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Gainesville, Florida is the site of Pulp Arts, a ground-up studio complex featuring the newly-patented Hexaffusor ceiling clouds designed by Wes Lachot and Peter D’Antonio. These recording studios are located within the larger Pulp Arts collective campus, which provides creative spaces for musical, visual, and sculptural artists and has its own innovative record label offering a high level of artist inclusion. With two fully-equipped studio suites featuring high-end analog consoles, ATC monitors, and Reflection Free Zone (RFZ) control rooms, Pulp Arts is sure to be one of the most sought-after studios on the East Coast.
Given the "sky is the limit" parameters of a ground-up building, WLDG designed Studio A to include 2,400 square feet of floor space. Live Room A features 18 foot high ceilings, showcasing the patented Hexaffusor ceiling cloud diffusors, co-invented by Wes Lachot and Dr. Peter D'Antonio. These ceiling clouds keep the Live room sounding ambient and diffuse, with a smooth decay. Three large isolation booths open into Live Room A via sound-isolated double doors, providing an endlessly workable tracking setting.
The 600 square foot Control Room A features a fully diffuse rear wall behind the engineer's position, making this an exceptionally natural sounding control room for mixing (and performing when needed). This room utilizes a 48-channel Daking console, with built-in patch-bay and monitor section. The 6-bay credenza houses some of the most desired pieces of outboard equipment available on the market. Two Brett Acoustics (BA) Side Rack Tables provide further expansion of rack spaces for an ever growing collection. A Mara JH-24 2" tape machine has been wired to allow for any recording method or workflow to be utilized. To support RFZ design principles, the three back walls contain membrane bass traps and proprietary floor to soffit WLDG/BA Stepffusors and Slatffusors which provide mid- and high-range diffusion. These design techniques ensure that the tri-amped ATC SCM-200 main monitors are able to provide a flat room response down to 25 Hz, as well as creating stable and precise imaging.
Control Room B, designed around one of the newly designed API 2448 32-channel in-line console and a pair of ATC SCM 150 main monitors, is a no-compromise study in economy. Keeping a full-scale tracking room and an RFZ control room within a 700 square foot envelope, and equipping it with a 24-channel analog console, 5-bay credenza and two BA Side Rack Tables was a challenge. Live room B, large enough for a live ensemble, houses a Baldwin upright piano and vintage Ludwig drum set.
Studio framing and all acoustic finish work by Brett Acoustics, and Technical A/V wiring done by Canova Audio.
