John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Congratulations Stuart. 5,000 posts is epic. 10,000 posts is eye watering.

When I logged in to the forum today for my morning dose of studio talk, I noticed this thread of yours at the top of the pile. When I started reading it I didn't notice the start date and thought you were just joking around. "This guy is the guru, so why is he talking like a noob? Is this going to be some sort of parody?"

Then it hit me. 2009. 10,001 posts. This is where it started!

10,000 posts won't come as a surprise to any regulars on this forum. Your passion for studio design and your commitment to helping people are on display here on a daily basis and have been for a long time.

Congratulations and salutations from Australia.

Chris

Im certain many members such as myself really appreciate the help stuart provides,

Ive got to ask though - what happened to the studio ? was it built? are there any pics????

Ive got to ask though - what happened to the studio ? was it built? are there any pics????

In the end, it never was built. For three reasons:

1) I realized that I wasn't going to get the results I was originally wanting in this sized space. It would have been pretty good, yes, but I'm too much of a perfectionist to be satisfied with "pretty good"..

2) I suddenly needed the space for storage, after some other things happened that I'm not going to go into....

3) My tracking / mixing / mastering business declined at the same rate that my forum participation, acoustic understanding, and studio design business grew! This is really the biggest reasons of the three. I started getting so much business designing and tuning studios for other people, that I had less and less time left for doing my own music! And I found that I really enjoy this aspect of studios (designing them) more than I enjoyed the other aspect (using them).

Maybe one day I might decide to build it anyway, more as a personal challenge to see just how good I can get it, rather than as a place where I'd mix music to make a living. It would be different from what I had planned originally, too. . . . Now, if only I could figure out what to do with all the junk seems to have accumulated in there, it might go faster!

It's hard to believe that it's been almost ten years since I started this thread... WOW!


- Stuart -