“Chris Walls and Matt Ward brought an extraordinarily refined set of calculations to the studio build. The way they’ve designed the structure, from the floated concrete bases up, is the key; there is no cross talk between the studios whereas in most facilities you can hear other rooms. They even reoriented the theatres to change the position of the speakers and the projectors in order to optimise isolation between studios. “Chris and Matt have designed hundreds of studios and there are very few people who have that extraordinary body of work. The crisp, clean audio experience at Bleat is testament to the unique value of that experience and knowledge.” Tristin Norwell, Owner, Bleat
levelacousticdesign.com
The plush, living-room style theatres are designed for final mix and premium ADR. Tristin observes, “our theatrical ADR is old school, projected ADR where we can have crowds of up to 20 working with the Avid S6 in the main rooms. Any engineer will tell you that you can hear the glass of a VO booth. The best ADR you can do is within a large space that’s properly treated. These theatres are fantastic for that.”
“I knew I wanted to work with Studio Creations from the start. They had just built Platoon7 Recording Studios in Tileyard for Apple with Level Acoustic Design. I’d never seen a build quality like that with such an attention to detail, and I’ve been to quite a few places. This was mind-blowing from their use of new materials through to applied design aesthetic. “Studio Creations Rob King’s genius technical
design coupled with his unrivalled scripting and programming skills has been continually mind-blowing. He’s brought bespoke functionality to our rooms that I just hadn’t even heard of let alone seen implemented anywhere. Saving precious energy is important to me and who knew you could power down 48 Sentinel Alcons Audio amps from your iPad? Well, Rob did! “Studio Creations have been fundamental in
orchestrating our build” Tristin Norwell, Owner, Bleat
studio-creations.co.uk bleat.tv
The HETV mix room has an Avid S4 and the three picture/Atmos suites all have the Avid S1 audio console and controls. The difference between most production editorial suites is that these Atmos certified rooms have all been configured for both picture and audio. Tristin explains, “because the edit rooms are multi-purpose, they’re very useful in the picture stages. Audio-wise, they can feed in as editorial to the theatrical rooms, which is great, but they stand on their own two feet for documentary, other factual and online deliverables.
“They are entirely flexible. You can work on Avid Media Composer, Avid Symphony, Pro Tools, Adobe Premiere Pro or Blackmagic Resolve. They’re perfect for VOs and you can do ADR in them. You could work in them for end-to-end non-scripted reality. You could offline, online, colour and mix all in the one space, which can be very appealing as a workflow design.
The Q-SYS control platform was introduced to Bleat by Studio Creations who commissioned and designed the system that enables full data and hardware control from an elegant and intuitive iPad interface. Q-SYS is the beating electronic heart of Bleat.
Head of Technical Operations, Matt Edwards, was instantly impressed, “with Q-SYS, we can make sure that everything is available in the suites whenever it’s wanted. We can share pictures or audio from one room to another immediately after the sequence has been saved. This way, you can synchronise a project across the whole studio.”
“It’s like having a massive remote control, from turning the lights up and down and your monitors and amps on and off. You can control all of the hardware across the facility from just an iPad.”
DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP
At the heart of the Bleat offer are two generously sized theatrical Atmos theatres both with high ceilings. Each comes with an Avid S6 audio console, which can be easily configured based on preference, both with 4K HDR projection and the exceptional Alcons Audio speaker monitoring.
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