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Tomm23 is doing office work, planning where to move after december :)

Untitled 11 months ago

dont have much money for it but the dream is alive!



Untitled 14 months ago

Hi



Done! 15 months ago

My pops, the master mind, came down and we plowed through the studio getting it done late last night. It’s so amazing to be able to have a sound proof room, that’s great sounding too! I’m totally excited to get back to recording music!



More information gained along the way 16 months ago

I like the plan and the thought to be modular. Sound be the principle goal, start with a big a space as possible for things like drums, pianos, and strings.

Squares and rectangles are hard to work with as you have to deal with standing waves and room modes. Slanting the wall in the drum room was a great idea for my room, and I am so happy I did it. But it took years after that to really fine tune the room, find sweet spots for instruments, and even learned to open the door into the lounge and sticking a mic out there when using room mics.

More things changed in that I put a huge, double paned glass between the studio and lounge. One pane is 3/4” and I built the frame to fit. I wired the lounge for mics and headphones. There is a piano here now! I had to double that door.

Then it started all over again. I had never treated the lounge for sound. So I did cheats to make the corners disappear by mounting wood and hung a series of panels to make the floor to ceiling physics non-parallel.

Also as my ears got better and acquired more and better gear, they cycle almost renews.

I won Larry King’s old analog console on an eBay auction for a song, bought a couple of more for real cheap, and combined all the best parts into a new console, and redesigned my control room around this beheamoth. That is the third transformation of the studio in 10 years.

These days I am working with great artists, making great music. I have an amazing affiliation with VSI Audio and I have all of the prototypes and are using/evaluating them for VSI before we/they release them to the world. As good as they are now, they keep saying “let me change one more thing, you’ll love it.” They have always been right.

Ahimsatpr, good luck with your endeavor. Getting it to work is no easy task, neither is getting it to sound good. Trust your ears, and be patient!



Plans 17 months ago

Got some great plans from my Pops – he’s a whiz at DIY on the cheap. Some cool ideas here.



i need 1 18 months ago

i want to make one



Laying it out 18 months ago

My Pops helped me lay out where the walls should go and how to snake the return through the walls. We going to build the whole thing as modular/knock downable as possible.

Not quite sure how to do the door on the cheap. Since there will be a step up for isolation, perhaps we could cut a standard hollow door, fill with foam insulation and reattach the bottom when it’s settled.



harryflies preparing a major offensive on mediocrity.

Putting this off until after my upcoming travel adventure 18 months ago

I’ll start on this goal after I’ve returned from my travels. No point spending money now that will only delay my trip.



My studio is built for the time being.... 21 months ago

After doing some recording lately in my home office/music room, I’ve realized that my studio is already built. Yes, I’d like a sound booth and a better layout, but what I have now is functional….and I want this goal off my radar for now.



For sanity. 21 months ago

Marshal asked me one night if I wanted to do this. Fuck yesh. The rest was left to die.



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