New Renaissance Productions™ Recording Studio
All The Right Gear In An Atmosphere That Incites Creativity
Located in Northeast Ohio, the New Renaissance Productions™ recording studio is designed, built, and equipped from the ground up to provide extreme capability, comfort and convenience – all in an atmosphere that keeps your creative imagination firing on all cylinders.
We’re located near the quiet town of Beloit, Ohio. Just far enough away from big city distractions and congestion, yet central to and easily accessible from the greater Akron, Canton, and Youngstown, metropolitan areas.
“New Renaissance Productions™ is THE place to hunker down and get to the joy ride that is making music”
Sweet, accurately tuned acoustic spaces, a very well stocked microphone locker, and some of the most sought after outboard gear are at your fingertips.
Premium Apogee A/D (analog to digital) conversion, Apogee Big Ben master word clock, a fully outfitted Apple Mac Pro DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) with high level editing capabilities, high track counts, and award winning plug-ins.
A top-of-the-line Fortune Drums ‘house’ drum kit (optimized, tuned, mic’d and ready for recording), a wide selection of tuned percussion and hand percussion instruments, a stellar keyboard rig, and many other great features too numerous to mention here… (visit our other pages to learn more)
New Renaissance Productions™ features a world class ATC® SCM50A PRO monitoring system, augmented by a pair of equally world class Subwoofer Pros® subwoofers. Rest assured that what you hear in the control room will translate in the real world.
New Renaissance Productions™ studio features:
On our Microphones page we emphasize the importance of choosing the microphone, mic position and preamp combination to render the desired sonic color, character and vibe. But what about the acoustic environment that microphone is placed in? At New Renaissance Productions™, we’ve got you covered!
The Main recording studio is over 300 sq. ft. with 10 ft. ceilings. It is double wall sound-isolated ‘Room within a room’ construction with floating floors finished in maple hardwood. Three of the interior walls are floor to ceiling RPG DiffusorBlox® 1D Quadratic Residue Diffusers. The ceiling has RPG 2D Skyline® Quadratic Residue Diffusors and broadband absorbers to diffuse and balance the sound in the room. The finishing touch is an array of custom built solid hardwood 1D Quadratic Residue Diffusers on the exit door.
Control room- Over 300 sq. ft. with vaulted ceilings, double wall isolated ‘Room within a room’ construction and floating floors finished in maple hardwood. Acoustic treatments combine complex internal room geometry, custom built acoustic broadband absorber panels, ASC (Acoustic Sciences Corporation) large diameter Tube Traps, custom designed & built 1D & 2D solid hardwood Quadratic Residue Diffusors and Polycylindrical diffusors.
Isolation Room- An isolation room adjoins the control room. In contrast to the other acoustic environments in the studio complex, this space has a very dry sound signature. The acoustic treatments combine custom built broadband absorbers, complex internal room geometry, a Primacoustic Radiator™ ceiling cloud, and solid hardwood 1D Quadratic Residue Diffusers. Visual sight lines into the studio are provided through a custom built window and into the control room through a heavy glass door.
Gobos- portable movable walls (for sound control and isolation), custom designed and built with glass windows.
Cue System- Dial in your own custom headphone mixes! A fully integrated Furman HDS-16 personal cue system with six HRM-16 remote mixing stations provide each musician with your own personal mixer to adjust individual instrument and vocal volumes levels to taste. Complete with musician-to-musician and musician-to-control room talkback facilities.
Comfort is provided year round by a custom designed ultra-quiet HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) system and state-of-the-art electronic air filtration and humidity control systems.
A commissary and restroom facility are provided for our client’s comfort and convenience. These areas are also equipped with audio panels, providing even more unique acoustic spaces to set up and record in.
Audio wiring- No expense spared here! Custom designed, purpose-built stainless steel audio panels & Switchcraft patchbays – all hard wired with premium quality Mogami ultra low capacitance 2930 series OFC (Oxygen Free Copper) cable and outfitted with Neutrik gold plated connectors. These same premium quality Neutrik connectors and Mogami wiring are utilized throughout the entire system, maintaining the highest quality signal path. All inputs and outputs are terminated in a matrix of 9 audio patchbays (440 total patch points) providing complete flexibility in configuring the audio signal path.
Note: New Renaissance Productions™ is (and always has been) a smoke free recording facility.