Steve's new Recording Studio from the start

[InGear]

Steve, your studio-build thread is really inspirational. Keep up the fantastic work!

[stevep]

Originally Posted by InGear

...and Steve's new Vortex Woofers are tested and ready for transport.

(According to spec, they achieve 150dB, crack concrete blocks at 20 meters, and blow smoke rings when properly adjusted.)

Gota get some of those .......

[stevep]

Originally Posted by Sqye

brilliant - ALIVE ALIVE ALIVE

Hope he wont scare the children...


You Guys are Great !!!!!!


Totaly crack me yp !!!

[Sqye]

Originally Posted by InGear

...and Steve's new Vortex Woofers are tested and ready for transport.

(According to spec, they achieve 150dB, crack concrete blocks at 20 meters, and blow smoke rings when properly adjusted.)

lol

so do we order them DIRECTLY from lockheed martin, or what?

i tried

www.lockheed.martin-audio.gov

- no dice?

[stevep]

Wait till you see what ive been building in the back room.....

If you want to break each and every window of your house and, not to mention, of your neighborhood too, this 60-inch sub-woofer would do the trick with the snap of your finger.

[stevep]

I need to find these guys and see if they can build me a BIGGER one ,,,,,
60" is just not big enough with all my bass trapping......



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[RainbowStorm]

stevep,

Amazing, really! You should win a Gearslutz Award for keeping your work progress updated here! You seem to be extremely skilled and know a lot about construction, acoustics and recording. It's a lot of fun to look at all these pictures and the progress you make.

I have some questions, are you inspired by any studio construction in particular when you build this studio? Do you use any construction software for this project, for instance Autocad? Have you done this before or is this your first project? What kind of approach have you had when it comes the choice of buying ALL this gear? Have you owned a lot of this gear before and know it works or do you use a structured gear purchase strategy for succeeding with both the budget and the gear choice? How much of the gear have you chosen to buy second hand? Being this skilled and doing it all from scratch, in terms of spending you need to have used some kind of reference on what to spend the most on and what to not spend as much on. For instance I saw that you really did the acoustics part very thoroughly and that you really wanted an analog studio rather than a digital one. Could you please tell us a little about how you have delt with all these decisions you've made and how you have ranked the different components in regard to the importance for the final studio sound and how much the components contribute to the final sound? Have you done research about this before you started or do you just "improvise"?

Best of luck!

[djui5]

Originally Posted by stevep

Wait till you see what ive been building in the back room.....

That's not a subwoofer anymore..it's become an earthquake generator.

[Sqye]

Originally Posted by djui5

That's not a subwoofer anymore..it's become an earthquake generator.

i like that - EG.



oh, btw, Steve, i have some questions, too, that i'd like to add to rainbow's list:

1. what is the meaning of life?

2. what is the average annual rainfall in the amazon basin?

3. how do you spell chris-an-thuh-mum?


thanks,

happy workdayz!!!

[stevep]

Been working on the audio path, The automaton system is working great !

Just a few wires to sort out..........

The room sounds AWESOME !!!!!




need to sleep,

[stevep]

Ill get to your questions as soon as i can think straight




steve

[treymonfauntre]

so many of those questions have already been answered in this thread..

[Ziggy!!]

Steve! Steve! He's our man! If he can't do it no one can!


GoooOOOoooOOOoooOOOO Steve!

[daryllh]

Originally Posted by stevep

Been working on the audio path, The automaton system is working great !

Just a few wires to sort out..........

The room sounds AWESOME !!!!!




need to sleep,

Glad to hear the automation is going Steve! Great job. If you aren't re-installing the OS, I have the master user and password (if you need it)

[stevep]

RainbowStorm .I have some questions, are you inspired by any studio construction in particular when you build this studio? Do you use any construction software for this project, for instance Autocad? Have you done this before or is this your first project?

Sorry it took me so long to get to your questions,

Ive been stuck inside a mixing board for the last 3 days


The design for this room came from the last studio me and my friends built 20 years ago in Tucson, I took all the good parts and tried to fix all the mistakes i made .

What kind of approach have you had when it comes the choice of buying ALL this gear? Have you owned a lot of this gear before and know it works or do you use a structured gear purchase strategy for succeeding with both the budget and the gear choice?

The Budget ....... Blown through the roof

I was using Multi track decks before and I couldn't see starting another studio without a 24 track Studer.

I was using A degidesign DAW and MIDI software Synked to the Multi track when this stuff first came out, in the 80s we had a 128K Mac we Hot roded with a ?? meg Hard drive WOW ! and then moved to the MAc 2 with 2meg of ram and a color monitor .. that was state of the art.

So with the new set up I chose to go Mac , Pro tools HD Acell and the Apogee 16X Converters

How much of the gear have you chosen to buy second hand?

Most all of it except for some new Mic's, Also I had allot left from the other studio.

in terms of spending you need to have used some kind of reference on what to spend the most on and what to not spend as much on. For instance I saw that you really did the acoustics part very thoroughly and that you really wanted an analog studio rather than a digital one.

Yes I spent Allot on Isolation and Acoustics in the control room , live room .

All the great gear and a bad room does no good, I would rather spend more on the room now because thats something you cant go back and fix later .

You can always buy more gear to fill up the rack later.

As far as an Analog vrs Digital studio.......I think i covered both worlds pretty well unless you meant a digital mixing board.

I like the way an analogue desk makes music sound and i prefer to work on a large desk. in split format, working on building the mix from the basic tracks on.

I will mostly use Pro Tools as a tape machine and will have it synked to the Studer for most projects.

Or will start on tape and move to digital

Could you please tell us a little about how you have delt with all these decisions you've made and how you have ranked the different components in regard to the importance for the final studio sound and how much the components contribute to the final sound?

The Tape machine, Ptools outboard gear and the desk will all work together, they are all tools for me to get the sound i want for each different project.

as far as rank....... Give me the studer, the desk, some outboard a few good Mic's and you can have the DAW !

Have you done research about this before you started or do you just "improvise"?

This studio is a product of many years of working every day in a commercial studio seeing what works, what is needed and how i did it wrong the first time.

I'm sure i made plenty of mistakes this time to .........
only time will tell



THank you for your interest,



steve

[ryguydrum@netsc]

more pics. . .

[Mr. PC]

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[rainsinvelvet]

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[stevep]

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Ok, Sorry , its been awhile......

Ive been working on the desk and my friend Vern is helping me finish up the construction part.

The control room window is framed and glass is ordered !

The drum room glass goes in tomorrow !!!

I will post some pics of the desk, ect. and the windows Monday am..... to tired now......

Thanks to ALL for following this thread and for your support !!!


steve

[stevep]

Ok some more pics of the work .....

I have some of the channel strips in the desk for testing, all will get recapped as needed

Starting to wire the Mic panels there will be 3, 28 input XLR panels 2 in the live room and 1 , 20 input in the drum room.


still waiting for some more Punch down blocks,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,



we should have the drum room window in today , unless the waves are good,

Vern is a surfer so ........ work is second.


Thanks for looking,


steve

[stevep]

Framing the control room window,

[stevep]

Window finished and waiting for the glass,

1/2 " Laminated on the control room side and 3/8 on the live room side.

[stevep]

350 feet of 26 Pair Gepco wire for the outboard ,

[stevep]

My temporary work bench in the control room,

[stevep]

Some channel strips in need of maintenance