26th January 2011
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#1 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
Posts: 315
Thread Starter  | New Premises Build Starts - UK
Hey all, so after closing the doors to my old premises back in April/May 2010, i have finally settled on a deal with new premises, in my home county of Somerset, South West England. The old place was in the middle of nowhere, and i was renting it (admittedly very, very cheaply!) from the engineer than ran it whilst putting up with carpeted everything, a low ceiling that went down to just under 6foot at one wall!!
This new one is in a busy town centre, above a decent sized 350 capacity venue that has hosted the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Kate Nash, well the list goes on.
It consists of a "live" room, studio 1 on the plans, one end (top, on plans) of which has a 7-and-a-half foot ceiling (i'll be using this for storage, booths, and close mic'd amps etc) and then the most part will have an off-centre apexed ceiling, going up potentially twice that in it's max height internally.
A wall, complete with a window, sealed door and extra layer not present on the plans, separates this from the control room, which has a large size much like my old place. We'll be building the console and most rack gear (comps & convertors especially) into a single piece of furniture, with a huge sofa along the backwall. I won't get too hung up on gear, and the photos i've taken so far are plain awful! More to come, and if anyone has any ideas or thoughts they think might be useful, feel free to chime in!
FLOOR PLAN: 
VIEW INTO "LIVE" ROOM FROM CONTROL ROOM: 
VIEW OF TWO DOORS FROM "MIXING DESK SEAT" IN CONTROL ROOM: 
VIEW INTO CONTROL ROOM FROM LIVE ROOM:
Room is deeper than the photo lets on! 
IDEA OF HEIGHT OF THE APEX'D PART OF LIVE ROOM:
Again, Room is deeper than the photo lets on! 
As you can see, the whole out walls are finished and just need the rest of the rockwool inserted, and the inner skin. Doors are being beefed up, big time!
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26th January 2011
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#2 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
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COMPOSITE OF CONTROL ROOM:
(Behind the door is the 45 degree angle part of the wall) 
CORNER OF CONTROL ROOM:
(Better shows the room's depth)  | |
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27th January 2011
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#3 | | Gear Head
Joined: Dec 2010 Location: Greece
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Hi
Looking good...
Was there much extra consideration needed on account of there being the adjacent live venue, in terms of isolation?
Chris
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27th January 2011
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#4 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
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Hi Chris, yea luckily the builder that has been overseeing the plans has some experience in the field, which is good. Planning the separating wall to consist of what it does on the plans on one side of the girder, and then a cavity where the girder sits, then a second wall on the control room side as well, utilising different materials. The budget isn't exactly huge, hence no CAD drawings or super expensive materials, but so far so good!
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27th January 2011
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#5 | | Lives for gear
Joined: May 2009
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The place looks to have great potential! Good luck, and keep those photos coming.
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27th January 2011
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#6 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
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Thanks Syncamorea!
More to come soon 
Working on some plans in googlesketch, will put those up as soon as i'm done!
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27th January 2011
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#7 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2004 Location: Stavenisse
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Will you loose all those heights? You will loose some nice roomsound....
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27th January 2011
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#8 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
Posts: 315
Thread Starter | Quote:
Originally Posted by muziekschuur  Will you loose all those heights? You will loose some nice roomsound.... | Have a look in my first two posts buddy.. Control room & far end of live room will be a 7'4 ceiling, and the apex of the live room ceiling will be following the line of the existing outer ceiling, so potentially anything upto to around 14' !
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27th January 2011
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#9 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Oct 2008 Location: brighton, uk
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Can't wait to do a session there Andy !  | |
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27th January 2011
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#10 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
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You and me both matey | |
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1st February 2011
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#11 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
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So, here's the profile of the new ceiling - The apex is pretty high, the guy there is on a step ladder! Those are the roof joist templates.  | |
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1st February 2011
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#12 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
Posts: 315
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Ok, here's looking through to the live room from the control room. Up so far is one side of the two parts of the dividing wall. The other side is going to be mildly angled, making the roof easier and creating even less parallel surfaces, and is isolated from the other part of the wall.   | |
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1st February 2011
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#13 | | Gear addict
Joined: Dec 2008 Location: Leeds, UK
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cool location! good luck, looks like a nice space
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8th February 2011
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#14 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
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Thank You Gearslag!
