Axial Modes……………………………………………………………………………………………....3
Room Shell………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4
Electrical…………………………………………………………………………………………………..7
Network Design………………………………………………………………………………………...10
Absorbers ……………………………………………………………………………………………….11
Diffusers………………………………………………………………………………………………....12
HVAC ……………………………………………………………………………………………………..13
Appendix………………………………………………………………………………………………...14
Studio Design
Rob Milton & Corren Olson
Mission Statement
Welcome to the Voice of God Recording Studio! Our purpose is to provide a space for
recording of live instrumentation for production release, background tracks and limited
recording of post production projects. With access to a 1700 seat auditorium,Voice of
God Recording Studio can also record live shows as well as being able to host CD
release concerts using our Dante Network from FOH. Voice of God Recording Studio
has spaces available for recording video with quality audio for presentations, live acts
and other videos that may be necessary for the normal operation of the church. While
the focus of Voice of God Recording Studio is on the ministry of the church, we
welcome and record other musical artists.
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Voice of God Recording Studios is housed in Salt City Church in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. It’s anticipated use will be for recording various media for the church. It can
record the worship band in studio for recording releases of original and covers of music.
It can also record live worship music of varying genres in the auditorium section of the
church that will also be equipped to record. Its recording studio can also provide a
space for video announcements and presentations with quality premium sound
recording using industry standard Pro Tools recording software. It will be paired with
the church and will share many of the same amenities that the church’s worship
services utilize such as a green room, storage and practice areas. Priority scheduling
for recording sessions will be for the church but others wishing to book studio and
engineer time can as well. Approaching an “all things to all men” attitude, it can do
studio work, video, live sound, limited voice over and post production. It has the option
to house a musical act’s live release show in its auditorium and simultaneously record
the live show of said release show. It will be able to film video with high caliber sound
for church functions, announcements and programming as well as corporate and
secular presentations. Using analog and digital VGAs and effects processing, it will still
have room to expand any new gear as the technology continues to improve. As the
church continues to expand, the role of the music and worship recording will expand as
well. Distribution of worship and praise music is a worthy and lofty goal to be attained
and is certainly that can be achieved over time.
The main auditorium will be equipped with a DiGiCo console and D-2 Stage
Rack. It will also house a full lighting rig consisting of intelligent lighting fixtures and
basic washes. The video system also provides the ability for IMAG during concerts,
which can also be recorded. It is composed of 4 stationary manned cameras around the
back ring of the auditorium main floor. There is also the ability to have multiple
stationary cameras on the stage, along with a couple handheld cameras on stage.
All video switching and editing is done in a suite backstage, which shares a wall
with the green room space. Lighting control is housed in a booth in the upper balcony
which is shared with the technical director. Audio has a booth on the floor, where they
are immersed in the audio that the majority of the seats receive, thus allowing for the
best live mix possible.
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Axial Modes
Studio - 13’4” x 11’4” x 12’ Control Room 10’3’’ x 8’ x 12’
42.39 47.08
47.08 55.12
49.87 70.63
84.78 94.16
94.16 110.24
99.74 141.24
127.17 141.26
141.24 165.36
149.61 188.32
169.56 211.89
188.32 220.48
199.48 235.40
211.95 275.60
235.40 282.48
249.35 282.52
254.34 329.56
282.48 330.72
296.73 353.15
299.22 376.64
329.56 385.84
339.12 423.72
349.09 423.78
376.64 440.96
381.51 470.80
398.96 494.41
423.72 496.08
423.90 517.88
448.83 551.20
466.29 564.96
470.80 565.04
498.70 606.32
508.68
517.88
548.57
551.07
564.96
593.46
598.44
612.04
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Room Shell
Quick Reference:
Studio:
-Walls - STC 65-70
-Floor - STC 45-50
-Ceiling - 4” concrete slab w/ gypsum board build out below; there is only minimal use
storage above the concrete slab
Sound Lock:
-Walls - STC 65-70
-Floor - STC 45-50
-Ceiling - 4” concrete slab; there is only minimal use storage above the concrete slab
Control Room:
-Walls - STC 40-45
-Floor - STC 45-50
-Ceiling - 4” concrete slab w/ gypsum board build out below; there is only minimal use
storage above the concrete slab
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Windows and Doors
Studio/CR Shared Window:
The control room and studio observation windows are each seated in an independant
wall. Consisting of a 5’ x 4’ pane of glass with a depth of ¼“, the window in the studio is on the
wall that is skewed 6° so we can install the window pane at a 90 degree angle with the existing
wall construction. This angle will also reduce flutter and standing waves upon reflection. The
control room window is a 5’ x 4’ pane of glass with a depth of ⅜“,on a wall that runs
perpendicular to the exterior wall but in contrast to the skewed studio window this will not cause
standing waves. By changing the thickness of the glass, this avoids sympathetic resonance.
