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First Test Session in Studio A!

January 27, 2023 by Rafi

We finally got a band into Studio A to hear it and test it out. Eric Salt and Electric City are long time Q Friends, so we were super comfortable and happy to have them help us break in the room.

We think the room sounds really cool, and of course we found some bugs (well duh). I (Rafi) took some pictures of the guys while they were playing, and Chuck Hargreaves and I both moved mics and engineered. After over a year and a half of building and restoring the Neve it was nice to use the room as we designed it!

Check out the pictures… The sounds – well, that might take a minute to finish.

Filed Under: Eric Salt & the Electric City, recent news Tagged With: chuck, edv, Eric Salt, neve, news, studio a

Q3.0 Winter 2023 Update

January 11, 2023 by Rafi

Hey friends! We put away the soldering irons and the construction equipment at the end of December, to show off where we’re at right now, as 2022 came to a close. Check out the progress – we’re still a few steps away from recording, but we’re so close you can almost smell the new tape coming out of the boxes.

Filed Under: recent news, Uncategorized Tagged With: news, q3.0

Spirited!

November 10, 2022 by Jon Lupfer

Before we moved out of our Highland Ave location, our last big session was a more-than-month-long-lockout hosting the cast and crew of Spirited – at the time referred to as Chili. It was super awesome and fun and tons and tons of work (we also set them up with rehearsal and pre pro spaces at their production headquarters in Braintree), and now we get to hear some of our efforts on the big screen this coming December.
Spirited — Official Teaser | Apple TV+

Filed Under: recent news Tagged With: Apple Movies, movies, Octavia Spencer, Ryan Reynolds, soundtracks, spirited, Will Ferrell

Q3.0 Fall Update

October 12, 2022 by Rafi

Hey folks – progress on the new studios is slow but steady!

The common areas – lounge, kitchen, bathrooms, driveway, and exteriors are all very close to being done. This means we can start setting up storage spaces, tech and machine rooms, and very soon, the lounge spaces and kitchen!

Keep reading below about some of the other work we’ve done.

Studio B’s Lounge
Studio A’s Lounge
Outside of Q

Studio A’s control room has really come a long way – we’ve had the Neve in there for a while, and we’re carefully setting up and trouble shooting the console. We are in the final stages of our epic restoration project – folks who are curious will able to read all about that in the near future.

New Phase meter when the original was missing!
3D Printing parts to improve and modify original Neve designs.
Healey working on the Neve
Michael Healey working on the Neve.

Wiring the new spaces is a massive project, but we’ve run most of the audio, speaker, and ethernet lines to the performance spaces and machine rooms. As finishes and treatments are completed and installed in the live room, we’ll be able to finish up some of that work.

New tech room and Studio A’s machine room.

We’d love to give you a solid date for our reopening, but we’re sticking with – SOON!

Filed Under: Neve, recent news Tagged With: construction, neve, news, q3.0

Q 3.0 Spring Update

May 26, 2022 by Rafi

Hey friends!

Check it out – our new rooms have new floors – and this means the next stage of construction really and truly is underway! Lou Clark and Eric Pearce are onsite, building and installing room treatments, indicating that we’re finally more than half way there. We can see the beginning of the end of this long process! When will we be ready to open our doors? That’s a great question, and it’s been a moving target.  We’re following the “don’t book your record release until you’ve got the vinyl from the pressing plant” rule and not saying until we know we can do it- you’ll just have to keep reading our updates. 

We’ve also been very hard at work refurbishing our Neve, from recapping to re-screening faceplates and many many stops in between, our Neve 8068 will readier than ever to capture great performances in an our new spaces. We can’t wait to share our new rooms with you. 

Stay tuned!

Best from all of us at Q. 

