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onstructed in 1985, the L. Ron Hubbard Music Studio reflects Ron’s specific standards for what he envisioned as the perfect recording environment. The result is a studio that is indisputably the finest recording facility in the world. From physical design to equipment configuration and installation standards; from an acoustics design that allows for the reproduction of exact sound qualities to the finest mixboard in the world -- Ron’s studio enjoys an unmatched reputation for technical fidelity.Intrinsic to that fidelity is a design that allows one to perfectly capture the precise sound of any voice or instrument without alteration. Or in other words, whatever the performer is capable of doing will make it to the recording purely and faithfully.
A large part of what brings that purity and faithfulness of sound is Ron’s discovery -- and he was the first and only to discern the fact -- that sound does not have wavelengths; it simply has vibrations. In consequence, much advanced acoustic design suffers from a generally misunderstood concept of precisely how sound behaves. In contrast, the L. Ron Hubbard studio offers an audio environment that is literally perfect. The studio further offers a “building within a building” design, with each room set on its own “floating” concrete slab, (replete with separate walls and ceiling) to ensure no sound transmission during recording.
In testament to just what all this means in terms of quality, is the statement of legendary acoustics engineer, Paul S. Veneklasen. “Simply put,” proclaimed Veneklasen, “this studio is the best I’ve ever seen in all my fifty years in the field of sound recording -- the best, bar none!”
Once sound is recorded, the L. Ron Hubbard Music Studio provides the artist with yet another tool that is, quite simply, the best in the world: the handmade George Massenburg mixboard. One of only three such mixboards ever constructed, the Massenburg has become a legendary piece of equipment; it was one of the first fully computer automated mixboards, and Ron’s is the largest of the three. Today, it has become known as the premier mixing board in the entire world, tenaciously sought by studios everywhere, because it has no equal.