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Your wife sounds like a total badass

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Thu May 30, 2024 6:05 am

Looks great! And that still-unused stack of drywall sheets says that you'll either end up dead or looking like a bodybuilder.

Why not both?

Woof. Long time no update, apologies! I've been ending each day too exhausted to do much more than crawl into bed, cuddle the dog and watch The Vow on HBO with my wife (cult doc fans take heed, this one is worth the journey!). I'm now in Austin TX helping my amazing mom pack up and move to Tucson - ...

digitaldrummer, re-reading this it seems I may have misunderstood your very direct inquiry; in response to the question you actually asked, no, there's no decoupling between the joists and the top plate. This wouldn't really do anything measurable since the inner and outer shells are not touching an...

I can't tell from the picture as it looks like both joists are sitting on top of the wall plate. Is there some kind of isolation clip between them or something? I mean between the 2x10's and the top plate? I assume the 2x8's are for the interior/ceiling (inner leaf) so they can sit on top of it no ...

A small update. Today we started the ceiling joists for both the inner and outer leaf at the same time, staggered and very close together but not touching. 2x8 and 2x10 joists 12" O.C. because of the spans, the longest of which is 26'. The joists are very unwieldy and heavy. This part is hard to do ...

This is the one I’m using:

https://www.sustainablevillage.com/super-quiet-fan

So far they work as advertised. They are very quiet and they move a lot of air.

Although I am taking care to construct the baffles / outlets in such a way that they will be easy to replace without taking anything apart!

A quick update for some details on the booth ventilation system. Ventilation is powered by two fans per booth, spec'd to turn the air in the booth over every 5 minutes. The fans are mounted on the outer wall of the facing space (control / live room), and flex duct is run between the fan baffles and ...

There are a lot of jokes about going through double doors, but it really doesn't impede anything. If that were my biggest efficiency challenge I'd be having the most robotically, on point musicians complaining about the extra five seconds of door management when they pop in to hear a take. It's nev...

I really wish I had better Sketchup skills. Would make my current build so much easier. Not to be glib, but I had never used it before and learned by doing this... I'm still doing a million things wrong and using idiotic workarounds I'm sure, but it's enough to get the job done with sufficient prec...

Would love to see some more screen shots of your sketchup or whatever CAD imaging you did. For instance, I'd love to see how the ceilings are working out between the two inner leaves, since i'm guessing the third/outer leaf isn't part of the isolation equation. Sure! The ceilings aren't in the sket...

Thanks for the kind words everyone! I will keep the updates coming : ) Oddly I feel like this is the best things have felt in years in terms of opening large tracking rooms - I have more and more people interested in working on tape, and big purpose built rooms & great mics / front end equipment are...

Hi all! This is the build diary for Hotel Earth studio 1 in Los Angeles. This studio has had many incarnations over the past 15 or so years, each getting a little more 'real.' This time around, circumstances conspired to deliver the perfect warehouse space & an incredibly generous deal on a Neve 805...

A subtractive mindset can be more interesting with these, though it isn't most people's first intuition.

The knobs go both ways!

I'm curious if pro musicians are still mostly using headphones in the studio, vs. their own custom-molded IEMs from the concert world. It's a lot easier to pop headphones on and off, for one thing. IEM users are more used to having an ambience/audience mic as part of their feed. Wacky idea - engine...