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The Studio - Phase 6 Almost
Done At
this point, the rooms are essentially finished. There are now
doors between the rooms, but not just any doors. These doors
are 5" thick and packed with special noise stopping insulation,
so that the Lovely Joy doesn't get tired of hearing the thump
and whack and sturm and drang from our constant sound recording
activities below. |
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The
main entrance to the studio is through these double doors. They
are double so we can still move our various junk in and out.
If you look closely at the door on the right, you will see how
thick it is. This is to prevent sound from getting out and radiation
from the coming nuclear holocaust from getting in. Rosie and
the Still are going to be moved outside of the main room. |
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And
here we see the equally thick door going into the drum room
(or studio B). Some of you have asked what the purpose of the
drum room is. Essentially it's a room with a built in natural
echo. It's a very short echo to be sure, but it will be good
for recording certain types of sounds. Drums are the most obvious,
but it will be used for other things as well. |
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Actually,
I'm not sure if anyone has ever asked me about the drum room.
It's possible I imagined it while in a sleep deprived semi-coma
at work. In any case, when the door is closed, it forms a fairly tight seal, but one hopes there will be enough ventilation that no one will suffocate while mid-tune in the future. |
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The
ceiling in the drum room is different from the rest of the studio.
In order to try to make the room as reflective as possible the
ceiling is actually made of wood similar to the walls. The silver
thing on the right is the microwave transducer, so that when
the studio is not in use, it can be instead used to heat meals.
Don't turn it on while anyone is in there though, Ouch!! |
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This
is the control room, looking from where the big window is. Once
the lighting is installed, the ceiling will be buttoned up and
work on the console can begin (see Phase
5). The exact placement of the console has not
been decided, but the most likely spot will be parallel to the
wall on the right, set back several feet to allow space for
the monitors and to access the back of the board. We will have
two sets of monitors, the Mackie HR824s seen in previous installments
and a pair of Polk Audio SDA-1As that we haven't picked up yet. |
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Looking
from the control room into the drum room. The white box on the
chair contains the lighting that will be going in the control
room, possibly even as I write this. The box built into the
wall is for the controls to the microwave drum room. Just imagine
the popcorn!! |
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Another
shot from inside the drum room, this time looking out in the
direction of the main studio through the super duper thick door.
Once again you can see the wood ceiling and the heating element
for broiling an entire thanksgiving dinner in seconds. |
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The
main studio is a combination of hard wood, regular walls and
acoustic foam. Here we see the wall opposite the main studio
window, done in a stylish and trendy "Barney the Dinosaur"
purple. We also thought that perhaps Prince could be persuaded
to come here and record when everything's up and running. I
see one of Mike's fans has already paid a visit. |
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The
look of the foam is a bit hard to see from a distance, but this
is what it looks like from up close. It's supposedly designed
to absorb and diffuse sound, but I think it's done this way
primarily to absorb more money and diffuse it to the foam company's
owner's boat payments. I hope no one ever trips and falls into
it, you could put your eye out with that. |
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That's it for this week. By this time next week, the lighting should be installed and electricity will be surging through all the little blue boxes. Work may even begin on the console. See you then |
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