Recording Spaces

Chapter 3

Variable rooms

Chapter 2 was rather long and convoluted, but it had to be in order to set out the groundwork for the expansion of our design concepts. I described in considerable detail rooms which, due to their limitations, cannot be the ‘all things to all people’ that they were perhaps originally intended to be. Such rooms are excellent for recording jingles, one-off radio broadcasts, and many other recordings which must be cost-effective and of good quality. They are real ‘work horses’. Do not think that I am relegating these rooms to a second division, as I am not. They are, however, not the ideal rooms for many of the ‘big production’ recordings for CD release, which will be listened to countless times, frequently by people with ...