Smith, Fause & McDonald, Inc.

In addition to its extensive work in civic center live television, such as for San Francisco City Hall, Los Angeles City Hall and many other civic centers, as well as for the sports facilities such as HP Pavilion and others, SFMI provides a wide range of audio, video, technical grounding and acoustical design services to the video editing and television production industries. Sample project experiences include:

• Hollywood Digital, Los Angeles, California

At the time of its opening, the most advanced television post-production facility in the world. All video and audio signals are handled in Digital format. Facility includes seven on-line edit bays, three telecines, two graphics suites, two audio pre-lay control rooms, one Foley and two audio post-mix suites. Each room contains Dolby (TM) surround monitoring. 



Project was built as a retrofit to an existing office building. Project was designed, constructed, commissioned and in operation within 8 months. Completed in 1993.

Scope of Services: Room Acoustics, HVAC noise control, Sound Isolation, Audio signal system concept, and general facility concept collaboration.

Client: Hollywood Digital

• City of Los Angeles Teleproduction Center, Los Angeles, California

Design of a new 13,000 sf government access origination facility for video production system for the City of Los Angeles, used as input to the City cable franchises, including production studios, editing suites, staff and technical support facilities, technical support archive, dressing and conference rooms and a multi-channel, air release switching center and is designed for on-site as well as off-site productions.

Sound Isolation, Noise Control, Video & Audio Plant Design, Television Lighting and Draperies Provisions, Facilities Programming

Architect: Siegel-Sklarek-Diamond AIA , Los Angeles, California

• Schulman Video, Hollywood, California

Video shooting stages and post-production facility

Scope of Services: Room Acoustics, exterior and interior sound isolation, HVAC noise control

Architect: Margot Siegel & Assocs., Los Angeles, California

• Action Video, Hollywood, California

Video post-production facility

Scope of Services: Interior acoustics, isolation and HVAC noise control

• Pacific Telephone Media Integration Center, San Ramon, California

Scope of Services: Room acoustics, sound isolation and HVAC noise control design for 3 video editing rooms used by Pacific Bell at its headquarters to evaluate video on demand switching, progam review and control service offerings.

Architect: Interform, San Ramon, California

• Alpha Telecommunications, Santa Monica, California

Medical television production/post production facility retrofit to existing medical office building. Includes studio, on-line edit, off-line edit, graphics suite and offices. 

Scope of Services: HVAC noise control, room acoustics, sound isolation, conceptual space planning, electrical criteria, studio lighting.

Architect: CHCG Architects, Pasadena, California

• U.C. Davis, Student Housing Television Network,

SFMI designed the audio and video facilites of the studio serving as the origination facitity for all U.C. Davis dormitory occupants as part of its design of the U.C. Davis ResNet project.

• Pizza Hut Soundstore, Culver City, California

Pizza Hut Corporate Commercial Soundstage

Scope of Services: Room Acoustics, Sound Isolation, HVAC Noise Control

• KBAK-TV Studios, Bakersfield, California

Scope of Services: Room Acoustics, Sound Isolation, HVAC Noise Control

Client: Harriscope Broadcasting, Caspar, Wyoming

• KTLA Television, Los Angeles, California

Scope of Services: Sound Isolation & Tape Machine Noise Control

• KULR/Straight 8 Television Channel, Billings, Montana

Scope of Services: Rail Noise & Vibration Isolation, HVAC Noise Control, Room Acoustics, Facility Layout, Television Lighting

As part of a study for building new on-air announce studios for ABC television affiliate; SFMI performed studies of the potential impact of the peak noise and ground plane vibration produced by the adjacent Coal Train and Highway. SFMI further provided mitigation criteria for isolating the studio from this impact.

Client: Harriscope Broadcasting, Caspar, Wyoming

• Editel, Division of Columbia Pictures Industries, Hollywood, California

4 Edit Bays, 3 telecines Suites

Scope of Services: Acoustical and Technical Power Consultant. Control room and studio, post production audio (sweetening) for television

• KFTV (SIN Affiliate), Fresno, California

Scope of Services: Review of Sound Isolation Provisions and Space Allocation

• TV Channel 4, Lima, Peru

Scope of Services: Design of Video Systems, Television Network Center System for three studios, post production, and telecine.

• Group W Cable, Los Angeles, California

Five Local Access Television Studios

Scope of Services: Review of Sound Isolation

• Bloomsburg State College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Scope of Services: Technical Power Systems, Review of Television and Radio Facility Space Allocation

Architect: BurkavageEvans Associates, Charles Summit, Pennsylvania

• Pancake Block Duplication Facility

Bell & Howell, Division of Columbia Pictures Industries, Anaheim, California

Scope of Services: Video Duplication Center Technical Power, Isolated Ground System and System Standard Wiring Plan

• Teletronics, Huntington Beach, California

Video Duplication Center

Scope of Services: Technical power and signal grounding

• Gravi TV Facility, Bogota, Colombia

Scope of Services: Television production facility reconstruction & upgrading

Architect: Cuellar Serrano Gomez y Cia, Bogota, Colombia

• RTI Bogota TV Facility, Bogota, Colombia

Scope of Services: Television post production facility design.

Architect:  Cuellar Serrano Gomez y Cia., Bogota, Colombia