The 8th Note Studio is a medium-sized high-end studio in Hanoi. With a 30 m2 Live Room, 14 m2 Control Room, The 8th Note Studio is capable of meeting a variety of recording and music production needs from recording a single vocal/instrument to a full band with quality wonderful sound.
The studio owner is pianist Nguyen Dinh Phuc. He is very meticulous in music as well as sounds, instruments, furniture. After getting fed up with his old homemade studio (now used as a practice room) with poor acoustics, musician Phuc decided to find a new location and asked us for advice on minimum venue standards, a list of recording and monitoring equipment suitable for a high-end studio.
General information
- Area of Control Room: ~15 m2
- Area of Live Room: ~36 m2
- Services: Recording, Mixing, Mastering, High-Quality Live Streaming
Technical information
- Frequency Response: +-1.5dB 40-20,000 Hz; +- 0.5dB 37-200 Hz
- Reverb time T30: @63Hz 0.35s;
Objective Feedback
Response from Lukas Rimbach – German acoustics expert at GiK Acoustics:
“It is VERY flat regardless! Great job!
And that is as good as a smaller room like that can get possibly, really impressive!
A lot of people claim they know their stuff and would be scared to show results, you can definitely show these to anybody.
In all honesty, you could have gotten lucky with the room but the dimensions don’t seem so lots of respect! I can’t say that all the rooms I treat turn out that well. Of course, it is due to budget constraints and the limitation of working with modules.”
Music Videos made at The 8th Note Studio
Equipments:
- Monitoring: Genelec 1030A, Yamaha NS10M Studio, SPL MTC 2381, Studio Headphones (Beyerdynamic, Sony, Shure, AKG…)
- Recording System: RME Fireface 800, Pro Tools 12, MAC OS X, Mackie Universal Controller Pro & Extender, Tascam DM24
- Microphones: Neumann TLM-103, AKG 414EB x2 (vintage brass capsule), Oktava MK012 x2, Sennheiser MD421 x4, Royer R-121, AKG D112 x2, Shure Beta52, Shure SM57 x5, Shure Sm58 x4
- Preamps: Millennia STT-1 Original, API 3124 vintage, Audient ASP800 x2
- Instrument: D.W. Drums, Korg M3, Fender Stratocaster, Fender JazzBass, Martin Guitar, Yamaha Piano,
- Amplifiers: Marshall JCM2000 & Marshall 1960B 4×12 cabinet, Fender TwinReverb Combo 2×12, Ampeg Bass Amp