Floating floor over basement concrete. (Artifact Recording)

Greetings all... Well, this weekend went a different route than planned. I ended up doing plumbing all weekend. I relocated and changed out a couple pipes going upstairs that were pvc, and now it's copper. Replaced the shower parts out in the studio bathroom (it was leaking and dryrotting the existing framing...so I replaced the bottom wall plate as well). Stripped up the old bathroom flooring.

Oh the joys of console musical chairs... :? 8)

Happy Friday everyone... Well, I'll be offline for the weekend. I'm moving an old Soundcraft console into the control room (temporarily) and moving out this Mackie console that has been on loan to me for the last 4 years. Moving the consoles tomorrow morning/afternoon. Hopefully next week, I'll have the 2" machine here in the control room too. I'll take pix to show off the toys... I'll catch everyone on the flip side when I'm back online. I'm shutting down everything as soon as I post this message. Have a good weekend everyone!!! :mrgreen:

The console is in. I forgot my camera this morning, so I've only got one picture that was emailed to me. The history of this console is: The Grand Ole Opry (Ryman) from 1983 to approx. 2000/2001? Then to Flatwood Studio in Lebanon, TN. Here it is...

Oh, and this picture is just in...Here we're moving the console out of Flatwood Studio...I'm on the left in the blue coat...

Man that sure is purrrr...ty :D What's a guess on the weight? Did you really need all that man power to move it in to place? Marc

Yeah. It's about 400 pounds. Which is light compared to the Neve VR we moved into my friends place this past year. It was about 2200 lbs.

Just a quick update... Not much construction, except I finished all insulation in the 2nd tracking room on Monday night and hung drywall on one more wall. Other than that...I've been console diving...There's one channel bad, so I've been investigating the issue's. And one more w/ a connection problem in the bay. Hopefully, maybe by the weekend, I just might have that 2" machine in the studio. Just waiting for Randy Blevins to finish going through the machine and bringing it back up to spec. That's the word around here... :wink:

Wow thats not too bad at all considering its been used alot and moved around.

It was well maintained while in service at the Grand Ole Opry. I had a few scratchy faders, but I've repaired 2 of them already. I have another channel that has a bad normal in the bay as well, but that shouldn't be any big deal. Nothing else, I can patch around it easily enough.

OK, I'm in the design stages of wiring...finally. In addition to the existing patchbays in the console, I need more for tie lines, outboard, etc. So here's a start on the bay layouts...

Update: Slowly been hanging the first layer of drywall in the 2nd tracking room. Hung a couple more sheets last night. I had an HVAC company come out yesterday as well to give a quote for the duct work. I should see that by Monday, but his rough ballpark could be $2500-3k. Yikes! Well, let's see what #'s they come up with. I'll be getting a few more quotes for sure. I'd like to be able to do this by the end of the year if possible.

Your getting closer to the end of tunnle :D Cant wait to see the finished studio. Did you ever get the reverb plate up and running? What modle is the Soundcraft?

I still need a replacement transducer for the plate. The Soundcraft is a Series 2400. 36 channel X 24.

On those bays.... are you going to isolate the mic line one from all the others as far as position and grounding goes? My understanding of this suggests that it would be bad to even have that bay in the same vicinity as other line level bays for crosstalk reasons, mic level being SO much lower. Thoughts? -ashley

On those bays.... are you going to isolate the mic line one from all the others as far as position and grounding goes? My understanding of this suggests that it would be bad to even have that bay in the same vicinity as other line level bays for crosstalk reasons, mic level being SO much lower. Thoughts?

I've never had any issue's with tielines/mic inputs on a bay in the same vicinity as all other bays. If the engineers designing these million dollar consoles such as SSL, Neve, API, etc can have it in their consoles, I don't see any problem, nor have I experienced any problems in the past. I'm not running amplified signals through the bays. Line level yes, but not amplified.

Didn't mean to sound so blunt on the last post. It's Monday morning and I hadn't had coffee yet! :roll: Anyways...update...Finished the first layer of drywall on the walls in tracking room 2. It's been taped, mudded, and sealant around all corners, etc. Ran a little electrical last night for the wall in the entry area. It's all lookin' good. Walls are now defined for the most part. Hopefully I'll see that quote today on the HVAC. Need to get a couple more quotes and see how much this is going to set me back... That's the latest...I'll post pictures eventually. I'm still offline at the house since I moved in the console last week. But will get them posted soon. Aaron

Happy Holidays everyone! Well, just in time for Christmas...the 2" machine is rolling into the studio this afternoon. I'll take pictures, and maybe get back online at the house so I can post the pictures. Catch y'all later... Aaron :mrgreen:

Aloha Aaron, Merry Christmas! Enjoy the new toys! :wink: Aloha 8)

The 2" machine is in. Just needs tweaking. Randy Blevins didn't have time to get to it Friday night, so maybe late in the week he'll get a chance to align everything. I have pix, and I just connected my computer back up, so maybe this evening I'll have new pix for uploading. Aaron :D

OK, here we go...lots of pix from the past few weeks... Here's tracking room 2...

Here's the console move in day...the last picture shows my friends who helped move the console...Richard, Tom, Sid, and Billy...

Here we are back to the tracking room #2.

Here's the first layer going up...

And the first layer mudded and taped, and sealed in the corners...