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Drew,
Pam and I left our commercial facility and landlords, traffic, noise, and that whole damn thing last September, and we’ve never looked back. We built a home on some land here in North Texas, and we built a studio/ office building right behind the house. The studio building was designed from the slab up by our very dear friend Russ Berger. It’s got it’s own entrance from the front, but it’s also connected by an enclosed (garden) walkway to the house, 20 feet away. We have a small studio (fine for us) and a fairly large control room (8400 cf). All of the ceilings in the sound rooms are over 14 feet high, with "clouds" to control bass, etc. I can tell you that there is nothing as good as building it from the ground up, and having it at home can be very, very cool. We are in paradise. For the first time, we even have an outside window (thick, multi-layers of glass) in the studio! The only traffic we have to worry about is stepping on our little geckos on the way in. We also have a 10x20 ft. machine room, filled with computers, hard drives and MIDI keyboard/modules. The sound rooms have their own AC, and it's dead quiet.
It was not as expensive it sounds. As a matter of fact, we’re now paying less than we would have if we had stayed in our lease. Think about it Drew.
As far as replacing or upgrading gear, I want a set of ADAM speakers to replace my big Tannoys, but I only use mid-fields, so the set I want costs a butt-load. Oh well, guess we gotta sell more records…
R
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