Recording Studios

Overview In announcing the completion of 55TEC Recording Studios owner Li You, a Golden Melody Award-winning recording engineer said, “With China now acknowledged as the world’s second largest economy, we have seen a tremendous increase in the market for popular music. Over the past ten years a number of major artists have developed huge loyal [...]

Overview Blue Table Post, is an ultra-modern video/audio post-production complex with an artisan-based creative philosophy and a future-proofed technology core. Designed to support the creative talents of triple Emmy-winning editor Oliver Lief, Emmy-winning recording mixer/sound designer Rich Cutler, and senior colorist/vfx artist Begonia Colomar, the complex is situated in a handsomely renovated five storey building, [...]

Overview With the goal of initiating and nurturing synergistic relationships with new and established video, music, TV, digital and Internet content creators, PepsiCo commissioned a cutting edge 4,000 sq. ft. production/post-production complex at the hub of NYC’s pacesetting SoHo artistic community. WSDG’s architectural/ acoustical expertise was engaged to collaborate with Granoff Architects to create a [...]

Overview When designing their 5,000 sq. ft. DC-area home, Matt MacPhail and his wife, Ann Lyles MacPhail agreed on one somewhat unorthodox ‘must have;’ a full up, professionally designed, acoustically superlative recording studio for their thriving audio production business, News At Eleven Productions. Having done their work over the past fifteen years in a variety [...]

Overview For over seventeen years, Estudio 13 recorded diverse projects in their original Mexico City facility and, on location in major concert halls. This on-going success led to the need for a larger, more acoustically advanced recording space. Company Head Producer/Musical Director, José Francisco Aguilera, and Studio Operations/Project Manager, Eduardo Acosta agreed that expansion was [...]

Overview With over ten-years experience in creating fresh, relevant, story-focused sound for TV commercials, networks, record labels, brands, films and video games, director/producer Christian Cooley was ready to expand to a full service audio production facility to meet his growing client needs. With credits ranging from Coors, Head & Shoulders, Gamesa and Cadillac, he knew [...]

Overview The Tehran Music Sound Stage is a 5000 sq. ft. (465 sq. m.) multi-purpose music production/ recording/rehearsal/practice and performance complex. Set two floors below ground to improve isolation from street noise, the complex features a custom built, 481sq. ft. (44,686 m²) floating control room, a spacious 112 sq. ft. (10 sq. m.) sound lock, [...]

Overview  A leading developer of orchestral sample libraries and music production software, the VSL Synchron Stage enlisted WSDG, to upgrade its historical (circa 1940) scoring stage into a cutting-edge recording facility. The reconfigured complex now provides enhanced acoustics and cutting edge technology for recording film music and, the full spectrum of orchestral and choral works. [...]

32nd TEC AWARD WINNER! Overview A cultural icon for 134 years, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is world-renowned for the excellence and diversity of its performances. Broadcast from Symphony Hall, via radio, TV and the Internet, these symphonic and ‘Boston Pops’ concerts encompass the entire spectrum of classical and contemporary music, from Rachmaninoff to Manilow. After over [...]

Overview Medellin, the second largest city in Colombia, is committed to establishing itself as a leader in that country’s film, TV and audio production/post production industry. In 2011 three of the countries most successful experts in the field joined together to create Clap Studios, a state-of-the-art Dolby® dubbing theater. To insure the highest level aesthetic [...]

Overview Introduced in 2003 by Mike Idioma, one of the Philippines’ most accomplished sound engineers, WildSound quickly built a reputation for feature film and commercial location recording and eventually for providing top-drawer sound recording equipment rentals. By 2007 the firm was considered one of the most innovative audio production firms in the country, and was [...]

Overview Seven years after Hurricane Katrina wrecked havoc with ‘The Big Easy,’ 70,000+ volunteers led by artist/activists, Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. had accomplished a miracle. They raised the funds and contributed the sweat equity to build 72 single-family homes, 10 elder-friendly apartments, and the 17,000 sq. ft. Ellis Marsalis Center for Music/Musician’s Village [...]

Overview Doha, the capitol and principal city of Qatar, has welcomed the completion of Katara Studios, one of the Middle East’s largest and most technically advanced recording/audio production complexes. Created by WSDG, the 65, 000 ft2/6040 m2 compound, represents a major facet the Katara Committee’s mandate to establish Doha as one of the most vibrant media [...]

Overview An inspirational view of the Pacific coastline melds with flawless acoustics to establish the ultimate creative environment for musician/businessman, Chris Huber’s personal studio. Music has always been an integral part of Huber’s lifestyle, and when he bought a family home in Carlsbad, CA, he knew exactly where the studio would live. A primary aesthetic [...]

