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Store room ready to lay the cork tiles.
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I'd never buy a new synth that didn't have parody.
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Oh, feature creep.
Nice project David.
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Thanks Moe.
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Awesome!!! You will have great times creating in your new space!
Only a few steps left. I still have to lay the carpet in the studio, the floor in the store room, finish painting the outside of the house and finish building the power/lighting controller.
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Installing the sound treatment panels for the walls.
I cut the panels into 600mm x 1600mm panels and covered them in black fabric. Then I glued them to the walls. I put construction adhesive around the perimeter and used spray glue in the middle. The spray glue is only there to hold the panel on the wall while stronger the construction glue dries.
The room now sounds wonderful. All flutter echoes are gone. There is a tiny amount of liveliness left, but nothing that sounds harsh.
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I forgot to mention I also installed the air conditioner. That required painting 2 walls outside.
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Painting the Doors:
I'm so glad that job is over. I started the prep at about 7:30am and didn't finish until after midnight. Painting doors and particularly door frames is a horrible job.
Not only did I do the 2 door frames and 3 doors, but also the network cupboard door and frame in the hallway that I built a few months ago.
I finally got to sleep at about 1:30am.
After the paint had dried I remounted the knobs and other hardware and fitted weather sealing strip around the door frames to help with blocking sound into and out of the room. The room now sounds very quiet when the doors are shut and the AC is switched off.
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Finishing off the cable box. It now also includes 4 USB ports.
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Checking that my MIDI controller will fit in its alcove.
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Time for another update, I think.
Sound treatment installed around the desk. The corner panels are different to the flat ones and are filled with polyester insulation to act as a bass trap.
Under the desk the cable shelf can be seen in the second photo.
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This is so sad.
Yes, Jimmy was at the first virtual hang.
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Should have bought 2 of them? Just in case... :roll: :roll: :roll:
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I'm GASsing over a synth for the first time in years with this. Unfortunately, there is no budget for this for for the foreseeable future.
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It's a nice compact organ, but expensive at $1.
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Connector box. This extends 8 of the mic inputs, 4 outputs and 4 headphone sends to the main part of the room so I don't always have to have a bunch of cables running over the front of the desk.
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Desk top installed.
It was a very difficult job for me to do by myself. I could barely lift half of it and had to balance the other half on the step ladder. I ended up dropping it twice and scratched some paint off the walls in the process. I'll have to do some paint touch-ups.
Oh well, can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.
Network sockets, cables from the ceiling and the main power. There will be a 300mm wide shelf going underneath the desk for all the cabling and to hold the various power supplies.
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And the desk top has arrived.
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Installing the sound control suspended ceiling.
Because the room is so small I can"t afford to take up too much room with bass traps on the walls, but the ceiling is much higher than I need so it"s a good place to create a reasonable sized trap.
Down each side of the room is a strip of normal acoustic tiles with the down lights installed in them. The central area is made from 50mm thick polyester absorption panels and the whole ceiling is filled with mineral wool insulation.
Before the ceiling was installed the room was an ugly sounding echo-box. After the ceiling was installed the room sounds quite pleasant. The only remaining obvious acoustic problem is some flutter echos, which will be tamed with some wall treatment.
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In Australia, this product from Bunnings should remove it:
https://www.bunnings.com.au/oomph-250ml-goo-and-stain-remover_p4470014
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This is so sad. My condolences Ron.
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This is the design of the desk top that I've sent off to a cabinet maker. They tell me it should be delivered either Friday or Monday.
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I've just finished the walls. Lots of plastering and painting, and I've fitted the wooden trim around the ceiling. The ceiling you can see here will be hidden above the suspended acoustic ceiling so I only gave it one coat of paint for protection.
Because this studio will be used for photo and video editing in addition to music production and mastering, I used 18% grey paint, and all other colours will be monochrome so as not to cause a colour cast which may fool my eyes when doing colour correction.
Now the interesting stuff starts.
I'll be doing some acoustic testing today so I have a baseline for the acoustic treatments. At the moment it's a really unpleasant echo box. But when the acoustic ceiling panels arrived on Monday and I had a couple of them leaning against the walls there was a significant improvement.
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Mike's New Studio Build
in The Keyboard Corner
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I can probably round this off now.
Life got really hectic there for a while, so I was only doing tiny bits of work with long gaps between.
Then, one day I realised it was sort of finished.
I still have the cork to lay in the store room, and the painting outside is about half done so far, but it's the wet season here now, so I don't like my chances of finishing that for a month or 2.
Here's a short video. The music is just my Forte playing one of the internal demo songs so I could get some meter action happening.