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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...

Hi all, I have always been frustrated by the barrier to communication imposed by talkback toggling & imperfect pickup of musicians tucked away in distant corners or booths. Freelancing at a bunch of different studios over the years, I've improvised just about every common solution under the sun to t...

They are also extremely handy to have around if you or the band run out of snacks

Donated. What a nightmare.

At least it's nice to see people coming together to help so quickly!

Did Jesco Lohan have a hand in the trap design? That looks like his work. How does it sound? Nope! Wonderful Berlin-based company called Kiss Your Ears. They're fairly new and did a terrific job for about 1/3 the cost I would have expected coming from Los Angeles! The extreme low end is constrained...

An update - how it turned out - thanks so much for all the help, everyone!

Hey, no problem - I'm happy to advocate for any position I hold, but the manner in which it came up seemed kind of odd - I'm sure you can understand. The Orion does sound great! I would have zero hesitation about tracking and mixing entire records with only that interface (and did exactly that for m...

Yeah, the two-computer solution may be the thing longer term. I've thought about it - will have to see how this round goes. I suppose there's a certain extra fussiness factor implied by that move - not necessarily an unwelcome one, but, as they say, the first step is admitting that you have a proble...

Thanks all! Digitaldrummer, that was pretty much what I feared - kind of hoping someone with some deep tech knowledge on the convertor side of things would come along with a reason why one way was decidedly better than another. The frustrating thing here is that it's often only after many hours or e...