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| 8A's smaller neighbour, used for debates and discussions, and one of the dramatic
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right - For more formal discussions, a microphone was provided at the centre of a horse-shoe table. 8B was 16' x 13' x 10' high, a volume of 2,100 cu. ft. The reverberation time was 0.45 seconds. |
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left - Studio 8B was furnished as a comfortable room in a private house. A microphone was concealed above a false fireplace so that discussions could take place round the fire, 'without any microphone consciousness on the part of the participants.' It seems to have had a short life; by 1934 it appears to have been converted into an engineers' listening and checking room.  |
The two 'Dramatic Control Rooms' took their place in the transmission chain between the studios and the main Control Room. The same room could be used for both rehearsals and transmissions. They enabled the mixing of up to eleven studios for one transmission. In this way, it was said, stage management was facilitated in the studios and a completely mixed programme was passed on to the Control Room for distribution to the transmitters. Some elaborate dramatic productions would have been impossible if the effects, incidental music and cast had all to be accommodated in one studio. See the technical section for more information about the Dramatic Control Rooms.
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