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An exciting opportunity has come up for me to possibly be in a position to acquire this church that also has a small parsonage on the property.
I call out to you, my Tape Op brothers and sisters, for help and advice in my quest for a better studio!
Haters and posers leave the hall! This is tickling my DIY spirits!!
It really seems like a good deal and is definitely right in-line with how I wanted to progress and expand my budding business.
My wife, pets, and I would live right next door in a small house (that unfortunately needs updates and stuff, but whatever...).
My business has been good, and I have always wanted a nice big room to make records in. I have been looking for a new space, and to finally be able to separate my living arrangements from the business. Churches have the obvious vibe, look, and feel I would definitely desire! This one was built in 1886 and has been beautifully taken care of from what I have seen so far. I work with everything from classical ensembles to full-on black metal bands and "big band" acoustic folk, etc. - a good amount of a lot of different genres, and personally prefer more organic recordings, and using natural space as reverb, efx, etc., the "old way", if you will... (why I like it here so much!)
There are a ton of things to consider (I am quickly realizing) and it would mean a move to a different (smaller) city (with bigger cities very reasonably close-by, so I am not very worried about losing my client base - actually I am optimistic this will help draw more work) and probably 100 other uncertain things I will find out about, but for now I am simply looking for some outside opinions on a room like this for tracking drums and live bands, etc. and whatever else (specifically this style of sanctuary room)... it's somewhere between 2500 and 2993 square feet and probably 25-30 foot-high ceilings... I'm no expert, but I believe this would be a VAST improvement over my (2nd) basement studio I've been running with for the past 8 years or so...(AE'ing for about 15 now). Obviously, it will also allow me opportunities to host sessions that would be otherwise impossible in a small basement setting. I am very excited about this whilst trying to keep my feet on the ground!
I know I'll need acoustic treatment and gobos, etc. (which I have and can make more of), but I really plan on keeping it as true and original as possible, a proper control room can and will come later (there are offices behind the mural-wall), and it has a full basement for any isolation needs and just plenty of room for making "dead" recording rooms (not worried about that at all!).
This is one of those seemingly really good opportunities I feel like I should jump-on while I can 'cuz it would be very rare to find something similar, but if there's something glaringly "bad" about this particular type of room acoustically, please let me know. These are the kinds of things that I need to figure out before really seriously moving on it and I really trust the people here.
I will be taking an assortment of instruments over the next weekend, so I will definitely have some chances to see for myself what the room "sounds" like. I guess I'll just run a stereo recording device in various places around the room, up in the balcony, etc... just for different perspectives? Is that a good idea? (Any tips on "testing" a room for recording?)
Thank you so much for your time and thoughts!
A view from the back, under the balcony:
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Here's the other way looking back from the altar area, back-left:
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...and back-right of the sanctuary:
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This is looking down from the balcony:
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Front-right corner:
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