Awesome Turn Key Shed from SSL

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forget it, I found the .wmv of it.
 
for the low low price of $250K!
lol


I'd love to have a dream shed, but I think I'd rather piece and build it on my own.
 
think about it

bennychico11 said:
for the low low price of $250K!
lol

I'd love to have a dream shed, but I think I'd rather piece and build it on my own.
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I'm not a digidesign fan myself, but heck it might be worth it.


You know, if they will build it/wire it/tune the room, furnish it ALL for that price - including instruments, A/C, and a few bottles of wine - and it'll only take about a month -- that might just be worth the price.
 
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The idea is not so original actually. There are a number of companies that design and build "small houses", which is basically what SSL is talking about. There's actually a bit of a movement toward building and living in small, more ecologically friendly houses.

I've been looking into building a small house shed in my backyard for some time, for use as a studio. It need be nowhere near as expensive as what SSL wants to charge, a more reasonable cost (according to at least one manufacturer of small houses) is $100-200 per square foot depending on your local contractor.

For example, take a look at these links:

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/home.htm

http://cusatocottages.com/index_content.html

http://www.resourcesforlife.com/groups/smallhousesociety/
 
I didn't see enough information even on SSL's site to determine whether this is a good deal or not, but probably not.

I believe an AWS 900 is around $80k. There's probably not more than another $20k of gear in there, but we'll say there's $50k to be safe so the total in gear is $130k. So, you're building a 240 sq ft shed for $120k, or 500 per sq ft. That's about a factor of 5 higher than I paid for my house on a per sq ft basis, and I got some real estate with that. And it doesn't even include the concrete pad!

Also, soundproofing is a serious consideration and it's not mentioned anywhere. So if you have a ton of money and enough acreage to not care about sound leaking in or out, then maybe this is for you. If someone handed me $250k to build a studio, I'm pretty darn sure I'd end up with something much bigger and better.
 
In the pictures the walls don't look insulated or treated.
 
Hmmm, wonder which 5 places on earth you would enjoy having an uninsulated building. Hawaii maybe?

I suspect that this whole concept was just done out of respect for Peter Gabriel and basically on a lark. It also gives them something to show at conventions. They probably put one call into this shed maker and asked how much a 240 sq ft shed would cost, and maybe figured out transportation and travel expenses for an SSL guy to hook up and commission the system.

I can't imagine anyone in their right mind seriously considering this.

There is probably a market for a packaged system out there, but this ain't it IMO. A double-wide trailer kind of concept might work. I doubt there's the volume to support a venture like this though.
 
The idea of a nice small house for a studio is a good one, but SSL has not come up with an original idea here. My main observations are that SSL's price is far too high, and they've seemingly copied or imitated some of the tumbleweeds house designs I've seen.

Check out the first house on this page, the "EPU":

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm

This company also makes a design called the "Concord", which is quite similar to the SSL building.
 
SonicAlbert said:
The idea of a nice small house for a studio is a good one, but SSL has not come up with an original idea here. My main observations are that SSL's price is far too high, and they've seemingly copied or imitated some of the tumbleweeds house designs I've seen.

Check out the first house on this page, the "EPU":

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm

This company also makes a design called the "Concord", which is quite similar to the SSL building.
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SSL simply took a stock model from the Summerwood company, which looks to be a competitor of tumbleweed.

They even lifted the photo:
http://www.summerwood.com/products/cabins/mountain-brook.html

and the SSL site:
http://www.solid-state-logic.com/shed/
 
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