Prior to the building being used as a voice over recording studio it was a Barber’s shop. Frankie Martin was very well known in this area as he worked in this building for over 45 years. Frankie was in his 90’s when he passed away and continued working that whole time.
To help with soundproofing, we took the walls back to the bricks and added lots of soundproofing insulation. We also put in a lower ceiling and more sound insulations was added up there. The same was added to the loft space. One of the main issues the studio has is that the two main windows are single glazed and they make up the majority of the studio front. We had a new wall constructed with lots of soundproofing and a triple glazed door. This meant that only one of the windows was now in the studio control room.
To treat this window, we spoke with a company in Perth called Glaze & Save (name has recently changed to Cocoon) and they installed a custom made Invisi Therm magnetic secondary window. This helped to further reduce the noise pollution and it has the added benefit of keeping the warmth inside in the winter and it doesn’t get too hot in summer. Feel free to contact me about this as a couple of other studios have reached out about this new technology. I can highly recommend Cocoon – www.cocoon.tech
Recording takes place in a Kube vocal booth which I can’t recommend highly enough. The team at Kube were fantastic and given our rural Highland location, the delivery driver did a great job of making sure the booth was dropped off at the door.
The images above and below will give you an idea of the level of renovation that was undertaken. The studio continues to adapt to meet the needs of our various Studio Hire clients. Lots of new equipment has been purchased and installed as per client requests. Over time we have also adapted the software that we use to match our client’s studio.
So many changes have taken place since we first opened in 2020 and we have some even bigger changes planned for 2024 – watch this space!