Substantial posts by Lord Tim, who started the thread, and by the forum’s most active contributors. 38 of 65 posts are listed.
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Lord Tim, 19 September 2007Hey, all! Sorry it's taken this long from my promise in the Design forum in THIS THREAD before I started posting up pics from the build, but better late than never, hey?…
Lord Tim, 19 September 2007So, first thing we did was get some prices on things and we soon realised exactly how scary a project like this could cost. :? On the original plans, there were double…
Lord Tim, 19 September 2007So next up, our builder, John from Vorria Builders (who I highly recommend - great dude and is doing a killer job!) came along with his offsider with a couple of big…
Lord Tim, 19 September 2007Next up was doing the floors and ceilings. The way this house was made, the floorboards were the lower level ceiling. There was a thin and very badly applied layer of…
Lord Tim, 19 September 2007One quick check of Glenn's excellent plans.... External image, not preserved — original: http://www.lord.net.au/slsstudios/images/17082007162.jpg ... and it was ready to…
Lord Tim, 19 September 2007So that brings us to late last week. Things were moving along really nicely, work was happening downstairs and I was buying everything I needed to put into the room.…
Lord Tim, 19 September 2007As luck would have it, our guitarist Mark is a licensed electrician! Yay! :) Can we say... welcome to the jungle? Recovered from web.archive.org — originally hosted at…
Lord Tim, 21 September 2007Cheers, John! :) Well, work continues... Finally the vents and all of the other holes (including dodgy original brick work) was plugged up: Recovered from…
Lord Tim, 5 October 2007So here's some more updates! :) First of all, a stunning breakthrough - WALLS! :D External image, not preserved — original:…
Lord Tim, 20 October 2007Alrighty, here's an update! :) First of all, for all of you who were concerned, the doors all now have knobs and/or locks! ;) External image, not preserved — original:…
Lou, 20 October 2007Looking really lovely Dude - a great job indeed. Can't wait to get to your stage! :roll: Lord Tim Wrote: I can so relate to your sentiments on this one - My first studio…
Lord Tim, 20 October 2007Hey, cheers for the kind words, Lou! :) I think there's definitely applications for an entirely dead room, like if you were doing ADR and you were adding in ambient…
Lord Tim, 31 October 2007Been a while since the last update and there's a lot to talk about! :) So, the painting got done... sorta! External image, not preserved — original:…
Lord Tim, 4 December 2007Sorry for the lack of updates, guys - things have been cracking along here nicely and I have lots of great pics and info for you, but we've been touring or I've been…
Lord Tim, 11 December 2007Alrighty! Let's be havin' some updates! :) Lots has happened since the last update, so let's see if I can remember it all... So, the floor tiles all went down... more or…
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Lord Tim, 12 December 2007I can't speak for the efficiency but from what my builder tells me, it's about the same amount of time doing both. To get everything so straight he had to set up guides…
Lord Tim, 12 December 2007It's aliiiiiivvvvee.... kinda! ;) I took down my mixer and speakers and fired up some music through it with them in the soffits. First impressions: Awesome! The sound is…
Lord Tim, 13 December 2007And the speakers and TV are in: External image, not preserved — original: http://www.lord.net.au/slsstudios/images/13122007539.jpg The speakers are in so tight that if…
Lord Tim, 13 December 2007HAHA! Cheers, Lou! :D Not long to go now, with any luck. My biggest hold-up is waiting for my ECM8000 measuring mic to arrive so we can plot the room. I'm told it'll be…
Lord Tim, 14 December 2007Didn't you read page 23 on Rod's book regarding safety gear: " Sunglasses must be worn when viewing completed and almost completed studios for the first time or ego…
Lord Tim, 24 December 2007Merry Christmas, everyone, and cheers for the awesome words of encouragement! May Santa bring you all a finished studio for Christmas, done well and under budget! HAHA!…
Lord Tim, 24 December 2007Cheers for the kind words! :) The resonators were tuned to a very specific frequency range, which is why the slats/slots are like that. Before they were in, there was a…
Lord Tim, 26 December 2007Day 1 of testing complete and the results are awesome! :) Firstly from a sound leakage point of view, the room is performing superbly! I had my fiancee go for a wander…
Lord Tim, 26 December 2007As promised, here's the sound samples: http://www.lord.net.au/slsstudios/test1.html (Flash required) It's important to read the notes on the page so you understand what…
Lord Tim, 26 December 2007It's funny, I was sitting there today cursing about how I can't get a lot of stuff I need to finish the place because of the holidays, etc. but I guess I'm kind of lucky…
Lord Tim, 27 December 2007Cheers, and good luck! :) Well... Day 2 of testing: Mixed Results. I made a new cable to solve the routing issues with the mixer, which worked out OK for drumming - now…
Lord Tim, 28 December 2007Yeah, exactly! :) I updated that link in the previous post with a song we recorded yesterday: http://www.lord.net.au/slsstudios/test1.html (Track 6 in the player). As a…
Lord Tim, 5 January 2008Hey, all - I've been a busy guy lately building absorbers and baffles and other wonderful acoustic type things, which is why I haven't been posting much of late... But…
Lord Tim, 9 January 2008Alrighty, more testing and more making of stuff! :) The vocals, as I found before, were absolutely unusable. The room that sounded so good with drums sounded like…
BradJacob, 9 January 2008Lordtim - I think that the last sample with the cloud, you can still hear some clear slapback reflections. You may want to drape some packing blankets over the frame to…
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Lord Tim, 9 January 2008Cheers! :) Once the vocals are in the mix, you can't hear it at all (to stay faithful to the Queensryche song, we added chorus, slapback, reverb and delay to it, so if…
doublehelix, 10 January 2008Tim: I will echo Brad's comments on the nice job on the Queensryche song (I used to be a fan of theirs in the early 80's sometime if I remember correctly). I love the…
Lord Tim, 10 January 2008We'll be doing a little bit more work on the baffles to make them a little less crappy! HAHA! I've recorded in a few big studios where they used these kind of baffles…
Lord Tim, 30 June 2008Hey, everyone! Well, I've been doing exactly as I said I would do - earning some damn money, which is why I haven't been around here for a while. It's amazing, the…
Lord Tim, 22 June 2009Hey Mark, The Aeropac units are awesome! I have them on their lowest setting here and they're pretty much silent, and also are well isolated from noise entering or…
Lord Tim, 25 June 2009I'm just using all of the standard stuff that comes with the unit, and I'm drawing air in from the outside. Even on the lowest (near silent) setting, it's absolutely…
Lord Tim, 25 June 2009No, in fact the isolation is fantastic with these things. I'm getting worse leakage through the ceiling here into the house upstairs than I am through the wall with the…
Lord Tim, 3 May 2010So here we are almost 4 years on from when this thread was started. It's been funny reading back the process of building the studio and remembering the stress of getting…