We are considering a property for a new project studio....an existing commercial soundstage....with 15.5 ft. ceilings and over 2800 sq. ft. It has a curved cyc wall, 20 ft. wide and 45 ft long.
A cyc wall, also known as a cyclorama wall, is a curved wall mostly used as a backdrop for photography and video shoots. A cyclorama wall allows for consistent and seamless background transitions, which creates a smoother shooting experience.
Our intention is to incorporate this existing cyc wall into one of the live rooms to give an added option for music video production. Should we be concerned with any issues or problems when tracing in such a space, due to curved wall?
Below is a drawing of existing soundstage as well as planned recording studio layout:
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In the original post are…
In the original post are drawings of existing soundstage as well as planned recording studio layout with the mezzanine level included (showing lounge/kitchen)....the idea is to butt up to the mezzanine section to allow viewing through double glass window from lounge/kitchen area:
Ground Floor:
Photo of Existing Soundstage Showing Cyc Wall:
Another possible layout…
Another possible layout....isolating control room bit better as not putting it backing onto a laneway (though not ever overly busy laneway). Back of the control room is a storage area.
OR maybe this one:
With regard to constant painting of cyc walls I think a better idea is to use white, blue and chroma-key green screens on the wall instead of continual painting.
After much thought and…
After much thought and reviewing choices we have decided to concentrate on just building recording studio.....the existing curved cyc wall will be eliminated as priority is music production.
But something more like this:
But something more like this:
The green screen if thats…
The green screen if thats part of your model, is useful, but it does create very strange reflections for audio. I have a home studio as well as the studio at work. The work studio is for video mainly, but gets used for audio, and the home studio is audio, but i fitted a curved green screen. What happens is that the reflections focus the reflections, into the area you have a drum kit in, in one image. Very strange things happen. Because of the scale, i have one position i must not put a mic in. I would expect your dodgy area would be bigger than mine. What happens is that sound seems to sort of ‘cancel’. If you sing and move into the wall focussing area, room sound goes up, but you seem to hear your own voice go down. It is very strange. Oddly it doesnt seem to impact the recording, as long as the mic is not in the danger area, but if you stray into it, the room sounds extremely strange. A thick curtain to cover up the curve cures it.
The green screen area will be a bit odd though, if your height is good, which it is, then its also not that visible, 16:9 means that you dont see much screen area as the cameras are very close. 20ft from camera to screen means that to prevent shadows, your camera to subject distance might be 12-15ft, so that means wide angle lenses, and even them three people wide is a struggle. In my studio this happens all the time and one camera ends up almost out of the studio area to get a bit more width. You seem happy with drawing and rendering images, so add in your lens angles and see what real green screen width the cameras can access.
I think that unless you actually need it, removing it makes sense, however, one big wall could easily have a tracked green screen and you could build a storage space at one end so when it is not in use, the folded cloth bundles into a couple of feet of track space in an alcove, invisible. All you do is pull it out and at the far end use cloth clips and bungys to tension it. Green screen in about 5 minutes.