This time it's different

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Ok, I'm finally done, well almost. Wired and tested. I was stuck on a stereo buss 60hz hum but I decided to finish and wire everything until I find the source. It's not very loud, at normal monitoring levels I can't even hear it.

Hey look, no wires under the table...
 

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Oh, they're under there...
 

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Anyone want to donate a keyboard stand?
 

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Anyone want to jam?
 

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jake-owa said:
Anyone want to jam?

Jamming is cool, and what's wrong with your keyboard stand? I've used stacks of milk crates before to support my PF85 until I finally shelled out for quicklock stuff.

Which BTW, is cheap. They have stands that are under 60 bucks that aren't awful or flimsy. Might want to check it out.

Looking good! Nice use of wire ties :) thats the way it should be. I've seen a lot of studios over the years that just have mile after mile of cable knotted all over the place.

In those situations when something goes bad, they just drop the ends and run a new wire. Bad habit!
 
Yeah Fredrick, I tried to make the snakes and wires accessible for changes and I've made a few so far so it seems to be working out. It looks kinda webby but it works well.
 

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Cool Jake - all you need now is some decent acoustics?? :)

cheers
john
 
No seriously, this is just sort of a dry run to get me started. I plan on moving in less than a year so I'll be focusing on making a good diagram and getting all the electrical stuff figured out.
When I move hopefully I'll have a basement to work with so I will be more interested in investing then.

I rent right now...it's sucks.

Edit: I'd love to see what other peoples wiring solutions are. Post pics if you've got them.
 
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jake-owa said:
Yeah Fredrick, I tried to make the snakes and wires accessible for changes and I've made a few so far so it seems to be working out. It looks kinda webby but it works well.

A little webby can't be helped. At first glance it looks like you kept the power and the audio seperate. Very good!
 
Jake, hey that looks cool, alot better than before. Allthough you've made me realize I need to do the same ahhhhh!!!!!

Damn cables...

T
 
Lookin really good, Jake

... and I really like that desk - nice!!!


b-h
 
Could the hum occur because of the mess of power cables routed with a 1/4 curly cord? 110v can induce voltage even on shielded cables. Other than that, it looks awesome.
 
Looking clean. My console is a mess of wires underneath. I figure once I get most of the stuff I plan on getting and figure out how I want it permanently wired I'll start tieing stuff up. For now it's a jungle down there.
 
TexRoadkill said:
Looking clean. My console is a mess of wires underneath. I figure once I get most of the stuff I plan on getting and figure out how I want it permanently wired I'll start tieing stuff up. For now it's a jungle down there.

heh-heh.

I remember one data center for a large global bank in NYC, that had to be gutted, and converted from a mainframe data center to a LAN data center. All the big iron was to leave, and replaced with servers, routers, and network switches.

Seemed like an easy task, until my crew pulled up the raised white tiles (data center floor). Sad. 30 years of wires in there, and it was obvious when something went bad, it was dropped into the floor and simply replaced. For 30 years.

The floor was 3' deep, and a few of the tiles weren't level, thats how much wire was in the floor. I guess after the first 5 years of knot-making, they gave up and just dropped and replaced instead of unsnaking the cables.

Anyway, was easy to fit. After all the big iron was removed, and the white tile was removed (20,500 sq ft data center), we rented 8 chain saws, for 8 guys, and had a wire cutting party. Two per corner, cutting away from each other, until we met in the middle of the walls somewhere.

Only took 4 days of cutting to "disconnect" everything. :D

Then after all this cutting, we removed the bulk of it with forklifts. Union fork lift operators. heh-heh.

That took another week.

But, I was now 90 days ahead of schedule.

Tex, need a chainsaw? :D
 
Jblount said:
Could the hum occur because of the mess of power cables routed with a 1/4 curly cord? 110v can induce voltage even on shielded cables. Other than that, it looks awesome.
Nope it's not. I have chased it into the stereo buss itself. It has been happening since before any of the wires were harnessed.
 
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