A New Vocal Booth

“How does it look?” she asked me, a little bit apprehensive. Rachael West is an Emmy award winning voice talent, actor, host, and model. She approaches her work with dynamic enthusiasm and an obvious passion for quality, and this project to upgrade her...

Manning School is complete!

We are pleased to have been part of the design team for the renovation of Manning Middle School for Jeffco Schools. The project included asbestos abatement, new ceilings and lighting in classrooms, noise control in the cafeteria, and lighting and acoustics upgrades to...

Good Church Acoustics

Good acoustics is one of the most important – and often overlooked or misunderstood – aspects of a worship space. Opinions abound about “standing waves,” “dead spots,” “too much echo,” or “not enough echo.”...

An American Premiere

Last weekend we had the privilege of recording a series of concerts and rehearsals for Kantorei, one of the premier choral ensembles in the country. The concert entitled “Echoes: Chant & Beyond” included classic works from the choral repertoire, such...

Beyond the Concert Hall

Last week we returned to Harris Hall in Aspen to engineer a live broadcast of the Aspen Music Festival and School’s winter concert series. The concert was a piano recital played by Orli Shaham on a brand new Steinway grand, and the concert was broadcast live...

The Big Red Balloon

We are fortunate to have lots of high quality equipment available to us for making acoustics measurements. We regularly use EASERA from AMFG for making impulse response measurements in rooms and to measure reverberation times and other useful acoustical parameters....

Voiceover Booth Acoustics

Recently we have spent some time working closely with voice actor Jordan Reynolds to solve some acoustics issues in his voiceover booth. While the acoustical quality of the booth he designed and built is quite impressive  – everything from multilayer gypsum...
Grace Design Studio Flood Repair

Grace Design Studio Flood Repair

Some of you might be aware that we experienced some devastating flooding here in Colorado in September 2013. The town of Lyons, Colorado, home to Grace Design, experienced some of the worst of this flooding. In November, we along with other volunteers from Denver...

Recording at Gates Hall

Tonight we are recording the Lamont Symphony Orchestra in Gates Hall at the University of Denver. It should be a great program with Samuel Fuhrman conducting Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, CSO principal clarinetist Jason Shafer performing Triple Play by Harold...
Mobile Recording Rack

Mobile Recording Rack

We are gearing up for a new season of recording projects, and are putting the finishing touches on a new mobile recording rack! For you gearheads out there, the system boasts a Grace Design m802 8-channel mic pre, Allen & Heath QU-16 digital mixer, Tascam...