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Originally Posted by matskull  STC 60 is good enough but I was under the impression that you would go for a higher STC, hence why I asked the question.
It will be a great place no matter what, most studio have an STC around 55-60 apparently. |
There's two ways to look at this:
1. Bleed vs. leakage. The main building was designed as a single unified environment, which means that if sound does travel from one room to another within the main building, it's going to be musically relevant and can be treated as bleed. Heck, even
reasonably high-spec analog tape can only muster 60 dB of print-through attenuation, and the reason that's OK is because even then, as strange as it sounds, whatever is happening one revolution away on the tape spool is musically connected to what's passing the tape head at that instant. So 60dB is a fine spec for controlling bleed.
2. Different studios. Unlike the multiplex, where the sci-fi blow-up-the-world movie always leaks into the quiet drama next door, our two studios are in different buildings, separated by walls that should top out at more than STC 90. In that case, we can mix a futuristic sci-fi blow-up-the-world sound track in the Annex and still have a mighty (and uncompromised) reverb tail in the Music Room.
That's our theory, anyway.