Oh excerpt about the studio from an Article in 2004 when Mike and his dad re-designed the place:
And now he's (Mike Mancini) staking his reputation on the Platinum Sound Lab, a state-of-the-art sound studio in the southeast Las Vegas Valley. Tucked away in the back of a sprawling industrial complex across from McCarran International Airport, Mancini's studio is packed to the gills with amenities, including a $250,000 Pro Tools digital workstation and a MIDI mixing room. And thanks to his father's architectural input, the two main recording studios ripple with acoustic depth and brightness. "The walls are three-quarter-inch maple, and there are three levels of drywall underneath that," Michael explains. "The mass is what makes it sound good. It's like a piano cabinet on a grand piano. If you took that away it would sound like a banjo."
To further harness the sound, the rooms are layered with padded sound dampeners and retractable curtains and carpet. Each studio also has a wall made completely of rock, which Michael says helps break up sound waves and gives horns a fuller sound. He is charging $85 per hour for studio time, a fee that makes him competitive with the rest of the studios in town. Ultimately--if he can stay competitive with the 8,000-square-foot sound studio slated to open at the Palms--Michael would like to see a return to independent production and the time when the industry suits weren't around to foul up the works.
