


We also deployed a camera in the main room so singers can maintain eye contact with us on a monitor and vice versa. ‘The ability to change lighting moods in sessions is always a fun/creative way to inspire the work. We also installed Nanoleaf Canvas lights in the vocal booth, which although small, is completely floated and thanks to some clever workarounds eliminates the need for a music stand or floor-standing mic. The lighting is Philips Hue smart lights, and white is the absolute best surface to reflect colour. I went with a clean modern all white look.

‘I wanted to create something very different from my previous studio,’ Pietsch explains.
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A UAD Apollo X4 serves as the audio interface, with a 2019 Mac Pro 3.2GHz 16 Core Intel Xeon with 128GB RAM for recording. He installed ATC SMC25A monitors with Adam Sub10 MkII subwoofers, while two Brent Averill vintage Neve 1073 mic preamps handle vocals, guitars and basses. The size of the facility dictated minimal space for outboard gear. In early 2020, the ScooterMusic Studio was session ready. Pietsch and his three-man construction team went to work on the studio build-out, framing, sheet-rocking the control room/composing room and fully isolating the compact vocal booth. An on-site visit in 2019 from WSDG Partners/Project Manager, Matthew Ballos and Acoustic Engineer, Andy Swerdlow resulted in a concrete design with a floor plan and presentation drawings that make the most of the production, recording, mixing and listening potential of the site. Having met WSDG founding partner John Storyk via Sound Designer and mutual friend Nevin Steinberg ( Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen), engaged WSDG to design his new studio.
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Working across the film and television music media landscape, composer, playwright, novelist, musician and TV producer, Scooter Pietsch (pēch) has moved on from the 2,000-sq-ft recording facility that hosted his work on thousands of TV series episodes, including ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars, USA Network’s Burn Notice, USA’s All Dogs Go To Heaven and E!’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians to a new 350-sq-ft studio in a building attached to his Studio City home.
