Arena Club | Los Angeles

Arena Club's work lives on camera and on air, which makes acoustics part of the product, not a finish. When rooms like these are reverberant, it shows in every recording and every call: voices ring, speech blurs, and the space fights the person trying to use it.

We came in on the acoustics for the conference and podcast spaces. In the conference room, we added ceiling clouds to bring down reverberation overhead and acoustic wall coverings to absorb reflections at the source, tightening the room so speech reads clearly. In the podcast room, we treated the walls and ceiling with fabric-tracked acoustic panel, controlling the room enough to give the recordings a cleaner starting point.

This is one side of what we do in acoustics: room acoustic treatment, tuning how sound behaves inside a space so voices stay clear and rooms stay comfortable to work in.

The other side is isolation, controlling how sound moves between spaces: keeping a boardroom private, a studio silent, a mechanical room unheard. Isolation is decided early, in the wall assemblies, the structure, and the details most projects lock in before anyone thinks about sound. It's the work that can't be added later, which is exactly why we want to be at the table before the walls close.

That's the discipline: design the room's acoustics and its isolation together, from the start, so the space performs the way the work inside it demands.

One standard across every room: when someone speaks, they're heard.