Client Spotlight: Producer Adam Ollendorff

For the front half of the room (where his desk and monitors were) MCA focused on creating a stunningly accurate monitoring environment for mixing and monitoring. The front corners of the room were outfitted with 7’ tall Bass Trap Acoustic Panels to balance the low-frequency response, and to help control the decay time in the room

The cloud above the desk was made up of two Bass Trap Panels,controlling the floor-to-ceiling modes and preventing any early reflections from the ceiling back to the listening position. Notably, here, MCA installed a Space Coupling Diffuser below the Bass Trap Panels.The ceiling pitches up to 9’ in the middle of the room but on the sides, it is relatively low at 7’.The Space Coupling Diffuser adds dimension, width, and depth to the monitoring environment making the room feel larger and more spacious than it is.

On the front wall directly behind each of the monitors, Music City Acoustics incorporated Broadband Acoustic Panels to reduce speaker boundary interference reflections (SBIR) that would hurt the low mid response of the monitors.The side walls were also outfitted with Broadband Acoustic Panels to control early reflections, improve stereo imaging, and make the monitoring focused and clear.

The back-half of the room was designed to be a focused, clear, and a natural-sounding environment for recording vocals and acoustic instruments. To accomplish this, MCA continued with Broadband Acoustic Panels on the side walls with the addition of Scatter Faces. The Scatter Faces keep the room sounding balanced and clear without becoming too dry and lifeless in sound.

It was also important to accentuate the windows, natural light, and leave room for instruments in the space. With this in mind, MCA spaced the acoustic panels out with enough room to allow for wall-mounted guitars and installed Space Coupling Diffusers that again, made the room feel larger and more spacious than it is, but also allowed for the natural light to pass through them.

To finish out the room, Music City Acoustics installed High-Mid Ceiling Acoustic Panels and High-Mid Acoustic Panels in the back nook of the room. These were included to ensure there were no offensive flutter echoes between the parallel walls, and to prevent any specular reflections off of the ceiling.

*Keep in mind, MCA discussed Gobos for the back half of the room that could double as rear wall Bass Traps when the studio is being used for mixing, but due to space constraints, the Gobos were set aside as a potential phase two. After a year and a half of working in the studio, the need for Gobos hasn’t arisen and the space has been performing beautifully.