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Dissential is
A record label
Looking for talent

A recording studio

Dissential has at its disposal a custom-built and designed 5.1 recording studio. Each aspect of the studio control room and booths have been designed to hone sound to its sweetest.

A few tons of sand were laid over the existing wooden floor to kill sound transmission. The roof was lashed to the existing beams to give additional rigidity. Side walls employ a tight lattice skeleton onto which chipboard sheets were glued and screwed. Cavities were damped with Rockwool; speaker stands, doors, the ceiling and joining walls were filled with sand.

The front edge of speaker plinths are concave to allow sound to couple smoothly with the air. A false floor gave space to lay cables to the booths, which have no parallel walls. The control room did not need any acoustic treatment other than carpeted surfaces and a rear wall diffuser.

The office area is perfect for doubling as a ‘live’ room for recording drum kits and old-fashioned ambient reverb via piezo mics on the wall.

The images below show the gradual transformation of a bare building shell into Dissential HQ.

The control room

In the beginning, it was wood and stone... ...and the roof was beam-tastic Crosspieces in the lattice every foot The floor with Rockwool and sand The second booth being made The control room - view 1 The control room - view 2 The door airlock The doors with their sand-trap struts The desk, a.k.a. control centre Speaker atop a stand Faders on the mixing desk

The office / “live” room

Ivy had breached the wall Old store room The roof as left from construction of the control room First steps to a false ceiling Joists at precisely spaced intervals Notches in the joists for added support T&G flooring for the loft space Bracing the ceiling so it can be finished Space in the loft for the stuff Vertical struts to provide support to the loft floor Acoustic treatment to the new office room Loft access Extending the floor Damping the floor with insulation/foam More floor insulation The completed office floor Custom-built computer desk