SiriusXM Chooses MECART for Modular Studios and Professional Recording Studio Design for their New Miami Broadcast Facility

SiriusXM has a vision, to celebrate the city’s rich Hispanic and Latinx culture while delivering new content and experiences for their listeners with exclusive performances and broadcasts, engaging conversations with podcasts, and live events.  

Creating multiple studio spaces is crucial for bringing this vision to life. SiriusXM has teamed up with MECART as their recording studio builder because MECART modular recording studios provide superior acoustic performance, maximize usable studio space, and are substantially more affordable than the competition. 

Read the article Recording Studio Builders: MECART Modular Studios Chosen by SiriusXM to learn more about why SiriusXM picked MECART and the advantages of a modular recording studio. 

Professional Recording Studio Design in Miami: Delivering Tailored Solutions

SiriusXM needs a professional recording studio design in their brand new Miami broadcast complex for 6 studio spaces, including a 50-seat performance studio, and “artist-first” radio and recording studios. 

The design for SiriusXM had to be tailored to fit the building’s constraints while also fostering a harmonious connection between the building and the new studios. MECART specializes in constructing and designing personalized recording studios to achieve this balance.

Each studio is built using MECART acoustic panels, which provide excellent sound insulation adapted to the unique needs of each space and have a Sound Transmission Class (STC) rating ranging from STC 45 to STC 56.

A Custom 50-Seat Live Performance Studio Tailored for SiriusXM Unique Needs 

This custom recording studio is the largest out of the 7 spaces manufactured by MECART, with dimensions of 43’ X 24, and offers an STC 56 rating. The studio is used to host performances by well-known artists such as the Jonas Brothers, Carrie Underwood, Flo Rida, and CNCO, which are broadcast live on SiriusXM’s different channels. 

SiriusXM needs to have a design that integrates well into its complex while contributing to the vibrant culture of the city, with higher ceilings and specific features for integrating lights and cables for the control room.

The studio’s custom-made windows are made of laminated glass to offer better sound attenuation and thus ensure impeccable acoustic performance for recordings and streams despite pedestrians, buses, trucks, and cars passing by a few feet away on Collins Avenue.

A Recording Studio Design That Blends In 

MECART’s modular studios are entities of their own, like small independent rooms that fit into a larger room. At SiriusXM’s request, MECART’s acoustician and project manager designed the studio to give the impression of being an integral part of the building, as if it were one with the main building. 

To create this illusion, MECART incorporated in its studio design, windows that were the same size and proportions as the building’s windows, blurring the lines between what is the studio and the building.

High-Ceiling for Video Broadcasting and Studio Control Room Utilities 

Given the objective of the live performance studio being video broadcast, it was necessary to have higher ceilings compared to a typical studio to ensure that the lights would not be visible in the recorded shots.

MECART designed custom-made 12½-foot ceilings to meet the required criteria. These ceilings were also constructed using MECART STC 56 panels. 

The studio is also equipped with a ceiling grid or technical grid for hanging lights, remote controlled camera rigs as well as for hanging and routing cables for the studio control room – A remote production suite.