PLANS UNDERWAY FOR NEW, LARGER, STATE-OF-THE-ART STUDIO!

We're excited to announce that Innovation Station Music will be building a brand new, state-of-the-art recording studio, relocating in early 2016 to nearby Annandale, VA!  We've hired one of the top studio designers on the planet, Wes Lachot, to develop the plans for what will be a world-class recording facility.  Notably, Wes' portfolio includes studios at Electric Lady (originally Jimi Hendrix's studio in NYC) and the Fidelitorium in NC (owned by R.E.M. Producer Mitch Easter).

There will be two studios running in parallel: Studio A will feature a beautiful control room, a 400+ sq. ft tracking room, and a large isolation booth, big enough for a drum kit or horn section.  Studio B contains a smaller control room and adjacent isolation booth, both of which will be tied in with Studio A for even more flexibility with live band recording.

Wes will be on site next Sunday, Oct 11 to take detailed measurements and begin work on the blueprints.  It takes about 3 months to develop a set of about 25 plans, and the buildout will take another few months.  Our goals are to achieve complete isolation between rooms and to the outside, with musically accurate mix rooms and sweet-sounding live spaces.

This week, we discovered there were 3 "lolly" poles attached to a support beam in the basement that needed to be moved.  Wes recommended I retain a Structural Engineer to see if and how the poles could be moved so as not to conflict with the studio design.  Yesterday, the engineer came out to the space and we got Wes on the phone - looks like we have some options, but it will require shifting the load and reinforcing the support beams to move/remove the problem poles.  We should be having a pow-wow on Monday to discuss further.  Just one of the many challenges I'm sure we'll encounter as the project progresses...

Here's a sneak peek of the proposed layout below.  Stay tuned for progress updates!