Dreamspace Studios Build (Cape Town - South Africa)

[waynejoshua]

Hi all

This being my first post, I thought i'd wait till it was really worth something, and so here goes... Building my first "commercial" studios!

I've been recording music for about 12 years now professionally in my various home studios, and have found a way to expand finally (not too big) and am wanting to share in the joy of this building process with all of you !

I'll post pics as we go, I also waited for wetworks, etc, to be done so I can kickstart the pics nicely Our plan is to be ready by Jan 2009. We're based in Sunny Africa (Cape Town - South Africa) and have a great view of "table mountain" from our new studios, so here goes.... Pics on their way!

Wayne Joshua

[waynejoshua]

Just some pics of the building and surroundings to get you started. ....

[waynejoshua]

If you're wondering about the restuarant in the building, it's gonna be an interesting concept! We thought we'd combine recording studios with a restuarant.... Yes, sounded ridiculous to me when I first heard it (my partner Marcel) but I think we might be onto something? A place where people can actually go and meet in town, have a drink & some good food and watch a recording session being done or a live studio performance for that matter, of some well known artists and bands. Obviously when in more low key sessions, the blinds can come down and the studio & restaurant will seperate. Or for more private sessions of coarse. The plan is to soundproof the two completely from one another, and have HD screens in every room in the building, with camera's for the downstairs area as well as upstairs, so all can see the happenings of both areas. I will have switches and routing in the main control room, if I desire to turn off studio & booth camera's and re-route something like VH1 for that particular session. Here's some pics of the building still untouched...

[waynejoshua]

More pics of building and upstairs (where studio will be)....

[waynejoshua]

So building commenced! Here bashing out doors to drum booth, and control room glass frame etc, got to get all wetworks complete, the dust is everywhere... The control room will be a slightly higher level than the Vox/Amp booths & drum room... Feels quite 70's ... I like*

[cosmos]

good luck !! looks good ! thumbsup

[InSight]

Very nice, looks like it has alot of potential.

[waynejoshua]

Thanks fellows! Here's some more pics of the floating floor developments etc etc... More to follow..

[waynejoshua]

More here of foor slicing between rooms (vox booth) and (drum booth)...

[waynejoshua]

The walls getting erected, spaced away and to be filled with rockwool, on floating floors, no touching external room, the usual type of thing, pity this place isnt a bit bigger, but maybe better to start a bit smaller and expand later by building bigger rooms downstairs who knows...

[waynejoshua]

more...

[Darius van H]

Beautiful location!

Good luck with it!

[MarKatz]

Looks good man,
good luck and keep on the pics...

[waynejoshua]

Running Snake (16 Channels in each booth) plus "returns for headphones" also running HDMI for flat panel in each booth, to reflect protools screens for voice artists, and video for visual, even fitting camera's for extra visuals downstairs so people can view sessions!! Exciting stuff... will post most pics to date, then will follow up with finishes...

Wayne Josuha -

[waynejoshua]

here's some more exciting ones....

[waynejoshua]

I invite you all to Cape town! Come and make some music with us Love posting pics!!

The Frames have gone in, and we await the doors! Glass arrived!!! It's really coming together, dreams do come true

Here's more fellows..

[Kris]

Man what a great concept!

You know that feeling you get when you have been tracking a great band and realize that you are the only one that will ever hear that particular performance in that moment? Now you can share that with your restaraunt clientele! I wish you great success!

[limestudio]

very cool concept! and very interesing site to build the studio plus the resataurant! , south africa eee! cool space , wish things would come along here in guadalajara any ways my best reguards!

[mosaik]

Hey Wayne, this is Ryan, Warrens boet. Your place looks like its gonna be killer!! Im gonna be following your thread enviously!! Good luck with everything. When im back in CT i'd dig to come and check it out!

[waynejoshua]

Hi all, here's another surrounds pic of location! enjoy..