Overview An iconic Brazilian recording and TV star for over 30 years, Daniel has attracted a South American base of millions of ardent fans. His gifts as a beloved performer have won him an enviable collection of Gold and Platinum records, and Grammy Awards. Having relied on professional recording studios throughout his career, Daniel decided [...]

Overview  Committed to building a cohesive infrastructure for his hometown music scene, producer/ songwriter Jon Leidersdorff discovered an abandoned warehouse in downtown Asbury Park, and envisioned it as a multi-purpose center for a collective of music business locals. Investing his own savings and securing a Small Business Association loan from the local Community Bank, Leidersdorff [...]

Overview  A prolific voiceover artist with credits ranging from CBS to E!, Lifetime, CTV and MTV, Graeme Judd needed a first tier personal recording studio. A decision to build a family home in Calgary provided an ideal opportunity to realize that goal. Spending countless hours in front of a microphone recording network promos, TV and [...]

Overview  The Lower Eastside Girls Club’s WGRL Airstream Internet Radio and Sound Design Lab joins an eclectic assemblage of innovative LESGC educational and career training options for low-income teens and families. Spread across three floors and 30,000 sq. ft., these classes range from a digital photography/computer graphics /3D-printing lab, to hands-on BioBase labs, small business [...]

Overview  Starting from scratch in 2007 in his parents basement, unknown singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist, Adam Young quickly evolved from iTunes sales to a major deal with Republic Records and on to Fireflies, a six-time platinum single, from his Ocean Eyes debut album (certified platinum in 2010). Increasing critical and commercial success inspired Young to support his creativity [...]

  31st TEC AWARD NOMINEE   Overview One of the contemporary music scene’s most prolific hit producers, Nate ‘Danja’ Hills and partner Marcella Araica have added a cutting edge, Walters-Storyk Design Group recording studio to their N.A.R.S. (New Age Rock Stars) label. Recognized for their work with artists ranging from Britney Spears and Madonna to Justin Timberlake Mary [...]

Overview The massive destruction that wracked Haiti by 2008’s Hurricane Hanna (and devastating 2010 earthquake) inspired a deluge of volunteerism, and support from around the world. One of the ongoing positives to spring from those disasters is Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ). This nonprofit organization has committed its energies and resources to the development [...]

Overview In October, 2004 when the Jazz at Lincoln Center complex opened in NYC, Artistic Director,” Wynton Marsalis, remarked, “Most concert halls were designed for symphonic music, not jazz. Most of the time, we play in halls that have too much echo for our music. The tail of the echo is so long that it [...]

Overview For a few years now, the need for residential studios has grown and keeps growing. One of the causes is the fact that five to ten years ago, the equipment of a recording studio was quite different to what it is today. The complexity of its design and use had an impact on its [...]

Overview Sound Development is a not-for-profit organization focussing on selective development of talented artists, not necessarily familiar with and not necessarily comfortable in the worn-out paths of the commercial music business. The studio's purpose is to provide the necessary production tools in an aesthetic, inspiring and intimate environment. Program The facility consists of three distinctive [...]

Overview Spice House Sound, an unusual new recording studio, has set up shop in a gut-renovated former Philadelphia stable, circa 1885. One goal of 25-year-old studio owner/‘gear whisperer’ Alex Santilli is the introduction of groundbreaking acoustics, and a wealth of technology innovations. After years of personal R&D, Santilli has designed a custom  loudspeaker and reproduction [...]

Overview Sunshine Music has provided the Austrian music community with impeccable creative mastering and recording services since 1995.  Outgrowing their original single-room in 2001, studio principals Mischa Janisch and Georg Tomandl upgraded to a two-room SSL 6056-equipped recording and mixing facility. The studio continued to attract quality-conscience local artists and producers primarily for mixdowns. The [...]

Overview Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR) is Switzerland's national broadcaster for the French speaking section of the country. This beautiful and peaceful area with cities and villages as renowned as Geneva, Gruyère or Montreux is home to a national and international mix of personalities, some of them well-known celebrities such as Phil Collins or Michael Schumacher. The TSR tower, [...]

Overview Jairo Manhães is one of the most respected gospel music producer in Brazil who has decided to improve the quality of his already well know musical work by relocating his project studio to the recently finished world class studios in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  Located in the "Ilha do Governardor", five minutes from the [...]

Overview Tomás Braun is a young musician that works at the corporative world in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When he decided to move to a new apartment in Palermo neighborhood in Buenos Aires, he wanted to have a space acoustically isolated and audibly perfect in order to be able to develop his passion towards music at [...]

