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by Joe Morris
Nashville Business Journal
Audio One has completed the "1238 Project," an installation that blends recording studio and home technology.
The project was named for the age at which the owner began wanting a home studio and the number of years it took to make that happen. Work was done over several months in tandem with the owner's home construction and was unique in several ways, says Frank Conway, general manager of Audio One's Nashville office.
"This facility represents all the technologies that we do," Conway says. "We've been doing recording studios design and equipment installation as well as wiring for 17 years, and we've also been doing home automation and lighting control, but this is the first time we've done both in one place here in Nashville."
The project included automated lighting and audio control through wired and wireless touch panels, giving control of communications, audio, video, data and environmental systems at multiple sites throughout the 2,200-square-foot studio and residence. Both the studio and the house also are preset for wireless Internet access.
The owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, wanted to avoid the problems associated with separate systems for his project studio and remainder of his estate. Now, two weeks after getting everything up and running, the owner says he already sees new possibilities.
"My eyes were opened with some new ideas brought forth in the midst of configuring everything," he says. "I already feel more secure when I'm buried in the studio knowing that there's camera monitoring going on, that lights are turning on."
Conway says that, while this project was the first in town that commingled studio and home automation, it likely won't be unique for long.
"More studios are going in houses these days," he says. "We're also finding bits and pieces from the home side, like lighting control panels, that we can put into the studio to create themes. It's a natural progression."
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