music: "Sweet Darlin'' - Jimmy Soul Clark (Soulhawk 1a)

The left image was taken from the middle of the studio floor at what will be the entryway into the studio.

You can see at the very back the cinder block wall that was constructed to turn the bank entryway into a studio waiting area.

The platform to the left of the wheelbarrow will eventually be an office/reception area for Neica Lee. It will have a large window looking out into the waiting  room. Neica's desk is right by this window so she could see what was going on at all times in the front. Neica will tell me at times she felt like a fish in a fishbowl...

The two little side doors, which were originally entryways to the glass display front, would be covered. Two very heavy doors would be installed.. 

Directly above this area is the control room.

I remember money was beginning to get rather tight. Construction was costing a fortune and I still had the normal expenses of running the studio on top of all that.

It was thrilling however, to see it start coming together. I'll never forget when the control room was just getting framed in, and I got my first real idea how it was going to look.

It was going to be a very large control room with these five extremely large plate glass windows slanted and looking down into the studio. It was quite impressive. Above the windows a casing was constructed that would house the four very large control room monitors. I remember it was a rather tedious job of lining this speaker area with all the fibre glass that lined the walls of the speaker area. But once completed the control room monitors would run the length of the control room which had to be about thirty feet or so. 

You can imagine how that sounded. It was awesome. 

If I remember, the main speakers were Altec Lansing 604-E's housed in specially built cabinets. These cabinets were placed in the fibre glass area above the windows and a long grill ran the entire length of all this, so the cabinets were not visible. 

One long mind-blowing speaker system. The equipment for the control room was on order, so it was necessary to get the control room finished first. 

Even after it's basic construction all the work of getting everything wired in and running was going to be a major effort.

This would soon become the location for the Horn and String Over-Dub Rooms. The little window looks out the back of the building onto a parking lot. I think that window gets filled in during construction.

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