Rubber gaskets on the seals help seat and sound insulate the windows. Caulking around them
will also cut and sound transmission.
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Electrical
Outlets:
-Control Room: In the control room, we have 2 circuits of power for all the gear. Both come from
the main panel, through a junction box which is placed in the northwest corner of the green
room, above the counters. From that junction box, each circuit is in its own ½ inch flexible
conduit. One runs along the north wall of the control room while the other runs along the south
wall. The south wall has 2 outlets on it, along with one on the west. The north has 4 outlets on it
along with one on the west wall. This gives us plenty of locations to plug in gear to dedicated
circuits for the control room. All the gear is primarily run off the south circuit, through the Furman
power sequencer.
-Studio: The studio also has 2 circuits of outlets. One is the east wall, and the other is the south
wall. Just like the control room, they come from the main panel in the amp room, via the junction
box above the green room counters. From there again ½ flex conduit runs to each wall. The
east wall has 2 outlets, one under the window and the other in the gap between the window and
the door. The south wall has its own run from the junction box, with the two outlets spaced out
on the wall.
-Green Room: The green room has 3 circuits of outlets in it. Each comes from the main box in
the amp room, and runs through a junction box in the ceiling in the northeast corner of the green
room. The first circuit runs over to behind the fridge. It is the only outlet on the circuit. The
second circuit runs over in the same direction, towards the counter. There are 4 outlets on the
circuit: one on the north wall right beside the fridge, one on the north wall between the west wall
and the sink, another on the west wall between the north wall and the edge of the counter, and
one near the end of the counter on the west wall. The final circuit has 2 outlets between the
bathroom doors on the east wall and 2 outlets spaced out on the south wall.
There is also a circuit for power running to each bathroom. It comes off the junction box
in the northeast corner of the green room and runs over to the wall just above the counter in the
bathroom. Each bathroom has its own dedicated run and individual circuit with one outlet on it.
Lights:
-Control Room: The lights in the control room pull power from their own circuit on the main panel
in the amp room via the junction box above the green room counter. A ½ inch conduit runs to
the dimmer wall switch by the door, and then from there up to each fixture. This dimmer wall
switch also controls the light fixture in the sound lock leading into the studio. There are 4 fixtures
in the control room which are mounted into the angled ceiling.
-Studio: The studio lighting system is unique. It is described more in the DMX section below,
however it is all controlled externally via a DMX system. The only requirement from a power side
was to get power to each fixture. To do this, we ran ½ inch flex conduit from the main junction
box above the green room counter to the first fixture. The junction box is connected back to the
main panel in the amp room, providing a dedicated circuit specifically for the studio lights. These
are constant power, with no switch in between. There are 3 panels for lighting power as the
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main fixtures can be daisy-chained via the powercon outputs. The front-lights however must be
run to their own outlets at each fixture.
-Green Room: The green room lighting fixtures are also on their own dedicated circuit run back
to the main panel in the amp room. However, their power comes from a second junction box in
the northeast corner of the green room. ½ inch conduit is run from the box to the switch first
which is on the wall by the door. From there the ½ inch conduit runs up and to each of the light
fixtures. There are 5 fixtures in the green room, all mounted in the ceiling tile grid.
Each bathroom also has its own circuit for lights. It runs from the junction box in the
northeast corner of the green room to the switch, then up to the 2 light fixtures in each bathroom
through ½ inch conduit.