Overview Situated at the southern tip of Southeast Asia, Malaysia elicits exotic images of verdant rain forests and vast mountain ranges. In sharp contrast to this primordial impression, Kuala Lumpur, its coastal capital is rapidly achieving an international reputation as the technologically dominant metropolis of this rapidly evolving region. Targeted at the Far East’s burgeoning [...]

Overview Pianist, singer and composer, Lerner began to play during his high school years. Born in 1957, his first recording was in León Gieco´s second LP, in 1974. After playing with different bands, he first appeared as a composer in the group Soluna, in the only record the band made in 1977. His first big [...]

Overview Scott Freiman's Second Act Studios takes up most of the third floor of a historic Westchester County home in Irvington, New York. The facility consists of a control / composing room, a recording room, and a listening room that doubles as a small screening room. The control / recording room were carefully designed to [...]

Overview Sweatshop Studios is an 800 sq. ft. acoustic and aesthetic gem situated 50 miles north of New York City, in Katonah, New York. The full room-within-room design features a spacious 400 sq. ft. live room outfitted with Steinway Boston Grand piano and Hammond B-3. The 400 sq. ft. control room was developed to make [...]

Overview Tangerine Mastering is a a mastering facility located just minutes from downtown New York City. Its founders, Roger Johansen and Gene Holder, are the previous owners of Jolly Roger Recording of nearby Hoboken. The facility, located within an artist-run production arts building that houses sound stages, recording studios, post production suites, independent record companies [...]

Overview A successful decade behind the console of his Manhattan-based Vault Mastering Studio, convinced engineer, Nathan James that he could move his growing family back to their hometown of Phoenix and maintain a thriving business. I always dreamed of having a WSDG room,” James says.  Our return to Phoenix was the perfect opportunity to make [...]

Overview Two years ago, in the middle of one of the worst economic environments in recent history, Louis Benedetti began searching for the ideal location for a new recording studio. His heart was set on New York City, which he knew would provide a vibrant backdrop that would be ideal for his business. With the [...]

Overview A two-story warehouse on Bryant Street in San Francisco’s burgeoning ‘South of Market’ district has been repurposed as Trilogy Studios, an acoustically and aesthetically unique recording studio/office complex/gallery/residence, created by a design and construction team lead by John Storyk and the Walters-Storyk Design Group. Three years in development, the new facility features a classic [...]

Overview Trutone Mastering was started out of a New Jersey basement in the early 1970's as a part-time business by co-founders Adriana and Carl Rowatti.  Back then, the husband and wife team provided services such as vinyl cutting of masters, limited pressing services and some on-location recording.  Eventually, the company's business evolved in the late [...]

Overview Document Room, which John Storyk designed and Eddie Kramer provided consultation on, is a Neve equipped, single room facility with stunning views of Malibu. It features a single control room and two tracking spaces, which have been designed to be both efficient and comfortable. At the heart of the studio, there is a vintage, [...]

Overview Set in one of the most breathtakingly picturesque locations in upstate New York, Allaire studios is located in a 1928 estate on 20 acres of mountaintop overlooking Woodstock, the Catskills, and the Ashokan Reservoir. Built within the 2000 square foot "Great Room"–with a vaulted 45 foot high ceiling–the live room has already hosted such [...]

Overview Forge Recording / Replication combines form and function into a new 7000 square foot complex outside of Philadelphia.  The studio features a spacious 400 square foot control room and a 900 square foot live room, complete with two isolation booths, which can accommodate a 60-member choir. WSDG's design also includes 2000 square feet of [...]

Overview Meriden, New Hampshire is home to Joonie Land -- a new WSDG-designed facility set amongst 325 acres of sprawling, wild lansdcape. Owner Cliff Brodsky, principal of Brodsky Entertainment, found the idyllic setting amongst the White Mountains to be a beautiful and inspiring work environment. The facility, which is housed in an 11,000 square foot [...]

Overview Quintessential Sound Studios was conceived to provide an array of services ranging from recording and editing classical music to direct CD digital mastering and forensic audio restoration. This elegant studio offers a compact yet highly functional environment featuring two central mastering suites, reception area, office and lounge area dominated by a surprising panoramic picture [...]

Overview A Mecca for stars ranging from Tupak Shakur to Hilary Duff and Ne-Yo, Quad Studios has called 723 Seventh Avenue its Times Square home since the early 1980’s.  A 2010 renovation focused the Q1 Control Room around a huge gear rack in the middle of the room.  The unit also served as a production [...]

