“I feel like the room is listening to me. It gives me just enough back to be happy, but when I dig in and play loud, it doesn’t pile on or get boomy. It just gives me what I need to feel good”
- Tom MERRIGAN Hot Raccoons
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Indianapolis 500 | Medium
Audio guru Steve Durr manages emotion at the world's biggest sporting event, the Indianapolis 500. |
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Castle Row Studios | The Oklahoman
Castle Row Studios celebrating first anniversary with June 18 open house and master class. The studio will host a master class from 2 to 4 p.m. with Steven Durr, the Nashville, Tenn.-based studio consultant who designed Castle Row, installed his signature monitors. |
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Firefly Sound Studios | Solid State Logic
Firefly Sound Studios is located in the beautiful Hill Country region of Texas, equidistant between Austin and San Antonio. Part of the growing Studios At Fischer media development, Firefly is a purpose-built facility, with acoustics by Steven Durr Designs, designed to service the large local music and media economy. |
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Recently we have had the joy and privilege to work on multiple vinyl listening rooms and enjoy bring studio quality sound to the public.
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J. Alexanders | Light Sound Journal
"I don’t know how they do it, but they do it, and that’s why we used Bose,” says Steven Durr, Principal at Steven Durr Designs, a Nashville-based acoustical design consultancy whose portfolio includes sound systems for major sports venues such as the Cleveland Browns Stadium and the Cincinnati Bengals’ Paul Brown Stadium, and music venues such as the Austin City Limits Performance Theatre and the acclaimed Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. |
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Plaza Mariachi | Sound and Communications Magazine
Durr took that a step further at the Madera Cafe, one of the Plaza's restaurants, installing some vintage "Voice of the Theatre" speakers in such a way that they can be heard both at the bar and the restaurant's small patio. "Sometimes you have to dig to find the right speakers for each room." |
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Lifeway Christian Resources Corporate Headquarters | Tenessean
Eight winners were chosen by out-of-state judges for the tenth annual "Excellence in Development" awards....Its modest architectural expression incorporates the company's historical products and gestures to the company's rich past and current values," judges stated, adding that it also used "sustainable and healthy building design. |
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CabaRay – Ray Stevens | Sound and Communications Magazine
Steven Durr Designs, LLC, the audio and acoustical consultant on the project was also involved from the very beginning. That began with Durr roaming the newly clipped hilltop more than a year ago with a disembodied humbucker guitar pickup attached to a battery-powered amplifier - a primitive but highly effective way to scan the intended site for electromagnetic interference (EMI)... |
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John Driskell Hopkins | Mix Magazine
Zac Brown Band founding member, John Driskell Hopkins, came to us with a vision of grandeur - turn his 2000+ sq ft unfinished attic into what is now Brighter Shade studios. The end result truly speaks for itself, we couldn't be more proud of everyone involved and how smooth the process was. |
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Battery Lane Music | Mix Magazine & TEC nominee 2020
Located Just a few miles from Music Row is a hidden gem, Battery Lane Music, with all the power of a commercial studio while retaining the charm of an artist retreat. Rather than having a studio that dictated production a style, owner/producer/writer Scott Gerow wanted a flexible, hybrid space that would adapt to any production and any artist. Featuring a tracking room to fit a band or a 20-plus piece string session, Battery Lane Music overlooks acres of land secluded in urban Nashville. |
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Recording Studio Consultants, Chad Hailey & Steven Durr | The Church Studio
Soultrain was a unique and challenging project, as it included the redesign of the iconic Scruggs Sound studio in Berry Hill. Owner Johnny Reid kept as much of the original footprint as possible, as he prefers to record with all of the players in the same room, playing off each other. However, the facility has a new modern interior design and custom DMX lighting. The tracking room, iso booth and control room have clear sight lines, while equipment upgrades brought the studio up to the state of the art... |
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Mix Class of 2020 | Mix Magazine
Soultrain was a unique and challenging project, as it included the redesign of the iconic Scruggs Sound studio in Berry Hill. Owner Johnny Reid kept as much of the original footprint as possible, as he prefers to record with all of the players in the same room, playing off each other. However, the facility has a new modern interior design and custom DMX lighting. The tracking room, iso booth and control room have clear sight lines, while equipment upgrades brought the studio up to the state of the art... |
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Mix Class of 2021| Mix Magazine
Considered Nashville’s first home studio, this facility dates back to the mid-1970s when engineer/producer Cowboy Jack Clement was working with artists such as Johnny Cash, Charley Pride, Townes Van Zandt, and many others. In 2011, a fire broke out in the house, burning down the legendary engineer/producer’s clubhouse for singer/songwriters. The following year, Mark Howard redesigned and rebuilt the studio, enlarging the cutting room, and then in 2018 Cousin Bob Clement purchased... |
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2021 Elevation Studios Aims to Raise Bar for Tour Rehearsals | Mix Online
Nashville, TN (July 9, 2021)—With the pandemic finally in decline, live music and events are coming back in a big way. Live Nation has already booked twice as many shows for 2022 as it did in 2019, and many industry watchers expect that kind of demand for concerts to spill forward into the coming years. That’s just fine with artists and production pros, however; they’re ready to get back to work and pack audiences into arenas around the world—and that’s a problem... |
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Cover Story: Studio Class of 2022, Part 1| Mix Magazine
Steven Durr Designs exercised great care to restore The Church studio, honoring its historical significance as it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Such a prized designation came with specific challenges due to stringent requirements to maintain the more than 100-year-old building’s design intent and 1970s studio aesthetics, while renovating and updating the facility to be relevant for today’s... |
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Austin PBS featured in Texas Society of Architects The Voice of Texas Architecture
When I was growing up as an only child in suburban Oklahoma, our PBS affliate was a fixture in our home. My parents and I would kick on the TV and tune into Rick Steves, Lawrence Welk, and Oklahoma Gardening with staid devotion. Before smartphones and household internet, PBS helped me access the world beyond my cul de sac. And PBS gave me the first taste of my future home late on Saturday nights, a little bit after... |
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5 Overlooked Things About Recording 2022 Studio Design | Production Expert
We all know that for the majority of home and project studios the big issue which needs confronting is acoustics. More specifically acoustic treatment for the mixing environment. That’s a big and important subject but there are other factors which are also important but don’t get as much attention. ADAM Audio interviewed Steve Durr, a very experienced engineer and studio designer and founder of Steven Durr Designs, a Nashville based consultancy who specialise in studio design, asking exactly this question. Here are his answers... |
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