A Mighty Fortress is our Studio...

(If you're here for the first time, I invite you to start at the beginning with my first post back in May. It's been an interesting journey. But now that we're under construction, things are moving along at warp speed.)

Here's the back of my head as Jerry and I discuss progress during a recent site visit.


Masons start laying block for Control Room A (Anthony's room) and Studio 2 (which will be our main VO/Vocal/ADR booth).


And yesterday, work was completed on all block walls. Here's a series of shots from various angles. Now you see what I mean by my "fortress" reference. If you didn't know better, you'd think we were building a bunker - not a studio.





I'd like say thanks to Brian Cook and his crew from Masonry Unlimited of Cherryville for the great work. Brian understood our stringent sound isolation needs and saw to it that every detail was attended to. As I've mentioned before, a studio is a peculiar beast for contractors who are used to more standard construction methods. But everyone involved has shown not only great interest, but plenty of enthusiasm for helping us achieve first class sound isolation and acoustics. I'd like to state publicly and for the record just how much it's appreciated.

So...with this critical phase of construction complete, we can move on to some other interesting aspects of the project. Like electricity. Clean audio requires clean power. And clean power requires a big, honkin' transformer.


In conclusion, we've spent so much time indoors - here's a vantage point from outside. It'll be nice to have that Carolina Blue sunshine streaming into our lobby, offices and main corridors. I've always disliked studios that feel like caves. There's nothing like lots of natural light.


Next week, framing begins for soundproof ceiling caps in the studios and control rooms. Framing for the common areas (offices, restrooms, breakroom, etc.) will follow the week after. Pop back next week and you'll have a camera's eye view.

Until next time...