Sound Temple Studios is now a Protools Studio

Big news at Sound Temple Studios in Asheville NC. We now have Protools 9 here. This will make us compatible with lots of other studios, engineers and producers who use this industry standard software. Protools now is native and will work great with our high sample rate 24 channel SSL converters. The first 2 questions most people ask when inquiring about a studio is do you use Protools and what kind of mixer do you have. Now the answers at Sound Temple Studios are YES and an SSL mixer. Good answers I think. :-)

The studio is scheduled to be done just before Xmas. The entrance, lounge, meditation room and bathroom are complete. THe Yamaha C6 Grand Piano arrives this saturday. More trim and studio doors to be finished next week. Then the final acoustic treatments and final wiring.

I'm thankful very blessed to see my dream studio come together. This is a lifelong dream coming true. Please don't pinch me. :-)

Sound Temple Studio's Yamaha C6 Grand Piano

Here's a pic of the 7 foot (well ok 6'11") Yamaha Grand coming to Sound Temple Studios. This is a pic of it in it's former home in a celebrity's home studio in Nashville. It is in mint condition and has had very little use. The action and hammers are pristine. In case you are not familiar with the C6 it is just a few inches shorter than the more familiar C7. For recording the C6 is actually more desirable by some because of the action and the more balanced bass (tighter bass). Anyone who loves playing a real piano will love recording with this instrument. This will be one of the finest studio grand piano's in Asheville and I am thrilled and blessed to have it.

The studio will be complete in a few weeks and more pics are coming soon of the completed lounge area.

Here's some updated information. http://www.robertgeorge.net/production/newstudio.htm

Blessings

Robert George

Floor and ceiling done at Sound Temple Studios

Another few weeks of construction have passed at Sound Temple Studios in Asheville N.C. The stained and waxed concrete floors look really cool. Very much like a stone/marble kind of look. Very warm as you can see. It looks even better in person. Whew, 9 days (13 hours each day) to complete and my back is killing me. :-). Also, all the trim is sealed and ready to be put up starting this week. Lot's of wood and this isn't even all of it! The ceiling in phase 2 is done and was painted to match the walls. It's a nice custom look. You can also see how the control room window wall will look from the live room where the musicians will be. Next week the trim goes in and the kitchenette will be put in. This recording studio sure is a labor of love and the energy gets better in here every week. Other music producers, engineers, artists and musicians will love making music in here. There's a buzz going around Asheville and a lot of people are really looking forward to working here. I am blessed that it is turning out the way it is. It seems to be coming alive more and more each day.

Blessings

Robert

Drywall and paint done!!

There's a lot to report from this past month or so at Asheville's newest and most unique recording studio - Sound Temple Studios. All the drywall is done in phase 1 & 2 and all the painting is done except for the trim. The colors are all very warm and earthy. This should help create the spiritual vibe this recording studio is all about. In addition most of the electrical is complete except for the final lighting. Also most all the air-conditioning is done. Next week we start staining the floor. It's gonna be a lot of work but should be beautiful after it's stained and waxed. The following week the drop ceiling goes in phase 2. After that we start putting in doors and trim and then final acoustical treatments and final wiring. Right now we are projecting late October or early November to open our doors and start recording some music!!!. So far Asheville NC has been very welcoming to this recording studio and we are very grateful.

Blessings

Robert George

Soffits and air conditioning ducts are in!

The past few weeks have been busy at Sound Temple Studios. All the air conditioning ducts and soffits are in the studio, control room, iso-booths and sound locks. Next up we have just a little more drywall, installing the air handler and ducts in the mechanical room, electrical panels and light cans. Everything moving along at a good pace.

Some other exciting news is that I will have a Yamaha C6 grand piano in the recording studio. This will be one of the few studios in the area with such a fine piano. Piano players will love this instrument, as will other producers, artists and engineers. It is in mint condition and sounds amazing.

Also, I just ordered an awesome set of Phattie drums (see http://staufferpercussion.com/). Dennis Stauffer is one of the finest boutique drum makers in the country (he lives in Asheville) and I am proud to own and play his drums exclusively at Sound Temple Studios. The coolest thing is that he is matching the drums to the red oak wood trim in the studio!

I'll be updating next after some more progress.

Blessings to all and thanks for taking interest in this project!!

Robert

Recording studio inside walls framed and wires in place

You can really see how the whole studio lays out now. The live room is nice and big. The control room is as well. The iso-booths are roomy and will be very functional for all types of recording. Several people have said the shape of the control room looks like the Starship Enterprise. There's about 1,300 feet of Cat6 wire in the walls for headphone monitoring, video and midi. (See pic of my tech wiring guys Thom Canova and Daniel) There's Gepco 2,4,12 pair audio wire everywhere so that wherever you want to plug in and rock - it will be easy and quick. Gepco wire is physically identical to a high quality and famous brand of wire from the far east that begins with the letter M. :-) All the electrical has also been run in the walls including the special star ground outlets to keep away nasty hum and buzzing in the audio chain. I've had lots of people come by and given me some terrific feedback about the potential for Sound Temple Studios in the Asheville and Western North Carolina music and audio post scene. It seems that this studio will fill a wonderful niche in terms of it's acoustics, size, equipment, and costs to record here.

Speaking of equipment - I am now the very proud owner of an SSL Matrix mixer. Sound Temple Studios will be the first studio in the area with a SSL console. Mixing through an SSL console gives your recording that sound that thousands of hit records have. Lots of musicians in town are very excited about this. Also, I have just purchased some amazing soffit mount main monitors. THe Dynaudio M3As are amazing. This will be one of the most accurate sets of monitors to mix on in the area. Combine this with the near flat response control room down to 2ohz (designed by Wes Lachot) and producers, engineers, artists and bands will have a place to get some amazing mixes. There's also some great new preamps and a microphone or 2 coming before completion.

That's all for now.

Blessings to all

Robert George

Outside shell of studio complete

06/07/10

Sound Temple Studios in Asheville North Carolina has been moving along quite well in the last couple of weeks. This is gonna be a very quiet studio indeed. You can see in the pics that all the insulation was done on the outer shell walls. Next the Isomax clips were put up with the hat channel to hang the drywall on. The Isomax clips isolate the drywall on the walls from the framing and lowers the bleed from room to room in the studio by about 6 db or more. As you can see from one of the side views, we are also using 3 layers or 5/8 drywall as opposed to 2. This will be significant when an engineer is trying to get good separation on all the tracks and will make overdubbing and mixing easier.

So now the entire shell of the studio has drywall (ceiling and exterior walls). The framers arrive today to frame all the interior walls. By the end of this week the entire studio will take shape. This is a very exciting week indeed. I've also been working with Wes Lachot on picking out the colors and fabric to enhance the "Temple vibe" in the studio. I learned this week that the word Temple comes from the Latin word Templum which means "open space". This is very fitting because the clockwise flow and floor plan do create a very open, flowing space in this recording studio studio. Musicians, engineers and record producers will surely appreciate this subtle energy flow when making music.

The next blog will show all the framing. Stay tuned

Namaste