Studio layout, design and construction

Hey 8) I`m sorry for no updates until know, but i had to stop work bacause of helth reasons for nearly 2 month. i had a long time in Hospital, risky operations, but fell better know. i continued the build with 40% last week, to be shure that my body can handle the pressure,and don´t collaps again. But since i work in a rent place, the time counts against me, and i must be ready for new projekts as soon as possible. here are the latest pics: not much progress, but more was impossible :cry: cheers Mika

Good to hear from you again Mika! The only thing any of us has that is worth much is our health...so take care of yours ;) Good luck, Brien

Hai Mika, sorry to hear you were hospitalized. I'm glad you're doing fine already! Good to have you back, great to see progress :)

Thanks Brien, thanks RO :D I will work in the studio the weekend, and see what i can move in this time. The next two weeks i havte to travel to a customer in slovakia for 3 weeks, and after that i will give fullpower in my own build. I hope to have my first session in the new studio, in November 2009. We will see if it`s possible :idea: i hired a professional wood techikan to help me, and speed up the build...... I`m sure, it will be a great place for recording and mixing at professional level. I keep all of you up to date cheers mika

Hy Mika, that thing looks f%& great and is only 40km away from me .. ! When will you be there to work. Would like to come over and take a look ... Greetz Holger

When will you be there to work. Would like to come over and take a look ...

everybody who have a look , have to swing the hammer, and the drilling machine for minimum 6 hours :wink: But when you wait until i finish the studio,you`re welcome to the "day of the open doors" with champagne and fingerfood, and alot of fun :D cheers Mika

The floor in the small recording room (vox booth) is in. Its a 20cm thick sandfilled floated floor ( no concrete, because i had to find a way to use some sand for the reason that recycle it, was to expensive). Sorry for the missig pics, but i had no camera with me. Next step are the custom build doors. Pics will follow. :D cheers Mika

Hi Friends :D The last day`s i worked on the backwall of my control room. Here is a pic of the frameing of the Backwall: http://xs541.xs.to/xs541/09280/mikas_cr_backwall308.jpg http://xs541.xs.to/xs541/09280/bild034737.jpg More pics will follow the next days 8) cheers Mika

Hi friends :D Last week i worked on the doors of the controll room and did some soundisolatin tests in the controlroom. Soundisolation is very good to the foyer and the next rooms, but i still have some problems with the seals. Until know i use the hardwarestore glueing seals, but they don`t work good. The material is to hard an thin to seal the door good. I have to look for other seals, but until know i don`t know where to find a working seal for glueing. :( Maybee i will use seals on the door and the frame!?, but i`m not shure know. Good news... the ventilation works pretty good and is quiet. There is NO Sound comeing out of the CR, still with 105db of Rap music. There is just a little hum from airflow noise in the control room when i run the ventilation at full speed, which is not nessesary until i have 5 people in the room. Sorry for no Pics, but i will update the photo storry as soon as possible. :wink:

Dude, you are approaching your one year anniversary with your build thread! What a cool event it has been so far ;)

Dude, you are approaching your one year anniversary with your build thread!

I hope that i reach only the 3/4 year limit :wink: I have to open the doors at first oktober week, so end of september i need to have a working place. :shock: But the finishing details can use more time, and are not nessesary for the openig. :wink: jesterday i started with the hangers in the CR front celling and will continue with all the celling hangers today. Tomorrow i plan to finish the pannel bassabsorbers in the back of CR, and the superchunks at the upper back above the big hangers. Yesterday the sylomer for the vocal booth arrived. So i can start with the floor of this room next week. Things come finaly together :D cheers Mika

As i said this morning, i worked on the front of the CR. Here is one pic from this evening: http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/3117/bild051u.jpg http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4926/bild040.jpg http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/194/bild049nwb.jpg The front hangers are in, and the wallpaper for the front is on. what do you think about the look of the wallpaper? cheers mika

Very cool 8) Peace Tom

yeah that looks nifty! :yahoo:

i did some testes with my flushmounted yamaha msp10. I had to move alot of insulation to reflection points to get a good response, but the main reason for the tests was to check the basstrapping before i close the corners with fabrics. The response below 300hz looks ok but far away from good, and i have some bigger problems in the 300 zo 700hz area. I don`t found the reason jet :? This problems i have to fix when the console is in. after that i can do reallife measurements, because that`s all reflection caused combfiltering from floor and desk. I have still to fix some ringings at 102hz and 75 hz. i found out that i can fix the 102hz ringings with some tuned pannel absorbers on the lower sidewalls under the window and the opposite side of the room. The 75 hz will be trapped at the lower middle of the CR Backwall, also with a tuned pannel. For my preference the room sounds to dead, so have to bring in some diffusion, to help the midrange and the highs. here some graphs from today: cheers Mika

After a long break because of healthproblems i am back with the studiobuild the controllroom is taking shape. today i worked on the desk: http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2364/studiotischohneequipmen.jpg celling looked like this at monday but i already coverd the upper basstrap soffits with grey fabric: http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6720/bild028z.jpg sorry for the bad cellphone pics :oops: cheers Mika

Looks great Mika. Hope your health is better and stays that way for a long time ;)

thank you :D here are some more photos with a little more fabric on the celling:

Hi friends i continued on working in the small recording room /vocalbooth. here are some pics of the empty cellig with vetilation ducts and silencers in place: http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5818/bild035jl.jpg http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/9113/bild036g.jpg http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/856/bild039b.jpg cheers Mika

Hey friends. I am still not finished with the studiobild. I had a lot of health problems and stayed in hospital most the time the last 2 years. But the last 3 weeks i continued working in the studio, and i am short before opening. here are some pics from the room in its actaul condition. :D wireing start the next 3 weeks and i will order some new equipment like preamps, mics ..... controlroom: view to vocalbooth

backside of the controlroom:

view from vocalbooth to controlroom:

vocal booth inside

cheers Mika

Did you ask John for permission to post your blatant advertisement? Until that is clarified, all identification has been removed from your "post". - Stuart -

pardon?

Pardon seems about right to me John. What advertising?

Either someone else deleted it, or I got the wrong thread! There was a post on here somewhere, with a blatant plug for his own studio products and design services. It's gone now, though! ( Or maybe I'm just going nuts... ) - Stuart -

not going nuts stu.