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Mike
Konopka provided design and consulting services for this stunning
new audio/video facility located in the historic former Blatz
Brewery Building in Milwaukee, Wisconson. Mike worked with owners
John Tanner & Bob Monagle, architects Richard Woods &
Associates & John Hinzmann, and the contracting firm of Hunzinger
Construction who are well known for their work at famed Miller
Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers.
Tanner-
Monagle features three audio production control rooms, each with
its own recording booth, a video editing suite, a dramtically
large central recording studio with 21 foot ceilings, a roomy
lounge & kitchen that doubles as a live recording space, production
offices, and a reception area. There is nothing else like it in
Wisconsin!
You
can reach Tanner-Monagle directly at: 414 727 8190
or on the web at:http://www.tannermonagle.com
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This
is a view of the very large central recording studio.
This studio can be used by any of the four control rooms
at Tanner- Monagle. And the floated wooden floor sounds
lovely!
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Here's
a view of the large studio looking back the other direction.
Note the curtain tracks at the top of the photo. Curtains
allow the studio's acoustics & look to be suited for
the current session.
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This
is a view of the Audio North Suite #1. It features a large
Pro Tools rig and it's own recording booth. There are
also excellent site lines to the large central studio
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On
the other side of the facility is John Tanner's Audio
Suite. It enjoys natural light, and exposed creme city
brick incorporated in it's acoustic design.There's a booth
around the corner too.
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Upstairs
and above the Audio North Suite #1 is the Audio
North Suite #2. Sam Ecoff does his compostion and
mixing work here in this comfortable space that
also features it's own recording booth.
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This is Bob Monagles Video Suite which is adjacent
to John Tanner's Audio Suite at the north end of
the beautiful new space. Tie lines connect all of
the suites for post production purposes.
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A view looking down from the client lounge to the
large recording studio below. You can see the Audio
North Suite #1 and it's recording booth which both
look into the roomy studio.
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This is the view coming out of the Audio NorthSuite
#2. You can see the entrance & reception area
for the Tanner- Monagle complex.
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Mike
Konopka's Photo Journal Of
The
Construction of Tanner Monagle Studios
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Early
in the construction phase the I beams that once supported the
famous Blatz Brewery stainless steel tanks are cut off flush with
the Creme City brickwork. Framing is just visable on the right.
This complex will have two floors.The north end, with one control
room and booth inverted over the other control room. The south
end has side by side control rooms. Let's isolate!
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Looking
south we see the video suite framing at lower left and an audio
control room on the lower right. Above is the framing for what
will become the loung.kitchen/live recording room. Behind these
are production offices. This picture was shot from the large central
studio. Unlike some of my other designs, the framing is anchored
to structure to support the second floor.
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In
order to decouple the mass and float the walls off the anchored
structure, metal hat channel is installed. You can see it running
horizontally across the framing.
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Here's
how the hat channel anchors pliantly to the wall studs with neoprene
clips. This way the wall mass floats off the anchored structure,
and the stucture holds up the rooms above. |
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A
look at the low voltage wiring pulls for one of the Tanner -Monagle
control rooms. Lots of wiring pulls with four control rooms including
audio, network, & headphones. All cable is protected carefully.
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Note
the floating ceiling details including hanging isolaters and John
Hinzmann's foam encapsulated joists. No noise from control rooms
above allowed!
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Producers,
engineers, & musicians all love my floating floor designs.
They're cost effective, easy on your legs, and help isolate and
localize sound at it's source.
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Next
up it's layers of sheetrock anchored to those hat channels pictured
ealier. Check out the pliant seams where walls meet the floating
ceiling. Also pictured are the hangers for the lighting grid. This
place is tall! |
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Here's
the finished lighting grid ready for instuments. In addition to
music composition, and audio recording, Tanner- Monagle shoots
video for their client's productions in their great new space.
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These
are the thickest solid core doors you can find. Each door mounts
with four heavy duty ball bearing hinges and uses a dropsweep system
to automatically seal upon closure.
They weigh over 400lbs each! |
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The
lounge at Tanner-Monagle is a great place to chill out during
a session and watch the action in the large studio below.
It also serves as kitchen, and has full audio tielines for
use as a live recording space. Cut your horns in here!
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My
acoustical design called for wall fabric and 2" absorption
panels
in the big room for a target reverberation time that suits
basic tracking dates & orchestral recordings. Curtain
tracks and drapes also ring the room to vary decay times to
suit the project at hand. |
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This
is the reception area and stairway to the upstairs north audio suite
Need
Acoustic Consultation & Audio Design Services for Your New Studio?
Contact Mike Konopka at 847 222 1029
or
email me at: ttone007@gmail.com
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