Cad Factory Studio Build, Rural NSW, Australia

[Viccy]

Well, nearly there with the Control Room

Just waiting on the Wall plates to arrive (hopefully tomorow) and a couple of bits of trim to put up.

[Viccy]

Well, today some of the wall plates arrived. The controversial Neutrik solderless Screw Terminal wall plates - We will see how they go !!!!!

And also, yesterday we picked up our couch from Storage for the CR. Sarahs Great Grandmothers couch which was re-upholstered a few years ago.
And it folds down to a bed !!

[greatgreatriver]

Nice as hell!

[Syncamorea]

Originally Posted by Viccy

And it folds down to a bed !!

The Barry White Memorial CR sofa???

Donna Summer would approve.

[Viccy]

And here is a render of a John H Brandt customed designed workstation that we will start building soon.
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[Elgusto]

Nice! looking great guys.

I think my friends moved into your old space in Marrickville.. small world eh!

[crille_mannen]

Looks awesome!!!

Seems to be a good size for a control room. Looking forward to see your place done.

[erikdrink]

Nice design!

[bee]

That looks great! I dig the couch.

[Viccy]

Ok, so after a bit of a break to work on some projects, the live room build will start in one week with a team of people. So it should move quickly from here on in.

In the last few months we have been busy using the control room to complete this project which involves over 400 minutes of improvised music and video recorded over 100 days.

100 Notions from Nation of Two - YouTube

And here is a prime Time Television News Story about it.

100 Notions from a Nation of Two Win TV News Story - YouTube

But enough of that frivolity, now it's time to get building...again.

[Viccy]

Originally Posted by Elgusto

Nice! looking great guys.

I think my friends moved into your old space in Marrickville.. small world eh!

Ahh yes, the old space in Marrickville. VERY fond memories. I hope they are doing well there. Small world indeed. :-)

Vic

[CeretoneAudio]

Originally Posted by Viccy

Ok, so after a bit of a break to work on some projects, the live room build will start in one week with a team of people. So it should move quickly from here on in.

In the last few months we have been busy using the control room to complete this project which involves over 400 minutes of improvised music and video recorded over 100 days.

100 Notions from Nation of Two - YouTube

And here is a prime Time Television News Story about it.

100 Notions from a Nation of Two Win TV News Story - YouTube

But enough of that frivolity, now it's time to get building...again.

Wow vic that was amazing.. Wish i could get there to see the exibition (hi from adelaide)

"No time is ever wasted".. Just my 0.02 cents worth

[Viccy]

Originally Posted by CeretoneAudio

Wow vic that was amazing.. Wish i could get there to see the exibition (hi from adelaide)

"No time is ever wasted".. Just my 0.02 cents worth

Thanks very much !!
I will let you know if it ends up touring to a gallery in Adelaide.

Also, Sarah liked your comment that No Time is Ever wasted. And I agree.

Vic

[Viccy]

Ok, So, the live room build is FINALLY starting.

Photos : Roof being battened out to apply 2 x layer of Gyprock before the internal framing and truss are put in for the inner Gyprock Layers.

Side walls with outer layer of Gyprock before the internal framing is built.

Computer rendition of what part of the room may look like.

[Viccy]

Live room build in Full Swing.

Lining of the outer ceiling/walls

[Viccy]

And then the building of the inner walls/ceiling.

After a break of about 3 weeks due to the floods

[Viccy]

From inside the iso booth facing towards the CR window

[SolFlow]

Awesome stuff

[stevelindsay]

Viccy,

What type of budget are we talking for your construction/fit-out (from empty ground)? Not including equipment/hardware of course..... Great looking build.

[jrakarl]

Sensational project - grand design. My best wishes to you.

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[Viccy]

Originally Posted by stevelindsay

Viccy,

What type of budget are we talking for your construction/fit-out (from empty ground)? Not including equipment/hardware of course..... Great looking build.

Hi Steve,

I haven't actually worked it out, but I will give it a shot here.

We bought this property/house for $15000 and got the first home buyers grant for $7000. So the house cost us $8000. It is an old school house build in 1886 on 2 acres of land. The school house was really really run down but we have slowly fixed it up.

We never intended on living here, but when we made the decision to do it we realised that we would save $28000 per year on rent in Sydney!!!.

So we thought well lets build our selves a great studio, pretend that we still pay rent every week and just put that into the build. even if it takes three years, it will be our space for what we used to just spend on rent.

