Gigantic Studio

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 21, 6 December 1929, Page 15

Gigantic Studio

Planned for Chicago war will probably be the largest and most pretentious radio studio in the world will shortly be erected at Chicago. This gigantic radio theatre will be seventy-five feet long, fifty-one in width, and will have a twenty-six foot ceiling. It will provide accommodation for more than one thousand persons, if necessary. ‘There will be six studios in all, and they will be equipped with the most modern broadcasting apparatus available. The main studio will have a large number of innovations in equipment. Instead of the conventional draping of velvet or monk’s cloth to regulate acoustical effects, it will be walled with adjustable narrow panels. These strips will be adjustable in such a manner as to prevent refracture, neutral, or absorbing surfaces to the varied sounds produced in the studio, This invention, which is the outcome of: years of research work connected with studio acoustics, is regarded as a distinct improvement. A huge pipe-organ ani organ loft, specially adapted for radio presentations of varied character, will be installed. A raised stage, for use in productions permitting the presence of an immediate audience, and also useful in balancing and placing of large orchestras, will occupy one end of the studio. Each studio will have a sound-proof, glass-enclosed balcony to enable invited guests to see the performance in the studio and hear it through londspeakers as the radio audience hears it. All studio units will be thoroughly sound-proofed through the medium of floating walls and floors. The studios will be without windows. Ventilation will be regulated through modern equipment maintaining a constant flow of pure air at a regulated temperature and with a uniform degree of humidity.