Spring installation and release, lifting the whole shell by 3cm. Thats 190 metric tons just lifted off the floor.

Leaving a sig on the walls

Acoustic treatment being put in place, with a mix of different surfaces (wool + wood).
One of my brothers in law runs company that installed this. They did an awesome job.

Speaker wall going up. This will house the three JBL 4675C units for Left, Centre, Right, and the two massive JBL 5628 LFE units.

Wall fabric going up. Great job!
Now this was done on the week lockdown was put into place in Paris. From here on things got way more painful...

Prepping the surrounds speakers.
Then doing some (literally) heavy lifting to get the Main LCR speakers into place. Even more difficult was getting the surround subwoofers into place (surround bass management) as the spot they go into is just above the steps of the rear riser. That made it very very tricky to get the damn things up there.
Lots of stress. I did all that with Vincent, our chief studio assistant.
Was not fun at all.

Acoustic door installation. We were lucky that lockdown did not affect the delivery date for these.
Also, they weigh around 100kg per door.

Putting the ceiling speakers into position. Getting quite physical at this point!

Delivery and installation of the 14 foot Frozen Fish Design sit-stand console chassis!
It will house a mix of AVID S6 and System5 modules, configurable on demand for each re-recording mixer.

Installation of the AVID S6 components into the FFD S5-sized modules.

Desk coming together nicely, and doing a few tests to see how many computer screens we can fit in front of the mixers face.

My other brother in law, Charles, installing the custom-built producer desk/sound editor stations that I designed.

Installation and calibration of our Christie 2K projector, that also includes a Dolby IMS3000 DCP server (playback of Dolby Atmos DCP)

A few beauty shots of the whole shebang!

A quick demo of our sit-stand console:



And a tour of the studio:

Wow, fantastic build.

M A S S I V E !
Really cool. I love the big JBL horns <3

great sofa!

any word on the acoustic design?

Very cool. How did you deal with air handling?

Yeay the sofa took a while to pick. As most post mixers know, the sofa is probably THE most important piece in a studio! I mean where the hell is the director going to snore if it's not comfy enough!
In case you're looking for a similar one, this one is from Habitat.

Concerning the acoustic design, we worked with a brilliant acoustician called Camille Hamel. His acoustic design company is called Orythie. He was exemplary in his enthusiasm and willingness to put up with me
I wanted the room to be quite "live", so that we could be closer to a movie theatre in terms of TR. I would have been very frustrated if the room was over-dampened. So we went for a TR at the top of the Dolby Atmos room calculator. The result is really amazing, and mixes breathe really well.
One important thing for me was that the layout allow for the director to always see the picture clearly, even with mixers and screens in front of him. I sketched the whole thing out in Sketchup, while designing the studio furniture (producer desks and sound editor positions), so that the director and the sound editors would have a clear line of sight to the cinema screen (which sits slightly higher than in other studios here).

We have air ducts that enter the room at the rear top, and split to Left and Right. On the left is the cool and fresh air coming in, and the air extraction is on the right. As the ceiling is quite high (the air duct openings are at something like 5.6m above the floor level), there isn't the horrible "chill blowing down my neck" that you get from some smaller AC units.
The AC unit is on the roof.