‘Sup, gang.
I’m happy to report that my new recording studio is officially done. Done, I tell you! And it’s a thing of beauty: High-definition audio @ 24-bits / 192 kHz, surround sound, professional-grade acoustics and rack space galore (for all the synthesizers on my bucket list). My wife is even happier (with or without the synths). The power tools are back where they belong and two and a half rooms in our home are habitable again.
On the downside, I discovered there’s no escaping the laws of construction project management – time and budget will always and forever be triple the original estimates. Or worse. Never less.
For the audio geeks – I’ll be brief – the room follows a “Non-Environment” design strategy, with heavy, diffusive front walls, flush-mounted main speakers, and wideband absorption on the remaining walls and ceiling. Isolation from the outside world – Stellar Jays are a regular racket in the Sierras – is achieved through a room-in-room architecture, whereby new floor, walls, and ceiling were built and physically separated from the home’s existing construction. And where the noise can’t get in, it can’t get out either. My neighbors can thank me later. A pizza would be nice.
But enough techno-chatter. Here it is:
For what it’s worth, I also captured the build on time-lapse photography and promise to compile those images into movie clips over the next few weeks (times three, of course).