Building a Professional Custom Color Grading Suite from Scratch

June 6, 2025

What do you need to build a professional color grading suite from scratch? Post Professional Sam Lowe shares his in-depth design secrets.


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How do you build a professional color grading suite? Sam Lowe shares his secrets…

Sam Lowe is a multi-talented man. Sound engineer, film score mixer, re-recording mixer, dialogue editor, and touring live sound engineer. He can do it all.

He also has a tremendous depth of experience building recording studios and professional-grade post-production suites from scratch.

In conversation with me (Kali Bateman) and Mixing Light CEO Patrick Inhofer, Sam shares his unique process of designing and setting up a color grading suite from start to finish.

Building a Color Grading Suite from Scratch

Professional color grading suites
Kali’s old color grading suite layout.

At the end of 2024, I needed to move my grading suite to a new facility, and it felt like the perfect time to rethink the entire setup.

I asked my husband, Sam Lowe, to help design, build, and set up my new suite. We talked at length about what worked in my previous suite and what didn’t.

Crucial details like:

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