Audio Production Studios (LIB 365B & 365C)
Knight Library 365B and 365C are small audio production studios equipped with high-quality digital audio workstations, located inside the Douglass Room on the 3rd floor of Knight Library. These mixing/recording booths are ideally suited to meet the needs of students enrolled in audio production courses in the School of Music and Dance, as well as graduate students in intermedia music technology and performance of data-driven instruments. These rooms are fully capable small studios, providing professional spaces to record, edit and mix your audio project.
Reservations
Reservations should be submitted at least 48 hours in advance of the requested time, up to 12 weeks in advance. The Music Services team will review your reservation request and respond as soon as possible.
Please check room availability on the calendar before submitting a reservation request. Please note, an individual access code must be assigned to you before you will be able to access the studios. The audio production studios may only be reserved by UO faculty, graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in an Audio Production course, graduate and undergraduate students who’ve completed a Library Studio workshop, and staff engaged in audio production, research sound design or storytelling through sound, digital audio, and the use of recording technology for teaching, learning, and scholarship.
What are the Library Studios for?
The library’s audio production studios are intended to facilitate professional audio production coursework and projects while expanding educational audio production resources at the University. Each of these two shared spaces is equipped with professional quality facilities for teaching, learning, and scholarship. Within our room-use guidelines, students, faculty and staff are welcome to use the space as part of their audio production-intensive education initiatives with a focus on high quality audio and professional development to help fulfill their educational needs, teaching objectives, and creative projects.This includes but is not limited to:
- Mixing multi-track recordings
- Supporting overdub work in an audio engineering environment
- Managing audio production education for various fields
- Developing podcast and vocal driven narrative projects
- Enhancing audio production and music technology coursework
- Creating and publishing musical work in a professional setting
- Enhancing discipline and education projects
How to Get Access
Users must have an access code to get into the studios. In order to be assigned an access code, you need to be a University of Oregon student, staff or faculty member, and (a) be enrolled in an Audio Production course, or (b) attend a short workshop on the library studios.
For a current workshop schedule, visit https://uoregon.libcal.com/calendar/music.
There are no room-use, room set-up, or technology fees for the Library Studios for what is currently available. For any special recording needs beyond the current setup, you must bring your own gear.
Studio Use Guidelines
- Food and drinks are prohibited in the Library Studios. Only water in a spill-proof container is permitted. If you need a snack or coffee, take a break and enjoy your food and drink in the Douglass Room study lounge area right outside the studios.
- Do not unplug or move any of the equipment installed at the desks in each studio. If you need to plug in your own laptop, mic, instrument, or other audio source, all necessary jacks and ports are accessible from the front, so you do not need to access the rear side of the desk.
- Please report any misuse, accidental damage, or technical issues to ashaffer@uoregon.edu and musicref@uoregon.edu.
- Please change or cancel reservations with as much advance notice as possible to make the space available to others.
- Please be on time: If you have not come to begin your session in the studio 10 minutes past the time of your reservation, the studio reverts to “first come, first served” and your reservation will be forfeited.
- Studio use is limited to three (3) hours per day. Users may reserve both studios (365B and 365C) simultaneously for up to three hours.
- Faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff are welcome to use the studios on a drop-in basis, as long as there are no other events/meetings scheduled. If another user has booked the studio, the reservation takes priority. You must respectfully pack up and allow the person with reservation to come in and work.
- Outside the two studios are five audio work stations and a lounge area. Faculty, graduate, undergraduate students, and staff are welcome to use these areas at any time the library is open.
- Leave the studios better than you found them. Clean up any trash, make sure all equipment is intact and all furniture is where it should be. (If you borrowed chairs from the Douglass study lounge area, you must put them back before you leave.) These are shared spaces, and all users are responsible for taking care of them.