Filed Under: recent news Tagged With: news, q3.0, update

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Check out the first ever recording session in Stud Check out the first ever recording session in Studio A - with @ericsaltmusic's band Electric City. We got to hear the rooms and find a few faults. With @valauskased on bass, @mikeorammusic on guitar, and Denis Saulnier on drums and grins. @chuck.hargreaves and I (@mr.distorter) moved mics and faders, and I took a few pictures. We're going to keep trouble shooting - and there's more to build, but we can see the finish line.
We put away the soldering irons and hid the constr We put away the soldering irons and hid the construction equipment for a few hours. This is what Q 3.0 is looking like right now. Here's to next year - we very much are looking forward to hearing folks making music together in these spaces (and helping you sound your very best!).
Shout out to all the fine folks who've made this come together @recordingstudiodesigner, @soundwallconstruction, @chuck.hargreaves, @communalwaves, @colindrumskinda, @henrysoults, @themeganchase, @terrance_reeves, @valauskased, @jbmoney33, @mr.distorter, and folks who can't be tagged - Andrew Lypps and Matt Tahaney. Be safe out there folks!
Slow and steady - but progress. Control room views Slow and steady - but progress. Control room views and almost fully loaded racks, lounge and mezzanine views, and a view into the live room and of @chuck.hargreaves tuning the house kit’s floor tom. We’re getting close friends - can’t wait to hear you in here!
This is the state of things in Studio A’s contro This is the state of things in Studio A’s control room. We have racks and are slowly moving the gear back into them - which is pretty damn exciting!
The box of jokes has been unpacked and the jokes a The box of jokes has been unpacked and the jokes are slowly making their way into various nooks and crannies of the new studio. 
Take notice @frankyciampi @emeenz @valauskased #studiojokes
Check it out! 1/2 Piano room treatments are nearly Check it out! 1/2 Piano room treatments are nearly complete (@soundwallconstruction!!). 3 Tech room is getting close. 4 the lounge has a rug! 5 Storage room in Malden at @sum.studios is full of stuff we can’t wait to either get back or never see again. 6 First Q meeting in the mezzanine (hi @chuck.hargreaves, @valauskased, @mayorqdiv and me @mr.distorter). 7/8 Our Neve guru Andrew Lypps with his 3d printed brackets for the playback select and speaker select illumination mods! And 8, the live room floor is protected again as the final phase of work continues in there. 
Phew. Can’t wait to be open again!
@chuck.hargreaves set up some drums in the new liv @chuck.hargreaves set up some drums in the new live room and who shows up but @mikepiehl… this is what the new room sounds like right now, before final treatments!
A little Neve update from Q3.0 -we found a rare si A little Neve update from Q3.0 -we found a rare sifam phase meter for the center section - the console had one long ago, and now it has one again! Anything hitting the mix buss will also hit the phase meter - pan left and right and the meter will let you know how close you are. 

Early on we decided we had to re paint and re screen the 32404 and 31103 modules - they were just too chewed up. The 32408’s were fine. This was no small task- but with lots of help from @daykampcreative who redesigned the faceplate graphics for us (we added a .q to the module numbers, just for fun), and with the help of a silk screener and a metal shop in Hudson MA, the color was matched and the legends are now crisp and legible. 

You can also see the phase and eql switch caps which out master tech Andrew Lypps (who’s overseeing the restoration project) etched for us on his 3d printer/cnc machine, one of 3 or 4 pieces that he’s hand crafted as part of the Neve restoration project.
Here’s a peak at the latest from Q3.0 - first, S Here’s a peak at the latest from Q3.0 - first, Studio A’s lounge, which includes two levels, including a kitchenon the ground floor, and a view into the live room from the mezzanine level (window on the left). Second image is Studio A’s control room during the install process - most of the treatments are in, but not the finishes. The Neve is in its place and getting wired and commissioned - we’ve restored almost every inch of that beast. You can see the the window to the performance spaces on the right - hard to tell, but it’s enormous with great lines of sight. Design and build by @recordingstudiodesigner and @soundwallconstruction
The Neve (well, the frame at least!) is in its fin The Neve (well, the frame at least!) is in its final position in the new control room, so while Eric of @soundwallconstruction continues to finish the various spaces we can start wiring up the patch bay. It’s a proper milestone. We can’t wait to share this space with you!
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