My Quasi-Recording/Mix Room Build

[Myriad_Rocker]

You gotta do the diffuser, man.

Build it for me and I'll use it.

 

[Sky Blue Lou]

Lou, you keep saying that. "what a lot of work", that is. I don't really see it as any more work...

Need I remind you?

C'mon man. You don't turn around after swimming three quarters of the way across the pond. You can do it.


lou

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

Need I remind you?

C'mon man. You don't turn around after swimming three quarters of the way across the pond. You can do it.

Yeah, yeah...so it has taken longer than I expected. I'm certainly not giving up. I've just been going non-stop for a month. I need a break. After the desk is finished, I'm thinking of taking a week off to re-charge.

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

Damn Rick that is some fine work there!

Damn sus, thank you much. I only posted it to illustrate a good stain on Oak, with a lacquer finish. As to the use of them. They are book shelves for a private library. I built six of those, a much larger display unit with glass shelves, six large arches, a fireplace surround, and used over 800 linear feet of a very expensive Egg and dart moulding from a company called Enkebol. $10 per foot. We use the moulding as the primary motif of a very wide crown moulding. I also made 800 feet of Dentil moulding as the bottom edge of the crown. Took about 6 months. Jobs like that are far and few between though, and very nerve racking to say the least. I actually came up with a technique I've never seen before for the arches...which were a real bitch to make and install. But once I got it down, the rest were a cinch. As to the arches in the cabinetry, I used the same technique, which is kind of hard to explain though. I'll post a Sketchup if you are interested in how I did them.

Hey Myriad, lookin good man. So you finally used the pocket hole tool! That technique is a mainstay in modern cabinetry. Saves a ton of work with cleats or machining. And about the "burn out"...man, been there, done that..at least 10 times with my studio. Don't worry though. At this rate you'll be finished in no time. Good luck with the curved top. Think using a router as a COMPASS...with a very long board for the radius. Just gotta calculate the curve/radius. I'll show you how tomorrow.

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

Thanks, fitZ. I already did the curves. They aren't great and they aren't exactly what I wanted but they work. I've already edge banded them and it's waiting for stain.

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

Tonight was a light work night. I screwed down the oak bracing under the desk and got the keyboard tray hardware mounted. I should also note that the sorry ass excuse for screws they gave with the keyboard tray hardware SUCK. It took an act of congress (oxymoron, I know) to prevent the screws from stripping out. I had to take several out with a pair of needle nose pliers. Horrible screws.

Tomorrow is going to consist of a bit of sanding and some staining. I'm also going to be moving the slat absorbers into the room. Wish me luck.

One other thing I forgot to mention was that I made the template for the legs. It was a grand hack job but it came out alright. I'm not going to make them any time soon. For now, I'm just going to place the desk on top of the racks with some rubber pads so they don't rub.

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

Slat absorbers are in the room (and need to be vacuumed and dusted) and racks are also in the house. Finished staining most of the desk tonight. Have to wait for it to dry so I have some work surface to stain the keyboard tray. I forgot to place the metal bracing piece I bought so I'll take care of that after it dries.

 

[Dogbreath]

Are we there yet?



Dude....this is lookin damn good. Hats off to you for the patience alone sir.

I'm severely lacking in my wood craftsman skillz so my stuff, while being built tough, never (ever ) looks as purdy as the stuff you're doing.

Lookin forward to the finished product (and more pics, of course)

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

Are we there yet?



Dude....this is lookin damn good. Hats off to you for the patience alone sir.

I'm severely lacking in my wood craftsman skillz so my stuff, while being built tough, never (ever ) looks as purdy as the stuff you're doing.

Lookin forward to the finished product (and more pics, of course)

Thanks, man. I appreciate it. Patience is something that I don't have a lot of so this large project has really tested it. And it's waning plenty here in the back nine of the job. I've had a lot of "Whatever, it works" moments recently just because I'm sick of working on it. And believe me, my woodworking "skills" leave a lot to be desired. I put staining in the woodworking category as well...and my ability to stain is horrible. In fact, I was dusting off the racks before I moved them from the garage to the house last night. Well, after they were dusted and shiny again, I made the comment to my wife that I liked them better when they were dusty because it hid the bad parts of the stain hack job better. The 4 coats of poly I put on them helped even it out better, though. So that's a plus.

