And here is the downstairs/studio part. Obviously, not even close to being done. I like where "Control room B" is laid with the first booth (sliding doors too, woohoo) but the giant airlock between everything is ridiculously large. Also, the second bathroom I added really shouldn't be in an airlock. I'm still chucking room modules around, but there are some constraints.
1. I want to section off the office stairwell, office (2nd floor) and reception from the rest of the studio, for acoustical reasons and security.
2. I want two control rooms, that share a machine room. In the machine room will be all the recorders, digital patch bays, file servers, that sorta thing. Anything that could be a shared resource, or patched as such, will be in that room. Also, anything that makes mechanical noise of any sort.
3. Because the bathroom is where it is, I've decided to make that the bathroom for the offices and the reception area. I wanted a seperate bathroom for people within the studio, so the doors seperating the office from the studio can be locked going in (with pushbar fire escape on the inside). This is for security reasons. Its a large studio, and if I'm the only one there in the console room, I don't want to worry about people wandering in to the live room and knocking on the window, screwing up a perfectly good take. The easiest way to add a second bathroom is to simply tap the existing pipes and run them to a room right next door, and have two bathrooms mirroring each other like I have drawn. Of course I don't like it in my airlock
There is another sewer pipe and water supply located in this diagram in the upper right immediately to the right of the "I" beam thats by itself in what may eventually be a live room, facing the tank. Not exactly a good place for a bathroom
Very quirky building, thats for sure!
4. I need to enclose the tank for acoustical reasons. At first I wasn't going to bother, but now that its cooler the heat kicked the other night while some friends and I were sweeping (well, leaf blowing actually), and apparerently inside the tank is a large pump thats on its last legs. Screeeeeeeeeeeeeech kerchung, kerchung, kerchung, clang, clang, clang, vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Sounds like an old Packard found in a junkyard. So, that needs to be fixed, and enclosed.
5. I also discovered that I didn't look at the breakers/wiring carefully. I only saw one power feed into the building, so I had assumed the panel over the tank was it - which I thought was 600A. Turns out thats not the case and both sides have their own electric and my side has 600A 220V. Still, gross overkill.
Anyway, I'm still still still working out the placement of the rooms, and its fun. Annoying to some degree, but fun. I have a drum room and a midi "lounge" to shove in there somehow, then just clean up the layout. Oh, and get rid of the humungous airlock too LOL.
This is definately not my forte. My architect just laughs
I wouldn't know. Just curious if anyone know anything about this, or if its bogus. They say "award winning sound".
Thankyou sir.
He calls it Bose cure all. Any takers?
