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Studio Voyerism-- A Peek at The New Sonic Vault

Post by Gregg Juke » Sat Jul 06, 2013 12:12 am

I wasn't sure where to put this, so I'll try here (mods feel free to move and/or scold).

I've finally gotten around to getting some pictures of our new location, so I'll be posting a few at a time (there are quite a few!) here in this thread.

Once I get better at organizing stuff on Flickr (yeah, right), I'll get things more, ah, organized. For now, here is one view of our tracking room, some close-ups of the drumset, a cool break-out box that Bruce made (he put them up around the studio), and a few microphones from the collection. Also, the Comfy Couch.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98397575@N07/

Enjoy,

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Post by vvv » Sat Jul 06, 2013 7:29 am

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(I need me a 441 ...)
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Post by kevin206 » Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:05 am

I think this is the perfect place to post. Just to be sure you're keeping with "Making A Space", please share a little more about the construction.

Tell us more about your plastic pallet drum riser. Ply on top? Is it screwed down? Is it big enough?

And What about the insulation on the drum stands? That's a new one on me. Is it to reduce reflections? ...maybe that should be under "Recording Techniques"...

And what about those breakout boxes? What are they for? I'm personally interested in how you, or anybody, handles their headphones.

You have a really nice place! And I love the PV. I've got one that i've used a lot for live sound. I think it sounds really good.

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Post by vvv » Sat Jul 06, 2013 12:27 pm

BTW there, GJ, this look familiar?

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Post by Gregg Juke » Sat Jul 06, 2013 2:51 pm

OK, let's see if this does it--

The picture, is that a Picaso? Who then? The one we have (obviously copied) was made by a wood-worker friend of my associate Bruce's.

Headphones? I have 12 or 14 pair of the (mostly) cheapie Sennheisers. We have a set of Sony 7506's in the control room (pix coming soon). Bruce did just about all of the studio wiring and signal path stuff; I will have to learn more about all of this if I ever go solo-solo. We have something like 14-20 possible headphone outs at one time, with the Rane headphone amp, Jam-Hub, and Rolls amp I brought to the party, plus another Rolls unit of Bruce's and the headphone outputs on the two stereo amps plus the Central Station in the control room.

What else? Breakout boxes? There are a couple in the tracking room, plus two snakes by the drums, plus another one back in the iso room vocal area (little headphone amp back there too). The little breakout boxes are just metal wall-plug units from the hardware store that B wired with two XLR inputs each; pretty ingenuous, as I've never seen anyone do that yet. We don't need a 16 or 32 input box; we've got the snakes wired-up for drums, everything running to two ART rackmount XLR splitters in the CR, which in turn act as XLR patchbays, splitting the drum mikes into the computer interface and also into my D3200 (pictures of all of the rack gear coming soon).

The pipe insulation on the drum stands is there to cut down on stand ring and reflection. My idea, which only worked half as good as I had hoped. As for the drum risers (one in the main room, and one for percussion in the iso), they are plastic industrial pallets with plywood on top (screwed in), and commercial carpet on top of that. The one in the main room is "double-wide," and that's just big enough for my drumset with a lot less cymbals than I could hang! But it works great. The plywood is freegin' heavy, but we screwed it down just for safety and thoroughness sake.

I think I got all of your questions there, aye?

Many more pictures (and therefore explanations) to come!

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Post by vvv » Sat Jul 06, 2013 4:25 pm

Ver' cool space there, GJ, lookin' forward to more pix from you and others.

My pic is of a kinda 3-D sculpture-thang hanging on my kitchen wall that I bought at some kitchen-bed-bath store a few years ago for mebbe US$35. It's about 24"x18", some kinda soft sheet metal painted flat black. It do look like Picasso sorta ...

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Post by kevin206 » Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:14 am

Wow, you have a lot of headphones! And it sounds like you have the "more me" part covered as well.

The little break out boxes are indeed a good idea. We all need a snake for the drums, but that would be overkill for much else.

Do those mic splitter cause you any problems with phantom power?

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Post by Gregg Juke » Sun Jul 07, 2013 1:30 pm

No problems, but we are mostly using dynamics on drums (other than hh and overheads)...

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Post by Gregg Juke » Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:03 am

OK, some more pix, organized a bit better, including the controol room and rack gear. More to come!

GJ

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98397575@N07/sets/
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Post by Gregg Juke » Mon Jul 08, 2013 2:01 pm

Final organized Sonic Vault Photo sets here (link fixed-- what is it with posting links here at the TOMB???):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98397575@N07/sets/

Shred-- "Some shots of vinyl falling all over itself-- CHeck!"

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