The Project
Master Chord Studio is a modern recording facility built from the ground up with acoustics and ergonomics in mind.
All rooms are carefully built with the best solutions and materials: each room has its own independent floating floor, walls and ceiling, built by different layering materials and thickness in order to create a solid yet live structure, which reacts to vibrations in a natural way, letting the musician “feel” his performance and not only hear it. This technique allows modern multitrack recording and mixing to be carried out with the best possible sound isolation between rooms. And if you prefer to work “all in one room recording”, the booth’s doors can be left open, letting the sound spread from one room to the others, creating an amazing “ensemble” ambience. All rooms are equipped with regulated power outlets, heating/cooling via filtered fresh air systems, noiseless and low power consumption LED lighting systems and carefully designed bespoke acoustic solutions built using eco-friendly and nonallergenic materials only.
All these features contribute to making Master Chord Studio one of the finest recording and mixing facilities in London.
Control Room
Live Room
55m² Live Room with a 3.2m high ceiling. It offers a live, but controlled ambiance with a little shine in the upper frequencies to compensate for overcrowding (the room can seat up to 18 people), direct vision (through glazed doors) to all booths and Control Room.
Booth A
The yellow room, an 8m² booth designed with extra insulation layers and extreme-low frequency control to cancel modal resonances, is the perfect booth for guitar and bass cabinets to be recorded at max volume while still being able to record very quiet passages in the other rooms. Audio connected to Booth B, Live Room and Control Room.
Booth B
The blue room, a 13m² booth in a central position with a neutral acoustic footprint, is the perfect place to record a drum kit with the option to leave the doors open for clear, close micing and large far-field ambience thanks to the adjacent Live Room. Audio connected to Booth A, Booth C, Live Room and Control Room.
Booth C
Booth D
The green room is the smallest booth at 4m² which makes it a perfect vocal booth for live sessions and an additional booth for amplifiers. Audio connected to Booth A, Live Room and Control Room.
Lobby Area
The lobby is a place to rest and have a chat over a coffee between sessions. From the lobby, you can access the bathroom with basin, bidet sink and shower.
Storage and Machine Room
All the equipment is kept safe at your disposal in the big Storage/Machine Room behind the Control Room, so no messy booms and cables around when you are working.