Alfredo de Matteis-Colberg began designing this destination studio in 2014, with a vision of calling back classic 1970s Caribbean studios with large spaces and musicians tracking live off the floor. Ten years later, Estudio Medea is open. The first level of the ground-up, two-story building contains Studio A with a 550-square-foot Control Room, 950-square-foot Live Room, Booth, Lobby and Machine Room. The second level features the 450-square-foot Control Room B and office space. Hedback utilized advanced acoustical modeling and simulation methods to shape the control room and design the tuned perforated MDF wall systems that are displayed in a striking black matte finish. The rear wall of Control Room A displays Hedback’s ARG Diffs, while the front of the room is excited by the flush-mounted custom AudioKinesis mains. The Live Room features custom-designed sequences of reflective half-cylinders, allowing clean captures of large ensembles with a “dense, rich” room sound.
Estudio Medea is a full featured commercial studio facility, servicing all of your Recording, Mixing, Mastering and Post-Production needs. With 3,000+ sq/ft Medea Studio offer recording a facility houses two studios blessed by world class acoustic design (featured in Mix Magazine “Class of 2024” June, 2024 issue) courtesy of HD Acoustics. In an era of the incredible shrinking studio, we’ve decidedly gone in the opposite direction. The spacious Studio A live room features 15 ft. ceilings with massive wrap around diffusion that lays the sonic foundation for any project, regardless of size. The generous footprint also allows for musicians to record live and direct without the need of countless compartmentalized overdubbing that has become the norm today.
The control rooms naturally follow our no compromise design principles and occupy a combined area of ~1,000 sq/ft with 12+ ft. ceilings. The rooms feature a number of unique components such as the HD Acoustics ARG Diffusers wall system and the collaboration with AudioKinesis which designed and built our flush mounted 7 ft. mains for critical monitoring. Equipment-wise, the control rooms take a hybrid approach, embracing all the necessary high end digital tools but placing a special attention on its analog counterparts. We have established a very unique workflow where most projects are recorded to reel to reel tape, with a real-time transfer to the digital domain. This gives the classic analog tape sound while maintaining all of the benefits of the digital DAW workflow.
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