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Berklee’s New Residence & Performance Tower: Music to Boston’s Ears

The college's new dorm/performance building at 160 Massachusetts Ave houses recording studios and music students.

May 1, 2015 Jessica Kennedy Leave a Comment

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A look inside Berklee’s cafeteria/performance hall. Cheryl Fleming Photography

One of Berklee’s control rooms. Students can use this room to mix and sync music performed by their peers. Cheryl Fleming Photography

Through the windows of this control room, you can see one of the recording rooms students can use to perform. As students perform their work, their peers can sit in the control room to record, mix, sync and edit the performance. Cheryl Fleming Photography

Inside one of Berklee’s mastering studios. Cheryl Fleming Photography

One of Berklee’s production studios. Students can use this studio to get a taste of the work that real-world music producers do. Cheryl Fleming Photography

One of Berklee’s performance studios equipped with a Steinway piano. The room was designed to accommodate great acoustics for student performers. Cheryl Fleming Photography

Dub Stage

This control room was designed for film mixing (5.1 & 7.1 surround). The installation included (4) ProTools systems (Recorder, Audio Playback I, Audio Playback II & Video Playback), a fixed screen and projector, large L/C/R speakers mounted in the front wall and surround speakers on the side and rear walls. The projector signal is supplied by an HDMI switcher located in the equipment racks.

Console – Avid/Euphonix System 5 console configured as Dual Operator with (48) analog inputs & outputs, (24) AES inputs and outputs, and (24) MADI streams inputs and outputs (64 channels per stream)

Main Monitors – The main monitors are JBL Cinema Sound (THX certified) in the following configuration:
• Front L – JBL 3731T (Tri-amped)
• Left LFE – JBL 4641
• Front Center – JBL 3731T (Tri-amped)
• Front Right – JBL 3731T (Tri-amped)
• Right LFE – JBL 4641
• Left Side Surround – (3) x JBL 8340A
• Right Side Surround – (3) x JBL 8340A
• Left Rear Surround – JBL 8340A
• Right Rear Surround – JBL 8340A

Projector – Digital Projection D-Vision 30 1080P

Screen – Stewart Filmscreen

ProTools Controllers – (2) control carts each w/ (1) Avid Artist Control, (1) Avid Artist Mix, a 24″ display, keyboard and mouse

Controller Switching – iHse Draco Tera KVM matrix

Production Control Room

These control rooms are used by one person and use ProTools controllers to work “in the box” system. They also have analog outboard gear to record with. The monitor speakers use an outboard controller.

Main Monitors – Genelec 8050A with a Genelec 8070 subwoofer

ProTools Controller – (1) Avid Artist Control, (1) Avid Artist Mix, a 24″ display, keyboard and mouse

Monitor Controller – Mackie Big Knob or Dangerous Monitor Controller

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Jessica Kennedy
Jessica Kennedy

Jessica Kennedy is an editor at TechDecisions Media, targeting the higher education market. Jessica joined the TechDecisions team in 2014 and covers technologies that improve teaching and learning.

Tagged With: Acoustics, Higher Ed, Studio

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