Sound On Sound take a tour of one of the world's most intriguing purpose-built recording complexes: Funkhaus in Berlin. Once employing over 5000 people as the nerve centre of the entire East German broadcast network until 1989, the complex was supplied by its own shops and hospital. At the heart of this site were four huge brick blocks, designed by the former Bauhaus architect Franz Ehrlich and constructed between 1951 and 1956.
Since 2006 the current owners are aiming to re-establish the entire lot as a media production facility, in an industrial area away from the centre of the current Berlin hype. The musical heart of the complex beats in Block B, a 15,000-square-metre building which is possibly the largest purpose-built recording studio in the world. It comprises no fewer than eight ‘inner houses’, each standing on its own foundations for acoustic isolation, but sharing the same outer shell. Block B is home to the enormous Gro er Saal (‘great broadcast hall’); at over 900 square metres, it’s one of the largest recording venues in the world, and even the much smaller Saal 2, with a floor area of around 400 square metres, is similar in size to Abbey Road Studio One. But Block B also encompasses Saal 3 and 4, as well as a few smaller rooms and two studios dedicated to the production of radio plays.
One of these, the former Hörspielstudio (‘radio play studio’) H1 was renamed Planet Roc, and under this name it attracted both a local and international crowd to its rooms replete with GDR patina.
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Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:51 - Saal Eins
04:19 - Saal Zwei
07:02 - Studio P-4 - Former East German Broadcast Studios
10:45 - Studio 4 Control Room
12:39 - Chamber Music Hall
18:18 - Microphone Selection
21:01 - East German Preamps
22:16 - Studio Star 1 Stereo Reference Monitoring Room
24:30 - Funkhaus Patch Bay
25:20 - Other Former Broadcast Spaces & Studio H13
27:58 - Equipment And Acoustic Instruments
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16 июл 2024
