Chapter 8

Room combinations and operational considerations

As has no doubt become clear by now, no one room can perform all the functions which may be required for the recording of the whole range of probable musical performances. The large, variable room is perhaps the best option, if money and space allow such a room to be built, but even the best such room can never mimic the performance of a good, small live room, or a good stone room: at least not without absurd complexity of structure and mechanisms. We should now therefore consider how we could put together the pieces so far discussed in order to make a viable, practicable, and efficiently flexible studio package.

8.1  Options and influences

Let us imagine that we were presented with a ...

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