Audiochuck Podcast Studio

Audiochuck is a premier podcast production company and the creative force behind Crime Junkie, which consistently ranks as one of the top five podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

As part of an expansion of their facility, the company is constructing a high-spec production suite featuring two podcast studios, a voiceover booth, a sound lock, and a machine room.

The centerpiece of the project is a state-of-the-art Dolby Atmos mix room designed to meet world-class technical standards for immersive audio production.

To ensure pristine recording environments, CDM Stravitec was chosen to deliver an isolation strategy for these rooms.
The project required extremely high levels of acoustic insulation to meet the stringent requirements of major international producers.

The primary challenge of this project was the building's lightweight wood structure, which lacked reinforced concrete slabs to support traditional "box-in-box" construction.

Initially, the design team built a new post-and-beam support structure, spanning 8 m between existing steel supports, with the intention of decoupling the entire structure itself. When this approach proved unsuccessful, the team pivoted to a more targeted decoupling strategy.

While identifying a hardware solution that respected the building’s specific capacity constraints proved challenging, Stravilink QRC clips emerged as the ideal fit. By providing a specialized alternative to standard floor-supported systems, this solution successfully met the project's unique structural requirements.

Instead of attempting to decouple the heavy support structure, the team used Stravilink QRC clips to decouple the gypsum board layers directly from the new framing. Because these clips are uniquely engineered to support loads both horizontally and vertically, they allowed the 3.7 m tall wall linings to be suspended from the framing structure above rather than the floor below.

This specialized decoupling achieved total vibrational isolation while respecting the structural integrity of the lightweight building.