Our mission at Parsons Audio is to provide solutions that help engineers, educators, musicians, studio, and venue owners realize their goals.

When the owners of “The Porches” approached us to design a live sound venue with full multimedia and recording studio capabilities, realizing their vision provided a challenge. 

“Studio 9 at Porches Inn” is an energy-neutral, multi-function facility, located at Mass MoCA in western Massachusetts. The design implements a Meyer Constellation system, a Planar 4k capable video wall, a Yamaha CL3 digital mixing console with Rio-3224-D2, and a high-end Pro Tools-based mobile recording studio.

The versatile patching and state-of-the-art Meyer Constellation™ system contribute greatly to the overall multi-function capabilities. The Constellation enables the room’s acoustical properties to be altered to suit the hosted event, (such as a social gathering, corporate conferencing, or musical performance). The system has been engineered to fit the client’s needs, from how the venue can be utilized, to the ease of configuring and re-configuring the set-ups.

A Crestron processor controls the 40-speaker Meyer Constellation™ system, and the Parsons team ensured that every parameter can be optimized for any event. By adjusting the menu settings, room ambiance can be enhanced for the speech intelligibility of one person in a conference meeting or many at social breakfast and dining events. The same for one musical instrument, or an entire ensemble. The options are endless!