So, that's what we have been doing. We are probably 2 years into the build. We have big bursts of building when we have money, and when we don't, then I just potter on doing smaller tasks in there.

So costs :

The Farmers next door levelled the ground in exchange for recording some acoustic guitar
The Shed = $16 thousand (kit) - 22m x 10m
Shed Build = $4 thousand
Cement Slab (This was a wedding present, Sarahs mum arranged for an old family friend who is a cement layer to come here for a holiday for a week and they laid the slab for us. It would have cost about $11000 otherwise.
Running Electricity sub box out to the shed cost $2500
Framing wood and labour to frame out the control room - I can't quite remember but somewhere in the order of $2500

The insulation (heaps of insulation) we got from EBAY for $8 per bag after the failed government insulation scheme. This was a very very huge saving!!!!! Probably we have used so far...um....80 bags? so that's $640 instead of $50 per bag.....which would have been $4000.
Gyprock for Control Room was probably $1500
Suspended ceiling - (got from a moving warehouse for only $150.
Lighting - all on sale, $80 in total.

All the acoustic treatment in the control room was done with slats that we got for free, and framing wood, (a few hundred bucks). We used fabric that we had lying around.

The floor in the CR was about $950.

A lot of the labour was done by a local handyman with me helping.

The electricity throughout the CR was run by a friend (qualified electrician for $150).

That's a rough breakdown. This has prompted me to go back and document it all in excel.

The live room is a more expensive build as we got a team of builders in for two weeks due to both hieight and 10 meter span of the room and because I needed a break. So that was the last two weeks and will make us broke again, so we will probably stop for a while. The team of builders have two more days, One day to finish the framing and the other day to start the gyprock (after we cable etc). So I am hoping that we can stretch things to have all the gyprock up, room built, then have a break while we gather materials for the acoustic treatment which we will do ourselves with a little help (but not from a team of builders).

I'll compile the live room costs as they happen.

As I said, this wasn't such a planned thing and we saved the initial money for the shed originally and since then have been doing it when we can. In bursts.

Also, buy taking time as we gather materials it allows for cheap/free options to pop up. Taking our time like this has also saved us thousands of dollars.

Anyway, hope this is useful info and I hope I haven't missed anything.

Vic

[erikdrink]

Awesome story

[stevelindsay]

Originally Posted by Viccy

Anyway, hope this is useful info and I hope I haven't missed anything. Vic

Thanks for the detailed info, Vic, very useful. You've made some great savings there!

Steve

[Demor]

Originally Posted by Viccy

...bought this property/house for $15000 and got the first home buyers grant for $7000. So the house cost us $8000. .........on 2 acres of land........

What the....... seriously....? Aren't you forgetting a zero or two...? Our country is rediculously expensive compared to yours. In our country that kind of cash covers about the taxes you have to pay when buying property. Your poject will become a big succes if you can keep financing/investment very low, and seing the figures that wouldn't be that hard.

[Viccy]

Originally Posted by Demor

What the....... seriously....? Aren't you forgetting a zero or two...? Our country is rediculously expensive compared to yours. In our country that kind of cash covers about the taxes you have to pay when buying property. Your poject will become a big succes if you can keep financing/investment very low, and seing the figures that wouldn't be that hard.

No, I haven't missed any zeros :-). Land and houses are very expensive here too however this pace is very remote (about 6 hours from Sydney) and was an old school house that was built in 1886 for the farmers kids around here. It was falling apart and was for sale very cheaply. Having said that, it was still a very lucky find and if it wasn't for finding this place then we wouldn't be in the position to build such a studio and to realise such a big dream.

I have probably missed a good $4000 or so on the figures above for miscellanous things (wall plates, doors etc) and also the cost of the lounge, bedroom, bathroom we have installed in the studio also.

And the last two weeks of building the Live room have certainly been more expensive.

The remoteness of this space is what will make it a great place to record. To have complete isolation and focus on a project.

Our idea is to keep our expenes down as low as possible so that we can have the space as our own amazing project studio for our own projects but also have it available to the public to use but not placing such a financial pressure on us to make it succeed as a business. So we can focus on recording, playing etc. Also, we have turned this place into an artist residency space where artists of different disciplines come, so it is really a space that we can give to people to develop different projects. That is our main aim.

Vic