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21st March 2007
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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Thread Starter | Finally finished the studio build
After 6 months of building I finally have something to show... 2 rooms- 18 x 13 (control room) and 13 x 10 (vocal booth/amp booth) The control room is all 2 x 4 framing with 703 in the walls. The framing is sloped to not have parallel walls- I have had to work around some water pipes that I boxed in but managed to get as much space as I possibly can. Here are a couple of pics... 3rd photo is a preliminary fabrication of a centre console control panel so I can have Mackie Control, monitor controller, keyboard and mouse. My monitor arms will be mounted on the top of the board- they have been reinforced with angle iron- I am hoping it will look pretty good when stained and finished. Next few days will be tidying up and building the console- which will be a 9 1/2 foot monster, including the control centre. It is a D&R series 4000 btw.
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21st March 2007
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| Lives for Jesus  Joined: Oct 2005 Location: orange county ca.
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Where are you going to put the PSUs ? Have fun with the desk ! 
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21st March 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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I have a small machine room just behind where I was standing when I took the pics... All the computers and power supplies will be in there. | |
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22nd March 2007
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| Lives for Jesus Joined: Oct 2005 Location: orange county ca.
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nice ! post some pics of the console install   peach |
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22nd March 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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Okie doke... you asked for it so here it is... :-) Various bits being stained.... |
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22nd March 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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Console bits bolted together...
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22nd March 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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legs about to go on...
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22nd March 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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more stained stuff about to go on...
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22nd March 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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Ok last pics for today... Everything is bolted together- the centre console will be pretty cool- have two apple cinema displays mounted onto it on swing arms, with mackie control and monitor controller as well. All the wood was done in red oak- except the original cheeks which are some unknown wood- I tried to get it all to match as much as possible. Tomorrow will be putting the support cross bar in (which is being machined/extended by 3ft) and then I can start putting the channels in and mount all the centre console bits and pieces. |
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26th March 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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Ok everything is kinda in its place- but still a bit of cosmetic work to do on the console- like convering the wrist rest- which should be done tonight.
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27th March 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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outboard and synth racks- still have to build the guitar gear racks. . . . . . is anyone interested anymore or am I just amusing myself? |
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27th March 2007
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Jun 2006
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we here , keep'em comming ...what kind of music you make there ? nice rack ... i love the pulse, i need 2 more ! |
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27th March 2007
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Jan 2006 Location: Brooklyn
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that's awesome man! i live in NJ, so let me know if you ever need someone to play the rhodes  dave. |
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27th March 2007
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| Gear addict  Joined: Jan 2006 Location: Phoenix
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yo.... are you using that 888 as an extra 8 in to the 96IO? just curious how that is working out? | |
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27th March 2007
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Mar 2005 Location: Annapolis, MD/Los Angeles, CA
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Is the second half of that Funk Logic rack with the RNLA in it empty? That ain't right, man! Put another FMR in there, for Godssake!  Keep it comin', J! thumbsup |
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27th March 2007
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Feb 2006
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Cool synth rack! What Roland MDC's do you have? MDC-1 Dance? Had one but sold it for the expansion version for more editing features. I run it with my JV-1080 expanded with the Techno, Drum and Bass, and Dance. Still sounds cool after all these years. Keep the progress coming. Tight work.
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27th March 2007
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I'm planning to get rid of both of them soon and go for a pair of Aurora 16's though. The D&R is 32 channel's so it would be nice to use the full board on mixdown- I just need to find $6k somewhere to do it. Quote:
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Looking for a Vintage card for the 990- but ebay prices are stupid at the moment. The Rolands are good workhorses- nothing spectacular but they do the job. I have a bunch of other synths in another rack which hasn't made it into the room yet- Oberheim Matrix, more Emu's, MS2000r, most of the Roland drum machines. My main synths though are the Quasimidi's- they are wonderful- highly underrated pieces and cheap as chips- I've been able to collect all of them for less than $1000. The Polymorph and Sirius are out of this world. | ||||
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27th March 2007
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| Gear Guru  Joined: Aug 2005 Location: underground railroad
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... great job, james - rock on....  .. |
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1st April 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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A couple more.... All the wood and leather has been done on the console now. I am about to start cabling and soldering the patchbays. I still have a couple of cosmetic trim type things to do around the doors and the window to the vocal booth. Still waiting for the monitor stands to arrive. |
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1st April 2007
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| Lives for Jesus Joined: Oct 2005 Location: orange county ca.
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Lookin good are there cable troughs ? will the mac be in the machine room? any pics of the machine room.... Keep up the good work, your getting close steve |
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1st April 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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The Mac will be in the machine room- it is just in there temporarily. No pics of that yet- I still have to finish the drywall in there but will get to it soon. | |
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1st April 2007
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| Lives for Jesus Joined: Oct 2005 Location: orange county ca.
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Cool, i like the layout |
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1st April 2007
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Oct 2006 Location: Miami, Fl
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cool desk! can you tell us the brand? |
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1st April 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2006 Location: Denmark
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Just a quick offtopic question: What's your oppinion of the Summit TLA-50? | |
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1st April 2007
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Cool post! It looking good So you built your own custom chassis for an old consoles modules?  Here is a tip for you. It looks like you will be rolling around on that nice wood floor a LOT. It might be worth researching some soft rollers for the chair(s) or you will tear up (if its thin laminate) or wear down (any type of wood) that floor fairly soon with a standard issue office chair.. Here is a link for you.. http://www.castercity.com/elite-chair-casters.htm Soft chair rollers..  (probably make less nosie too...)
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1st April 2007
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Most the wood needed to be replaced as it had either warped or was just crappy chipboard- so I just liked the idea of doing a centre console for the monitors and controllers and having the channels flanking the centre 'control' area. After 5 years of working ITB I felt it was time to get back to an analog console but I couldn't sacrafice my mackie control or two displays. I didn't want to put the console on the side and use a workstation (omnirax/argosy) as it would be very expensive and bugger the symmetry of the layout. I still have the D&R master section, which I'll use for summing- but all the monitor control, talkback and such will be done via the SPL MTC2381. Cheers for the tip on the casters- just about to check them out. I have some anti-static plastic matting, which I was going use on the floor along the console- but this might work out better. | ||||
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1st April 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2006 Location: Miami, Fl
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__________________ ------------------ Peace.  Reuven Amiel "There are no rules, just knowledge, good taste and experimentation" "Music was designed to escape from reality for a moment, not to magnify our fears and problems" | |
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26th April 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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Thread Starter | Latest update
Moved everything around to face the other way. Now i have a lot more space- although I still don't have room for all the keyboards. I need to finish the multi-tier keyboard desk I've been building. |
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26th April 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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Last of the pics for a while... Now... time to start the patchbays |
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