RPI Gets Immersive WSDG (WALTERS-STORYK DESIGN GROUP) INTEGRATES AUDIO-VIDEO-3D IN NEW HASS MEDIA CENTER One year ago, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the world’s third largest technological research university, founded in 1824, opened a new fully immersive audio/video/3D production, editing and mixing complex on its Troy, N.Y., campus. The new facility, designed by Walters-Storyk Design [...]
A Boon To Boston’s Underserved Indigenous Live Music Community By Howard Sherman BOSTON MASS. Recording industry gear guru, serial entrepreneur and long-time Boston-based studio owner PK Pandey shuttered his original Mad Oak Studio in 2011 when the building owner decided to monetize the property. A search for new quarters produced a desirable building site, but the [...]
Noted acoustician and architect has improved sports sound, both in-venue and broadcast. By Dan Daley The thought of celebrating a 50th anniversary makes architect/acoustician John Storyk slightly ill at ease, as he approaches the half-century mark of a career that has helped improve the sound of scores of sports and broadcast venues globally. However, when that milestone [...]
BY LARRY CRANE | PHOTOGRAPHS BY LARRY CRANE A young intern fresh out of Full Sail University gets a big break (and a nickname) from Missy Elliott, works alongside producers and engineers like Timbaland, Jimmy Douglass [Tape Op #130], Demacio Castellon, and Polow da Don, and ends up mixing hits for Keri Hilson, Britney Spears, Keyshia Cole, Meek [...]
by James Careless, Church.Design Every house of worship (HOW) design and build project is different. But the challenges that can arise with HOW clients? Many of these are the same from project to project. Mindful of this fact, Church.Design asked two seasoned HOW experts for the common challenges they encounter when serving church clients, and the solutions [...]
WSDG CELEBRATES JOHN STORYK’SFIRST 50 YEARS OF ACOUSTIC INNOVATION AT AES 147th PRO AUDIO CONVENTION Marking the 50th Anniversary of his design of Electric Lady Studios for Jimi Hendrix, WSDG Walters-Storyk Design Group, co-founding partner, John Storyk looks forward to meeting with friends, peers, past and current clients for a personal e-toast and a Red Carpet picture opp at [...]
From Hendrix’ Electric Lady Studios in the ‘60s to future-forward broadcast, educational and commercial spaces half a century later, John Storyk and WSDG extends its capabilities into the next 50 years! It all started with a serendipitous ‘Big Bang’ in 1968, when legendary architect and acoustician John Storyk — then an unknown recent architecture grad from [...]
By Dan Metz Stitcher Studios Live Room A. Photograph by John Muggenborg. The moment the door closes in one of Stitcher Radio’s three new recording studios, the room fills with silence. Real silence; the kind that makes a New Yorker wonder if they’ve ever heard it before. For a third floor office in midtown Manhattan, the experience [...]
Hearing Tests Acoustics / Studio Design By Sam Inglis The advice of professional acousticians can be hard to evaluate on paper — but what if you could actually hear the results of their work before building starts? Dirk Noy is the founder of WSDG's Swiss Operation "If you have a recording space that is 100 [...]
John Storyk, known for designing studios for legends like Jimi Hendrix and Jay-Z, brought his expertise to this community theater. By Jonathan Ortiz The Bedford Playhouse Whether the work week is getting you down or you just need a brief break from reality, movies are an ideal escape. They pull you into a world unhindered [...]
