Studio design company Veale Associates has provided acoustic design services for University College Falmouth’s £19 million (€23 million) Performance Centre, located at the Tremough Campus in Cornwall. The centre includes three
recording studios – all of which look onto a double height recoding space – two isolation booths, a central patch area and a tie-line system to a number of practice rooms and studio areas. Veale Associate’s head consultant Eddie Veale said: “The room sizes had been determined by the architects – the university had particular demands for each of the rooms and it was a challenge to design the acoustics to meet the performance
specification. With the co- operation of the contractor (EG Silverthorn) we were able to meet the requirements with the minimum loss of space.” The main teaching control
room, Control One, is based around a 40-fader Avid D-Command control surface. Control Two, a smaller recording control room, features a 32-
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Main technology room Control One features a Pro Tools HD 2 rig
channel TLA VTC valve mixing console. Control Three, an experimental recording space with a dedicated vocal booth, uses a Euphonix Artist Series control surface. All three studios are equipped with a Pro Tools rig and Genelec monitors. Jason Edwards from the
Tremough Campus Services Group commented: “We wanted
to ensure that the centre would become a first-class teaching facility. It was essential to procure high-end professional design, which would give us a leading- edge installation, providing students with the opportunity to work in a real-world professional environment. The appointed suppliers were responsive, proactive, and in a lot of cases provided a service above and beyond our expectations.” The project was completed in conjunction with contractors EG Silverthorn & Sons, which supplied and installed the various acoustic treatments and finishes, and installer and broadcast systems integrator IPE, which designed and installed the systems infrastructure. www.theperformancecentre.orgwww.va-studiodesign.com
Filming has begun on The Knife That Killed Me, the first of five feature films created by Green Screen Productions in partnership withHeslington Studios– the commercial arm of the University of York’s Department of Theatre, Film and Television. The project is being shot entirely against green screen, with live actors composited into stylised computer- generated scenes utilising an all-digital production pipeline.
RME’s new HDSPe MADI FX professional audio interface card gives users full Thunderbolt connectivity via Sonnet’s Echo Express expansion chassis for PCIe cards. “Using Sonnet’s single- slot PCIe chassis, we have been able to record 194 tracks and play back 196 tracks of audio on the iMac with our HDSPe MADI FX card. This could not have been achieved in the past,” said RME founder Matthias Carstens. www.rme-audio.comwww.sonnettech.com