Overview Mach2 is a 3200 sq. ft. audio production facility located in Milan that specializes in sound design, film, mixing, and audio post-production. The studio complex, once an old Milanese factory building, was completely re-designed by WSDG to optimize creative thinking and client comfort while utilizing state-of-the-art acoustics. Mach2 is a 5.1 audio surround facility, [...]

Overview Ongoing growth and a commitment to providing their expanding market with innovative new products prompted PreSonus Audio Electronics, Inc. to commission an $8+ million, 44,000-square foot complex as their new home.   Following almost two years of design and construction, the leading manufacturer of professional digital and analog audio hardware and integrated software opened its [...]

Overview Situated in the Swiss Alps not far from the Matterhorn, Plan 1 Media occupies the ground floor of the studio owner’s ancestral chalet.  Originally a wood workshop, the building now provides shelter for a thriving recording studio.  Part of the Plan 1 Media Group, a collective of studios in Munich, Berlin and now St. [...]

Overview PhilippeMoritz in Zurich, Switzerland is a full service audio post production facility owned and headed by Philippe Schmid and Moritz Schneider and is situated within the full service digital post-production facility of Das Werk Zurich. The facility is used for film and advertisement clients; clients/projects include BMW, Siemens and Microsoft. Program The PhilippeMoritz facility [...]

  31st TEC AWARD WINNER! Overview Originally built in 1855, the Crouch End Church was bought by Eurythmics’ producer/artist Dave Stewart in 1984, and reborn as The Church Studios where he worked with artists ranging from Dylan and Depeche Mode to Annie Lennox. Recording star David Gray purchased the studio in 2004 and further expanded its [...]

Overview When Grammy Award-winning producer Robert Margouelff and his partner Brant Biles acquired the former home of actor Bela (Dracula) Lugosi as the site of their new Mi Casa Studios, a feature film DVD mastering facility, their primary priorities were pristine sound environments in each of the three studios and that the facility remain totally [...]

Overview Ovasen Studios is located in the heart of Greenwich Village, NYC.  Its owners, Eric Offin and Mark Garcia, earned a reputation through their innovative work as sound designers and soon became recognized by New York's independent film community.  The initial space they moved into was tight, yet highly productive - mostly suitable for mixing. [...]

Overview Guillermo Cudmani, leader of the powerful rock group “Audire”, decided to set up a professional recording studio for his personal use and for rent on top of his house at Olivos Neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Design The main idea was to have a large control room to be able to develop all his [...]

Ongaku - Website Overview In Japanese, Ongaku means “Music.”  In March of 2012, Jorge Morales, a producer/ sound engineer with extensive credentials in music, commercial and film scoring, joined forces with musician/recording artist Juan Sayago to build a cutting-edge recording studio.  A 1400 sq. ft. space in B.A.’s trendy Palermo section, an area bustling with [...]

Overview Northern Lights is a boutique editorial/graphics/production team based Manhattan. The company has attracted a growing client base of commercial, promo, show open and feature film post work. With a staff of 25 editors and artists, the multi-service post boutique designs, creates, edits, mixes and finishes a wide range of projects including commercial campaigns, promos [...]

Overview Founded in 1983, Non Stop TV produces content and provides audio, video and sophisticated post-production services for top rank clients in Latin America, Europe and Asia. With a staff of over 450, this 25,000m² complex creates over 800 hours of programming each year for Disney Channel, Sony, Fox Sports, History Channel and many other leading [...]

Overview NCK Studios is the most modern studio facility designed by WSDG and recently opened in São Paulo – Brasil. The Studio was built in a privileged location, 3 blocks from the domestic airport of Congonhas, offering easy access for the local and outside clients. Program Built in a 7000 sq.ft. land the facility has [...]

Overview Multi-Grammy winning engineer Cynthia Daniels has added MonkMusic, a sophisticated recording studio, to her East Hampton home. Catering to a first-tier client base, which includes ‘local’ residents Paul McCartney and Alec Baldwin required superb acoustics and elegant aesthetics. To meet these goals, Daniels reached out to Walters-Storyk Design Group . “I was on a [...]

Overview Mitch Leigh is one of the pioneers of advertising music as well as the author of one of Broadway's most famous musicals, Man of La Mancha. Located on 57th street with views to Manhattan's Central Park, this is Mitch's personal Project Studio consisting of two production control rooms sharing one common live studio. All recording [...]

Overview Nearly twenty years after the debut of their multi-faceted production/management company, MBK Entertainment’s mission encompasses musical genres ranging from R&B to Rap and Pop, and includes marketing, publishing, TV, film and concert promotion divisions. A recent move to expansive new mid-town Manhattan offices provided the MBK team with the space to create a much-needed [...]

