w e r w a l l 2 High efficiency cooling and heating (silent radiant floor conditioning in all tracking rooms) 100% LED flicker-free lighting in all rooms
A n g l e d c e i l i n g p a n e l s f o r To m H i d l e y s t y l e “ n o n environment room” Each panel is 1m wide, with 1cm thick high density rubber glued to one side, and wrapped in fiberglass, These serve as wave guides to trap any incoming sound in the 8cm high density rock wool trap behind. Remaining reflections are guided away from engineer’s listening position. In the Main Room floor-toceiling corner bass traps reduce unwanted bass buildup.
Floating CBI floor tiles for easy cable management. Underneath is Vicoustic Iso Under Floor 16, 2cm MDF, 1cm high density rubber
8 x 2D QRD Skywalker Sound replica movable diffusors/gobos Uses 17x17 quadratic residue sequences 30cm maximum well depth, 5x5cm wells. 90 x 180cm, 125kgs each Active diffusion from 505Hz to 3430Hz, scattering from 250Hz
DIFFUSION & ABSORPTION Mounting columns solidly secured to concrete structural wall behind Acoustically decoupled from floating wall For mounting 144 x 2D QRD “BBC style” diffusors 60 x 60cm, in 4 x 4 arrays. 16cm maximum well depth, 5 x 5cm well width Active diffusion achieved from 1075 Hz to 3440 Hz, scattering from approximately 540 Hz Every corner has wedge bass traps from floor to ceiling of 115kg per cubic meter dense rock wool Absorbent dropped ceiling made of 12mm ROCKFON Pacific (aw: 0.80) plus 6cm rock wool (67kg/m 3 )
Ve r t i c a l w a v e g u i d e s i n C o n t r o l Ro o m Angled to capture incoming sound from opposite side monitor Sound is trapped by 8cms of 115kg per cubic meter dense rock wool behind Each wave guide is 50cm wide, with 1cm high density rubber glued to one side, and wrapped in fiberglass Unabsorbed energy is directed away from engineer’s listening position to create a “non-environment” room Covered by an acoustically transparent speaker fabric (Akustikstoff Acoustic Cloth)
WINDOWS Four panes of approximately 5cm thick glass (each pane with STC rating 50dB), angled to avoid standing waves Achieving approximately 70dB or more of isolation from main room Approximately 1000 kg of glass, mounted securely in laminated veneer lumber pillars
Master Builders Amadou and Mustafa Nguer of Touba
THE SPHERES PERFORMANCE VENUE Previous page: founders John Anderson & Pina Napolitano introducing Odradek Records Jazz Chief Enrico Moccia presenting Odradek Jazz John and Enrique Valverde discussing ODRATEK David Boos demonstrating Odradek Video This page: announcing The Spheres performance venue and inviting attendees to join our music association “Progetto Odradek”
Maria Chiara Argirò Band
Left: Ronaldo Rolim. Right: Delta Piano Trio
Previous Left: Muriel Chemin. Right: Urbem & Elchin Shirinov Trio Curent Left: Duo Ultima. Right Domenico Codispoti “Figure in Blue”
Taytrix modular Gobos for isolation.
Previous: Massimiliano Coclite 4tet / Emanuel Salvador & Ronaldo Rolim / Ă yax Llorente, Maurici Esteller, Orlando Bass. Right: Pina Napolitano Curent Left: Masanori Oishi. Right: Session with Jesus Rodolfo
Left: A.T.A. (Acoustic Tarab Alchemy). Right: Jesus Rodolfo
Previous: Trio Mezzena-Patria-Ballario / Vincent van Amsterdam / Vittorio Forte. Right: Duo Tusyuki Rosenboom Current: Stefano Travaglini & Massimiliano Coclite. Right Shmuel Elbaz / Paolo Russo / Roberto Torto
Paolo Russo, Thommy Andersson, David Hildebrandt, Roberto Torto.
