Here are some new updated photos of Sjoko's studio

Control Room Rear Wall

Here is a small picture, looking from the tracking room up to the stairs and the control room beyond.

And this one is the other way around, looking from the stairs down into the far corner of the tracking room.
On the left is the iso booth, which is all rendered and has a dish-shaped roof to act with the room acoustics, which are as smooth as butter.
On the right you see one side of the drum booth. A 1/2 round dome shaped roof, which functions as a LF trap. On the inside the roof has a combination of panel and round hole traps, about 3'6" deep. The 4'6" x 8'6" roof in front of that is hinged - it can go way up or way down. This allows you to milk close with superb diffusion, without a build-up of any unwanted frequencies. Moving the roof down makes it all closer and tighter, the more you move it up the bigger the sound gets.
You can just see the top corner of the baffle right bottom. (see below)

This is a JBL promo pic. The speakers are JBL LSR 28P's with the LSP 12P sub.

I (John) have been looking for speakers for Guruland so I asked Sjoko about the JBL Speakers. this was his reply:

I took part in a test where a song was send to 10 mastering places in the US, including most of the top houses.
I was the outsider, the only dual function recording / mastering place, without a long track record for the facility itself. I came second, beaten only by the mastering lab (they really did a great job). I know its a combination of experience, room design and gear, but no way would I have been close without acurate monitoring.
- They are consistant at all volumes. Very loud if you want them to be, but volume does not color them.
- Of all such monitors, most likely the best priced, deu to JBL's volume and their popularity.

Cheers Sjoko

I (John) was approached by Sjoko to help him with a baffle to place in front of the drum kit to stop the kick getting out into the main room I replied with a drawing of my recommendation thus:

I also suggested some alternative ways of doing it:

He ended up using the angled idea but made it a curve. here are his reply comments:

Once again thanks for the drawings for the baffle. I made it as per your drawing, the only thing I changed was the center, which I made out of 1/4" finishing ply, fitted inside the frame with an 8" deep curve.
VERY interesting result, as you might imagine. One side has 8"depth in the center tapering off to almost nothing on the sides, the other side is the opposite. Placed in front of a drum kit it is amazing to hear the different characteristics this baffle creates. Very successfull.

for a full PDF file (96K) with the slot widths etc etc click here

cheers
John

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