Acoustic design + construction, one company

Most studios get built twice. Yours won't.

The usual way: an acoustic designer draws it, a general contractor who has never built a studio prices it, and you referee the two while the details that made it work get value-engineered out. We do both halves. There is nobody to blame but us.

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STREET OUTER LEAF AIR + ABSORPTION INNER LEAF LIVE ROOM MASS AIR MASS 100 dB MOTORCYCLE, 3 M 38 dB BELOW THE NOISE FLOOR −62 dB
FIG. 1 Why the wall costs what it costs. Two independent masses, an air gap that never touches, and one continuous screw would undo all of it.

The failure mode

A studio does not fail loudly. It fails in the one place the drawings never covered: a duct that carries the neighbor's HVAC, a stud that bridges two leaves, a door that seals on three sides.

None of it shows up at walkthrough. It shows up on the invoice from the band you have to bring back.

You find out when you track drums.

How it works

01 / DESIGN

Acoustic engineering

Room geometry, isolation targets, HVAC path, and treatment, specified before a single price is quoted. Nothing gets drawn that we can't build.

02 / BUILD

Construction

The spec survives contact with the site, because your GC is us. When something has to change, the person who decides is the person who did the math.

03 / VERIFY

Commissioning and tuning

Isolation measured, RT60 tuned, results handed to you on paper. If it misses, he's on the payroll. Nobody drives away and stops answering.

Client portal

You'll always know where your project stands.

Schedule, budget, change orders, contracts, warranties, and a photo log from the site every day it's worked. One login, from the first drawing to the last measurement.

portal.eclipsebuild.com WESTGATE / TRACKING ROOM A
Slab isolation pouredMAR 04
HVAC silencers setMAR 19
Decoupled inner leaf framedAPR 02
Isolation verificationIN PROGRESS
RT60 tuningMAY 21
Handover and measurement reportJUN 06
  • Milestones you can actually readNot "framing" and "rough-in." The stages that determine whether the room works.
  • Every dollar, as it movesBudget, invoices, and change orders approved in one place, with a signature that means something.
  • A photo log, dailyWhat got built, the day it got built. Yours to keep when we're gone.
  • Contracts and warranties, filedTwo years from now, when a door seal needs a part number, it's still there.

Selected work

Results, not adjectives.

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Westgate Tracking Room

62 dB isolation from a shared wall

A drum room sharing a demising wall with a dance studio. Two structures, one address, neither one hears the other.

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Hayti Control Room

RT60 0.31 s, 80 Hz–8 kHz ±0.04

Flat enough that mixes translate. Built inside an existing brick shell with a 9 ft ceiling to work with.

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Private Residence, Chapel Hill

NC-15 with the HVAC running

A garage conversion in a neighborhood with an HOA and a noise ordinance. Quiet inside, invisible outside.

Who you're hiring

Two companies. One contract. No daylight between them.

Acoustics, design, panels

Brett Acoustics

Studio design and acoustic engineering, plus the custom panels and diffusion built in our own shop. Twenty years of rooms that had to measure, not just look right.

Construction, site, trades

[Paul's company]

General contracting and finish carpentry across the Triangle. Licensed, insured, and on the site every day the room is being built.

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Tell us about the room.

Send us the space, the budget, and what you need to record in it. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit, and if we're not, who is.

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