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frederic
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Lets see...
Defects:
1. Parallel walls almost everywhere.
2. Control room and the bathroom shares a common wall.
3. The two booths are rectangular (see #1).
Suggestions:
1. Control room door - since the control room is the smaller room, I'd make the door open into the live room rather than the other way around. It decreases your chance of opening the door into someone's elbow.
2. Vocal booths - is 5x8 big enough? Probably, but you might gain more use out of combining the two vocal booths into one booth, thus you can fit a large piano or a double bass drumkit. Both would barely fit into the smaller booths. Just a thought.
Good design things:
1. Airlocks - very good.
Overall its an okay design, but it doesn't illustrate sound proofing materials, so keep in mind that those items take up floorspace, thus making the rooms smaller. For example, a 5'x8' booth like you have drawn, with 3" auralex all over the place, makes it a 4'6" x 7'6" vocal booth.
How high are the ceilings in the various rooms?
Defects:
1. Parallel walls almost everywhere.
2. Control room and the bathroom shares a common wall.
3. The two booths are rectangular (see #1).
Suggestions:
1. Control room door - since the control room is the smaller room, I'd make the door open into the live room rather than the other way around. It decreases your chance of opening the door into someone's elbow.
2. Vocal booths - is 5x8 big enough? Probably, but you might gain more use out of combining the two vocal booths into one booth, thus you can fit a large piano or a double bass drumkit. Both would barely fit into the smaller booths. Just a thought.
Good design things:
1. Airlocks - very good.
Overall its an okay design, but it doesn't illustrate sound proofing materials, so keep in mind that those items take up floorspace, thus making the rooms smaller. For example, a 5'x8' booth like you have drawn, with 3" auralex all over the place, makes it a 4'6" x 7'6" vocal booth.
How high are the ceilings in the various rooms?
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stone_eufemia
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>>2. Control room and the bathroom shares a common wall.
i think my ignorance is going to show up here but, what's the problem with that?
whater noise?
thanks frederic
i think my ignorance is going to show up here but, what's the problem with that?
whater noise?
thanks frederic
frederic
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The noise isn't a problem as usually there arent any live mics in a control room (it might be distracting though), but flooding, broken pipes, that sorta stuff might be bad for equipment
I know my console likes to be dry
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kptulloch1
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Thanks for the feedback, Water problem should not be a problem because all pipes are below floor level, they come through the floor to the sink and toilet so if there was a leak the water wouldn't reach the equipment. I was planning on recording drums in the live room and recording vocals/guitar/bass in the booths and control room for 'live' recordings, at least to get the drums and bass recorded live and only dubbing vocals and guitar.
I will be mostly recording rock/metal/punk if that helps with anyone's comments.
I will be mostly recording rock/metal/punk if that helps with anyone's comments.
frederic
New member
Okaydokie, make sure when you build that wall, that you seal it at the bottom several inches "just in case". Depending on the bathroom thats there now, you can do this with a skim of cement, a plastic vapor barrier that the floor tile is glued to (that runs 12" up the wall), etc. Cheap insurance.
Okay, now get rid of the parallel walls and you should be okay. have you thought about sound treatments?
Naaaah, music is music!
fierojoe
Pretzel distributor
I asked a similar question a while back and the ONLY reply I got told me to go to John Sayer's site. That was some good advise. I would register for John's site and upload it to his forum.
http://www.johnlsayers.com/
http://www.johnlsayers.com/
frederic
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fierojoe said:
Thats because I was still in hiatus mode when you posted that so I couldn't give you any bad advice :-D
fierojoe
Pretzel distributor
I see...frederic said:
So what did you do while you were in hiatus mode?
frederic
New member
fierojoe said:I see...
Survived FOUR reorgs at work (thats amazing in itself), and did a lot of travelling related to such (neat being part of the "in" crowd).
Dealt with lawyers about the title of my commercial building I hope will be my professional studio someday,though this was only sporatically taxing.
I did some portwork (ported a pair of 1964 buick 300 heads).
Bought an oxy-acetylene torch and tried to learn to braze aluminum so I can make a large plenum intake manifold.
