Editing Recording studio (section)

{{Short description|Facility for sound recording}}
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[[File:AugustRecordingSonJarochoWikiLearning020.jpg|thumb|Control room at the [[Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City|Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus]] ]]

A '''recording studio''' is a specialized facility for [[Sound recording and reproduction|recording]] and [[Audio mixing|mixing]] of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds. They range in size from a small in-home [[project studio]] large enough to record a single singer-guitarist, to a large building with space for a full orchestra of 100 or more musicians. Ideally, both the [[Studio recording|recording]] and monitoring (listening and mixing) spaces are specially designed by an [[acoustician]] or [[audio engineer]] to achieve optimum acoustic properties (acoustic isolation or diffusion or absorption of reflected sound [[reverberation]] that could otherwise interfere with the sound heard by the listener).

Recording studios may be used to record singers, instrumental musicians (e.g., electric guitar, piano, saxophone, or ensembles such as orchestras), [[voice-over]] artists for advertisements or [[Dubbing|dialogue replacement]] in film, television, or animation, [[Foley (filmmaking)|Foley]], or to record their accompanying musical soundtracks. The typical recording studio consists of a room called the "studio" or "live room" equipped with [[microphone]]s and mic stands, where instrumentalists and vocalists perform; and the "[[control room]]", where audio engineers, sometimes with record producers, as well, operate [[professional audio]] [[mixing console]]s, [[effects unit]]s, or computers with specialized software suites to [[audio mixing|mix]], manipulate (e.g., by adjusting the equalization and adding effects) and route the sound for [[analog recording|analog]] or [[digital recording]]. The engineers and producers listen to the live music and the recorded "tracks" on high-quality [[Studio monitor|monitor speakers]] or [[headphones]].

Often, there will be smaller rooms called ''isolation booths'' to accommodate loud instruments such as drums or electric guitar amplifiers and speakers, to keep these sounds from being audible to the microphones that are capturing the sounds from other instruments or voices, or to provide "drier" rooms for recording vocals or quieter acoustic instruments such as an acoustic guitar or a [[fiddle]]. Major recording studios typically have a range of large, heavy, and hard-to-transport instruments and music equipment in the studio, such as a [[grand piano]], [[Hammond organ]], [[electric piano]], [[harp]], and [[drum kit|drums]].