AcoustiSound Completes New Holy Mountain Music Studio

I’ve just returned from a week in Estero, Florida, where I’ve installed a new project studio for Holy Mountain Music. The studio features a ProTools LE recording system, full-featured monitoring, a drum booth and areas for keyboard, guitar, bass, horn and vocal recordings. An adjacent space can be configured for larger ensemble recording.

Work commenced last Monday in 1/3 of a three-car garage. By Friday, we had added walls, acoustic treatment, and, of course, all the required gear. 24 input channels are provided within the main studio, with an additional 8 input channels provided in the adjacent spaces. Portable acoustic treatments are available to control sound in the adjacent room.

An Allen & Heath MixWizard 16:2 mixer provides outboard monitoring capabilities, with up to four mixes feeding 8 headphone channels. The MixWizard also serves as the input level control to the eight Digi002 line inputs. Drums are recorded on eight tracks through a dedicated Focusrite 8-channel preamp with internal ADAT conversion. Four ART Pro Channels and two ART DPS-II tube preamps provide plenty of warm, tube sound when needed.

Mics are an assortment of EV, Shure, AKG, Sennheiser and AudioTechnica models.

While the studio is designed specifically for working with emerging singer-songwriters requiring only basic instrumentation and a few tracks, the studio can accommodate larger projects as well.

My relationship with Holy Mountain Music doesn’t end with the construction of the studio — we’ll be setting up capabilities that will allow projects to be moved between our mobile recording system and HMM’s ProTools system, allowing HMM to work with a broader range of clients, both in the Ft. Myers, Florida area, and the Baltimore-Washington area.