General Ubicado en el tranquilo y residencial arrio de Olivos, en las afueras de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, WSDG diseñó el estudio y control room para Maui Studios. Su propietario, Juan Carlos Estivill, dirige el estudio, especializado en jazz, folklore argentino, tango y coros. Diseño Dado que el espacio se encuentra dentro de un [...]

Overview Singer, songwriter, musician, and photographer Matt Buguy has been playing and recording music since the early 70's with influences of that generation, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Elton John, The Police and many others. He has also been an avid photographer and videographer since the mid 80’s focusing on [...]

Overview Built in the Palermo Hollywood neughborhood of Buenos Aires, Mariano Otero´s personal studio was designed to be a creative, comfortable environment where he could work on his music. Mariano Otero is one of the top Jazz players of the BA scene. The studio is an integral part of his living space, and it needed [...]

General Sergio Molho, director de Walters-Storyk Design Group para Latinoamérica, coordinó el diseño de Luny Tunes, un complejo de grabación y mastering de nueve estudios ha construirse en San Juan, en el popular distrito puertoriqueño de Carolina. El edificio de 12,000 pies cuadrados fue comisionadopor Francisco “Luny Tunes” Saldana, ganador del Grammy y Billboard Latin [...]

Overview Located in the Union Square District of Manhattan, New York, Lower East Side Studios (LES) is a full service audio post-production facility, specializing in audio for video format. The 6,000 square-foot facility primarily services clients in the broadcast and advertising communities. Program Facility program includes two identical large audio control rooms, each with its [...]

Overview New York City's leading producer of commercial music for the advertising community. JSM is responsible for over 20% of the nations advertising music. WSDG was responsible for the design of their entire 13,000 sq.ft. [1,200 sq. meter] corporate and studio facility. This project included intensive space planning, internal acoustic room design and complex sound [...]

Overview Jota Quest is one of the most successful Brazilian pop rock bands.  The group began their career in Belo Horizonte (1995) and has performed throughout Brazil and various other countries around the world. With more than half a dozen albums and 3 hugely successful DVDs to their credit, JQ remains one of the Brazil’s [...]

Overview Jorge Rojas is an Argentinian musician and composer of traditional folk music. Currently a very successful solo artist, he began his career in music with Los Nocheros, in 1993. Having toured for 12 years in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, and Paraguay; Los Nocheros sold over two million copies. Rojas decided to leave the group [...]

Overview Located in New York's scenic Mohawk Valley, the J.A. Castle Recording Studio  opened in September 2003 following a 2 year restoration. Originally a church of the Nazarene, built in 1926, the building has been converted to an acoustically accurate all digital audio and video recording and post production facility. J.A. Castle boasts a unique [...]

Overview Ivete Sangalo is one of the most popular names in Brazilian axé and popular music. The Latin Grammy Award-winning singer / songwriter is often recognized by her powerful voice, charisma and contagious performances. Sangalo’s career took a huge leap when she was invited to be the lead singer of the axé group called Banda [...]

Overview Integrated Studios, located in the heart of the TriBeCa film district in Manhattan, provides an unrivaled facility for audio and video production services. Artist owned and managed, the studio was designed by WSDG.  The results of this conversion feature acoustically pristine live studios and a perfectly tuned control room. Program The control room, which [...]

Overview During the past 16 years Howard Schwartz Recording has developed eight different audio production and post-production centers by expanding at the same address - 19 floors on top of Manhattan's Grand Central Station. Presently it occupies over 20,000 square feet [1850 sq. meter] and has one of the industry's leading production centers specializing in audio [...]

Overview After working as clients at Jingletown Recording for some time, Green Day decided they needed a room to call their own, they purchased the studio complex and renamed it JingleTown Recording. Studio B was never completely finished and the group felt they could be comfortable there. Engineer Chris Dugan was familiar with John Storyk's [...]

Overview Twenty-five years ago John Storyk designed TrackMasters, in Buffalo’s historic Allentown District. The studio built a solid reputation as one of upstate NY’s best-sounding and most artist-friendly audio recording facilities. In 1986 three studio engineers, John Rzeznik, George Tutuska and Robby Takac formed a band they christened Goo Goo Dolls, and went on to [...]

Overview Firehouse 12 is a recording studio, music performance space, and café located on Crown Street in New Haven, CT, representing a unique combination of live performance space and professional recording studio. "With 18 foot high ceilings and solid construction dating back to 1904, the building has earned its place on the National Register of Historic [...]