Paolo Russo, Thommy Andersson, Bruno Marcozzi
Previous: Muriel Chemin / Muriel Chemin / Matthieu Cognet. Right: Thommy Anderson & Paolo Russo Current: Hugues Dufourt, Daniela Filosa, Erica Paganelli, Adam Weisman & Simone Beneventi
Right: AurĂŠlien Dumont / Fabio Cardone / Marcello Malatesta
MICS Cond ense r - Tube
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2 A KG C4 1 4 XLS (m atched pai r) 1 A KG D 1 9 4 DPA 4 0 0 6 TL (2 m atched pai rs) 2 DPA 4 0 1 1 TL (m atched pai r) 1 N e u m ann U4 7 Fet 3 N e u mann U87 1 N e u m ann U87 ai 1 N e u m ann Rsm 1 90 i s 1 N e u m ann K MS 85 I 1 N e u m ann TLM 4 9 4 S c h o eps V4 U USM
Fle a C1 2 ( ma t c he d p ai r ) Fle a M49 ( ma t c h e d p ai r ) Ne uma nn M149 ( m at c h e d p ai r ) Ne uma nn U 67 ( 2 01 8 Re i s s u e ) Scho ep s M221 F ( m at c h e d M 9 3 4 )
4 Schoeps CMC 6 U 1 Schoeps MK 2 2 Schoeps MK 2 1 4 Schoeps MK 4 (2 m atch ed pa irs ) 1 Schoeps MK 4 1 1 Schoeps MSTC 64 U (RAI ed it ion ) 1 Schoeps CMIT 5U 1 Schoeps CCM8 LG 2 Sennhei ser 80 2 0 6 Sennhei ser 80 4 0 2 Sennhei ser 80 90 2 Tel ef unken CU- 2 9 Copperh ea d 1 AT Pro4 4 Uni di recti on a l B ou n d a ry
R i b b on a n d D y n a mi c s 1 AEA R8 4 1 AEA R9 2 1 AKG D 12 2 C oles 4038 (ma t ch ed pa ir 1 C oles 4104 2 Royer R-121 (ma t ch ed pa ir) 1 Sa ma r VL37 A 1 Elect rovoice RE320 2 Sh u re SM 5 7 LC 1 Sh u re B et a 5 2A 2 Sen n h eis er M D -421 I I -4 1 Sen n h eis er e6 02-I I
EQUIPMENT Ya m a h a D M 2 00 0 In s t r um ents Ste inway Mode l D -2 7 4 (H a mb ur g , Fa b b r in i C o lle c t io n ) G r e tsch ‘60’s Round Badge ‘Progress i v e J a z z ’ O u t f i t a n d 4 1 6 0 M i d ‘60’s Rou n d Bad g e Snare Monitor s A m p hi on Two1 8 (with D MSD 60 Pro), A m p h io n B a se 25 N e u ma nn KH 1 2 0 M E Ge i t ha i n RL906 A mp s O r a nge Dual Terror & PPC112, Fender S u p e r Re v e r b A B 7 6 3 ( 1 9 69), Fender Bassman - Head and C a b i n e t ( 1 9 6 7 ) , Vox AC 3 0 ( 1 9 73 U K) Preamps 8 x Forssell SMP-2, Earthworks 1024, D.W. F e a r n V T 2 , A E S T R P- 2 A / D Conver tor s La v ry Bl ue ( 16AD / 16DA)
Co m pr esso r s Prism Sound Maselec Mastering Compressor MLA-2, Dangerous M u sic C o m p r e s s o r , 2 x E m p i r i c a l La bs E L 8-X S Di s tr e s s o r Rev er b pr o c ess o r B r ica st i M 7 EQ M a n le y M a ssiv e Pa s s i v e Ste r e o Tube H eadph o n e Sys t e m 5 x Av io m A 36 0 Pe r s o n a l M i xe r s Av i o m D - 8 0 0 A - N E T D i s t r i b u t o r w i t h A - N e t B r i d g e I n p u t P latf o r m s RM E H D SPe M A DI FX RM E H D SPe A E S P CI e Seatin g , Stands , Tri p od s 4 4 x B e r g e r a u lt O r c h e s tr a Ch a i r s 24 x K &M Or ch es tr a Sta n ds 22 x Tr ia d Or b it Tr i p o ds
THE SPHERES STUDIO ODRADEK