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While I'm not done, I've organized probably 80% of my studio construction photos together, instead of all over the place. I got tired of maintaining crap all over the place, so together makes a lot less work for me, and easier for those of you interested in my projects, to find them...

Aside from finishing, and installing the patch bay doghouse , I started trying to boot all my gear after wiping off what seemed like several inches of dust :( So after wiping things clean, I mounted the akai HD recorders into their under-console table rack, and booted them. NONE of them could...

The way my studio is set up, the mixing console(s) are at the front of the studio, and the producer's desk with all the outboards, synth modules and so forth, are at the back of the room. I never really got around to wiring the front of the room to the back, simply because I started...

While going through box after box of stuff I rarely use anymore, I came across four "Phi Tech" acoustic drum triggers. Essentially, they are a piezo-electric sensor, that you stick to the underside of your drum head, and a 1/4" mono jack that sticks onto the side of the drum, to which you plug...

While I though I had sold off all my unnecessary patch bays, while cleaning out the attic I found three more that I don't need, since I have 20 Gentners already soldered in and in use. These patch bays are 1U in size, and have five solder eye-tabs per jack, which I spent most of my morning...

Oh my, crappy picture. Anyway, The Motu 7S is a 7 channel, stereo mixer, completely midi controlled, squished into a 1U rackmount unit. All the jacks are on the back of the unit. Input Channels 1-7 have 1/4" phone jacks for Left and Right (stereo inputs, and mono signals go into the "L"...

Symetrix 488 Dynasqueeze I'm going to type a large blurb because this unit fits a specific need rather than a more generic "anyone would want this" type of role in a recording studio. I'm selling it not because it's broken or damaged, but rather I'm really not using it anymore as my...

Pine boards, glue, deck screws, and some 10U rack rails. I'll sand and paint this when I have more time. No more piles of gear on the floor.

Now that the vocal booth is done, the jacks have been tested and the outlet is live, time to move onto the console room. First step, hack off existing cabling snips off the patch bay(s): And yes I'm saving the longer snips for making shorter TRS patch cords later. I'm cheap and like to...

For those into digital mixers, synths, recorders etc, you've probably discovered there really isn't an obvious way to hook everything together easily, without spending a bundle on something like an Lucid Wordclock Generator followed by a 1-in, 6-out Lucid splitter. Of course, what do you do if...

No matter how you slice it, wiring sucks. It's boring, tedious, and easy to mess up should you be distracted. I'll be updating this thread as I make progress, which has been spotty lately for a variety of reasons. Vocal booth jackplate: As I posted on someone else's thread, I made a...

Unpainted/test fitting: Primed: Painted: Installed: Of course in the rush to get it done, I forgot to install the headphone hook on the bottom :( Grrrrr @(*#$@(*#$!

As I've mentioned before, because the joists of my studio floor go the width (unlike the architectural drawings), running the cables between joists is not doable. I've installed toilet flanges in the floor front and back, and was going to elbow that across the garage ceiling. Then I thought of...

This is going to be either a media vault, or a hard disk recorder closet. I can't decide, but anyway, it was fun to build. The cedar tongue/groove paneling was in good enough shape that I'm leaving it. I can sheet rock over it, cover with carpet, whatever. BTW, if you're sick/bored of my...

Yes, I bought the mic arm off e-bay for... oh, I forget. I think $40. There is another thread on this I couldn't find. Anyway, I made the mount! Just need to drill eight holes so I can mount it in the corner of the vocal booth, and prime/paint it which I'll do tomorrow. And here is the...

Just in case anyone else wants to consider streaming audio from their console, decks, whatever, to the internet, here is an easy way of doing this, and its fairly inexpensive too, assuming you have bandwidth. Install NT4.0, Win2K or XP of some flavor onto a Pentium 3 or higher computer. Go to...

Four TT/Bantam 1U patch bays in reasonable condition. They do need to be cleaned, however these are not your tinfoil patchbays like these cheap things Samash sells (like Behringer). All wiring has been removed, including the normalling wires between the top row and bottom row of jacks, however...

Power strips for Producers Desk/Rack Farm: Drilling Initial Pilot hole from underneath producers Desk/Rack Farm into garage below: Garage Ceiling w/bit hanging through (used a 30" long drill bit, as the floor of my studio is about 4" thick, plus 18" of joist, plus about 3/4" plaster on the...

In prior studios pro and home, I've always used a floor-standing boom stand, to hold the microphone at the proper location for recording vocalists. With this small booth I have, 5'x7' or thereabouts, I'd rather not give up the floor space, as I'm going to try and leave my PF-85 in there even...

There are four racks, 18U per rack. Number them 1-4, left to right, and start guessing what is in the racks. Fun adventure for anyone into older gear :) Extra points for naming year range of manufacture!