Overview Since 1999, Equiscosa has been the leading audio production and post-production company in the advertisement business in México City. This multi-award facility features five audio-post suites—housing Pro Tools HD systems and Genelec Speakers in all rooms—and a music production room. WSDG provided full systems integration, architectural and acoustic design for this facility. Equiscosa was [...]

Overview Emilio Paravisi is a young musician who had a goal of creating a control room and a live room which could be used together or separated in his house in Quilmes, in the outskirts of the City of Buenos Aires. Great care had to be put into the design, in order to ensure against [...]

Overview Electronic Arts needs no introduction to electronic gaming aficionados all over the world. Its satellite facility, near Vancouver, Canada, is the is the engine behind the startling imagery and soundscapes found in its products, and at the heart of that facility is an audio/video complex that spans 25,000 square feet within Electronic Arts' massive 210,000 [...]

Background At age 45 and counting, Electric Lady is one of the world’s first artist owned recording studios and one of the oldest, most famous and most successful studios ever. WSDG co-founder John Storyk was a 22-year-old fledgling architect fresh out of Princeton University when he was hired to design a studio for Jimi Hendrix. One [...]

Overview Mark Egan's Electric Fields Studio is a state of the art full service recording facility located 57 miles Northwest of New York City, in the beautiful country setting of Orange County, New York. Designed by acoustician & architect John Storyk and built by master carpenter Ikuo Matsui, Electric Fields has a warm and creative environment. [...]

Overview EFE-X is an audio & visual production company based in Bogotá, Colombia. It offers its clients a wide range of services including composition, animation, editing, digital recording and mastering. Due to the increased activity of the Colombian film industry, along with a series of international box office hits and independent productions, EFE-X decided to [...]

Overview Durval Lelis is the vocalist and guitarist of Asa de Aguia, one of the most famous bands of Axé Music in Brazil. More than a professional accomplishment, the Groove Studio fulfilled a dream of the musician. The studio’s main objective is to gather in the same environment, with great technology and comfort for their [...]

Overview Dinemec Studios is one of Europe's more versatile TV and sound studios. Its production capabilities include orchestral recordings, movie scoring, and TV shows. The facility even accommodates concerts to live audiences. The facility includes several rehearsal rooms that have the capacity to handle a full orchestra.  There are also film and shooting studios with [...]

Overview They say location is everything. For San Francisco-based Different Fur Studios, which has remained stationed in the city’s Mission District for over four decades, it certainly hasn’t hurt. The Mission District is now considered by many to be the epicenter of creativity in San Francisco, and Different Fur Studios has literally watched the surrounding [...]

Overview Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) opened in 1963 as Ohio's first community college, and remains that state's oldest and largest public community college. The college provides education programs to more than 800,000 members of the Cleveland community. Tri-C's Recording Arts and Technology program trains students for positions in the highly competitive audio industry. The program [...]

Overview Founded in 1963, and influenced by both Nouvelle Vague and Mexico’s First Contest of Experimental Film, CUEC (Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos) is the Film School of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It is one of the largest universities and film schools in Latin America, and also one of the oldest, most [...]

Overview WSDG completed a major renovation project for Crossroads Tabernacle and Boden Center for The Performing Arts, a prominent inner-city church located in The Bronx, NY. The facility includes a state-of-the-art audio and video production studio (Studio On The Hill), and a completely refurbished 800 seat theater for worship, concerts, dramas, and outreach events. The restoration, [...]

Overview Cotton Hill Studios first opened its doors in Albany, New York more than 25 years ago. The facility is something of a beacon of longevity, attributing its success mainly to a flexible studio design, an extremely diverse set of capabilities and a loyal client base. Recently, Cotton Hill announced the arrival of producer Nathaniel [...]

Jorge Gato Rodriguez - prestigious drummer and musician, who played with many famous Argentinian musicians, toured the country and the world playing foklore, ballad, rock and tango, and has been a witness of the growth in musical production in the country. At the age of 11, he was named the youngest drummer in America in [...]

Overview For over 130 years, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has reigned as one of the world’s greatest classical music ensembles.  In a move to upgrade their recording, broadcast and streaming capabilities, CSO commissioned leading recording engineer/producers Tim Martyn and Shawn Murphy to form a design team to revamp the control room which has long served [...]

Overview Carter Burwell, Hollywood film composer, universally acknowledged for creating some of the most organic and original scores in the film industry, including music for Joel and Ethan Coen's Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski; David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner; and Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich, required a new home and composing studio [...]

