In late April 1982, Makowski began working with Janusz Piechurski, running the studio for reconstructing recordings, part of whose work was making stereo recordings from the archives. Piechurski was happy to befriend Andrzej Rakowski, an acoustics specialist and lecturer at the Music Academy. Swayed by his authority, Makowski agreed to return to working with sound in a new unit belonging to the Musical Directorship of Polish Radio. Verification procedures were necessary, though these, happily, were only symbolic, concerning only professional, technical qualifications and not involving politics. Makowski’s activities in Solidarity were not mentioned, and nor were his convictions.
After martial law was introduced, Patkowski, head of the ZKP and PRES rolled into one, consistently refused to co-operate fully with the authorities. The Warsaw Autumn Festival, organised by the ZKP in 1982, was not held.
In 1980, a plan was introduced to transfer the PRES to new headquarters, Block C of the radio-television building on Woronicza Street, whose construction was underway. In spring of 1982, they came back around to preparing the new spaces – three control rooms and an administration room for the PRES, which was originally planned for the fourth floor, above Studio S1 (at present, the W. Lutosławski Studio). On 31st December 1982, the regime announced that martial law would soon be called off. In early 1983, the PRES’s activities were ‘restored’, and, only on 22nd July, was martial law finally lifted. In that year, the SEPR received a new technology station, Studio 5, on the ground floor of Block C on Woronicza. The Polish Radio Theatre, previously operating in the centre on Myśliwiecka Street, was soon transferred to Woronicza, and then the PRES was housed on the fourth floor. Then the studio again moved, this time for good, to the complex grounds on Woronicza. The REF-1, REF -2 and REF-3 control rooms remained in operation for the next two decades.