Blue Bear Sound is up

Yup - it's at this address http://johnlsayers.com/Studio/Pages/Bluebear.htm cheers John

Very cool John! Thanks for posting it..........!

Bruce, Congratulations on getting things going. Looks like its going to be a great setup. As I've studied sites over the last year or so, and lurked at HR and read all your posts on various subjects, I've often wondered what your current studio is setup like. I've seen the photos, but don't have a real feel for the size or shape of what you currently have. I hope its not a problem to ask, and if so just tell me to kiss off, but you know how curiosity goes. Mine is mostly from the newbie standpoint of trying to figure out how I'm going to translate from where I'm starting at to where I want to go, and it looks to me like you are travelling down that path a couple of years ahead of me. I now have a dedicated mixing room (I currently record remotely only), so the next step is to be determined yet, but I already have a friends band that wants to come over to do some stuff, so maybe this will get rolling sooner than I had planned. We'll see. Thanks, Darryl.....

I started to try and layout my old facility, but it was getting too time-consuming using just a paint package.... It was certainly a lot smaller than the new facility, centered around a smaller control room, a listening room, and a small tracking nooth. The primary business was post-production, but also voice-overs, and vocal/instrument demos. I had also started to work on some video stuff. My new facility will be able to handle a much wider variety of functions from tracking right through to post-production in a much more spacious and comfortable setting. In any case, out with the old and in with the new!!!!!!! Cheers, Bruce

:D :D Thanks for the reply, Bruce. I hope you didn't try that paint layout on my account, I'd feel guilty for your expended effort. You really answered what I was questioning, I think. I hope someday to be able to either have a complete facility of my own, or to take over the whole basement when I kick my kids out to go to college (4 years, 6 months, and counting...seems too long at the moment). Best of luck with your construction!! Cheers, Darryl..... p.s. John has really rubbed off on too many people. Every where I turn these days someone is offering their salutations with "cheers"!!

p.s. John has really rubbed off on too many people. Every where I turn these days someone is offering their salutations with "cheers"!!

I've noticed that toooo......maybe I'll stop to be different :):) cheers john

Teacher: Every person is different... Smart-aleck: I'm not.......! :lol: :lol:

Teacher: Every person is different One thing in life I'll never understand is : how do you handle the cold, living in Ottawa! if it drops below 20C I'm outof here!!!! cheers John

-27C today, John!

Great Pic's of the studio! What are you doing with the floor & ceiling? And how much height do you have to work with?

It's tight - 7'10" to floor joists, 7' to under HVAC Ducts. :0 cheers JOhn

Yup - ceiling's a bit tight - but still workable..........! We intentionally didn't float the floors so as to maximize our limited ceiling height. For budgetary reasons I'm going to be laying Burber industrial carpeting for now... except for a small hardwood "island" behind the console. All other options are dollars/foot - industrial carpet stuff is cents/foot! (That's the Scottish blood in me coming out!) ;)

For what its worth, I too went with some Berber for my control room, but I picked up some specifically designed for garage floors (super cheap and tough). I figured that should be durable enough to handle a cement floor and an office chair rolling over it. Plus I wanted something that could handle a bit of moisture just in case this corner develops another water leak (like the one I used to justify building my room with my wife in the first place). Darryl.....

When looking at carpet make sure it's a natural fibre - like aussie wool :) The synthetic carpets are prone to build up static electricity that can give quite a belt, plus possibly damage sensitive gear. :) cheers john

Good point, John...! Now how can we ground the carpet?

Hmmm........Might be a bit on the expensive side, but you could stitch braided shield together and give it a good solid earth ground. It would have a shimmering effect.

after wiring the studio out he'll probably have enough braid strands in the carpet to do just that ;) cheers john

Bruce's second update is up :) http://johnlsayers.com/Studio/index.htm cheers John

Thanks John.......! :D BTW... I noticed the pics aren't the same resolution as what I sent you (they're much more fuzzy) The size of the pics on your site are larger, yet the resolution is lower?!?! Do you need me to send you files in a different format? (I believe I sent you 50% compressed JPG...)

I didn't resize them at all - but I did lighten some of the shots as they appeared too dark and you couldn't see the detail. I'll post the originals if you like. cheers John

No big whoop! Just curious.... no need to change 'em! :) I'll make sure the next batch is bright enough!

Bruce's update 3 is now up :) http://johnlsayers.com/Studio/index.htm cheers john

Hi Bruce, Can you tell me for what reason you didn't make the soffit wall... reflective...I can see you placed wood above and below the speaker hole but not on the side. Instead you putted some rockwool...unless you are planing on covering it later??? Let me know...I am in the process of building mine for my studio. Regards, luis.

Bruce's 4th update is up http://johnlsayers.com/Studio/index.htm cheers John

Hey Luis, The soffit wall is now reflective -- 5/8" wood on the entire front fascia and up the sides to the cream-colored area... Pics are coming as soon as the builder is done with the finishing! Bruce

LDQ wrote:

Hi Bruce, Can you tell me for what reason you didn't make the soffit wall... reflective...I can see you placed wood above and below the speaker hole but not on the side. Instead you putted some rockwool...unless you are planing on covering it later??? Let me know...I am in the process of building mine for my studio. Regards, luis.