Hi There. You can probably tell pretty easily that this website is still under construction….. well that’s ok – so is the Studio itself! River Studios is planned to be the most exciting private music complex south of London, bringing together the best of Recording Services, Vocal and Music Tuition, Rehearsal rooms and a Dance/Performance studio all in one character filled venue. Built in 1904, used as various things including a cinema, but now in the process of being refurbished with ecologically friendly air handling systems, sound proofing and acoustic treatment, sound systems, teaching technology and comfort. It will take time. It will be VERY hard (it already has been!) and there will be more problems to come along the way, but it will be worth it.
Check back regularly and we’ll try and keep up a progress report and leak some photos when we can sneak into the building site! 
You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter to keep up on the construction over the coming months.
In the mean time if you looking for a recording studio, voice or music tuition in Southampton check out the links to the right to see what we’re up to right now.
See you all in the Autumn!
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- The soundproofing going into a rehearsal room – there will be walls on top!
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- Air conditioning and electrics being installed in the studio ceiling
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- The walls coming up for the rear extension teaching rooms – working late!
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- Inside the large live room
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- Looking into the large live room through its door
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- The control room’s main air handling unit
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- Another view from inside a rehearsal room
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- The smallest rehearsal room with its air input/output being fitted
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- Preparing the flooring for the dance studio – later to have its sprung floor installed.
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- Testing ceiling hight… Step one: take tall man. Step two: try and touch ceiling… Success!
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- Lets see that again for another angle…
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- The roofing going onto the back extension – the future location of two teaching rooms.
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- Windows and walls coming together in the main studio
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- Getting to work on the soundproofing around the building – every room needs to be totally isolated.
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- The new upstairs!
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- The outside entrance to one of the teaching rooms
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- The opposite view from inside that teaching room
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- The Studio! The large live room on the left and the vocal booth on the right – both designed to give a good line of sight to the engineer :)
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- Looking into the vocal booth
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- Construction of the front, first floor extension which will house part of the café
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- Starting to look very sexy from across the street!
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- Some of the acoustic treatment arrives…
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- Construction of the rear first floor extension which will house a pair of teaching rooms.
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- The roofing at the back of the building and the initial stages of the new extension ceiling.
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- One of the main downstairs corridors along the rehearsal rooms…
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- The beginnings of the studio live rooms
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- and a vocal booth!
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- One of the rehearsal rooms in its final shape!
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- Preparing the footings for the rehearsal rooms
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- The soon to be lobby and reception area
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- Make shift tea room in the lobby
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- Footings for the control room, live room and vocal booth
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- The first new doorway
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- The walls are coming up!
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- Preparing footings for Rehearsal Rooms
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- All That ivy gone :-)
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- Day 5 – Now you can tell it was once a cinema
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- Day Three – upstairs is gone!
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- Day two – all the upstairs partitions gone!
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- Even Wayne can’t believe how good it looks! :-)
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- Newly re sited skylights
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- That ivy is where the black birds and the wood pigeons were nesting – nearly brought the whole job to a halt!
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- Week One – gonna be a control room!
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- What was then ‘Compton Lodge’
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- The Car Park – Exciting hey? :-)
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- A nice spot for a Studio Control Room :-)
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- The rear downstairs corridor
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- How you used to get upstairs
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- I’m thinking “some rehearsal rooms”
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- Inside the funny lookin’ bit on the front
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- More of upstairs….inspiring!
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- Needs no explanation!
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- A bit of upstairs
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- The upstairs loo – not quite as bad
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- Upstairs kitchen – very 70’s
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- I LOVE partition walls, don’t you?
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- Wouldn’t you love to eat here?
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- As good as it looks!
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- ….Round the back
..and this is how the dark logo looks
