Spark 1 Container Studio Completed.

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Spark 1 Container Studio Completed.

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You may remember Mark "Sparky" Paltridge built the first container studio on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia.

We've now completed the new container studio to match it. :D

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Wow! Awesome! That looks like really neat.
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Hey there.
This studio looks sweet.
Could someone point me to the design plan for the splayed panels on the walls
looking great here.
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The wall units are my own proprietary design.

I added a recording Sparky sent me this morning of the guitar session in the picture. He loves the room. :)

http://johnlsayers.com/Pages/Spark_1.htm
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Re: Spark 1 Container Studio Completed.

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Hi there again.
well they sure do look and sound great.
Just want to say thanks for taking the time to run this forum.
It really is an invaluable resource to myself and many many folk the world over.
As they say in Irish "Go neidribh an bothar leat" or may the road rise to meet you!!
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Great John!
John Sayers wrote:The wall units are my own proprietary design.
I'd love to see more specs/constuctionpix on that :) They look really cool. They are tuned?
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My guess is that since they were part of a project that John did for a customer, he might not be willing / able to put them in the public domain... That would make sense to me.

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Soundman2020 wrote: That would make sense to me.

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Sparky sent me this recording of Danny Boy recorded entirely in the new container studio.

It features his wife Bec Paltridge, (Graeme Langley sang harmonies), with all music played by Rory O'Donnell, (http://www.roryodonnell.com.au ). Rory played the Hammond Organ too. One close mic (U87), and 1 room mic at the far end, (KM184). Lead guitar, The Slippertail, was made by Graeme as well.

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That's a pretty neat recording, John! Thanks! Do you know if the guitars have any electronic reverb added, or is that just the natural sound of the room? Pretty good, either way.

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no I don't know Stuart - nice vocal presence isn't it. Nice voice too :)
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Blue Moon and Matilda are stellar. Now this; I'm stunned!

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Mark has told me that he wants to sell the original Control Room/Booth container.

http://johnlsayers.com/Studio/Mainpage/MP-Mark.htm

The container is parked near Nambour on the Sunshine Coast - Queensland, Australia.

If anyone is interested you can call Mark on +617 5478 6608 cell - 0416 262 319
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macotto wrote: Could someone point me to the design plan for the splayed panels on the walls...
Like John already said: "The wall units are my own proprietary design." It was work done for a paying customer, so I don't think he'll be putting that design in the public domain!

But he has shared many other of his designs. Take a look all over this forum, and you'll find numerous examples. You could probably extrapolate from one of those to get what you want.
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Hi all, I'm selling my complete recording studio, all built within a 20' ex-shipping container, including all the fittings and full ducted aircon system. The container consists of both a control room and vocal/amp booth, with the interior all designed by the brilliant John L Sayers.

I came up with the idea of a studio within a container, as I don't own my own home, but I needed a space that would not only inspire musos to record with me and feel comfortable, but also give me great sounds to hard drive, due to a well acoustically treated tracking and control room, (albiet very small). I believe I achieved all this and now have a number of albums under my belt, primarily from Sunshine Coast artists, with nearly all past clients recording their next albums and projects with me now for the second time around.

I recently enlisted the help of John L Sayers again, to design me a dedicated tracking room, (again within a shipping container). I've just completed the construction 2 months back. One of the main reasons these rooms work is due to John's slot resonator designs, (basically Helmholz resonators), which take up most of the low mid probs you tend to get within square rooms, or indeed most untreated rooms. The resonators are specifically designed and calculated for the room's actual dimensions, and every resonator has been built and routed out to particular specifications. They definitely work!! Acoustic guitars really seem to 'sing' easily, without having to resort to the use of corrective EQ etc.... Vocals also seem to have all the food groups represented, even BEFORE any EQ or compression etc...

Anyway, as I now track most of my clients in the new room, (via a multicore and video link), I find I'm no longer using the vocal booth, so I'm now in the initial stages of designing a new dedicated control room, (again through John and within another hi-cube container), with the intention of selling my original control room/vocal and amp booth to another avid audio fan, perhaps in a similar situation to mine.

The complete studio container will be sold with all the ties lines intact, (in between the vocal booth and control room, with 16 XLR inputs in the vocal booth, as well as 4 XLR out and a guitar unbalanced jack, should the guitarist want to track within the control room, with amps in the booth). The stage box within the booth terminates in the control room via balanced jack inputs, (all Neutrik connectors), that you can easily route to a patchbay or wherever. There's a small port thru which you can run a multicore out to wherever, connecting the outside world to the front vocal booth. I often record my drums downstairs in my rented house, not only close mic-ing, but also utilising the adjacent bathroom and stairwell for drum ambience. Bands recording together often sit in the control room with me, (or within the new tracking room), while the drummer does his thing downstairs. The studio also will be sold will all the lighting intact, (all with dimmer switches), and has 16 power points in the control room for all your gear. All the power points are star earthed, with the buyer needing to bang a few copper earth rods in the ground for proper earthing, preventing any potential ground hum probs, once the container is positioned in it's new home.

The main monitors are soffit mounted, (speakers not included with sale), with the speaker enclosures all built to John's specifications, giving you a very accurate aural image with good monitors, (I'm currently running Mackie HR 824's, as well as Auratones). Also built in is an aircon duct, running via an attached ducted aircon system, that services both the control room and the vocal booth, with the return air also exiting the opposite side. The aircon unit will also be included in the sale, with the buyer having to re-gas the unit at it's destination. The remote and wall controller are hardwired to the control room. The aircon system is wired completely seperate to the power and lights, as well as having a power box mounted to the container, with two power leads attached to this, that can be plugged into any household power box, single phase.

This container not only could be used in remote locations or within a school situation, but also within an inner suburban environment, (perhaps from home), where sounds from either outside or inside can be kept to a minimum. Being a shipping container, it can be easily winched up onto a tray truck and shipped to wherever, with the minimum of fuss. I'm currently based in Montville, on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, so the buyer would have to cover the cost of transportation to it's intended destination. Initial inquires indicate that transport to Melbourne is around $2000.00, but you may want to check this....!!

I'm selling the complete container, fittings and complete ducted aircon system, (NO GEAR), for $30,000. There's a phenomenal amount of materials, labour and passion gone into getting this studio "right". It really works and has been my main source of income for the past 4 yrs. I'll be very sad to see it go, as I know this studio inside out and I'm very comfortable there, (as are my clients), but I'm keen to keep moving forward. Hell, maybe one day I may even get a REAL house, within which I may just build a permanent studio..... now THERE's a concept!!!

Anyway, one can contact me via Recording Studio : Sunshine Coast : Spark1 Studios : Queensland or my mobile, 0416 262 319.


Here's a link to some new photos of the studio: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/album.php?albumid=932


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Go to the "New Photos of Spark 1, June 09"



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