Blue Bear Sound
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You're a big meanie, Frederic! 
DonF
Call Me "Grandpa"
Zeke,
You've got a lot of talent. But face it -- spelling and grammar are not among your strengths. Creating a web site to attract potential clients to your studio is a great idea, but with poor spelling and grammar, you sometimes come off sounding like an idiot!
You should seriously consider having someone else create your web site. You can probably find someone (in your church, school, etc.) to do it for free. Sheesh, I'd do it for you for free! (But there's probably someone in your area who can do it better than I can.) There is no shame in getting help to present your capabilities in the most favorable light possible.
You can't always do it all yourself. Focus on the things you do well, and let others do the things they do well.
You've got a lot of talent. But face it -- spelling and grammar are not among your strengths. Creating a web site to attract potential clients to your studio is a great idea, but with poor spelling and grammar, you sometimes come off sounding like an idiot!
You should seriously consider having someone else create your web site. You can probably find someone (in your church, school, etc.) to do it for free. Sheesh, I'd do it for you for free! (But there's probably someone in your area who can do it better than I can.) There is no shame in getting help to present your capabilities in the most favorable light possible.
You can't always do it all yourself. Focus on the things you do well, and let others do the things they do well.
frederic
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Blue Bear Sound said:You're a big meanie, Frederic!
That I am
Its really tough to be a "nice guy" while covered in insulation, dust, dead carpenter ants, and mouse poop.
Blue Bear Sound
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I hear ya!
Velvet Elvis
Ahh humma humma humma
Just curious frederic... is being covered in insulation, dust, dead carpenter ants and mouse poop a good "image" to have ;P bwahahahahah
I've been thinking about changing my "look"... maybe I could go with the dead bug/stinky rodent/don't own a shower look
Sorry... couldn't resist... hahahahaha
Velvet Rodent ;P
frederic
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Thats my "project image", which fully contrasts my "at work image". I'd like to think I clean up fairly well.
I've been thinking about changing my "look"... maybe I could go with the dead bug/stinky rodent/don't own a shower look
Hey, no copying the trendsetter elite
Its cool Velvet, do know that I'm saving all the natural findings in a 1 gallon glass jar, which I will fedex to you so you can feel included
Velvet Elvis
Ahh humma humma humma
Oh man!!!! Cool!!!
I've got a brand spanking new house... so I don't have the luxury of carpenter ants and such yet... I left them all at my old place (seriously).
Question: How much do you charge the mice for recording? And is there a rider in the contract for damage to your equipment when clients poop on your stuff?
Velvet Elvis
I've got a brand spanking new house... so I don't have the luxury of carpenter ants and such yet... I left them all at my old place (seriously).
Question: How much do you charge the mice for recording? And is there a rider in the contract for damage to your equipment when clients poop on your stuff?
Velvet Elvis
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yiordanaki
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zeke
"don't take this the wrong way, but i don't think i am ever gong to post my site link on this site again."
Of course you know that you will probably have to change your site adress if you want to do that.......cos we all have the link.................
But hey, at least you wont draw attention to yourself (or your spelling).
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"don't take this the wrong way, but i don't think i am ever gong to post my site link on this site again."
Of course you know that you will probably have to change your site adress if you want to do that.......cos we all have the link.................
But hey, at least you wont draw attention to yourself (or your spelling).
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frederic
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I did the opposite, I moved from Connecticut where all the wildlife was outside the house, rather than in.
$55 an hour, same as always
Collections is tough ongoing problem of course, however I sent Vinny and Pauly to take care of it.Actually, there has been zero mouse poop on any gear, the mice were in the crawl space, inside the ceiling, running up and down the insides of the walls.
So, no damage to any gear ever. I have a large cotton blanket that I drape over the console table after I'm done for the night, which I did mostly to keep cat hair off the equipment just in case one of the cats get in there. They're not allowed, but the older cat (Ceaser, 22yrs) fully understands how doorknobs work and has let himself in a few times. The others of course, follow him right in.
Anyway once I packed it all into the vocal booth and shut the door, I started ripping down the ceiling and insulation, then discovered what 62 years of fieldmice in the attic really looks like. Note, its now on the floor and in hefty bags, not on or near the equipment.
Bleah.
