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Manifold Recording's main studio and tracking room is now up and running! This exciting new world class recording studio is located on a beautiful 17-acre site in the Triangle area, near Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Durham, NC. The 5600 sq. ft. complex was designed from the ground up by Wes Lachot Design Group, and embodies and exemplifies the principles of Organic Architecture, wherein every part is integrally related to the whole, and the whole is is turn related to every part, so that nothing essential is missing, and nothing is included that is not essential. It is a type of fractal Architecture that reveals its truths at multiple scales simultaneously. The geometry of the entire facility is a natural outgrowth of the Control Room listening triangles for stereo and surround sound, and the Reflection Free Zone geometry. Acoustic treatments, including RPG DiffusorBlox, are built in to the fabric of the building itself, creating unity of structure, acoustics, and aesthetics.
The 1,400 sq. ft. Music Room features a 24-ft. ceiling, with a 3-D ceiling cloud based on the Golden Ratio; the cloud is essentially an undulating, unfolded geodesic dome. Custom RPG Biffusor panels allow for adjustable reverb times from .75 sec. to 1.75 sec. The 9 ft. Yamaha Concert Grand piano is equally at home in the Music Room or in the ultra-large Booth A, with it's 16 ft. ceiling and somewhat live decay time, adjustable with movable diffusive/absorptive gobos. The RFZ-type Control Room is accurate down to 25 Hz, and is encircled with beautiful stained glass diffusors, custom designed by Wes Lachot Design. The Control Room houses a 64-channel API Vision analog console with 128 moving faders, Dynaudio M4 active bi-amped main monitors with 1200 watts per side of Bryston amplification, and an abundance of outboard gear by Universal Audio, Manley, Tube-Tech, BAE, Millennia, DW Fearn, Lavry, API, Avalon, etc.
Located in the Annex is a second control room built primarily for film scoring, post production, and digital mixing, with its Harrison Trion digital console and full surround monitoring. This room's acoustical shape is based upon a radical new Wavy Wall concept, designed in conjunction with RPG Diffusor Systems. The general contracting for this project was expertly handled by McLean Builders, with all aspects of the acoustical construction by Tony Brett and his crew at Brett Acoustics, including the geodesic cloud, the stained glass diffusors, etc. Audio technical wiring was handled by Thom Canova and his crew. Studio owners Amy and Michael Tiemann are extremely happy with the final asbuilt studio complex.
Thanks to Ed Freeman for the beautiful photographs.
