Verbal Update

[Michael Jones]

Well, I'm still waiting on doors.
The "patio door" should be here tuesday. I held off the mason's until the doors are installed; I just don't want to take the chance on having the brick work comming up shy or long at the door frame's moulding. Too short and I'd have to cut down the custom moulding; too long and I'd end up with 1" of mortar between the two.

Lately, I've been extending the kitchen, bath and the 2 iso's walls up to the ceiling.
Hard work! It's HOT up there. I did figure out a pretty easy way to bring an angled wall up to a sloped ceiling though. I have a pic if anyone's interested. The bathroom was the hardest; it has SOO many odd angles in it!

But anyway, that's all done and I started framing up the control room today!

The saga continues.....



I just need some doors!

 

[DigitalDon]

Yeah until you get the doors in you won't know if you're coming or going

DD

 

[knightfly]

I hear Ray Manzarek will be doing Austin City Limits soon, how many more doors ya need?

hehehehehechucklesnortsnarffhehehehehe... Damn, need stronger pills, these aren't working...

 

[Sen]

I did figure out a pretty easy way to bring an angled wall up to a sloped ceiling though. I have a pic if anyone's interested.

yes please...could you post it...thanks Michael

 

[Michael Jones]

I hear Ray Manzarek will be doing Austin City Limits soon, how many more doors ya need?

hehehehehechucklesnortsnarffhehehehehe... Damn, need stronger pills, these aren't working...

Well, I'd be happy with 2 for now, but ultimately I need 12.

 

[Michael Jones]

Re: Re: Verbal Update

yes please...could you post it...thanks Michael

Ok. Well, it helps if you have 3 hands! If not, you need a bunch of clamps. The difficulty here is trying to extend a vertical member up to a plain in space where you have nothing to mark on, and no reference.

So, what you do is clamp a 2x4 onto the wall and make sure it extends above the web of the truss:

This gives you a guide to use to place the top 2x4 against the truss. Remember, its only a GUIDE. It'll get you close, but you still have to plumb it with a level against the top plate and the existing wall.

Make sure the top plates overlap!

This allows you to mark each top plate for cutting. It'll be the same angle as the wall but there's a compound miter thrown in there; Mathematically, it'll be the resultant of the angle of the wall and the angle of the ceiling. But its more precise to mark it and cut it rather than calculating it.


Plumb the top plates, cut, nail, and fill in.

The fill in studs are also going to be a compound mitre at the top plate. A combination square is worth its weight in gold here!

The drum and vocal booth iso's were a hundred times easier to do because there weren't as many odd angles on those as there were on the kitchen and bath. (As shown in the picture above.)

Kind of confusing. I hope that helps???

 

[Michael Jones]

That's looking great, MJ. That's some pretty complex framing there in that bottom pic. It's gonna look great finished.

Tell me you're gonna have some nice track lights washing that wall.

Rock on!!!

Thanks man, its been a rugged road!
You're actually looking at what will be the inside of a double wall system, with the control room wall being slightly off-parallel to it.

So the OTHER side of that wall could get washed nicely; that would be the drum iso room.

One of my main concerns right now is the wall that will separate the control room from the live room, or actually the double wall that's offset from the front control room wall. It'll span the width of the studio, and of course go all the way up to the ceiling.

Its just going to be a big expanse of flat wall. I'd like to break that up somehow, either by doing some "offsets" (little walls against it) or by adding something like this:

From MIX magazine's November 2002 issue on NFL Films.
Notice the diffuser, I guess it is, thats jutting out from the control room/live room wall.
Easy enough to frame up, cover it with some nice birch plywood, stuff it full of rockwool....
A little mood lighting on top.
Killer!

 

[Michael Jones]

Its 16' to the peak, with 10' side walls, so thats an average height of what about 13'.... But yeah, that's a good idea of keeping the lower band absorbtion higher on the wall.

I'd like to do something similar to the ceiling in the picture too.
Those look like resonators though rather than absorbers, and I'm not sure my space will call for resonators.
My live room space will be approximately 19'x29'x13'. The 13' being an average of the side walls to the peak.

 

[Sen]

Thanks Michael...
and it's looking really good for you..nice hight