More photos to come soon, currently off accross mainland europe on tour (with Reel Big Fish if anyone's interested!) whilst construction continues!
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11th March 2011
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#15 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
Posts: 315
Thread Starter | Progress!
Ok!! So... Back from tour, and some serious progress has been made!
This is the live room, looking into control room: 
This is control room, looking into live room: 
And this shows the height of the live room's off-centred apex:  | |
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11th March 2011
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#16 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
Posts: 315
Thread Starter | Also!
So, we've been upgrading gear heavily too, so for the gear geeks in ya...
First up, gone from FW Motu & ADAT (yes!) to a lovely new SSl Alphalink Madi AX, and a nice new UA LA610, which also came with a free UAD2 Duo card! Thank you UA! 
To add to our existing compliment of Marshall 1960A 4x12, Orange PPC 4x12, Marshall 1936 2x12 & Marshall JTM601 1x12 guitar cabs, we picked up a new Marshall 1960BV (Loaded with Celestion V30's). They are, of course, stacked like this for storage purposes.... 
..and we treated ourselves to a lovely new pair of Focal Twin 6 Be's. Yum!  | |
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11th March 2011
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#17 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
Posts: 315
Thread Starter | Also!
Sorry, duplicated post!
Last edited by AndyZippy; 13th March 2011 at 12:52 PM..
Reason: Duplicate post
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14th March 2011
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#18 | | Lives for gear
Joined: May 2009
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Originally Posted by AndyZippy So, we've been upgrading gear heavily too, so for the gear geeks in ya...
..and we treated ourselves to a lovely new pair of Focal Twin 6 Be's. Yum! | Holy smokes! Nice upgrades.
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14th March 2011
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#19 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
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Thanks | |
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16th March 2011
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#20 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
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Colour Charts for the rooms!!  | |
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18th March 2011
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#21 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
Posts: 315
Thread Starter | Colour Choice & Ghost Repair
We're going top right of the 4 colours!
Ok, so the typical Soundcraft Ghost problem of a dead headphone jack knocking out the monitor section outputs had to be rectified, so we took her apart.... 
We're actually going to have a few channels modded too.
Then, after replacing the headphone socket, seeing as we NEVER use it, we decided to do a mini-mod of our own, and mount it inside and block the hole, as it'll be hidden in our new 8ft-long console anyway. Keeps the problem item out of reach! 
Simple but effective!
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18th March 2011
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#22 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
Posts: 315
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Possible alternative to lava lamps! The picture doesn't do it justice, actually nicer in person. All 9 balls change colour.
ANYWAY! More construction and decorating pics this week, progress is catching up now.  | |
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18th March 2011
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#23 | | Lives for gear
Joined: May 2006 Location: Midlands, UK
Posts: 817
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Can't run a studio without a Lava Lamp, that's for sure 
All the best for the new venture.
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18th March 2011
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#24 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
Posts: 315
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Hey Ashley, many thanks!
And very true, but this thing drew me in...  | |
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18th March 2011
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#25 | | Lives for gear
Joined: May 2006 Location: Midlands, UK
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It looks cool. Grab it!!
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20th March 2011
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#26 | | Lives for gear
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 3,365
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Originally Posted by AndyZippy All 9 balls change colour. | That's what she said.
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22nd March 2011
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#27 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
Posts: 315
Thread Starter |
Bit more new gear, a 70's SVT II, that i bought from a tech friend! I borrowed this for a year once, and it got used on a LOT of records.. Lovely to have her back, permanently!  | |
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22nd March 2011
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#28 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
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Leads for wallboxes through and ready for sealing up and soldering.
Consists of 24 XLR in, 4 Combi "out" (for headphone mixes or sending to live room PA) and 4 speaker jack "out" (guitar & bass heads to cabs). About 250 points to solder. a-w-e-s-o-m-e....  | |
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22nd March 2011
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#29 | | www.circlestudios.co.uk
Joined: May 2007 Location: UK
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Originally Posted by AndyZippy L About 250 points to solder. a-w-e-s-o-m-e.... | I admit it. I'm jealous.  | |
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23rd March 2011
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#30 | | Gear addict
Joined: Mar 2008 Location: Glastonbury, UK
Posts: 315
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He  e yea Trev i saw the pic of your wiring fun!! This is a walk in the park in comparison :D
More pics a coming this evening..
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