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Network/Video/DMX:
-Network: Due to our studio being a Dante system primarily, the networking is one of the most
important aspects. The auditorium will have a DiGiCo SD12 system with a DiGiCo stage rack.
The DiGiCo system runs on MADI, either over Cat6 or BNC. The stage box MADI outputs run to
the SD12 as well as a DiGiCo Orange Box, which converts the MADI to Dante. The Dante
outputs then run into a switch in the amp room. This allows the studio to access anything on the
stage through the network.
We then have a network line running from the switch in the amp room to the switch in the
control room through a 2 inch conduit along with a DMX hard-line, 4 SDI cables, and a comm
line . This is a main line that carries the Dante network, internet, and artnet. The switch in the
control room then has multiple lines coming off of it. One runs to the computer for Dante, and
another for internet. We also have 2 coming from the switch to the DM2000 for Dante primary
and secondary. Finally, we have 2 that are running through a ½ inch conduit to the studio patch
panel, one for Dante and one for internet.
-Video: One of the purposes of our studio is to provide a space to record quality videos in as
well. To provide for this, we needed to run SDI cables to the studio to be able to patch cameras
in so we could record them in the video suite used for live switching on Sunday mornings. To do
this, we placed a 2 inch conduit running from the patch panel in the studio directly to the amp
room. This way the SDI lines could be run directly to the main switcher patch in the amp room.
We put in 4 cables so that we could have 2 cameras and each have the capability to do genlock
in case we wanted to do live video feed to the screens in the auditorium. This 2 inch conduit
also housed the mic line running to the iso-cab in the amp room as explained above in the
section on mic/line for the studio.
-DMX: Due to the studio also being used for video, we wanted a way to be able to directly
control the lighting. This would be best accomplished by putting in a DMX lighting system. This
also allowed us to use color changing lights, which allows talent that are recording to change
between preset colors and intensities simply.
The typical setup will include a wall panel in the studio with 10 push buttons, each
labeled for a different setting. This would include one button for turning the green screen
front-light on and off, another for the same but on the wall of 2x4s and 4x4s. The other 8 would
have intensities and colors saved on them for the main ceiling lights. There would be a DMX
cable running from the wall panel through a ½ inch conduit up into the ceiling space where the
lights are hung. Once there it daisy chains between each light through the empty space
between the angled ceiling we added and the slab that forms the main ceiling for the whole
backstage area.
As a way to provide more specific control for video shoots, we also have a patch panel in
the control room where we can hook up a lighting console and have control over everything
instead of using the wall panel with presets. The wall panel we selected deactivates itself and
simply passes the DMX signal as soon as a console is plugged into the line, which means there
is minimal setup needed to move from normal operation to video shoots and back. There is also
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a DMX hard-line running between the control room and amp room which means we can patch
the studio into the main auditorium system if we need for any special events.
Network Design
The network design for the studio space would be fairly simple. As explained in the
electrical section on networking, there would be a switch in the control room. From there, all
other Dante devices would be connected. Nothing would be daisy-chained as Dante does not
support it. The Dante ports on the switch would all be assigned to their own VLAN, which
provides separation from the other ports on the switch as well as the data being transferred
through them. This would allow us to run internet through the same switch without causing
issues with the Dante network, which gives us hard-line internet accessibility on the computer.
One of the ports on the switch would be open to all VLANs. This port would be
connected to the home run cable that runs back to the video room. The switch in the video room
would be configured much the same. One port would be open to all VLANs, which would be
connected to the home run from the control room. The other ports would all be set to the VLANs
specific to whatever purpose they would be serving. We would also have a DHCP server there
which would assign IP addresses to different equipment as needed.
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Absorbers
We have one absorber in the studio. It is a bass-trap material in the northeast corner of
the room. It also helps in removing the sharp corner which would cause large amounts of bass
buildup. It is 2 feet wide and 8 feet tall. This means it doesn’t quite reach the ceiling, but it does
cover a majority of the corner.
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Diffusers
Studio Diffusion (Drawing #7):
Our studio design initially had issues with standing waves. As described in the section on
the room shell, we angled the walls, which helped to solve this problem. To help even out the
sound a bit more, we added diffusion. The main element to help with this was a unique wall
design, which would be able to double as a backdrop for video shoots.