While its disgusting to the most extreme definition of disgusting, I'm glad I, doing it. It will be over soon, and I can solve the climate control problem as well as fix all the shoddy construction I'm discovering.
I found a live electrical wire going up behind the slanted ceiling up to the flat part of the ceiling, bare wires exposed, just laying there. Obviously someone intended to put in a ceiling light, wired it up, but forgot to put the light.
When I found the wire I pulled it out and it arc'd on my work light and made a nice bizzzzaaaaap and the breaker flipped.
I've only torn out 1/3 of the room so far and I've found quite a few -dangerous- things. So, while disgusting, I'm happy I'm doing it.
That and temperature consistancy, heck, that alone is a good thing.
Velvet Elvis
Ahh humma humma humma
Amen to that...
That is EXACTLY how the old house was for me too...
The new one has some challenges as well though. The electrician thought he'd take it easy when he built the house, so he put the breaker box in the garage... saved him from running all the wires to the basement...
However... my studio is being constructed in the basement and its nearly impossible to get electrical down to it because of the breaker box being on the OUTSIDE WALL of the garage... solid concrete footings and floor with no basement underneath that area.
Luckily I knew this before the house was finished, so I had to pay extra to have them drop a sub panel line to my basement studio area.
I also had designed into the plan a nice isolated area for the studio... solid concrete walls... with only an opening slightly larger than a door going to the other part of the basement. So.... the HVAC contractor decides that's a perfect space to run all the air returns etc through... taking 1 foot off my ceiling height in that door area and making it almost impossible to sound proof.
This should be loads of fun
Velvet Elvis
That is EXACTLY how the old house was for me too...
The new one has some challenges as well though. The electrician thought he'd take it easy when he built the house, so he put the breaker box in the garage... saved him from running all the wires to the basement...
However... my studio is being constructed in the basement and its nearly impossible to get electrical down to it because of the breaker box being on the OUTSIDE WALL of the garage... solid concrete footings and floor with no basement underneath that area.
Luckily I knew this before the house was finished, so I had to pay extra to have them drop a sub panel line to my basement studio area.
I also had designed into the plan a nice isolated area for the studio... solid concrete walls... with only an opening slightly larger than a door going to the other part of the basement. So.... the HVAC contractor decides that's a perfect space to run all the air returns etc through... taking 1 foot off my ceiling height in that door area and making it almost impossible to sound proof.
This should be loads of fun
Velvet Elvis
frederic
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When you see your electrician, slap him on the side of the head for me. He's an embarrassment to my former profession.
That would have been my recommendation. Conduit from the mains along the ceiling corner of the garage, down the opposite wall, then into the basement through an interior wall. Can be done after the fact, though its not an easy thing for the DIY'er to do.
Your worse case scenario is to dig a trench along the side of the house to the garage, put in PVC underground conduit, run a large line up to the box and the basement wall at the other end, seal it, and put your sub panel there.
Thats easier for the DIYer to do. Digging is easier than drilling through interior concrete walls like garages abutting a house would have
all the air returns etc through... taking 1 foot off my ceiling height in that door area and making it almost impossible to sound proof. This should be loads of fun
If the joists go the right way (and of course they don't) you can tear down the ducting and use flexi-ducting between the joists. Even though flexiducting is round, they can be "ovalized" with no real detriment to airflow. That can give you a foot back.
If your joists go the wrong way, the easiest way to fix this is yank off all the ducting, immediately route it towards the wall from the central AC unit, then run them along the basement wall, then up between the joists, then across the floor to where the vent in the above rooms is.
If I can help you out here, let me know. I've done that many times myself actually (not in this house, we have no central air yet).
I gained ceiling space in my basement by re-routing the mess the plumbers called "plumbing", effectively removing close to 300' of random sprawls of copper tubing and making everything go point to point.
This allowed me to take full advantage of the 6' high joist line in the basement, where I put midimonkey.com, my sql server, my media server (1.7 terabytes of storage), and my backup unit, all in racks like a mini data center.
Seriously, I'd be happy to help ya out. Just need a few pictures of the area, and maybe a sketch as to what is where, and which way the joists face.
Assuming you haven't solved that problem yet, of course.
Frederic
Velvet Elvis
Ahh humma humma humma
frederic...
I might take you up on that.
