Advanced Systems Group has helped build Black Lava Studios, a professional immersive-audio room inside a converted residential garage in Sacramento. The facility is intended for Dolby Atmos music mixing, mastering, film work and sound design.
The monitoring layout is 9.1.6, with ASG advising on speaker placement, room correction, conversion and signal routing. Owner Steve Schatz brings experience from major film dubbing stages, but the new room has to translate that practice into a much smaller acoustic and technical footprint.
A compact Atmos room is not defined by speaker count alone. Geometry, delay alignment, bass management, noise, monitoring level and conversion all affect whether a mix travels reliably to larger stages and consumer playback. Designing those elements together is especially important when the shell was not originally built as a studio.
The report confirms the layout and ASG’s engineering role but does not identify loudspeakers, converters, renderer, room dimensions, isolation targets, calibration tolerances or formal certification. No translation tests against larger rooms are published.
