Much Music, a division of Citytv, is an On-Air Television Audio Control Room, located in what is called the ChumCity building in the Queen West district of Toronto. To prepare for the new 5.1 music formats and HDTV, the management team selected Pilchner Schoustal International to create the new recording and mix studio. The culture of Much Music is based on exposure to the public and the design mandate was to make it highly visible to the public and avoid the "bunker" look. Therefore, the control room is acoustically optimized using a controlled reflection geometry approach. Because the control room is required to be visible from several locations and to accommodate daily tours throughout the complex, as much glazing as possible was utilized without effecting the room's acoustic performance. In fact, a custom, clear Plexiglas RPG Diviewsor™ array was incorporated into the back wall, which also helps to maximize the room's visual openness. The Control Room contains a Studer S950 console and features a high sound isolated enclosure system that includes 6" thick concrete floating floors. The floating floors integrate a comprehensive cable management system, which connects all points within the control room to the attached machine room and the rest of the Citytv complex. Soffit mounted Genelec monitors are used, and the room is fully configured for surround mixing. Multiple, split screen video monitors are also soffit mounted so that the engineering staff can easily view any programming the station requires at any time. The control room must remain functional even during technical downtime and is therefore outfitted with a redundant console and monitoring system integrated into the producer's table millwork.

Excerpted from Mix Magazine, March 2000, Volume 24, Number 3, "Much Music Recording and Live Broadcast Studio, by Jeff Johns, page 83.