Overview Located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Bianchi studios had just been remodeled in order to provide services for a new demanding segment of 5.1 mixing. Divided in three spaces, the facility incorporates a 18m2 5.1 control room, a 30m2 tracking room and a garage lounge that has a great appeal for relaxing moments, entertainment and [...]

Overview Located in the Tribeca section of Lower Manhattan, Berwyn Editorial is a comprehensive off-line video facility that recently added 5.1 production services. Links Visit the Berwyn Editorial website.

Overview Beat No. 1 is a professional recording studio located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Owner Daniel Colombres is a top drummer in the Argentine music world. Program The design consists of a professional recording studio with two separate recording rooms that are used as rehearsal spaces for Daniel Colombres. The project was designed on the [...]

Overview This is an 18,000 square foot (1675 square meters) performing arts center, home of Woodstock's summerstock theater and music performances. The building consists of a 300 seat theater, associated dressing rooms, support spaces, lower level restaurant and kitchen. The project was the dream of the late Albert Grossman - personal manager to Bob Dylan, [...]

Overview Atomica is a production and post-production center with a modern technical infrastructure and a highly professional team that specializes in audio and video services. Program When Atomica decided to move its multiple facilities and unify all of them in one place, they choose a beautiful colonial style house in the heart of Santiago, Chile. [...]

Overview ARTCO Recording Studios, located in the heart of Polanco Area, In Mexico city, was conceived to provide full production, recording and post production services for the music industry of Mexico. It’s new state of the art building combines 3 recording studios and live rooms, video post suites and graphic design. A total of 2000 [...]

Overview AR Studios is located in a quiet, relaxed neighborhood 30 minutes north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—just one block away from one of the most exotic beaches in the world and just 40 minutes away from the nearest airport. The studio was completed in 1996 and marked an important milestone for WSDG—the opening of [...]

Overview Supercharango is a recording and production studio located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Its main activities are album recording for renowned artists and musical production for marketing. Program The main goal was to create a control room, a comfortable musical production room, and two recording rooms that could be used together or separate. Supercharango is [...]

Overview Tecson is a Buenos Aires-based education facility dedicated to the development of audio professionals. Since 1989, Tecson has offered complete support of Pro Tools HD, Mastering, Audio post-production for TV, video and cinema, Live Recording and Solid State Logic Console (use and automation). Program The main objective of this project was to provide Tecson [...]

Just  half an hour drive from Zurich,  past rolling hills and ancient forests, one would not expect to find a world-class recording and mixing facility owned and operated by one of the 500 inhabitants of  the little village of Etzgen. But here  is – Synphonic  Studios, a three-room facility built inside an abandoned corner shop. [...]

Overview Swing Musica is a totally new 250m2 facility located in the "hip" Palermo Hollywood area in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Swing Musica's new building features two recording studios and an audio post suite. The facility serves advertising agencies with music for commercials and audio post-production. Swing Musica is the number one company of this kind [...]

Overview The Readeez Company, which makes educational videos for children, has just completed a fully featured AV facility, which also serves as founder Michael Rachap's home. Situated in Atlanta's booming Midtown, the studio blends historic ambience with eye-popping innovation. Renovations to the company's loft in the 80-year-old building began in 2005 and included having a [...]

Overview Superstar hip-hop producer Tim "Timbaland" Mosley has completed a private recording studio in Virginia Beach. The studio was conceived and developed in conjunction with long time engineer, Jimmy Douglas. This full service audio production center has been created in an existing (approximate) 5,000 sq. ft. two-story industrial park building. A complete renovation of the [...]

Overview SoundRec Studios is a 180m2 facility located in the heart of Buenos Aires, Argentina, containing two recording and mixing suites as well as sound support production rooms. Program SoundRec features one recording studio with variable acoustics and a film mixing theater room with Dolby Surround certification and two audio port suites. The facility serves [...]

Overview Pira Studio is the largest studio in the City of Cordoba, Argentina. For over 20 years, it has recorded the biggest names in traditional folk and Argentinian music. The name of “PIRA” comes from his father, one of the pioneers of the audio pro scene in the country. They were looking to remodel their [...]

Overview Behind the garage doors of hit producer/composer Robert Clivillés’ elegant home are not the Bentley or Maserati one might expect, but an equally impressive level of technical excellence.  Internationally acclaimed for his C+C Music Factory #1 smash “Gonna Make You Sweat,” and hits for artists ranging from Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam to Mariah [...]

