Teardown time, rebuild time!!

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Well I'm sure most of you have been through it. Time to move. Time to packup the bedroom studio at last. Damn, wouldn't you know it. I JUST finished getting it to the point where EVERYTHING analog was working great. Didn't get the digital goin. Figured I'd wait untill I can build studio A for analog and B for digital.:D So, I took a couple of pics for you "bedroom" studio guys. I've had it in a bedroom for 5 long years. Time to move on now. One thing I can say. I've learned how to utilize damn near every cubic inch ergonomically as I could. Frankly, I works FANTASTIC!! Ergonomically speaking.
Acoustics. Well, I never got a chance to really mix. Just had my first REAL session 2 weeks ago. Now I know what I want in a space.

One year ago, I took a trip to Oregon to scope out an area that I was interested in looking at. Ended up taking 3 trips. Came back to California determined to square away every loose end in my life, and get the HELL out of California. The government has hastened this process.:( I have 52 days left. They gave me 60.

I packed the house this week, and all of my wifes "shabbychic ebay inventory". Now I have to finish my upper cabinets in the kitchen and some work in the bathroom and paint. Tear down the studio and store it and sell the house. The market is HOT, HOT, HOT!!!!! A neighbor sold his two weeks ago in ONE DAY:eek:

Soooooo, knightfly, like it or not, here I come. :D Woodshop, printing machinery,. bindery machinery, ebay stuff, studio and household. AND
WE DON"T EVEN KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING YET:eek: :eek: :confused: :cool: :( :) :D Were leaving in 3 weeks for 5 days up there. My wife has about 35 places to look at. I know what I'm looking for. Oregon Dreams.

John, knightfly, when I find what I'm looking for, your days are numbered:D Well gents, time to start tearin down. This is what it looks like today and gone tomorrow. The next one is the last one. Everything I have learned here, has allowed me to think ahead now. Thanks guys.;) :cool:

http://home.rcsis.com/beachchic/p1.jpg
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PS, digital black is like digital audio. :rolleyes:
thats why the pics suck:D Just kidden!!
fitz:) :)
 
Rick, the east side foothills of the Coastal Range in Oregon has some stunning scenery, and is within a 40 minute drive of Portland. Only about 20 minutes to some smaller suburbs like Beaverton (where I live now), and Hillsboro.

The west sit foothills of the Cascades is rather nice too! Great rivers to fish and close to year round skiing! If hiking is your thing, the Cascades has several awesome trails.

While the coast might be somewhat inviting to some, it rains a lot there, and the economy of many of the coastal towns in Oregon a VERY depressed. If your income isn't dependent upon the local market, well, you might consider it. Tillamook is beautiful and sports the Tillamook Cheese Factory, which has farms in the whole county contributing milk for cheese production. Only about 80 minutes to Portland.

Seaside is a little bigger, and has more of a "tourist" vibe to it. Sort of a dirty little coastal town in my opinion. Only about a 70 minute drive to Portland.

Lincoln City is really neat, but more expensive than anywhere on the coast.

If you want rustic, Central Oregon in where it is at! All that cowboy stuff around there. Bend is somewhat cosmopolitan for it's size, and is very close to skiing (Mt. Bachelor).

The Columbia River Gorge is probably the most beautiful part of the state!!! Not sure how the housing is around there (price wise), but it is just simply some of the most scenic territory around. I should consider it part of the Cascade Range, but really, it is sort of a seperate area.

Southern Oregon I suppose is cool, but has never appealed to me much. Places like Medford and Ashland are just too far away from big cities, and don't have anything too interesting around, unless a sort of "high dessert" vibe is what you are after.

You will love Oregon. A little tip though: Don't admit to the locals that you moved up from California! ;) You are driving up our property values!!!

Ed
 
Hey Ed, thanks alot. I didn't get back to thank you for the info on your thread. If I didn't have to move, acoustics were my next area of investigation in a small room.
I've already got a box of 2" and 3" 703 on the way. I was going to do some experiments. It will have to wait now. But at least I'll have a BUNCH of it. Of course, if I find what I'm looking for, the studio will be an experiment in progress. Digital, acoustics, etc. Lots of louvered stuff. Clouds. Stone. Concrete. Diffusion. Slots. We'll see. Like I said before, I'll leave the overall design to John, if he's available at that time. Sounds like he's going to be real busy though.
About Oregon, we know what the situation is like where we've been. Not great. But we are self dependent, and HAVE to succeed. We have an internet business, as well as a couple of other irons in the fire. We just want to go where we are happy, which left to my wife will be by the ocean!! Love it over by Coos Bay, and the hiway (42) between Roseburg and Coquille is absolutely stunning. We don't mind the rain too much. After living in the Sacramento Valley, with 114 degree summers, dust, cars, crappy people, theives, theiving government, violence, noise, traffic.........ugly city!! Ugly Sacramento valley. Dry...... Oregon. Green:D