[waynejoshua]

And some other various new ones.... Hey Ryan, wazup my brother? Nice to hear you're checking it out

Nearly done, hoping for 1st week Jan 09'. Got some stuff to record urgently, and dying to seperate it all!! Looking forward, Cape Town is beautiful this time of year. All you Gearslutz should come and enjoy the Cape Town vibe when you get a moment, come have a beer at the studio for goodness sake! Cheers legends...

[waynejoshua]

And some more... Check out my studio "boep"! Been working too hard!! (For those of you who don't know South African Slang, it means "stomach" or belly!! ha ha enjoy folks thumbsup

[macleodgrant]

only a capetonian would have a crazy idea to have a restaurant and studio in one place! i know this cos i had the same crazy idea. this is my other passion

that's in Bokaap right?

it looks like it's really coming together nicely and that you're doing a class and stylish job which is very important - impressions count ;-)

what are things like in CT at the moment? i miss the sunshine & people big time

i'll pop in to say hi when i'm down for a visit again

what equipment are you basing your studio around, monitoring, recording, etc.

good luck
grant

[waynejoshua]

Hey Grant, Thanks man.. You' are right, its near Bokaap, just below near on the edge of ton between bokaap and town....

Things are coming on nicely, gonna post more pics tomorrow of further developments... As for pre amps/monitors/gear etc...

Pre's: I've just ordered in.....(sounds like I'm ordering dinner)

1 x "A Designs" - Pacifica Pre (stereo)
1 x Avalon 737sp Pre
1 x Joe Meek Twin Q Pre (stereo)
1 x A designs Red-DI (Tube D.I )
1 x API 10 slot 500 series rack space
------------filled with -----------
2 x Avedis 500 pre's
2 x API 512's pre's
1 x Great river 500 series pre
1 x Erricson montessi (Blue) 500 series pre

Monitoring: Genelec monitors + Genelec Floor Sub

D.A.W. Pro Tools 8 !

Work Surface : C/24 (Digidesign)

APPLE MAC PRO 4 core machine 11GB RAM..

Mics: Royer 121's // Rode K2's // Rode NT2 + Rode NT2a // Shure (sm58, sm87, am16, Beta 56, Beta 52, AKG D112, AKG c 414, sm57's)

Fender Amps, "DW" Drum kits, Taylor Acoustic Guitars, Fender + Gibson Guitars, Sandberg (California) Basses, Fender Precision Basses, Keyboard Controllers (Pro 88 - Maudio)

Lots & Lots of Plug ins!! All paid for ...

- McDSP
- iZotope
- Waves Platinum
- Waves SSL
- DUY Full Pack
- Sonnox Oxford Set
- Native Instruments Full Package + Kore 2
- Massey (Full list)
- Spectrasonics (ALL Plugs) all expanders
- Superior Drummer 2.0
- EZ Drummer + all expanders
- Sound Toys (ALL)

The list goes on and on.....

I'll post pics of it all in the room soon


Cheers legends

[Brenton]

Looks great.

[macleodgrant]

hey waynejoshua
sounds like a good equipment choice

you should get a copy of logic in there too, then i can come and do some recording :-)

what is the music scene like in CT?

[waynejoshua]

Ok, so, back to posting, we have been crazy busy here and all is coming together nicely. Its amazing how I've always read about budgets and how you should double whatever you start off with..... Well I recommend you quadruple that, and then some.. Unless you have serious to the point planning, it is endless :( Anyway, things are starting to rock and hopefully we'll be able to pay it all back with some interesting work on the horizon, whew....

Rock on you darling gearslutz!

[waynejoshua]

Here's the final flooring going in... enjoy....

[waynejoshua]

some more for your perusal...

[waynejoshua]

Bringing all the gear in , and starting acoustication, and diffusion for the next while. there's a bit of a bass node in the control room, so we're making bass traps by droping the front of the room, and using rockwool to fill certain spaces, constantly re-doing room analysis, to get nice acoustics... Check it out..