I'm baaaaack!!!
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:38 pm
10 years ago I finished building and said "NEVER AGAIN!!!"
Now I'm afraid I'm gonna be at it again. Moving from a 1750sq. ft place to an 8200 sq ft place.
From 1 control room, 1 tracking room and 1 booth to 2 control rooms, 1 large and 1 small tracking room and 3 booths. (and a sound stage, but that's a different worm.
Main control room is Chris Pelonis designed, 20 x 24 x 13 with a pair of soffit mounted Tannoy 215-DMT's It was saved and removed carefully from a closing facility. I have used the room for mixing and mastering and love it. Re-erecting it should take 3 weeks and the erction will be done by the same team which build and removed it, so that's cool too!
Next I want to design & build another, slightly smaller control room. Mainly for mixing and mastering. This system will house my JBL LSR surround system with subs.
Thinking of having a central machine room between the control rooms. I don't have any computer noises in my room now and don't want them in the future!
Next, tracking rooms. Currently I have drums on a de-coupled stage with a bass-trap in the roof and plenty of diffusion around it. The roof is hinged ( big sound roof up, tight sound roof down )
Works like a dream, so something similar, but with a glass / perspex wall so it can be closed if we don't want any bleed-through.
Then, one room for the grand,opening up into the main tracking room.
One vocal / amp booth, perhaps 2.
Main tracking room with plenty of height (room height is almost 14') and plenty of bass trapping.
most likely again straw panels for diffusion.
I'm thinking of placing the whole lot on rubber (recycled car tires)
and having the drawing pre-fabbed using agriboard
Any ideas, John? Anyone?
You can see some pics of my current set-up at www.myspace.com/sjoko
John helped me making many good decisions on that one.
Now I'm afraid I'm gonna be at it again. Moving from a 1750sq. ft place to an 8200 sq ft place.
From 1 control room, 1 tracking room and 1 booth to 2 control rooms, 1 large and 1 small tracking room and 3 booths. (and a sound stage, but that's a different worm.
Main control room is Chris Pelonis designed, 20 x 24 x 13 with a pair of soffit mounted Tannoy 215-DMT's It was saved and removed carefully from a closing facility. I have used the room for mixing and mastering and love it. Re-erecting it should take 3 weeks and the erction will be done by the same team which build and removed it, so that's cool too!
Next I want to design & build another, slightly smaller control room. Mainly for mixing and mastering. This system will house my JBL LSR surround system with subs.
Thinking of having a central machine room between the control rooms. I don't have any computer noises in my room now and don't want them in the future!
Next, tracking rooms. Currently I have drums on a de-coupled stage with a bass-trap in the roof and plenty of diffusion around it. The roof is hinged ( big sound roof up, tight sound roof down )
Works like a dream, so something similar, but with a glass / perspex wall so it can be closed if we don't want any bleed-through.
Then, one room for the grand,opening up into the main tracking room.
One vocal / amp booth, perhaps 2.
Main tracking room with plenty of height (room height is almost 14') and plenty of bass trapping.
most likely again straw panels for diffusion.
I'm thinking of placing the whole lot on rubber (recycled car tires)
and having the drawing pre-fabbed using agriboard
Any ideas, John? Anyone?
You can see some pics of my current set-up at www.myspace.com/sjoko
John helped me making many good decisions on that one.