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 8058 from an old friend and mentor concurrently, motivating me to finally bite the bullet, take out some loans, and build a serious studio.
The warehouse has about 6,500 sqf of space total; this is the smaller of the two studios I have planned, taking up about 1,500 square feet. There will also be room for a tech shop and a couple of nicely sized echo chambers in the downstairs of an adjacent addition (I am living upstairs, next door will be an aquaponics farm and on the other side of that my wife's apartment and prop fabrication studio
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For the first phase, I am building racks, gobos, bookshelves, diffusers and limp membrane absorbers (68 of them!
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Here's the design:
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Taping off the floor so that the framing crew has clear guidelines:
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Framing progress over the last week:
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The two big main equipment racks, plus 4 out of 8 of the big non-repeating QRDs for the live room (yes that is a back brace, I'm tall and over 30):
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All in all not bad for the first week, I think! I'm hoping to have framing finished by the end of this week, then take a week for electrical and studio wiring, then pick up with the drywall, which should take about another 2 weeks - by which point I hope to have all of my carpentry work done and ready to hang.
Onward!