Here is a detail of some temporary spacers I hung around the top of the roofline so that I knew how far to hang the roof layers to end up with the wall flush once the sheetrock was hung. Every seam of sheetrock on the wall corners, ceiling corners and roof corners are overlapping as well as the seams of the sheetrock.
Here I'm sanding and adding polyurethane to the tops of the desk for the console desk the computer desk, and the autolocator/wireless DAW controller stand.
Insulation going up. Because I used standard width walls and ceiling spaces, I could use the plastic wrapped insulation without creating a three leaf situation. So nice to work with! I left space on the inner and outer wall uninsulated until the last minute so I could slip the inner sheet rock through.
Sheetrock up. I went with all surface mounted utilities to keep things airtight and used copius amounts of acoustic caulk and backer rod. I ran the dimmer on the outside to reduce rf interference.
I mounted 3" pvc pipe through the walls on both sides of the door between the rooms for running the snake and the autolocator cable so I can use my tape machine when tracking myself. After the cables are fed through I wrap them with pipe insulation and tie everything off with cable ties so that the pipes are airtight. Notice also the surface mounted outlet. I went with single outlets to save cost, and because I'm using Isobar power strips on each outlet. I installed two outlets on opposite walls in the tracking room, and one outlet in the mix room. I use Rolls ProMatch boxes to convert the unbalanced computer signal to balanced. I used one 20 amp circuit for all outlets and a seperate circuit for the track lights. The outlets are on an isolated ground that is connected to a cold water pipe with a grounding pipe connector. I ran some amp tests and the power is exceptionally clean, and 20 amps should suffice, so long as I don't run the Air Conditioner and the Mackie 1400i at the same time.
Here is a pic of the tube for the Air Conditioner vent, I'm using a portable A/C on casters. I will turn it on to cool the room down when not tracking. The A/C gets no fresh air feed so I will need to introduce fresh air occasionally as well. The tube has a dryer plug on the roof that seals when not in use. Once the tube is connected to the A/C the room will be airtight. It rarely gets very hot in Santa Barbara, and my loft stay's cool when it does, so A/C shouldn't be much of a problem.
Notice also the surface mount for the track lighting. I used a romex connector in the box and sealed the hole around the romex with fireproof caulk. I used a conduit box, to conduit connector, to 2" piece of conduit to conduit connector to track light conduit connector. Whew...
Here is a pic of the junction box on the roof that runs to the panel. All of the romex was run to this box and labeled. This junction box will get a second deck before being closed up to give room for the wires. All of the outlets are currently on one circuit, but I left open the option for one of the outlets to be run on an additional circuit if I need more juice. I was running out of time before the knee surgery, so this is fine for now.
Here is the last pic of this phase. Recovering from the knee surgery about two weeks ago so I soldered custom wiring for the monitor system using nice quality shielded cable and neutrix connectors. The monitor system will be a Hafler amp, NS10's and a 8" 100watt powered sub. The sub has adjustable crossover, so I'll just be using it a bit for below 100Hz. I wanted a small punchy sub, and this one is perfect, but it is unbalanced, so I'm using a Rolls ProMatch to keep everything in balance.
You can also see the Mackie SRM450 powered 12" that I will be using for the playback monitor in the tracking room and my modified 600W 1x15 SWR Bass Cab.
Thats all for now. I'm able to do some low impact work so I'll be taping and floating the drywall this weekend, then painting, then I can start on the room treatments. Stay tuned for Phase 2. coming soon...