Of course the joists are going the wrong way
I have an 8 foot ceiling at the floor joists... but take into account the air returns etc it gives me right at 6 1/2 feet in some areas.
Luckily the plumbing contractor only run under the floor joists down one area of the house (the central line)... everything else is out of the way.
I have one other big problem in that the studio is underneath the master bath/master bedroom. In the master bath we have both a shower AND a whirlpool. Both with exposed drain/water access points in the basement ceiling. I'm wondering how I can deal with those. I'm not sure it would be safe to cover them completely.
I'll take some pictures this weekend.
Velvet Elvis
I might take you up on that.
Of course the joists are going the wrong way
I have an 8 foot ceiling at the floor joists... but take into account the air returns etc it gives me right at 6 1/2 feet in some areas.
Luckily the plumbing contractor only run under the floor joists down one area of the house (the central line)... everything else is out of the way.
I have one other big problem in that the studio is underneath the master bath/master bedroom. In the master bath we have both a shower AND a whirlpool. Both with exposed drain/water access points in the basement ceiling. I'm wondering how I can deal with those. I'm not sure it would be safe to cover them completely.
I'll take some pictures this weekend.
Velvet Elvis
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mari
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terocious said:
I thought Homer Simpson straight away. Even though he probably doesnt look anything like him. I dunno, I'm losing it maybe. He's a pretty cool little fella though
frederic
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You're welcomed to, I did offer.
Of course the joists are going the wrong way
No problem, I'll show you have to fix it. Its all tradeoffs, but the solution I can offer you will be less of a tradeoff.
And you should at have least 7' when you're done.
Good, that makes less work for you!
Yes, but making the panels removable is an acceptable option. Hinge one side, put gaskets along all four edges, then have a clasp holding it up against the ceiling. If you make it out of say, three layers of 3/4" MDF you'll find its reasonable for sound isolation.
Cool, post them here or send them over (frederic@midimonkey.dyndns.org) when you're ready. This is easily solved from what you've described... been there suffered that.
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wjgypsy
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hey jake, i've been trying to change the page, but when i try my computer freezes, but i'm just now getting around that and i posted the home page again with corrections. www.phatmanstudios.netfirms.com/Phatman_studios.html
is this better?
Fredric, you said: "Had you had some maturity you'd simply reevalute what you put on the web initially and ask yourself if you'd do business with you based on what you put there?"
Maybe so, but the fact that your talking about my maturity is saying that i'm dumb, which i do not take very kindly to. anyway. I'm getting someone to proff read my stuff now. But don't get the wrong idea, i'm still not mad at anyone, i'm taking all your advice, but i just don't think you know me quite that well like some other members here do and that's not your fault. Keep in mind that right now, i'm not wanting to go hollywood, i'm just a kid in a trailer, learning and trying to master recording skills. One day, i'll be ready, but for now, i'm just a kid.
is this better?
Fredric, you said: "Had you had some maturity you'd simply reevalute what you put on the web initially and ask yourself if you'd do business with you based on what you put there?"
Maybe so, but the fact that your talking about my maturity is saying that i'm dumb, which i do not take very kindly to. anyway. I'm getting someone to proff read my stuff now. But don't get the wrong idea, i'm still not mad at anyone, i'm taking all your advice, but i just don't think you know me quite that well like some other members here do and that's not your fault. Keep in mind that right now, i'm not wanting to go hollywood, i'm just a kid in a trailer, learning and trying to master recording skills. One day, i'll be ready, but for now, i'm just a kid.
frederic
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Much
I've never challenged or commented on your intelligence in any way. I did comment on your maturity level based on how you responded to me so far.
Maturity: The state or quality of being fully
grown or developed.
Intelligent: mentally acute, showing sound
judgment and rationality
Really, you're taking what I said the wrong way. Sorry about that, wasn't my intention.
