I remember money was beginning to get rather tight. Construction was costing a fortune and I still had the normal expenses of running the studio on top of all that.

It was thrilling however, to see it start coming together. I'll never forget when the control room was just getting framed in, and I got my first real idea how it was going to look.

It was going to be a very large control room with these five extremely large plate glass windows slanted and looking down into the studio. It was quite impressive. Above
the windows a casing was constructed that would house the four very large control room monitors. I remember it was a rather tedious job of lining this speaker area with all the fibre glass that lined the walls of the speaker area. But once completed the control room monitors would run the
length of the control room which had to be about thirty feet or so. 

You can imagine how that sounded. It was awesome. 

If I remember, the main speakers were Altec Lansing 604-E's housed in specially built cabinets. These cabinets were placed in the fibre glass area above the windows and
a long grill ran the entire length of all this, so the cabinets were not visible. 

One long mind-blowing speaker system. The equipment for the control room was on order, so it was necessary
to get the control room finished first. 

Even after it's basic construction all the work of getting everything wired in and running was going to be a major effort.

Notes thanks to Ralph Terrana