Velvet Grain STUDIOS

Rooms & gear

Rooms that sound like rooms.

One building, three spaces, one carefully maintained signal path. Push a fader to bring a room up and see its specs light up on the plan.

CH 01
Live A
CH 02
Control
CH 03
Suite B
CH 04
Iso
CH 05
Mics
Solo · Live ALevel 80

Live Room A

Tall, wood-floored tracking room for full bands, with variable acoustic panels.

  • Size32 × 24 ft, 16 ft peak ceiling
  • SurfacesHardwood floor, reversible panels, rolling gobos
  • SightlinesGlass to control room and both iso booths
  • Headphones8 personal cue mixers
  • InstrumentsYamaha upright piano, 1970s drum kit, four tube amps

Faders: drag, or Tab + arrow keys. The highlighted room on the plan follows the active channel.

Floor plan

How the rooms connect

Every room has glass to Control A, so the band can see each other and the engineer during live takes. Load-in is on the ground floor.

Plan is schematic, not to scale.

Schematic floor plan: Live Room A, Control Room A, Mix Suite B, two iso booths, mic locker and lounge with entry. LIVE ROOM A32 × 24 ft · 16 ft ceiling CONTROL A SUITE B ISO 1ISO 2 MICS LOUNGE & ENTRYLoad-in door →

Gear highlights

Chosen to be used, not shown off

Full inventory sent with every quote. Gear can change; we confirm what’s available for your dates in writing.

Tape machines

Multitrack + ½″ two-track. Tape stock billed at cost.

Preamps & dynamics

Discrete preamps, optical and FET compression.

Microphones

Tube, FET, ribbon and dynamic, in matched pairs.

Monitoring

Calibrated mains, nearfields and small references.

Physical access: step-free entry from our private lot (six spaces) through a 36-inch front door, a 48-inch roll-up door for load-in, and an accessible restroom. Live Room A, Control A, the booths and the lounge are on one level; Mix Suite B is up one flight of stairs, and mixes can be attended in Control A instead. Tell us what you need when you book and we’ll plan load-in around it. See Accessibility.

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