I polished a rover crank, then honed 5 of 8 cylinders. Will get to the other 3 eventually.
I reclocked two TO-3 turbos.
Ran more cat 5e in the house, then reinstalled the front wooden gutter that fell off, but magically didn't split, break, or crack (gotta love overgrown shrubbery)
Went to Tipton Iowa (with my wife) for a friend's wedding.
You know, the usual stuff...
fierojoe
Pretzel distributor
Wow. Except for the traveling thing that sounds frightfully like me! I have survived several reorgs at work, I'm getting ready to look for a building for a studio or buy land and build one, I just passed 5000 miles on my Fiero of which I completely rebuilt the motor, ported/polished the heads and intake, bored the throttlebody, cammed it and put SI valves with CompCams Springs caps and keepers in it, ported the exhaust and several other little things. I havn't played with the torch in a while though, but I am getting ready to reman my Garret T3 for a custom turbo setup for the Fiero and I have pulled more Cat5e than I ever want to admit...
I have survived several reorgs at work, I'm getting ready to look for a building for a studio or buy land and build one, I just passed 5000 miles on my Fiero of which I completely rebuilt the motor, ported/polished the heads and intake, bored the throttlebody, cammed it and put SI valves with CompCams Springs caps and keepers in it, ported the exhaust and several other little things. I havn't played with the torch in a while though, but I am getting ready to reman my Garret T3 for a custom turbo setup for the Fiero and I have pulled more Cat5e than I ever want to admit...
frederic
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Wow. Except for the traveling thing that sounds frightfully like me!
(cough) Geek. (cough)
Well, I did buy a building, and rented 1/2 out to a machine shop, then someone out of the blue claimed they owned it, and its a legal battle. The title insurance company is willing to warranty the title, which is fine, just not until the lawsuit is settled between me, and this guy who thinks he owns the building. The building came out of mortgage foreclosure due to the original owner passing, so the bank has some skin in this game too.
Typical clusterf-ck.
Iron Duke or the V6 engine? If either, you may want to talk to www.v8archie.com. Chevy V8 anything, northstar, all sorts of sick combinations in an engine swap.
But my FWD Continental will still spank it
I havn't played with the torch in a while though, but I am getting ready to reman my Garret T3 for a custom turbo setup for the Fiero and I have pulled more Cat5e than I ever want to admit...
I used to be an electrical contractor, and found that pulling network cable (late 80's) was more profitable than running duplex outlets around corporate office space. Thats how I got into the IT industry. Some senior manager of a client somewhere lassoed my neck with cat 5 and yanked hard. lol
fierojoe
Pretzel distributor
(cough) Geek (cough)? lol I'll admit... So does that mean you are a geek too?frederic said:(cough) Geek. (cough)
Well, I did buy a building, and rented 1/2 out to a machine shop, then someone out of the blue claimed they owned it, and its a legal battle. The title insurance company is willing to warranty the title, which is fine, just not until the lawsuit is settled between me, and this guy who thinks he owns the building. The building came out of mortgage foreclosure due to the original owner passing, so the bank has some skin in this game too.
Typical clusterf-ck.
Iron Duke or the V6 engine? If either, you may want to talk to www.v8archie.com. Chevy V8 anything, northstar, all sorts of sick combinations in an engine swap.
But my FWD Continental will still spank it
I used to be an electrical contractor, and found that pulling network cable (late 80's) was more profitable than running duplex outlets around corporate office space. Thats how I got into the IT industry. Some senior manager of a client somewhere lassoed my neck with cat 5 and yanked hard. lol
Sounds like a mess... V6. I used to have a Duke, but that one died. I thought about going Archie, but I decided to keep the 2.8 for now. Eventually I will probably go 3.4L Turbo, or 3.8 Super, but that's after the studio is done. Check out my page http://www.fierojoe.com/
frederic
New member
Of course. Can't you tell?
It is, and it goes slow. I dislike slow, doesn't fit with my impatience disorder.
Cool site Joe...
Go 3.8 turbo, you'll thank me later
fierojoe
Pretzel distributor
Why thank you! Poor kptulloch, we kinda stole his thread... Hey kptulloch, have you posted it on John's site yet?