frederic
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My end-year goal of physical construction being complete might actually be a reality.
I have one small piece of plywood to screw down in the vocal booth, then cover it with sheet rock, then tape and mud.
There is a lot of sheetrock and mudding to do, but all the really hard parts (like the cove) is done, so the remainder of this work should be a weekend or two's worth of work with my cousin helping.
I'll be installing the track lighting rails and splicing it in later this afternoon, as well as slapping in the overhead flourescent fixture, and splicing that in.
Then I can finally liven up the lighting feed and get rid of all these stupid worklights I keep getting tangled in the cords.
The only structural thing that would remain is the vocal booth door - I seriously widened the opening so the old door isn't going to fit anymore (it was homemade anyway, so I reused all the materials
), but that I'll deal with later. For some reason, I was thinking of a heavy curtain, and slide it out of the way to raise the flip-floor part. I don't need perfect isolation because I'll be recording live stuff dry with headphones, then altering the audio upon the mixing phase. I'll have to put together some drawings to see if I can do a real door. Not having a floor sill makes for an interesting problem, heh-heh.
I was also thinking of redoing the flip floor out of welded aluminum to make it stronger, thinner, and lighter. I'll decide that before i start applying flooring (pergo) of course.
So whats left is making a steel console table, then laying down the bleached maple engineered flooring, then audio wiring! Wiring is scheduled for the first qtr of 2004, I just wanted the room physically done before the new year.
Feels good to make progress. Real good. I have noticed this past week things have gone exponentially slower than normal, I think I'm physically burning out, but thats okay. Par for the course I imagine. I'm going to take it easy today, rest up, then go up there and do some serious work on the 4-day weekend that start tomorrow.
"Yes honey, I'll have my turkey up here!"
On the wiring front, I figured out how to get the heavy-arse wiring spool upstairs. It was pretty simple actually. I take two 12' 2x4's and lay them on the stairs, so I have a flat surface, then winch it up the stairs from the top. Then I can slide the spool into the center of the room and start wiring. I have about 40 110 blocks ready for mounting and punchdown, should be fun. Definately beats soldering! I'm just waiting for the covers to arrive.
I have one small piece of plywood to screw down in the vocal booth, then cover it with sheet rock, then tape and mud.
There is a lot of sheetrock and mudding to do, but all the really hard parts (like the cove) is done, so the remainder of this work should be a weekend or two's worth of work with my cousin helping.
I'll be installing the track lighting rails and splicing it in later this afternoon, as well as slapping in the overhead flourescent fixture, and splicing that in.
Then I can finally liven up the lighting feed and get rid of all these stupid worklights I keep getting tangled in the cords.
The only structural thing that would remain is the vocal booth door - I seriously widened the opening so the old door isn't going to fit anymore (it was homemade anyway, so I reused all the materials
), but that I'll deal with later. For some reason, I was thinking of a heavy curtain, and slide it out of the way to raise the flip-floor part. I don't need perfect isolation because I'll be recording live stuff dry with headphones, then altering the audio upon the mixing phase. I'll have to put together some drawings to see if I can do a real door. Not having a floor sill makes for an interesting problem, heh-heh.I was also thinking of redoing the flip floor out of welded aluminum to make it stronger, thinner, and lighter. I'll decide that before i start applying flooring (pergo) of course.
So whats left is making a steel console table, then laying down the bleached maple engineered flooring, then audio wiring! Wiring is scheduled for the first qtr of 2004, I just wanted the room physically done before the new year.
Feels good to make progress. Real good. I have noticed this past week things have gone exponentially slower than normal, I think I'm physically burning out, but thats okay. Par for the course I imagine. I'm going to take it easy today, rest up, then go up there and do some serious work on the 4-day weekend that start tomorrow.
"Yes honey, I'll have my turkey up here!"
On the wiring front, I figured out how to get the heavy-arse wiring spool upstairs. It was pretty simple actually. I take two 12' 2x4's and lay them on the stairs, so I have a flat surface, then winch it up the stairs from the top. Then I can slide the spool into the center of the room and start wiring. I have about 40 110 blocks ready for mounting and punchdown, should be fun. Definately beats soldering! I'm just waiting for the covers to arrive.
Wired up the track junction and its kinda ugly, so I'm going to paint it to match the ceiling when it comes time to paint everything. Just got back from Home Cesspool with eight $10 track light fixtures, and eight $8 halogen bulbs. Talk about E X P E N S I V E. I opened one of the fixture boxes in the store and tried about 20 different style bulbs trying to find one that fit, that wasn't a PR16 style bulb. I had to go back to the lighting section to get another fixture, since I got a 25W bulb stuck in the fixture I was experimenting with. Ooooops.
