It’s #StorySunday, everyone! Today we’re covering #ControlRoom 3 from 2014 until now! #Klangkellerei #Studio #Construction
As of now we’re done with most of the work around the smallest control room that will ultimately be used for producing music, arrangement and composition work. However, quite some work has been put into getting it into shape: Concept work, architectural and acoustic planning are mostly done now and we’re in business with small studio productions and mixing assignments – and we are very happy to say that the general feeling and the acoustics absolutley match our expectations so far! 🙂
We therefore decided to sum up the whole tedious process and want to share the entire story of control room 3 with you – so please, go ahead and enjoy the image gallery! 🙂
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Wall Art in Control Room 3; When we first saw the room, this was actually one of the nicer-looking areas. However, measuring wall humidity, we realized that is was also one of the rooms that got a lot of moisture from the ground.20 -
The ceiling and the remains of a previous construction to cover the vaults. Presumably an acoustic measure?00 -
Cleaning up. Unfortunately with this old cinema seating row, another piece of furniture has hopelessly rotted away.00 -
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After our first clean-up the room looked like this. Pretty OK in comparison, but the walls needed to become drier if anything would happen in here except a mushroom farm.00 -
Another joint survey. The room is right below the staircase so we're assuming that it must be here where the foundation and headstone of the building must have been. This is where the whole house most likely started!00 -
Freeing the wall from moist plaster and paint we found large stones and brick walls beneath. After an experimental perios of a few weeks we measured the walls again and found that the removal of the latex-based paint had improved the overall room climate a lot. Never mind how it got there in the first place.... A couple more weeks of heating and drying after all the paint was gone and we had a pretty good room for control room 3!00 -
For the sake of authenticity we bought very old clay bricks from a demolished barn, approximately from the time around 1890 to match the look of the existing walls.00 -
Modern mortar - for safety and Austrian construction laws standard.00 -
Preparations for the brick wall that will enclose the room. A bituminous moisture barrier, bricks and mortar is all it needs! Oh wait. Skill. Damn.00 -
But don't worry! We have professional help - Michael's Grandfather knows exactly how to build solid good-looking walls and is helping us with our first course of action!00 -
Row after row we're piling the old bricks00 -
The bricks are really skew so we don't have to try too hard to make the wall look a little older than it is.00 -
However with every brick we stack we are closing in on the part of the wall where the stone ends and the bricks start - and it took some artisan knowledge to get the new wall aligned to the old one!00 -
The arch is old, the wall below is new.00 -
The bed joints are as thick as the one's between the original bricks to match the overall look better.00 -
We're closing in on the arch and finally we reached brick-to-brick territory. Pretty close!00 -
(Construction is quite exhausting.)00 -
The halfed pipe near the floor remains for electricity, data and audio networking and will be foamed out once we're done.00 -
Due to the very un-uniformly shaped bricks, we focused on getting the inside right. Plasterwork will hide the hideous outside later.00 -
Johann inspecting qu(w)allity -pun intended. Walled-in there is another pipe which we will use as an air inlet later.00 -
Now for the difficult part!00 -
Almost done.00 -
Done for.00 -
And the wall is finished too! Now for some more filling the gaps and then we can start with the construction of the door.00 -
After cleaning down almost all of the remaining paint on the ceiling, mortar and gipsum bits with a high-pressure cleaner and a wirebrush in meticulous handiwork the room slowly looked like it may have used to - a few hundred years ago.00 -
And our 'new' wall does kind of look like it's not. We're content!00 -
We are building two colums underneath the second archway to narrow the gap down to door size.00 -
Construction is tideous and we need to be very exact so the door will fit later.00 -
Additionally to a lot of mortar, the two colums to the side of the door are glued to the existing wall with structural steel rods for stability.00 -
This will need to hold a very heavy door once.00 -
The formwork for the circumferential concrete plinth that should help us make a clean transition between floor and wall. We're mostly doing this agains the dust.00 -
And starting the construction of the wall mounted speakers and bass traps. The concrete fillet has dried out in the meantime and got a rough polish too.01 -
Working in stone walls can be a real hazzle. Sometimes dowels just don't go anywhere and we needed to glue many of them in with spezial glue.00 -
A Layer of gipsum board will cover up the wooden construction. See the intersections of the board and the ceiling? That's applied mathematics.10 -
We are slowly starting to construct the furniture - a three part table with room for 19" rack devices, our Mac Pro + Screens and a little storage room.00 -
Michael testing the general spacing of our raw table.00 -
It is made of common spruce, however to fit into the general look of the studio, we experimented with different techniques. The final table surface has been brushed for realistic old-wood-haptics, etched with positive-plus wood stain (which basically turns around the contrast between light and darf areas of the curled spots once a colored wood stain is applied), the treated with a darf colored stain and finally a very robust parquet varnish.10 -
Finally the gipsum board is done; Cut-outs for bass traps and speakers, prepared for the paint.00 -
Cables and machines are moving in; The wooden construct on either side holds the acoustic panel (wooden frame, mineral wool and wind-proof textile) and acts as a constructive base for later acoustic improvements and the final "surface" for the room, horizontal wooden slats.00 -
Control Room 3 is going live! This is not yet entirely done, but needed to go into business. After our first measurements we are VERY happy with the acoustics and are preparing the final steps and measures (such as the bass traps, aesthetic details, the door and the rest of the acoustic panels).20