John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Hi everyone....

Great forum going on here, very informative.

I am specifying a studio for a friend (I'm an experienced engineer) and have some real basic questions for y'all.

Is the man responsible for the studio design the same man who is responsible for the acoustics (I know that sounds stupid but pls bear with me!)? And does this guy also oversee construction? Or does an acoustician work hand in hand with a designer and then come in at the end of the job to tweak the room?..... and how is all this usually charged to the client, does the designer normally quote on both design and construction or are these 2 seperate entities?

Sorry for the crap questions but I'm trying to get a handle on this whole process which is totally foreign to me.

Also, I've seen the link to the SmartDraw free trial but is there something similar for Mac OSX?

Thanx for any info.

entropy

Sounds like you're doing consulting work here. Are you contracted directly with the owner, or are you sub-contracting with the lead architect?

Or are you, in fact, the lead architect as well?

If you're offering advice only on the acoustic design, and you're giving this advice to another designer who is working on the overall building, then you just worry about the acoustic work. And yes, as you had thought, the lead designer will get most of the building built, then call you in as they get into the more detailed interior work.

Maybe I'm just overstating the obvious. And here's more- it all comes down to what's in the contract. Just make sure that it's all agreed upon before anyone starts working on the building.

My day job is architecture. The president of our company used to work for a firm specializing in Animal Hospital design. More often than not, they did consulting work out-of-state. A veterenarian would hire someone local to do 90% of the design work, but would have that engineer hire the specialist to work out the basic layout and advise on where to put some of the major equipment. The local engineer still did all the foot-work.

I'd think your situation is similar.

Sorry if I spent a lot of space to say only a little...

Kase
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