I'll get some more pics up tonight.

I have my electrician coming Friday morning to install some track lighting (he's doing other stuff, too, so that's why he's doing the track). I'm hoping to make some HUGE progress this weekend. However, my college football team is having their scrimmage this Saturday mid-afternoon. I'm not missing that. It's on ESPN so I can just go back down to the garage right after.

On another note...I'm thinking of anchoring the tops of the slat absorbers to the wall. Overall, I trust my 2 year old to not bother my music stuff. He's really good about it. However, if he accidentally tipped one over on himself...ugh. Some eye screws and a small clasp thing should cover it.

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

And believe me, my woodworking "skills" leave a lot to be desired.

Hey Myriad, anyone with enough guts to try pocket boring is ok in my book. More power to ya. You're doing fine. Like anything, the more you do it the better you get. But for first time woodworking ...hey, look what you've accomplished! Kudo's to you.

 

[theD1CKENS]

been following this for a bit now. I'm blown away. soon as I hit the lotto, I'm hiring you!



...or stealing your schematics

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

Steal away, but I'm not worth the money on hiring me.

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

The electricians are gone and I have track lighting in the room now! I also have speaker wire in my garage, which I've been working on all this treatment in for a month. I needed music!!! I already have speakers on my back patio and these run to the same receiver in the office as those do. The receiver is hooked up to the computer with all my music. Start up iTunes, which I can control via wireless with my iPhone...volume, change songs, the whole 9...and now I'm working with an audible groove. The silence was deafening!

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

Just finished building out the computer for the new room. Probably ordering it tonight or tomorrow. Wow, it's going to be so awesome. I hope I chose some great low-noise parts. My HD's have the "whisper drive"...whatever that is. And the CPU heatsink/fan does 19.5db in silent mode. Not bad. Couldn't find a rating for the PSU. But I didn't look very hard. I've use that particularly Corsair PSU before and it ROCKED. I'd post all the parts but I'd look like a mega nerd.

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

Let me tell you a little story...

MDF SUCKS HAIRY BALLS!

The end.

As I was stapling burlap onto one of the bass traps today, it basically started falling apart where things were nailed to the MDF. I could easily just pull it right apart. So...I'm just going to frame them up in the room. MDF can go f*ck itself.

 

[Jeff_D]

Let me tell you a little story...

MDF SUCKS HAIRY BALLS!

The end.

This is a true story.

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

Couple new pics. Snapped these this morning on the way out the door. One more corner to go and then I have to focus on making a NON-MDF mobile trap for the other corner of the room. I'm going to wait on that, though. Probably won't start on it until everything else is done.

 

[Dogbreath]

Nice job man. Clean and efficient.

Like me.





I never thought of wrapping the superchunks like you did. That's a good idea. Fibers n such.

Bravo sir!

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

I never thought of wrapping the superchunks like you did. That's a good idea. Fibers n such.

Yeah, my hope is that there will be no fibers in the air by me doing this. I'm super paranoid about it. Particularly with my 3 year old running around.

I'm thinking about caulking the edges where the frame meets the wall...extra precaution. But I'm curious if that'll matter. Probably not. I'm going to be trimming those, anyway. I also did my slat absorbers this way (covering them with plastic, that is). John Sayer's says he does it all the time so the room doesn't sound dull and lifeless. It's really thin plastic so not super thick or anything. I forget the exact mil but if anyone wants to know, I'll look when I get home.

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

All bass traps are framed up and covered with plastic.

The staple gun actually broke on me last night. But never fear! Duck tape to the rescue! And it works a little better than before, too!





So today I'm going to fix up the window that I pulled the trim off of. Then I'm going to attempt to cover the bass traps in the burlap that I have for them. The objective for the entire weekend is to simply get the bass traps done. It doesn't seem like that big of a task when you say it but when you think about all the crap you have to do to make it happen, it's a bitch.