Attic Room Studio Build

[Folderol]

While I'm enjoying following this series, I do wish you wouldn't embed so many absolutely huge images. This last lot took 10 minutes to download here

[Luke W]

While I'm enjoying following this series, I do wish you wouldn't embed so many absolutely huge images. This last lot took 10 minutes to download here

Hmmm. I'll take a look at what's going on at this end as I thought the files were getting crunched down a bit on their way up. They're not huge files to begin with so they certainly shouldn't be taking that long! Thanks.

[Drew Stephenson]

Loaded fine on my mobile using my dodgy 4ishG signal here. And I love the detail!

[Folderol]

Hmm, just done a speed check on my service. It's running at 11m download, so that should be at least reasonable... unless it's being throttled somewhere. I'm with Zen, and I've never had such a problem before.

P.S
I'm only on an ordinary copper land line.

[Watchmaker]

This is probably my favorite thread here. <Standing ovation>

Bravo!

I dunno about you, but if it weren't for winter I'd probably never actually record anything...Next year I build my shop, the year after, my studio - fate and whimsy allowing at any rate. I will refer to this thread for inspiration.

[Hugh Robjohns]

Rack with C3 installed:

It's looking fabulous. Very impressed.

Seeing the above picture amused me... I spent a day recently stripping off the labels from my Crookwood XLR panels (I have 6U of them!), removing the XLR cards, and then rebuilding and relabelling them the other way up!

Where I came from, sockets are always labelled from above -- as they are in your jack patchbay -- and I was forever confusing myself when plugging things into the Crookwood panels beforehand when the labels were below the sockets.

H

[Wonks]

Looks lovely, Luke.

An ideal candidate for a Studio SOS where Paul and Hugh just sit around drinking tea and eating hobnobs all day.

[Luke W]

Hmm, just done a speed check on my service. It's running at 11m download, so that should be at least reasonable... unless it's being throttled somewhere. I'm with Zen, and I've never had such a problem before.

P.S
I'm only on an ordinary copper land line.

Ok, it looks like the pictures have stayed at their original size (mostly between 3 and 4MB) so I'll keep it in mind next time I upload something.

This is probably my favorite thread here. <Standing ovation>

Bravo!

I dunno about you, but if it weren't for winter I'd probably never actually record anything...Next year I build my shop, the year after, my studio - fate and whimsy allowing at any rate. I will refer to this thread for inspiration.

Thank you. It's good to know that it's proving to be helpful, or at least interesting to people!

I could definitely do more recording than I do, this is a good example of getting a bit carried away with building things and almost losing sight of why I'm actually making them in the first place. I do enjoy the process though so it's not all bad.

It's looking fabulous. Very impressed.

Seeing the above picture amused me... I spent a day recently stripping off the labels from my Crookwood XLR panels (I have 6U of them!), removing the XLR cards, and then rebuilding and relabelling them the other way up!

Where I came from, sockets are always labelled from above -- as they are in your jack patchbay -- and I was forever confusing myself when plugging things into the Crookwood panels beforehand when the labels were below the sockets.

H

Thanks, Hugh. I hadn't paid too much attention to the labels seeing as there's just the one panel and everything is staying put once it's patched, now you mention it I can see that being a bit confusing with a few of them stacked up. There's still a couple of bits to get connected, but I'm going to wait until I tackle the patchbay and do it all in one go.

Really impressed with the Crookwood though. I've only done a few sessions since installing it but it's proving to be incredibly useful, even more so than I thought when I bought it so that's reassuring! I also love the fact it can be expanded with my needs rather than replaced.

Looks lovely, Luke.

An ideal candidate for a Studio SOS where Paul and Hugh just sit around drinking tea and eating hobnobs all day.

Thanks, Wonks, much appreciated. That'd be an interesting article

[Hugh Robjohns]

Really impressed with the Crookwood though. I've only done a few sessions since installing it but it's proving to be incredibly useful, even more so than I thought when I bought it so that's reassuring! I also love the fact it can be expanded with my needs rather than replaced.

Yes. I'm a very big fan. Seriously well-designed kit, where all the money goes on the important bits, and it really shows. Good to buy British too... And Crispin is extremely helpful.

[jeffbruckner]

Stunning job .

Love the scorched/polished trims. Really make a huge impact.

Will shamelessly borrow many ideas and inspirations if I may.

I am constntantly shifting and moving my equipment , so have never been

confident in any final placement enough to screw it all into place!
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I have a dream of working with the kit placed diagonally, minimising any inherent reflections

from the beginning and maximising the workspace.

Your panels and baffles are absolutely wonderful work, extremely well designed and executed.

Will re-read to get the details about any tech specs and initial design requirements.

Missed all the tech guff while dribbling over the glossy photos.

regards

Jeff

[Luke W]

Thanks for the kind words. Feel free to borrow away as you please, if there's any particular detail missing that you need then just ask and I'll do my best to help out.

[Eddy Deegan]

Luke, it looks gorgeous. I'm as impressed with your aesthetic tastes as I am with your construction skills. Excellent work!

[Luke W]

Thanks, Eddy, much appreciated

I've been making an effort to just use the space for a while now. No soldering anything, no deciding I just need to quickly make this, that, or the other. It's definitely been worth the wait.

I did get a quick shot of the gobos in action though, I took the chance to give them a test at the same time as trying out a mic.

[Drew Stephenson]

Looking very nice there

[Luke W]

After a few months of just using the studio and actually doing some work, I've been making things again. Something that had been on my list for a while was some flooring panels, since the whole room is carpet I wanted something I could pair up with the gobos to liven things up a little if tracking acoustic instruments.

I used some leftover laminate flooring, some offcuts of flooring underlay, some nasty adhesive that gets everywhere and a sheet of 6mm MDF to create a couple of these things:



Handles cut in so they can be moved around easily, and they are sized so that the wheels on the large gobos roll either side of them. When they're not in use they butt up together and live in front of the sofa. The only photos of them in action at the moment contain me, and nobody needs to see that...

Lastly, the whole room is finally clear and tidy. Here's a shot from the other week, taken while filming a promo video with some rather fancy looking gear (by someone who knows what they're doing, not me!).

[Eddy Deegan]

Beautiful

[Luke W]

Cheers Eddy

[Drew Stephenson]

Yes indeed, looking very good.

[Arpangel]

Like the keyboard desk....

[Martin Walker]

How many more 'impressive's can we cram into this thread?

Well certainly another one from me, based on this level of expertise

Martin