Recording Studio

The Recording Studio facility is 3,500 square-foot multi-room facility with nine acoustically isolated rooms of varying characteristics and a 1988 Yamaha CF III concert grand piano. The main control room and classroom offers multichannel recording and mixing, surround sound monitoring and video projection. A second production room adds further video, multimedia and DVD production capabilities.

The facility employs high-quality microphones, including a variety of large and small diaphragm condensers, tube and ribbon microphones from manufacturers such as Neumann, Earthworks, Royer, Peluso Labs, AKG and Sennheiser. Our microphones are complimented by world-class, custom microphone preamplifiers, high-resolution custom A/D converters, a fully-automated Sony DMX-R100 digital mixing console, and both native and hardware-based digital audio workstations such as Logic Pro and Sonic Studio HD. Processing and metering tools include Metric Halo 80-bit +DSP hardware, visualization tools and a variety of other software-based and outboard processing systems. A second production room adds Final Cut Studio, DVD Studio Pro and a variety of other software systems necessary for audio, video, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio, as well as multimedia production in today's current and emerging high-resolution, multichannel and interactive formats.

Remote location recording capabilities include 48-channel multitrack recording, a Sony HD video camera, and a Soundfield MK-V ambisonics recording system for capturing three-dimensional, fully immersive acoustical events for production into traditional stereo, multichannel and periphonic audio.

For information contact:

Michael Dunston: studio@vt.edu / (540) 231-9942

• Map and Directions to Recording Studio
• Recording Studio Floor Plan