My own mix & overdub-studio

[Gie-Sound]

I am moving into Sander vd Heide his "new building". You can read more about the building & Sander his new mastering room in this thread:
Rebuilding our mastering room in Soest, The Netherlands

While working on his new room, Sander used to work in the controlroom that is now becoming my mixroom. At that time the room looked like this;


Big basstraps in the back of the room. (btw; the door leads to his machineroom, wich I will change into a overdubroom)


This was his machineroom:


I have been working on these rooms for the last 10 days with friends.

[Gie-Sound]

allright... so I wanted to turn the machineroom into an overdub-room where I would be able to record vocals, guitars etc etc


Stripping the basstraps


Stripping the floor (notice the spot/lit where I can put cables underground to the dubroom)
The red rolls are "underfloor" they will form an extra layer on top of the "Silent Floor"


Cable-tunnel before cleaning etc

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The control room is already isolated with double doors, multiple layers of glass for the window and double (stone)walls.
The former machineroom does have double walls, but just one door on each side. So we are going to add an extra door where you go to the controlroom. And we are adding an extra (absorbtion) wall near the other door (to the hallway).


Good friend Ronnie working his a$$ of;


Bring in nice floor:


Three layers of rockwool:

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After we stripped the controlroom we started with some new colour ;-)




Backside with stripped traps/absorbtion on the top. All the white panels at the bottom are from wood and they contain rockwool.
The white panels in the middle are V-shaped into the room; althoug it's difficult to see the full impact at these pictures.

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Skyline diffusers:


A friend of mine made 4 of them for the back wall. I am going to spraypaint em in silver

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Underfloor (red) & floor;




New fabric with extra absorbing panels;

[greatgreatriver]

It looks marvelous! Love the intense blue color...

[Gie-Sound]

Glad you like it.
The light on the pics is quite harsh... But it will become warmer once the spots are installed (and the big construction light leaves )

I am working on absorbtion right now, but I want to avoid some obvious "looks" and try to incorporate some "functionality" into design/atmosphere. You will see...

[Darius van H]

Yo G, looking good!

How's the console coming along?

[Gie-Sound]

Originally Posted by Darius van H

Yo G, looking good!

How's the console coming along?

The first 24 channels are scheduled to arrive on te 8th of december...

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The Argosy desk that is going to hold my custom-build mixing desk came in...

[Darius van H]

this is looking serious

[greatgreatriver]

haha wow! Awesome - still digging the blue color...

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The diffusers after the first layer of silver(spray)paint:

[fossaree]

nice painting. I'm definitely following this thread

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The big & heavy trafo that is going to balance my power!


[sorry for the dust ]

2nd layer of silver paint for the diffusers:

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Absorbtion for the dubroom.



You can still see the rockwool from the absorberwall. We are going to cover that with frames with the same purple fabric as in the controlroom.

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hanging the diffusers on the back-wall

the first 3;





All four:

[fossaree]

that was fast !

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Still no purple fabric in my dubroom...
BUT... I added something else;



and more;

BTW; there is absorbing foam behind the NY canvas



more to come...

[slowjett]

are those poly muffin baking sheets?


Also this room looks exactly like the room Sander is re-doing.. are there two rooms identical??

[fossaree]

Originally Posted by slowjett

are those poly muffin baking sheets?

If it is , that's a good thing .

Just imagine , you're hungry . So you give yourself a break , stop that mixing project take your sheets from the wall and guess what ... lets bake some muffin !

As soon you're done eating , wash and put them back to the walls .

;-)

Multi purpose studio treatment !

[Gie-Sound]

Cables under my desk (going to the overdubroom)






And comming out of the ground in the overdub-room;

[Gie-Sound]

Originally Posted by slowjett

are those poly muffin baking sheets?


Also this room looks exactly like the room Sander is re-doing.. are there two rooms identical??

1; yessss (or should I say: "NO!, they are exclusive, new, warm sounding, custom-build, tube diffusers"
2; almost... We are in the same building

[Darius van H]

G, i've got loads of new unused mono and stereo neutrik 1/4 jacks, you can have some if you want .............. D

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work in progress....

First "seating for clients"


Trying to figure out in wich order I should put my gear in the new racks;




I want to keep one flighcase, so I am still able to bring gear to recordings I do in other studio's (since mine is just for mixing and overdubs)

[Gie-Sound]

Here we go with something special ;-)

Building basstraps wich are decorative as well....
So I use.....


.......
Empty guitar cabs ;-)



First layer of rockwool


the one in front should not "shine through" the fabric;


Almost filled.... alsno notice the backplate


In the room (2 in each front-corner)

[fossaree]

Great idea to use cabs as BT !
Superb

[benonline]

wow, that's just crazy to use koch cabinets as bass traps! VERY nice and original. You probably got the cabs at a good price, right? Otherwise you wouldn't do such a thing, haha :)

[Gie-Sound]

I made a deal with Koch ;-)