Sony Studios, New York, New York, USA

Sony Recording Studio is a renovation of a former rehearsal room at Sony Music Studios. The famed 54th Street recording and mastering facility provides state-of-the-art technologies and a wide variety of services for the music industry. The conversion from a rehearsal room also included the addition of a video editing room, a lounge, and an entrance vestibule. The recording control room is located across the corridor from the new recording studio, with visual contact between the studio and control room made via video. The project was completed in 1999.

Artec Consultants Inc worked on insuring an ideal acoustical environment for the recording space. The new studio does not allow an excessive amount of noise to pass into the new video editing room. Similarly, noise from the video editing room and its equipment does not pass into the recording studio. A concrete block wall and isolated floor were chosen to isolate these spaces.

Artec provided Design and Planning services covering Auditorium Acoustics Design and Background Noise and Vibration Control consulting for this project.