Nearly finished

The Winston Studio's are nearly finished, and look amazing.  Just a few small areas to finish off and it will be ready for use.

The radio studio is back up and running, Yay Radio is back on air and can be heard broadcasting from http://tunein.com/radio/YaY-Radio-s152364/

The production studio is looking great, and the desk and computer are installed and ready to go.

Not long now and the facilities can be used!

The new radio studio

The new production studio

Equipment Installation

Now all the technical work has started, and all the lighting is installed and working making my blog pictures much easier to take.

The cabling and panel are being installed in the recording studio and the doors are up.  In the production studio the woodwork has been fitted and wiring and patch panels are being installed. 

The radio station is installed and ready to go.  Just waiting for it to be attached to the network so it can go back on air. 

Recording Studio sound lock doors

Production Studio window and desk

Radio Studio nearly ready

Radio station moving

Yay Radio had begun is move to its new location in the Winston Studios.  It is also better positioned for guests as well with the presenter located nearest the wall so guests will be on their left with more space, especially helpful if guests are playing acoustically. 

The station is of course off air now until the equipment is all reinstalled in the next few days. 

Looking really smart

The building works just about finished now.  Wall fabrics looking good and pine trims making the finish look amazing.  The lighting is in, and so are the new carpets.  Just the doors and windows to fit and the technicians can come in and fit the studio equipment. 

Wall finishes

The walls and insulation are done.  Plastering and painting is finished around the production studio and radio studios, and inside all the studios the wall fabrics are up and looking splendid in red and black.  The new ceiling and tiles are also up and ready for the new lighting to be fitted.

 

Red and black wall fabrics

Production and Radio Studio outer walls

Radio Studio outer walls, window and door

Air-con & Fabrics

Air conditioning units have been mounted, for the recording studio and production studio. 

In the radio studio fabrics have arrived and are starting to be mounted on the finished walls. 

New Viewing Window

The new viewing window had been cut out today so that the engineer in the production studio can see what's happening in the recording studio.

To create the opening the builders had to first cut out a slot for the lintel, which was then inserted and held with jacks.  The lintel is there to hold up the wall above the opening. After securing the lintel in, the main window could then be cut out below.

Lintel inserted and held with jacks while cement dried

Window cut out

Window frame added

Taking Shape

Work is continuing at a pace and Rockwool is still arriving by the pallet for the walls in the production and radio studios.  Rockwool is even going under the new floor they are putting in. 

 

A layer of board added to the main studio walls

Rockwool under the new floor boards

Rockwool in the new wall space

Plasterboard covers the Rockwool inside the walls

Radio and production studios

Work has shifted to the radio and production studios today.  The new partition wall structures have all been built with spaces for doors and windows left.   As work continues you need less imagination to realise how it is going to be.

 

Front: Window into production studio. Right: Window into radio studio

Radio Studio

Looking out of production doorway

Soundproof Walls

Today the Rockwool has been mounted onto the walls in a metal framework, then a plasterboard added on top of that and a further layer of Rockwool.  The recording studio is really starting to take shape now. 

 

Rockwool mounted in metal framework

Plasterboard mounted over rockwool and frame

Further rockwool mounted onto plasterboard

Second layer of rockwool

Rockwool Arrives

The studio is transforming very fast now and the new ceiling and floor are well on the way.  Pallets loaded with Rockwool have arrived for the soundproofing of the studios and frames are being assembled for them to be put up in front of the walls.  The old radiators have been removed as they would have been in the way.
 

New floor in studio

New lower ceiling frame

A pallet of rockwool

Work starts

The workmen are in, and work has started on making our new studios.  They are starting in the recording studio first, making final measurements and making and putting in supports for the new ceiling.
 

Support for new lower ceiling

Woodwork is cut to size using circular saw

Final measure up

The birth of The Winston Studios

This is the start of a blog to show the creation of an exciting new area at the school.  The Winston Studios will have a new recording studio, production suite, green room and bring down from English the radio studio so the new facility can broadcast live.

To be located where the old rehearsal room, head of music office and drama cupboard was, the schools site team have already cleared out the rooms.

As the studio is built we will update this blog to show progress.
 

Head of music office empty and ready for work

 

Old drama costume cupboard removed