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January 29, 2016 : Andy Wright
Andy is one of the original members of Pittsburgh punk icons Anti-Flag. He also recorded their first two records. He started working at the studio when it was located at the M.I.T. and moved it to uptown when the M.I.T. closed. He is currently a software developer. Although he hasn’t played publicly in well over a decade, he is still one of the best bass players in town.
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November 6, 2015 : Meat Locker
The meat locker is a is a dual isolation room with 2 separate spaces. The walls are filled with 6 inches of cork creating an acoustically dead interior. Oh, when we say meat locker we really mean it. No, no, its way in the back there. Keep looking, you’ll find it.
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August 10, 2015 : Dave Watson
Dave Watson spends his days as a sound tech for the WWE. He is a wicked guitar player and is slowly building a collection of Les Paul’s.
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: Jason Jouver
Jason is a senior staff engineer that has been affiliated with the studio since the dawn of its existence at the Millvale Industrial Theater (M.I.T.). He bought his first 4 track when he was 12 and has been recording ever since. Jason has also played in such notable bands as Don Caballero and Creta Bourzia. He currently plays drums for T-tops and he is in the union (I.A.T.S.E. 489).
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: Y. Sean Cho
Sean Cho is a staph engineer who started out in college radio. He also runs live sound at various venues thoughout Pittsburgh. He designed, built, and wired almost everything in the studio. He has a degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon and spent a few years after college programming microchips. He still thinks radio is cool and spends his Monday nights hanging out at the station.
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: Lounge
The lounge is spacious and comfortable with various seating areas for eating, relaxing, or whatever one does in the space chair. There is also a TV, a multi arcade machine, and a pour over kettle coupled with a hand grinder for those who take coffee way too seriously.
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: Live Room
The live room is 532 sq ft with 12 ft ceilings. It is tied to the control room and “meat locker” isolation rooms via 3 custom mic panels. All line power is provide though ground isolated outlets. The power is clean and mostly interference free. A quality necessary to prevent Natalie Merchant from blasting through your speakers from that nearby radio station. The space is lively yet warm.
All audio connections in the studio are made with quad multi-pair cable which decrease both the likely hood of interference and increase the signal to noise ratio.
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July 31, 2015 : Control Room
The control room is a fully floated, 288 sq ft listening space. It separated from the live room and exterior structure by high STC walls constructed from 2 layers of drywall, a mass layer, and mineral fiber insulation. Similarly the floor is isolated from a concrete pad that touches the earth via rubber dampers and a multi-layer sandwich of OSB, plywood, mass layer and bamboo.