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| Gear maniac Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Almancil, Portugal
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| This is what I call a studio construction from the START!!!!! ![]()
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| Gearslutz.com admin Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: London, UK
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| This is a great thread. But for a second I thought you had started building a very badly designed and built holiday resort complex.. until I realized I misunderstood the scale of the photo.... a lot.. I was like.. dude, where is the beach?
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Shop diagrams completed *Phew* I just finished 22 pages @ 36" by 24" of shop diagrams for the masons, plus a schedule listing every block in every wall, by size, type, material, etc. Talk about a detail-oriented project! Here are images of the shop diagrams for the western wall of the Music Room, inside and outside: ![]() ![]() By my count there will be approximately 15,000 blocks at screed or above, plus another 1,000 below. If stacked end to end, they would stretch for four miles. For more info, you can read my latest blog posting. |
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Week 7 photos up on blog... Here are two of the photos now posted to the blog: ![]() ![]() The masons are off to a good start--good people, good plans, good tools, and a great design. The complexity of the masonry plan was the contractor's greatest fear, but it seems that so far, although it is quite complex, we have a good handle on it. My focus will be shifting from cement to wiring as we prepare for the pouring of the slab. Our basic wiring panel will have 64 discrete jacks (XLR, BNC, RJ-45, etc), and with 10 panels, that's 640 wires just flowing from the panels to the patchbays! Figure another 640 wires from the patchbays to the equipment, plus a few hundred wires here or there for connections not expressed in the patchbays and I figure we've got a wiring plan that will have more than 1500 wires! But that's a post for another week... Last edited by Clueless; 25th February 2008 at 01:05 PM. Reason: fixed typo |
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| Gear addict Join Date: May 2007 Location: Baton Rouge, La
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| Heck - you're a more patient person than I am! I would've already started putting a console desk together, and placing it where it will goes in the new building! ![]() |
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| New photos plus a wiring diagram I posted some new photos to my blog, plus I added a draft wiring conduit plan that shows where we're planning to run $21K worth of cables (just raw wire): ![]() Enjoy! |
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Wiring plan nailed Updated my blog with photos showing the strings and nails we put into the ground to guide the plumbers as they lay the PVC pipes. ![]() More photos on the blog. |
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| Gear addict Join Date: May 2007 Location: Baton Rouge, La
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| Kewl beans! |
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| More photos...conduits about half way done I posted two new weekly updates with detailed photos. Here's a shot showing half the conduits that will ultimately be going into the audio machine room: ![]() Yo! |
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| Gear addict Join Date: May 2007 Location: Baton Rouge, La
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| What is the diameter of the conduit? Thanks for the update! |
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Gear addict Join Date: May 2007 Location: Baton Rouge, La
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| ... and whoever said size doesn't count? ![]() |
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| Gear Head Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Iceland
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| Looking great Michael! I can´t believe I missed this thread up to this point, going right on my subscription list now :) |
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Rain delays and complexity Rain has slowed the construction crew, and the complexity of the wiring plan didn't help, either. We had to do a lot of engineering around the footings that I had not anticipated (because I didn't put the footing outlines into my wiring diagrams before I started drawing conduits). Nevertheless, our talented craftspeople have worked around the problems, and we're just about done with the technical conduits. Here's a picture of a few of the many fat pipes coming into the audio equipment room: ![]() Many more photos on the blog... |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: May 2004 Location: Hamilton, On Canada
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| I'm keeping my comments to Gearslutz to avoid confusion. Fantastic build and thanks for sharing the experience with us here and on your blog. Andre |
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| Banned Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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| this is going to be sick as shit (kewl) please give us more |
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| Gear interested Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Birmingham, UK
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| What a setting!!! How much land is it on? Are you installing PV panels for your energy needs? (Sorry if that has been posted elsewhere and I missed it)
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Studio on 17 acres The studio is situated on nearly 17 acres of land. And yes, since we are looking to build a carbon-neutral recording studio, we are looking hard at PVs. That will probably be something we buy quite late in the process, as progress in that domain is pretty fast right now. Glad you like the environment! |
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| Gear interested Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Birmingham, UK
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| 17 Acres....WOW!!!!!! Forget solar panels, build a solar furnace and supply the whole States electricity ![]() What a great, inspirational setting to record in. Are there going to be any residential buildings/log cabins for bands to stay over in?
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Bed and Breakfast on site Quote:
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| I'm happy to report that construction in the virtual world is also progressing. The old website was definitely Plain Vanilla. The new one is Crème brûlée. |
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| Gear nut Join Date: Feb 2008
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| Your new website is... delicious! ![]() Very clean, a real pleasure to surf on!
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Gravel is in (partially) Half the gravel that's been sitting at the construction site has now been conveyed to the foundation. This means that ground level is now minus 8" instead of minus 2'. ![]() Lots more photos on the blog. |
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Electrical conduits mostly in I posted a new series of construction photos to my blog showing the latest progress: electrical conduits: ![]() Will we pour the slab by the end of the month? Stay tuned! |
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Have no fear... Quote:
Then we will remove/recycle the materials and enjoy our beautiful site. | |
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| | #56 |
| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Just crossed the $200K spending mark... ...and the clean power conduits are now all out of the ground. More info on the blog. ![]() |
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| Gear addict Join Date: May 2007 Location: Baton Rouge, La
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| Good lawd!!!! |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2006
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| Did you hire an acoustician or a consultant? The layout makes me nervous for you.
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| I hired Wes Lachot. What part of it makes you nervous? Have you had a bad experience in any space like this one? |
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| | #60 |
| Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2006
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| Your floor plan doesn't look like something he has done traditionally. The symetry of your tracking room is what gets me. Maybe it will be the greatest thing since sliced bread. I wouldn't think that a guy would want so many angles and across from each other like that.
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