Overview Co-founded in 2006 by Diego Calviňo and Pablo Lopez Ruiz, 3:3:2 Studio is a world-class mixing, and mastering facility in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Designed by the Walters-Storyk Design Group, the studio is equipped to work in stereo and 5.1 Surround. 3:3:2 Studio is one of the few Latin American studios to offer DSD-DXD technology, [...]

Overview A former East Village hair salon has morphed into a concise but efficient recording studio thanks to the vision of producer/engineer Michael Croiter and the space optimization skills of Walters-Storyk Design Group architect/acoustician John Storyk. Croiter, drummer for the original off (and now on) Broadway musical hit Avenue Q, had been searching for a workable (and [...]

Overview Set on a 300-acre horse farm/vineyard in Upstate New York, World Harmony Studios is a high-end destination studio; geared to accommodate a wide range of theatrical, feature film and music recording projects. Owned by producer/ businessman Samuel Nappi, the 2500 sq. ft. complex integrates cutting-edge technology within an impeccable acoustic footprint.  Built into a [...]

Overview In the heart of downtown Montevideo, in Uruguay, the ¨Switzerland¨ of Latin America, Vivace Music has established a new standard of high-quality audio production. Designed to meet the recording requirements of an eclectic client base that encompasses everything from traditional Latin music to rock, jazz, pop and dance (including, The Tango), Vivace Music offers [...]

Overview In 1999 the Walters Storyk Design Group created two state-of-the-art video editing suites for Working Pictures. The independent, Avid-based digital video production, editing and graphic design company was then located in Albany's Cotton Hill Studios, a complex WSDG originally designed in 1994. The success of those initial collaborations led to Working Pictures, a 4,400 [...]

Overview WSDG developed a number of templates during the past few years for small home style studio environments, including Paradise Garage, an elegant Westchester facility created for hit producer Robert Clivillés as well as Alicia Key’s Oven Studios in Long Island.  “It was a remarkable coincidence to hear that Yaron was planning to turn his [...]

Overview Diante do Trono is the most successful Brazilian gospel band of the church Batista da Lagoinha. The group's career started in 1997 and has performed not only around Brazil but in various other countries around the world. The monastery is formed with 50 musicians and has already released over 25 albums and have sold over [...]

Overview One hour by train from Hong Kong, in the thriving metropolis of Guangzhou stands China’s first true ‘destination’ recording studio. Technologically sophisticated and acoustically superb, Village Studios was conceived by international pop star Hins Cheung. Three years in development and construction, the complex represents the future of China’s recording industry. And, a carefully considered [...]

Overview Oven Studios is the personal studio of Alicia Keys. Built in the suburbs of New York, the studio was designed to be a creative, comfortable environment where Keys could create her music on her own time, in her own space. As soon as it was completed, the facility was involved in several high profile projects [...]

Overview A cappella, one of the most idiosyncratic of all performing techniques, presents the ultimate challenge in precision vocalizing. Recording performances that rely exclusively on the human voice for instrumentation, as well as lyrics and melody, are artistically unique. VOCOMOTION Studio owner Freddie Feldman is a master of the genre. Opening his original studio in Evanston, [...]

Overview Something that is immediately apparent in the control room design of Circo Beat is the concave surfaces. Another distinct feature is the color scheme throughout studio, which was a personal choice of the artist, Fito Páez. He chose the yellowish color in the live room which had the effect of making it become very relaxed [...]

Overview As the Berklee College of Music’s first European Campus, the futuristic Valencia Complex personifies Berklee’s commitment to providing the technological and business skills required for successful careers in the 21st-century music industry. Designed to serve both European and Berklee U.S. undergraduate and graduate level students studying abroad, Berklee Valencia will focus on five primary [...]

General Como el punto central de una gran expansión internacional, el recientemente completado complejo de estudios para MTV Latin America en Buenos Aires es un importante compromiso de Viacom, Inc. Diseñado como el centro de producción creativa para MTV, VH1 y Nickelodeon, el complejo de 40,000 pies cuadrados comprende un hub de producción/post-producción creado por [...]

Overview A 4500 sq. foot, full-floor studio complex, Roc the Mic is highlighted by fully networked, spacious twin control rooms featuring SSL 9000 J and 4000 G+ consoles, plus a high-end Pro Tools production suite. All three rooms aim to set powerful new benchmarks in power and accuracy with custom Augspurger monitoring systems. Designed to [...]

Overview The epitome of hip elegance and acoustical excellence, Jungle City Studios signify the dawn of the ‘Retro Future/Future Retro’ era. The $6 million + complex also re-calibrates the benchmark for destination studio design. Crowning a new luxury office building at 520 West 27th Street in NYC’s chill High Line district, Jungle City morphed 4800 square feet of [...]