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I'm building a studio from the ground up and at framing stage. I'm wondering about mike and head phone cables. I think I know what I need where ie.. 8 for the drum booth, 6 scattered about the live room, 4 for the vocal iso. These areas will also include headphone jacks for the drum booth 6 for the live room and maybe 2 for the iso. My question is what is the best way to install? Are there any nice commercial boxes available for plugs and junction. My exsperience is very limited for recording but have lots of construction back round. Any help would be much appreciated. I found a company that will do it but says it's going to be about 3200.00. Seems expensive for pulling rope and finish.


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Ken Messinger
 
You say you're at the framing stage.
What sort of foundation do you have?
Slab on grade?
Pier and beam?
 
Its slab. Its basicly a detached garage that we are converting
 
You might consider putting way more connections than you think you might possibly need. For example, if in the future, you wanted to A/B different overhead mics at the same time you would have the appropriate cables set up to do it. Also, you may want to consider running other kinds of connections like MIDI. You never know. It may come in handy some day. Now is the time to try to figure that stuff out.
 
I think the ideal way is to have cable channels under your floor. Being as you are converting a garage, and your slab is already there, that doesn't sound like an option, so given that, it would seem you have 2 choices:

1.) You can run your cabels in the new walls like you would electricty/power lines. Not a good Idea because if a cable ever goes bad, you wouldn't be able to replace it.

2.) You can build a cable chase around the perimeter of the wall, and run your cables through it. Build it in such a way that the top or side can be removed in case you ever have to replace a cable.
There are wall plates you can buy that would mount in each room to distribute/collect the audio signals.
 
Michael would you have a pic or an illustration of method #2? ... scratching my head on how this is done ...
 
Think of it as a small wooden box that runs the length of the wall.
The floor and wall make up 2 sides of the box. Use 1"x6" lumber for the other side, and for the top. Hinge the top for access, and make it open away from the wall.

I'll post a detail later today.
 
Still interested in seeing it Michael (yeah that was a bump ;) )
 
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