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Recording, Broadcast and Post-Production Studios

BROADCAST

KCSM TV 60 Studio B, San Mateo, CA

College of San Mateo

Acoustical recommendations for improving the on-air sound, reducing background noise levels in the studio, and controlling mechanical noise and vibration.

Sony Newsroom System Demonstration Room, San Jose, CA

Barrett Quezada Architecture

Acoustical consulting and audiovisual system engineering for the Product Demonstration Room and adjacent Control Room at the Western Headquarters facility. The client's goal is to provide a "warm", elegant, open and professional environment to demonstrate new technology products and system integration of Broadcast Television Newsroom equipment. The secondary function is to provide a fully operational system for testing/evaluating the integration of new Newsroom system hardware and software components.

Bay Meadows TV Studio, San Mateo, CA

Bay Meadows Race Track

Environmental noise evaluation for a 900 square foot TV studio. The studio has separate rooms for production, main control, audio, edit bay, and an office. A major concern was the control of exterior noise generated by the nearby Cal-Train station and major arterial roadway. Provided construction details for exterior and interior sound isolation, acoustical windows, HVAC unit noise control, and sound absorptive finishes.

UC Berkeley - Dwinelle Hall, Rooms 110 - 111, Berkeley, CA

Savidge Warren & Fillinger

This facility is currently being used by UC Berkeley as a long distance learning/broadcast facility. The system has multiple camera locations plus audio and video post-production capabilities for the preparation of long distance learning presentations. The room is networked to 2 adjacent rooms for spill-over and supplemental studio locations.

Fremont Council Chambers, Fremont, CA

City of Fremont

Evaluated the audiovisual/broadcast system and recommended camera upgrades to improve the image quality.

Newark Council Chambers, Newark, CA

City of Newark

Audiovisual system upgrade. Additional components had been added to the present system throughout the years, resulting in haphazard wiring, technical difficulties, and poor performance. Our upgrade allows the system to fill its potential, while being modified to include a remote control, better speakers and microphones, and an improved video feed for the cable broadcast system.

POST-PRODUCTION

Four Media Group, Burbank, CA

Troy Sound Wall Systems

Sound isolation measurements in Studio A, Studio B, and the Foley room. Determined source of sound leak and recommended solutions.

Silicon Graphics Voice-Over Room, Mountain View, CA

Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Measurements and recommendations to reduce "boominess" of an existing voice-over facility within the corporate production suite.

Sierra On-Line Video Studio, Oakhurst, CA

Sierra On-Line

Measurements and designs to improve the acoustics of an existing blue-screen chroma key video production studio. Recommendations included room realignment and finish selections.

Knott Architects

Room acoustics, sound isolation, and mechanical noise and vibration control for a project studio within the home of a popular rock musician. Services included finding ways to seal the HVAC system from carrying loud noise from the music room throughout the house, plus creating optimum wall angles to improve the room's acoustics.

Home Studio/Rehearsal Room, Novato, CA

Knott Architects

Acoustical recommendations for a 60-seat presentation room and TV studios. Complete acoustical design for video and audio production and editing rooms.

Home Studio/Rehearsal Room, Half Moon Bay, CA

Jacobson Silverstein Winslow

Room acoustics, sound isolation, and mechanical noise and vibration control for a project studio within the home of a BAMA winning, popular rock musician. Services included finding ways to seal the HVAC system from carrying loud noise from the music room throughout the house, plus creating optimum wall angles to improve the room's acoustics. All acoustical treatments had to be environmentally safe.

The Learning Company - Headquarters, Fremont, CA

STUDIOS Architecture

Institutional recording facility for computer software, educational software, and CD-ROMs. The facility includes a primary and secondary control room, one large studio, and a small isolation/voice-over room. Immediately adjacent to the studio area but within the same technical core area are 3 edit rooms which were interconnected to the primary control room. Issues included room acoustics; sound isolation between studios, control rooms and edit facilities; and the control of mechanical system noise and vibration.

HyperGlot Recording Area, Knoxville, TN

Alestalo & Etzel

Design of voice-over and master control rooms for an educational software company. Acoustical issues included room acoustics within the small voice-over room and control room, sound isolation, and mechanical noise and vibration control. GPI Listening/Music Room Cupertino, CA JMA Properties Design of sound isolating partitions and acoustical surfaces for a studio and attached control room at GPI, publisher of the Guitar Player, Bass Player, and Keyboard magazines.

Hewlett Packard - Multimedia Facility, Roseville, CA

Hewlett Packard

RMW Architecture + Design

Design of a work station video conferencing facility with a video recording and editing suite used for the research and development of new desktop video conference/meeting software and hardware technology.