HangDawg
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It's looking better ZEKE. I got a couple of comments. You used the phrase, "taking your music to the next level." 2 times with only 1 other sentence in between. Not that there is anything wrong with this statement, it turns me off when I see the same phrase used so close together. You can keep the same idea just think of some different words the second time around. I've also been wondering who the experienced engineers are? Being plural, are your clients going to have a choice of "experienced engineers"? And are YOU really an experienced engineer? I was always under the impression that to have the title engineer, you had to have some sort of uummm formal training, apprenticeship, or at least equivalent experience in the field. If I read your website and came to your studio to book some time, I would be expecting a more seasoned professional. I think you may be better off leaving the experienced engineers part out. Just my .02
I was always under the impression that to have the title engineer, you had to have some sort of uummm formal training, apprenticeship, or at least equivalent experience in the field. If I read your website and came to your studio to book some time, I would be expecting a more seasoned professional. I think you may be better off leaving the experienced engineers part out. Just my .02
Michael Jones
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I'll share what I'm doing in this regard:frederic said:
I use Premiere 6.0, with XP Pro, on a PC AND a video capture card; a pinnacle miro. Additionally, I use a dedicated video deck with a standard SVHS interface. (There's more interface types on the card and deck, but more about those later...) You see, the problems I USED to encounter with capturing video was transfer rates; the drive couldn't keep up with the rate that video was streaming to the PC, and, as a result, I too had drop-outs.
To remedy this, there's a couple of choices I'm aware of. One is to get a faster drive. But I've been told that even 10,000 rpm SCSI drives will have drop-outs.
So what I did is to have 2 Hard-Drives, set up in... kind of like a RAID, but not really; their set up so that one drive "Stripes" to the other... or basically the writen information goes to one cluster on one drive, and one cluster on the other dive, and constantly switches between the 2.
What this does, is in effect DOUBLE THE BANWIDTH of the drive's abailty to capture and read information. Using 2 7500 rpm drives set up in this fashion is like having a single 15,000 rpm drive (well... kind of). The system sees it as one drive, but because of its "striping" its seemingly much faster. A gig of RAM won't hurt either.
The result:
No more drop-outs!
I use a dedicated PC for recording, and a separate PC for video capture. I had some help setting up the video capture PC, so, I'm not sure if I can help you build one or answer too many questions about setting up the 2 drives in that fashion.
frederic
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Let me share exactly what I'm using, maybe that would help. I do appreciate the performance advantages of raid, I'm actually an IT guy
I am using XP Pro, Premiere 6.0, on a 2Ghz Pentium 4 HP Pavilon with built in firewire. This connects to my JVC dv cam.
The PAvilon has a 1gb ethernet card (over cat6 shielded cable), connects to equipment in the basement. Specifically, an HP Procurve switch with many 10/100 ports, but this Pavilon connects to a 1gb port, as does the two servers.
The server I save audio, midi, and video to is an athlon 1800+ processor with 1gb of ram, running Redhat Linux 8.0 (purchased and registered), attached to a raid array that contains 14 Seagate ST373453 70gb 15K drives, for a total space of of almost a terabyte.
Here are the drives: less than 5 msec access time average.
http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,548,00.html
I am using XP Pro, Premiere 6.0, on a 2Ghz Pentium 4 HP Pavilon with built in firewire. This connects to my JVC dv cam.
Striping, gotcha. When you said "two drives" I initially thought mirroring, which would be twice as slow on writes
But I followed, and understand your configuration.I may shove in two drives into the Pavilion, stripe them like you have, and see if I still get dropouts. Thank you for the advice.
The Pavilon is my midi composing, audio and video workstation. I have a seperate PC that I use for everything else, so dopey things like AOL doesn't torture my audio settings.
Maybe I need to setup a seperate PC for video capture. Much appreciate the advice.
I do have the ability (with the procurve) to monitor the bandwidth usage on the switch, and even while capturing video, I'm never using more than 1% of the bandwidth.
Maybe, the capture goes to the local disk, THEN shuffles over the network file server? That could be it right there, the drive in the Pavilon is definately not a high speed drive, its a leftover from a different PC that I had lying around. HMmm, maybe I have to play with it.
Anyway, thanks much for the information Mike, you got me thinking about it again!!!
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wjgypsy
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frederic said:
It's cool man. don't worry about it.
Hey dawg, Even though i'm am the only one that owns the studio, i do have one of my other friends that sorta helps me as an As. Engineer. He runs cables, sets all the knobs flat, runs the gear, while i'm in the live room singing and/or playing. But i'll take your advice and look into changing some more things.
About the spelling, i when to my web editor, copyed every thing i'd written on my page and then pasted it at my yahoo mail acount and ran it through the spell checker.
Thanks for all the advice.
Zeke