Key posts: DINGO's DIARY - Studio construction pics

Substantial posts by Dingo, who started the thread, and by the forum’s most active contributors. 12 of 84 posts are listed.

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Dingo, 10 February 2007Q1: Will cinderblock will give better isolation than wood frame + plasterboard? Q2: If I build the reecording booth from cinderblock, do I still need to fill the air gap…

Ro, 12 February 2007External image, not preserved — original: http://www.hackandslash.com/photos/cinderblock.jpg Q1: Since CB density is a bit higher than GB (1000kg/m3 vs 800 kg/m3), I'd…
Dingo, 8 June 2007The recording booth will occasionally be recording instruments, maybe even drums – but that will be rare. 90% of the time we will only be recording vocals. Being a…
Dingo, 14 June 2007Yep, was intending to follow Rod's 2-door plan from his book. The beams are 8 x 6cm (roughly 3.2 x 2.5 inches) and I thought that would be strong enough, but I really…

Dingo, 27 June 2007On July 10, I've got to have stage 1 finished - I have a mate coming over from Down Under (I'm in Germany) to do some jamming ;) Must have the essentials done by then:…
Dingo, 2 July 2007Well, we're in the home straight. The vocal booth needs to be caulked and mudded. I spent the weekend doing some 2nd fix electrical and installing the second layer of…
Dingo, 2 July 2007OK - 7 more cuts of drywall and it's done. Tomorrow night is caulking and mudding time. Picked up the wood flooring and the paint too. Also had a chance to hang the…
Dingo, 4 July 2007Thx Reta! I spent the last 2 days staying on schedule: "Mon/Tue, July 2 & 3 - Over the next 2 days (nights) finish the drywall on the walls in the control room, caulk…
Dingo, 7 July 2007Spent last night on my hands & knees...installing the flooring in the control room ;) Still have to pick up some steel floor profile (for a nice finish where the carpet…
Dingo, 8 July 2007As you can see from the pics, I still have not had time to install lighting, bass traps and soffits in the CR. It's starting to come together though. I'm doing cabling…

Dingo, 9 July 2007...at least I got the "paint" part done ;) I know the color is *looks* white in the pics, but it's actually light grey, which, in turn, contrasts the cross beams &…
Dingo, 11 July 2007Hi Stan - thx for the kind words! The indirect blue lighting effect (or any color for that matter) has been very popular with the people who've seen the studio "in the…