Some projects are just a bit special. We were asked to design and build a console for a new music room. We worked with the architects and contractors to fully integrate a Charterhouse Console into the newly built room.

The console was built in Maple, matching the furniture in the room, and the plinth was finished in the same material as the floor. A custom music desk with maple frame and floating Birds Eye Maple inner panels finish off the instrument.

The audio was all Genelec, absolutely amazing. It was installed and calibrated by the UK Genelec reseller. The audio was configured as 4 + 1 to work with Hauptwerk’s surround sound perspective mixing.

We installed a Focusrite 4i4 in the console along with a Mac Mini and used a Radial Catapult Mini to convert 4 balanced audio channels into a single Cat6 cable that ran into the structured cabling installed in the room – only 2 cables emerge from the console, power and Cat6.

As ever, Sebastian at UHT did a fantastic job on the keyboards, Grenadilla naturals, Maple sharps with Mineral caps.

The Charterhouse is a beautiful contemporary design, but it comes at a price, nowhere to place your cup of tea; a retractable cup holder and pencil tray were incorporated into the design.

We configured the Rotterdam sample set from Sonus Paradisi and it sounded amazing!