During the winter of 2013/2014 I am building a new studio!
In the summer of 2013 we moved to a new house which had a large garage, and that garage is now in the process of being converted into a professional studio, with 3 separate sound proofed and acoustically treated rooms.
This studio is going to allow me to produce a lot of content that I think you’ll all find very exciting! 🙂
The studio is sceduled to be finished towards the end of january 2014, and here are some progress pictures.
Day 0
This is how the garage was when we moved in.
There was a small workshop.
All of this needed to be removed, and replaced with stronger beams, and a pillar, to get a proper ceiling height.
The floor had to be fixed, as you can see it was a pretty steap downhill.
Day 1
Preparing the floor, and room plan.
Original floor plan. I don’t have a grand piano yet, but when I get one it will go in tha large live room.
Two different floor levels, probably because of hard rock ground.
Yup, it’s floor heating! 🙂
Day 2
Laying the concrete floor.
Early morning cement.
Ready to dry.
Day 3
Concrete dry, getting materials, and starting to remove all the shit in the ceiling.
Tools.
This has to go!
Getting first load of materials – studs, dry walls, insulation etc.
First heavy supporting beam in place!
Ceiling is coming down by chain saw!
Second supporting beam.
Day 4
Look, it’s a cathedral! 🙂 (soon..)
First glimps of how the ceiling cathedral will look! 🙂
Day 5
Cathedral almost done.
Day 6
Removing the garage door.
The garage door was dismounted, and the brick wall above the garage door was removed – towing it off with a car..!!! (It’s what’s laying in the bottom right of this pic.)
Garage door pieces.
Day 7
Outline of interior doors and windows.
Line in window opening from rec room 1 to main room.
Door opening.
Rec room 2 window.
Rec room 2 door.
Day 8
Setting up wall studs, preparing for insulation, preparing for wiring (electrics, aoudio/video)
Day 9
Window opening between rooms and insulation.
Messy.
Tidy.
View from recording room 2
Day 10
Trying to get rid of some of the trash. Got rid of quite a bit before the neighbors complained.. 😉
Day11
Dry walls as sound proofing between rooms. Will fill with insulation, and cover with pine panels with slots in between for sound absorbsion.
View from main live room/control room
No contact between studs!!
No contact between room walls!
View from recording room 1
Studio by night
Studio and house by night
Day 12
Pulling multi cables, speaker cables and cat-5 cables, replacing old fuse box in house, getting proper electricity for studio, wiring boxes for downlights.
Insulation in ceiling, The green boxes are for the down lights.
Wiring for the recording rooms. Room 1 will have 8 XLR inputs, room 2 will have 12 XLR inputs, and the small room in the house will have 4 XLR inputs (Will mainly be used as isolation room for miking up guitar cabinets). Room 1 and 2 will also have HDMI connections for the cameras. All rooms will also have personal mixers for individual monitoring.
This is the little room in the main house. Will primarily be used as an isolation room for miking up guitar cabinets, but may eventually be used as a recording boot for vocals etc.
Day 13
Front door and front windows in place, and suddenly it doesn’t look like it ever was a garage!
Facade view 1. I love these front windows! At night when it’s dark outside, you’ll see right into the down-lights “starry sky” of the ceiling cathedral. 🙂
Facade view 2
Window for recording room 1. (It used to be a door here.)
Facade windows, and rec. room 1 window to the right.
Control room windows towards the back.
Day 14
Getting the pine boards. The wrong pine boards..
Insulation, plastic, then fabric. On top of this goes the pine boards, with 5/10/15/20 mm gaps in between.
1000 meters of pine boardsarriving. That’s 1 kilometer of wood..!
Unloading
And a couple of hours after the driver left, we found out it was the wrong kind of pine boards. They need a week to get the right kind and replace them. Oh well, almost Christmas break.