The control room floor is finished, the light boxes are in, and we have hung the ceiling cloud in there too. One of the last things in this room is the centre table. Once we get this in, this room is pretty much ready to go! A simply built centre piece is going to separate the two sections of the room. Big enough to fit a few stools behind, it will offer a functional surface for our guests to work on whilst in the control room and will also house a selection of outboard gear

The majority of the dusty work is done, so we've been working hard on the window between the control room and live room, or is that windows...? The studio walls and doors are complete and we had to make sure the the specification of the window was going to maintain the integrity of the acoustic system . Firstly the two rooms are almost entirely independent from each other, separated walls built on separated sub-floors; in trying to keep that separation each room has it's ow

Mineral wool has been the bane of our lives this past week. It's horrid stuff, and it's the only material I hate more than cling film. However it's a necessary evil in the construction of our recording studio as it is a large portion of how we are achieving acoustic isolation from the outside world. So it's on with the hazmat suits and face masks as we grin and bear probably the most uncomfortable and irritating part of this project! There are various different insulation