control room

noun

The area inside a recording studio designed to facilitate the mixing of audio for studio recordings.

Meanings

nouncontrol room (plural control rooms)

plural control rooms

  1. The area inside a recording studio designed to facilitate the mixing of audio for studio recordings.
  2. A room serving as a centre for monitoring a building, controlling an operation etc.

    The two men sit 10 feet apart, behind a long console in Islington’s closed-circuit television (CCTV) control room, painted and carpeted in gray, with no adornments.

    2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018
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    In the control room the operating console and illuminated layout diagram are divided into four sections, each controlled by a signalman and set at different angles to allow any one of the four signalmen and the Traffic Regulator an unrestricted view of the whole panel, which is 53 ft. long and 4 ft. 6 in. high overall.

    1959 June, “The N.E.R.'s new wonder signalbox at Newcastle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 327

Synonyms & antonyms

Translations

Bulgarian контролна зала
  • контролна зала (kontrolna zala)room for monitoring or controlling
Danish kontrolrum
  • kontrolrumroom for monitoring or controlling
Dutch controlekamer
  • controlekamerroom for monitoring or controlling
Finnish valvomo
  • valvomoroom for monitoring or controlling
French salle de contrôle
  • salle de contrôleroom for monitoring or controlling
German Regieraum, Kontrollraum
  • Regieraumarea in a recording studio
  • Kontrollraumarea in a recording studio
  • K-Raumarea in a recording studio
  • Kontrollraumroom for monitoring or controlling
  • Leitstandroom for monitoring or controlling
Icelandic stjórnherbergi
  • stjórnherbergiroom for monitoring or controlling
Italian cabina di regia
  • cabina di regiaarea in a recording studio
Polish sterownia, dyspozytornia
  • sterowniaarea in a recording studio
  • dyspozytorniaroom for monitoring or controlling
Romanian cameră de comandă
  • cameră de comandăroom for monitoring or controlling
Scottish Gaelic seòmar-stiùiridh
  • seòmar-stiùiridhroom for monitoring or controlling
Spanish control de realización
  • control de realizaciónarea in a recording studio
Swedish kontrollrum
  • kontrollrumroom for monitoring or controlling
Cite this entry
APA

control room. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/control%20room

MLA

“control room.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/control%20room. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “control room,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/control%20room.

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