The Music Room

Dimensions: 31' W x 52' D x 24' H, 1380 sq ft

Features:

  • Direct visual connection to all acoustic rooms:
  • Large enough for 36 comfortably seated musicians
  • 24' high ceiling: all fundamental room modes are below A0
  • RT60 up to 1 full second
    • 23 acoustic panels can fine-tune room behavior to taste
    • Doors on Booths A & B and Sound Locks 1 & 2 can further modulate acoustics
  • Powerful and flexible lighting system
    • Sets mood for superior artistic performance
    • Ensures better experience for workshop productions
    • Suitable for live video capture (up to 10kW of illumination built in)
  • Yamaha CF-9 Concert Grand Piano (can be rolled into Booths A or B)

Music Room Panel Interfaces

There are three interface panels in the Music Room, each providing an identical layout, yet each feeding into its own section of the patchbay.

  • 16 Mic Inputs (8 normalled to console)
  • MIDI I/O
  • 2 Instrument Passthroughs
  • 2 Speaker Passthroughs
  • 12 Audio Tie Lines (typically Aux sends)
  • 4 AES Inputs
  • 4 AES Output
  • 2 SMPTE 311M Optical Input
  • 2 Clock Signals (wordclock, video ref, or house black)
  • 4 SDI Video Output (SD, HD, or 3G-HD)
  • 4 SDI Video Input (SD, HD, or 3G-HD)
  • 4 Aviom personal mixer ports
  • 4 CAT6 Ethernet ports (powered)
  • 1 Dual-link DVI video output
  • 1 MADI Input and Output
  • 4 10-GigE Ethernet ports
  • 2 10-GigE SAN ports

Music Room Particulars

The Music Room can be used in a number of ways:

  • As a live room for solo artists, bands, and entire ensembles
  • As a tracking room for individual instruments (particularly Piano and Drums)
  • As an environment for workshops, master classes, and other creative/educational formats
  • As a venue for community events (fundraisers, broadcasts, etc.)

The 8' high soffit that runs around the Music Room is suitable for video camera tracks, tripods, and lights. The soffit can also support audio monitors for evaluating room-scale surround mixes.