D:PoT
The D: PoT Recording Arts is an audio multipurpose facility built in Prato between 2015 and 2016. Built inside an industrial warehouse of almost 140 m2, the studio consists of three rooms: the control room and two live rooms. The head of the D:PoT is Fabrizio Simoncioni, recording and mixing studio engineer, producer and Italian musician with over 30 years of experience, he is well known in Italian and international Rock.
Read moreIn order to optimize space inside the building and to ensure the realization of three distinct environments that could be adequately isolated from each other, three box-shaped self-supporting structures, similar to cages, were made. They support the sound-insulating partitions and the internal acoustic treatment.
The control room, with Genelec monitor flush mounted and an SSL SL4064G custom console, and the main live room which is more than 4 meters high, make the D:PoT a highly functional audio facility.
After two years at The Garage studio in Arezzo (link), Fabrizio Simoncioni decided to transfer to D: Recording Arts PoT its operational base and to inaugurate his new activity by recording and mixing the album Eutòpia by Litfiba in which he also played keyboards.
Simoncioni lived and worked in Mexico and Texas for about six years so he tried to bring a Tex-Mex twist also to D:PoT Recording Arts, personally choosing fabrics and furnishings.
This studio was the protagonist of Cecilia Torracchi’s Civil Engineering thesis titled “Sound insulation and acoustic treatment of a recording studio: analysis, design and measurements”
Details
Building and Project Management: Proaudio Consulting
Studio manager and resident engineer:
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Audio Facility | Music Studios - Control Rooms - Recording Rooms |
| Rooms | Control Room Live Room A Live Room B |
| Audio System | Pelonis System 42 , Genelec 7270a , Pelonis LN , Genelec 1025A , Genelec 8351A |
| Console | SSL 4000 |
| Artists | Litfiba |
| Control Room | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Area | 23 m2 | Volume | 65 m3 |
| Reverberation time | 0.20s @ 500Hz; 0.30s @ 63Hz |
| Live Room A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Area | 27 m2 | Volume | 110 m3 |
| Reverberation time | 0.30s @500Hz; 0.45s @63 Hz |
| Live Room B | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Area | 20 m2 | Volume | 60 m3 |
| Reverberation time | 0.18s @500Hz; 0.35s @63Hz |