I grew up on Whidbey Island in the middle of puget sound, so I know what were in for. BUT, it may turn out different than we think. All I know, is theres no stopping us, and theres no comming back. So Oregon, here we come:cool: Never to step in to California again. At least by my choice.
And regarding work for a studio, thats not why I'll build it. I'll build it to say I did and have fun. Someday, I'll have people that want to record. I'm in no hurry. Besides, its my CAD workstation too!!
Thanks alot Ed.
fitz
 
Hello again Ed, do you mind telling me what type of set-up you are using. I believe your using digital, is that correct? Do you do this full time? Just curious. I still havn't got mine togeather(digital interface) so I can't even play MP-3 or anything right now. I will listen to your stuff as soon as I can. Thanks
fitz:)
 
Rick, if you click on the "www" symbol below any of my posts, that will take you to the studio I work at. It has pictures and equipment lists and all that.

No, it is not full time work. I also do live sound mixing, some remodel/finish work, and am currently also umpiring high school baseball, which I did for 10, but took the last 7 years off from it.

At home, I mostly just do editing, as my PC cannot handle running a bunch of tracks WITH plugin's on it, at least not the plugin's that I prefer using. When I upgrade to a dual cpu computer, I will be able to start actually mixing at home too, hopefully in July I can afford the upgrade. I run Sonar 2.2 with a variety of Waves, Steinberg, PSP, plugins, with a Lynx One audio card, Event 20/20 passive monitors with a Hafler P 3000 power amp, all wired up using Monster Studio Pro 1000 cable.

Indeed, the Coos Bay area is beautiful too! The whole southern Oregon coast is breath taking scenery. I have only passed through their twice in my life, but can remember it quite well.

Ed
 
Oregon is great, so very great. All of my friends who are also 15 cannot appriciate how nice it is here compared to california, and would much rather live in there. I have no idea how anyone could chose that over here. I would cry if i had to live there, i would also cry if i had to leave a studio like that behind.
 
Hello reel person, thanks, the pics don't do it justice. Its very comfortable and fun to be in. I never come out. That is untill my significant other decides I should. Ha:D Havn't seen you around in a while. Been doing any recording lately? I finally did my first "real session" a couple of weeks ago. 13 hrs. straight, all tracking and no playback. Got a smpte track, a click track, acoustic Guild mic track, and pickup out track, and vocal track for 11 songs. Man, I was burnt out by the time we were done. 5 in the morning, and then I had to take the artist to the airport. :rolleyes: Couldn't hardly keep my eyes open. But I had a great time. Now for the electric stuff, drums and sweetining. harmonica, steel, piano and synth, and oohs and ahs. That is, after I've rebuilt the studio in Oregon. Ha. Love it. Can't wait.
fitz:)
 
Wow, it's an ambitious move. Good luck!

Me? I don't think I've recorded anything lately, 'cept what you'll find on NWR. Just brainstorming and a little pre-production. Anyway, what is today's pre-production is tomorrow's mess of wires. Sometimes I feel creatively blocked, or a void of solid ideas, but I'll pick up the Squier almost every day. Just low level plinking to beat the stress of life, I guess. When I record something new I'll let you know, & you can catch my 4 most recent cuts at

http://www.nowhereradio.com/davemania/singles

Fitz, man, analog rules. You sure threw together a fine system, bedroom or not. Too bad you have to break it down & move before finishing a project, but good luck with your ambitious move!
 
Fitz, cool pix - what's with the hubcap, planning a DIY dobro guitar? :=)

Just recently found out that John was planning to ask me if I wanted to be the Project Manager for building Frederik's studio back east, til the title search hit some snags and Frederik lost the building - sooo, maybe we'll be seing more of each other than you might have thought?

Anyway, I second most of Ed's comments on Oregon, other than Tillamook - I was born there, lived about 20 miles south for about 15 years. Main problem with Tillamook is figuring out how to play guitar with scuba gear on, and not get shocked by the amp - There are FIVE different rivers that all dump into that area, guess what happens when it RAINS? The streets of Tillamook and lots of surrounding area have been several FEET under water numerous times, so unless you have a boat and want a place on the hill, look elswhere and just DRIVE to the cheese factory for a tour...

Ed, do you like the way Sonar handles digital Audio? I hated the way Cake9 handled it so much, I use Samplitude for audio, Cake for MIDI, internally synced with Hubi's Loopback. I also like the sound of Samp's summing algorithm better... Steve
 
what's with the hubcap, planning a DIY dobro guitar? :=)
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Howdy Steve, what hubcap? In which picture?

Wow, so Frederic lost the building. How sad. And you and John were going to design and build it? I'm jealous:D I bet it would have been fantastic. Haven't seen Frederic post in a long time. I was wondering what happened. He told me something was going on. Maybe a blessing in disguise huh? Thats the only way I can look at disaster anymore. Thanks for the note Steve. I hope your feeling better. Man, that shit is bad news. Hope you totally recover real soon Steve. Missed your input around here. I don't respond to many questions anymore. No experience. No real opinion till I have. I've at least learned that. Ha!
Soon hopefully.
fitz
 
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