Eastlake Audio activity
Recent projects undertaken:
| ■ | Design of Film Mixing Facility for Singapore’s National Broadcaster, MediaCorp. | Singapore |
| ■ | Improvements to TV Dubbing Facilities for UNCLE | London W12 |
| ■ | Consultancy and improvements to Viewing Theatres for DTS (Digital Theater Systems) | Twyford, Berkshire |
| ■ | Design of Recording Facilities for Perry Vale Studios | London SE23 |
| ■ | Design and Consultancy on recording facilities for New YST Conservatory of Music at National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| ■ | Design of fully professional Cinema Facility within Historic residential building – Dublin Bay, Republic of Ireland | Dublin |
| ■ | Consultancy for UK Central Office of Information | London |
| ■ | Design of improvements to Studio Facilities at Sout al Jazeera, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | Jeddah |
| ■ | Design of Recording Facilities in Benghazi, Libya for Libyan Broadcasting | Benghazi |
| ■ | Design of new Recording Facilities for Stentor Studios, Athens, Greece | Athens |
Projects underway or recently completed
- SINGAPORE: MediaCorp Film Mixing Theatre
- SINGAPORE: YST Conservatory of Music Studios
- LONDON, UK: Abbey Road Studios
- LONDON, UK: Workshop Studio for PWL
- PERTH, SCOTLAND, UK: Perth College
- ATHENS: Sofita Studios
- CAIRO, EGYPT: Music Studio for High Quality
- MADRID, SPAIN: Dolby Film Mix Theatre for Cinearte
- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Private Cinema
- HAVANA, CUBA: Music Recording Studio for Egrem
SINGAPORE: MediaCorp Film Mixing Theatre
A Film Mixing Facility (approx. 12m long x 8.6m wide with a 4.8 x 2.7m screen) designed for Singapore’s National Broadcaster, MediaCorp.
The facility – highly acoustically isolated from the other TV studio facilities in the HQ – was designed and equipped for mixing productions to the highest Auro 3D & Auromax ‘object-based’ 3D immersive audio (where recorded sounds and effects can be accurately positioned in any vertical or horizontal position) as well as conventional 5:1 and 7:1 formats.
SINGAPORE: YST Conservatory of Music Studios
The recording facilities attached to the Concert Hall at pre-eminent Asian music conservatory, National University of Singapore’s YST Conservatory www.music.nus.edu.sg
LONDON, UK: Mastering Rooms for Abbey Road Studios
In North West London two Mastering / Re-Mastering facilities at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios have recently been re-constructed by Eastlake to provide improved levels of isolation performance and appropriate monitoring conditions for 5.1 mix monitoring.Preliminary studies for subsequent upgrading by Eastlake Audio of several suites at London’s iconic Abbey Road Studios. See below.
LONDON, UK: Music Studios for PWL
In South London, two completely new Control Rooms and Studios have been constructed for the phenomenally successful PWL production company who to this moment account for over five hundred million (yes, 500,000,000!) record sales world-wide.
Extensive use was made before construction started of Computer Aided Visualisations of Control Room equipment layouts to maximise space usage.Study for integration of custom furniture within Eastlake Audio designed and constructed ‘workshop’ studio for multi-million unit selling, PWL. See below.
SCOTLAND, UK: Music Recording Studios for Perth College
Three studios have been designed by Eastlake for the Music & Media Department of Perth College in Perth, Scotland. These new facilities will be housed in a new building extension currently being constructed on the College’s Goodlyburn Campus.
The extension will also house a Theatre. Fit-out by Eastlake of the studios commenced in July for conclusion in October.Exploded view of facilities designed for Perth College, Scotland’s School of Music Teaching and Quasi-Commercial Recordings. See below.
ATHENS, GREECE: Sofita Studios
Sofita Studios moved a highly successful, SSL equipped music and audio-post recording operation from within a residential Athens villa to an Eastlake designed facility within a purpose-converted building at Glyfada on the perimeter of the original Athens International Airport following the opening of the new airport facility. sofita@hol.gr
CAIRO, EGYPT: Music Studio for High Quality
Construction under Eastlake expatriate supervision of a particularly elegant recording facility for High Quality Studios is now concluded in Ghiza, central Cairo. Elsewhere in Ghiza, design work is currently underway on new Dolby 5.1 Mixing Theatre and Dubbing Theatre facilities for rapidly expanding local post-production company, Elixir.
MADRID, SPAIN: Dolby Film Mix Theatre for Cinearte
Spanish long-time Cinema and TV recording / mixing facility Cinearte now have a new film mixing facility within their historic central Madrid location in the Plaza de Conde de Barajas.
The new facility (equipped with a fully-digital SSL Avant mixing console) is a Mixing Theatre for Dolby 5.1 Surround work, occupies a 500M3.+ cubic volume and has an 8M. wide screen. Extensive isolation systems were designed by Eastlake to provide the isolation values required for the new facility. The construction was undertaken by local contractors supervised by experienced expatriate Eastlake personnel. See below.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Private Cinema
A further high-specification Mini Cinema has been completed in the Emirates for use by the Client and his family members. The construction features fully isolated techniques and full-range surround format.
HAVANA, CUBA: Music Recording Studio for EGREM
A project first planned almost ten years ago and which suffered several delays (one due to the originally offered building being withdrawn by the Cuban Government to a Bio Technology factory!) finally became fully operational and is attracting international clients.
The EGREM facility is located in Havana’s seaside resort suburb of Miramar and is well-placed for international-standard hotels and restaurants that overseas clients require whilst Cuba’s extremely professional and enthusiastic musicians are bound to draw productions which require the finest ‘Salsa’ rhythms.
EGREM are the state run record company Empresa De Grabaciones Y Ediciones Musicales founded in 1964 following the Cuban Revolution, which then released music on it’s own in-house “EGREM”.