Steve Kirk Home Studio Tour

Planning, Construction Details, & Results

ZOOM MEETING 6:00PM PDT (UTC -7)

Wednesday, April 20th, 2022

Presented by

Steve Kirk

and

The Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society

Note that this meeting starts at 6:00pm Pacific Daylight Time, which is UTC -7. There are many countries in the world where that is the middle of normal sleep time, so if you intend to sleep normally that day you may want to watch the video when it comes out rather than signing up here and not showing up.

That said, it’s free to sign up, so do whatever makes you happy.

This will be a Zoom meeting.

Presentation Description:

For our April meeting, PNW Committee Member Steve Kirk discusses the unique challenges of rebuilding his recording studio in a residential environment. The topics covered will include:

Finding the right contractors for the job.

Soundproofing a small studio.

Materials and concept used in creating a reliable listening environment.

Ventilation and sound leakage management.

Studio signal chain.

Sound leakage challenges and solution

Steve will also present some short, recent music examples.

Additional information can be found at

Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society Website.

Go here to get on our emailing list.

THIS EVENT IS FREE, OPEN TO ALL, AND AES MEMBERSHIP IS NOT REQUIRED

About The Presenter

Steve composes for multi-media, and runs Steve Kirk Studios based in Port Orchard, Washington. Projects include Ron Gilbert’s Thimbleweed Park and, more recently, Bartlow’s Dread Machine. The original soundtrack is now available on Bandcamp: Bartlow’s Dread Machine soundtrack.

Steve also uses his studio to produce and arrange music for other artists. Other projects include music for the iOS releases “Skurvy Skallywags” for Beep Games and “Cookie Jam” for SGN. Steve also composed Cantina music for the Star Wars MMOL game “The Old Republic”. Further projects include music for the Disney game version of “The Princess And The Frog”, and the FarmVille Theme for Zynga. Before that, Steve worked on the wonderfully creative “Voodoo Vince” (Beep Games) composing over three hours of music for the game. The original soundtrack audio CD has received rave reviews, and is available here: Voodoo Vince soundtrack.

PNW AES Zoom Meetings

We started holding our meetings via Zoom beginning with the April 2020 meeting. Zoom has dramatically increased our reach, well beyond our Section’s geographic area. Since doing this, we’ve regularly had attendees from:

-most Provinces in Canada;

– most countries in:

–Europe,

–Central and South America;

-Japan,

-India,

-Indonesia,

-Malaysia,

-Australia,

-and more. It’s been unbelievable how many cool audio people we’ve met.

Zoom gives the ability to record videos of our meetings, and those recordings are individually posted in our past meetings Archive. For now, the collected videos from our Zoom meetings can be found (mostly) at Dan Mortensen’s DansoundSeattle YouTube channel.

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