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DAY 0
Old studio layout |
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Day 1
Starting to dismantle and remove equipment to safe storage elsewhere in the house. |
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Day 2
Final fixtures and fittings removed..... |
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Day 3
.. leaving bare concrete floor and walls full of holes |
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Day 3
Next: Remove all the plasterboard from the walls (Sweaty work and VERY dusty!) .... |
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Day 4
... and down comes the ceiling too to reveal pipework from bathroom above. It takes a few days to get rid of all plasterwork. |
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Day 9
New mains electric cabling and audio cables are now in place. I start to fill gaps between joists with a layer of insulating rockwool. |
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Day 12
Next, screw "resilient bars" to joists = springy metal to hold ceiling away from joists. |
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Day 14
Screw 2"x2" batons to wall with neoprene strip behind. Add rockwool between batons and screw on more resilient bars. |
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Day 15
Get a friend to help screw plasterboard with 2 layers of rubber matting to ceiling (Thanks Dave). Not an easy job. |
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Day 15
First layers of ceiling are now complete. Joints are sealed with aluminium tape and acoustic sealant is used to fill gaps to walls. |
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Day 16
The second layer of plasterboard is screwed in place and gaps need to be caulked again. |
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Day 16
Walling starts: Plasterboard screwed to resilient bar. 2 layers of rubber matting, final layer of plasterboard. |
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Day 22
Two heavy duty doors are now fitted by a carpenter. |
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Day 23
Walling now filled in around door frame. Electric sockets are prepared. |
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Day 29
The room is finally hung, sealed and ready for plastering. The lights now work although there is still no mains power. |
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Day 30
The plasterers work their magic. All it has to do now is dry. Three days? .... Buffalo! |
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Day 34
Plaster is dry and painting is underway. |
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Day 37
Electrics fully fitted, acoustic tiles are up, proper lights are fitted, window blind and carpet is replaced. It almost feels like a proper room again. |
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Day 43
Starting to assemble studio equipment, new speakers, new rack behind monitors ... |
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Day 49
More acoustic diffusers and tiling in place. PC rack is being assembled. |
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Day 49
The new rack has 4 patchbays and the wiring starts to get interesting... |
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Day 51
The PC is upgraded and tested. The PC rack is assembled and looks neat form front view.... |
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Day 52
.. round the back it is also fairly tidy but there are so many wires. Now the PC now decides not to boot. Oh well, let's do some soldering and come back to it. |
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Day 56
Next job: Wire up all the interconnecting leads. That is a few hundred plugs at ~5 mins each to solder. Many were later re-done when I made the leads too short! |
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Day 57
Plug them and the newly plugged multicore cables into the back of the patchbays and it puts spaghetti junction to shame. |
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Day 58
Damn! - The old table has new wheels and is now too high. It blocks the bottom of the monitors and is two narrow for both flight cases to fit below. A new mixer stand is ordered. We break for Xmas. |
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Day 74
Finally! I have made a bracket to hold the centre screen and monitor. Everything is up and running (sort of). The PC rack also contains the master recorders (minus the DAT machine, which has broken down). |
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Day 74
The new Mackie monitors are for stereo mixdown. The other 3 are now part of a surround system. The mixing desk sits well on the new stand and passes audio signals but the automation doesn't want to know mel. |
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Day 74
The HDR and new FX rack layout all work once a few dodgy connections are diagnosed and fixed. |
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Day 74
The HDR rack and mobile recorder racks fit nicely onder the desk. All I have to do is remember which keyboard works what equipment. |
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