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I just had to write it.

Just finished the control room by putting the console stand in.
Finished it, after 7 months of hard work, 2 broken fingers and a trapped nurve in my shoulder (after falling of a ladder).
Time off: 5 days to attend to board meetings of my partners company up in Seattle, 5 days at NAMM and 3 days at the AES, also for my partners company, and a wonderful one whole day completely without working (I was ill in bed with the flue).
Some time off now? Hell no! On to the tracking room, starting nice and early tomorrow morning.
God bless my much better half, Uru, who has done nothing but help and support.

On a sad note - Alesis has just filed chapter 11 and has fired most of their workforce. I think their product range is to strong for someone not to buy them, but poor employees.
To make things worse, despite the success of their new (and wonderful) digital console, Euphonics has today also fired most of their workforce. Damn! Some good people worked there.
 
I know how you feel - it's a long road building a studio - especially when then there's just the two of you. This was the first one I've done where I wasn't in there with the nail bag. It's much easier...you should try it sometime :)

Congrats mate

BTW - it's a shame the success of companies like alesis rests on the success of the music industry which rely on the 5 majors for success. :eek:

cheers
john
 
Thanks John - That's what I used to do a lot, just design stuff. This is the first time I'm "nailbagginit" (thank God for staple guns!!!)
 
Yeah, and POP FILTERS! "Nailbagginit"?

:D

(dyin' to see those new pics, would especially like to see the installation of patch bay (eveyone would!).)
 
Now I'm curious - a patchbay is a patchbay right?

Planned is 32 lines up from the tracking room, 8 AES up from the tracking room for digital stuff.
Al the recording gear is downstairs in a machine room, so we'll also drop 24 lines down there, in case we have to do transfers from 2".
The I/O's will be Digi's 24 bit ADAT Bridges (for the time being), going firewire into some 8ch and some 2 ch converters.
Then some spaces for outboard gear and hardware samplers, and 8 MIDI inputs.
Storage is on 72GB 10.000 rpm hot swappeable drives.

The only really interesting thing there is the AES lines up from the tracking room. My main mic's are build by Stayne - which I think are the best mic's ever. So we're using very short (4') high quality microphone cables, going into preamps (also Stayne's, with very large optical tubes), out to high quality converters with a 1' cable, then up to the control room AES.

I use a helluvalot of plug-ins and a very limited amount of hardware outboard gear. The only hardware I use a lot are my compressors, which are, surprise surprise, build by Stayne, and called The Atomic Squeezebox
 
Yes, I guess a patchbay is a patchbay, but often it requires the fine wires (and tons of it!) and very few of us really use them, so we'd like to know how to install them down the line.

I think I just want to see lots of wires in a picture. We've had so much sawdust, now I want wires...

:D

Oh, and a picture of this strange mic you're mentioning. And the "optical tube." Hot. Wrestling another strange mic. In butter. With swanky music playing in the background.

I don't know what I'm talking about either!
 
When you start sending 24 tracks of 24 bit down optical lines the wiring for a big install like yours is cut down to sumthin sensible eh! ;)

cheers
John
 
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