This design included 2x4 and 4x4 lumber cut in lengths between 2” and 6”. We then
placed these on end against the west wall, creating a random pattern sticking out of the wall.
This would create multiple layers and widths for waves to reflect off of, which would help to
diffuse the sound as it can no longer have clean direct reflections. This wall stretched to about
the 10’8” mark, where it returned to just a standard sheetrock wall. The reason we stopped the
diffusers at this height was because of the ceilings angle, which ended just shortly above that on
one side.
To supplement the wall of diffusion we had built, we also added 4 boxes on the south
wall. These boxes were 1’ deep and 3’ wide. They had sheets of wood 1” thick inside at varying
angles to help with the diffusion as well, as it would create different reflections, not just square
ones.
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HVAC
Air Sends:
Based on the dimensions of the studio, I was able to find the dimensions of the needed
vents. With the studio being roughly 13 feet by 11 feet by 12 feet, the first calculator
(http://www.phreshfilter.com/tools/cfm-calculator) gave me the CFM, or Cubic Feet per Minute,
of 1172 which I was able to plug into the second calculator (https://ductcalc.ca/). I plugged in the
CFM and the velocity, for which I used 400 fpm, as that was the number mentioned in the book.
From there I simply had to take the dimensions of the ducts I needed. The studio required ducts
with a dimension of 12” by 35.16”. I did the same for the control room with dimensions of 10 feet
by 8 feet by 12 feet. Plugging in the CFM of 984 gave me duct dimensions of 12” by 29.52”.
For positioning, I placed the air input for the studio running along the green-screen wall
in the ceiling. In the control room, we placed the input roughly in the center of the room,
perpendicular to the side walls. This allowed it to punch through the angled ceiling in a more
clean manner than it would have if we ran it parallel to the side walls. It also would help to
create a bit of a diffuser in the ceiling for sound waves.
Each of these had their own separate runs all the way back to the handling system.
Each also had 4 90 degree turns in them. With both of these factors, it would greatly help to
decrease if not eliminate all sound from leaking between rooms.
Air Returns:
For the returns I simply used 12” square ductwork. Each room had air returns in the floor
opposite the air inputs in the ceiling. This provides a smooth flow of air across the room. Each
room is on it’s own duct system all the way back to the air handler, which provides isolation from
audio in other rooms leaking into the studio or control room.
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Appendix
The appendix includes all drawings and pictures which are referenced in the writeup section.
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Appendix A -- Door Features:
Appendix B -- Conduit Breakdown:
Recording Electrical Conduit Runs (From Junction Box above Green Room):
-Studio Lights(½ inch flex): 33 ft.
-Studio Outlets East (½ inch flex): 32 ft.
-Studio Outlets South (½ inch flex): 62 ft.
-CR Outlets South (½ inch flex): 45 ft.
-CR Outlets North (½ inch flex): 24 ft.
-CR Lights (½ inch flex): 86 ft.
Green Room Electrical Conduit Runs (From Junction Box above Green Room):
-Fridge (½ inch flex): 21 ft.
-Green Room Outlets Counter (½ inch flex): 38 ft.
-North Bathroom Outlets (½ inch flex): 15 ft.
-North Bathroom Lights (½ inch flex): 24 ft.
-South Bathroom Outlets (½ inch flex): 30 ft.
-South Bathroom Lights (½ inch flex): 30 ft.
-Green Room Outlets South/East (½ inch flex): 62 ft.
-Green Room Lights (½ inch flex): 100 ft.
Totals:
Electrical ½ inch flex: 602 ft.
Electrical 2 inch rigid: 169 ft.
DMX ½ inch rigid: 26 ft.
DMX 2 inch rigid: 106 ft.
Mic 1 ½ Inch rigid: 27 ft.
Network ½ inch rigid: 27 ft.
SDI/ISO Line 2 inch rigid: 110 ft.
Appendix C -- Patch Panels:
Studio Patch Panel:
The total estimated cost for buildout and equipping of the studio and
control room, along with the green room would be roughly $63,000.
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