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Wrapped for rendering...
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It'll be white rendered on the outside with 3 layers on insulation on the inside, clad over and plastered. It won't be wholly sound proofed but the walls will have some good thickness and a lot of insulation so it'll keep most of the noise in. It is a fair way away from the nearest neighbour, probably 250ft or so if you draw a diagonal line from where the drum kit and PA will be to the nearest neighbours house. The floor is suspended on a steel frame mounted to 28 5ft ground screws, the floor will have similar insulation to the walls and ceiling too. Should be a great building once done. It has roughly the same square footage as my first flat. We practice on Thursday evenings between 6pm and about 1030pm so we'll be inside noise curfew too. 👍
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The internal room height will be around 2.5m, so we're OK for inside height space, which is good as I'm 6"4. It's pretty much the height of a standard ceiling.
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Some walls...
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The budget was far less than the actual cost! It'll be a shade over 40k once done. That's all in including all costs for everything. Bear in mind it'll have a loo, shower, sink etc. as well as the fairly chunky cost of running the utilities and a 16mm 3 core cable 220ft up the garden underground! It's a 10m x 4m building so quite large too. Once the builder has finished for the day I'll put up another picture, it's quite amazing how quick progress is!
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Bit more progress... The utilities have now been moled the 200ft up the garden. Got water, 16mm 3 core cable and sewage in place. Builder reckons 5 weeks-ish to completion.
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Hi all, With the studio being built in the garden, our drummer will be setting up his kit full time in there so I won't need this rather tasty electric drumkit going forward. This is a Thomann own brand 'Millenium MPS 850' kit and retails for £500 new. I'm also including a Gibraltar double kick pedal which works perfectly with the mesh kick drum head. This kit also has a clutching hi-hat which you really only see on much more expensive kits. It's has a snare mesh pad and well as a hi-tom, lo-tom and 2 floor tom mesh pads, it has the hi-hat as well as 3 other variable velocity cymbal pads. There's plenty of decent kit presents in the brain unit, and each pad has an individual volume adjust so you can dial in your sound. Headphone in, USB, amp inputs etc. Its a fantastic kit for the brand new price, let alone my price of £320 which includes UK delivery and Gibraltar double kick which cost me near £100 on its own! Collection welcome, I'll knock off £20 if you Collect. Check eBay past sold items, you won't find this cheaper! Any questions, let me know! https://www.thomann.de/gb/millenium_mps_850_e_drum_set.htm?glp=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwu_mSBhAYEiwA5BBmf6xAgT2vgXrqGyuHEy_o1X5Q6z4jd9hBoMspB4UcR_EGWVV_sEjuGxoCw2YQAvD_BwE -
End of the day shot...
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So that photo was yesterday... A mere 4 hours into today and the garden is a very different place! 6 workers, generators, underground moles, chop saws, six 5ft holes, etc.
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Honestly, I have no idea! Some kind of structural reinforcement I'd guess... perhaps if the sections are over '2 rectangles' long they need some kind of reinforcement? I shall ask when the builder is back tomorrow!
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The 10m x 4m steel base is now down, got a delivery of 200 odd meters of timber coming tomorrow... For a size reference, you can see my wife in the bottom corner of the base, it's is quite large!
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Too any beers obviously! I don't see it as 'beating them down' - pub bands need to deal with far worse that a few idiots dancing around!
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A few times when we've been to pubs and there's been a terrible covers band playing we got up and started dancing like idiots right in front of them while loudly singing lyrics to songs they weren't playing.
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I do have a Hiscox case in a cupboard under the stairs too... definitely a huge amount smaller than the Rock Hard case. Give me a shout if you want to borrow either. 👍
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@dclaassen - I have an utterly ridiculous certifiably bomb-proof flight case that'll almost certainly fit your bass, you're welcome to borrow it if you want. I'm in Essex so not a million miles away. Without exaggeration these cases used to be tested by the company (Rock Hard Cases) by being loaded with an instrument then being chucked out of a van driving 70mph! So should survive even Ryanair... It's basically one of these, but white on the outside, red on the inside and cut for Binky (my 10 string bass).
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Ridiculous Purchases... Share Your Shame!
binky_bass replied to binky_bass's topic in General Discussion
I knew I should have bought the 7 neck... 😖 -
Ridiculous Purchases... Share Your Shame!
binky_bass replied to binky_bass's topic in General Discussion
It is not photoshopped sir! Its a Hutchins 6 neck. One 6 string neck had a Floyd Rose bridge (under my arm) the other did not. Because obviously one must have the choice! 😆 -
Has anyone bought any items on a whim of particular ridiculousness? I bought this definitely ridiculous beast some 18 odd years ago... sold it on after maybe a year as it was just too ridiculous to keep any longer. My old man dug this ridiculous picture out last night. Anyone else guilty of ridiculous purchases? Ridiculous photos are a ridiculous bonus if you have one to share! (P.S. ridiculous...)
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Powering adapters won't cut it for our Studio connectivity. What I'm going to use is a point to point wireless connection. I've had a chat to a company today and for around £400 I can get a P2P system capable of 500m range at 500mb, that included an external ethernet cable to go from my router to the transmitter, the transmitter and receiver as well as a mock router that'll run off the receiver that we can 'hard plug' into and use for wireless connectivity. It's all a bit new to me, but as is the ground screw technique for the sub-frame!
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The closest wall of the studio will be around 150ft from the house, the router is at the very front of the house, so an extra 35ft from that, assuming the router in the studio is somewhere in the middle then router to router would be near on 200ft. Running an ethernet cable does add cost as its another run that the mole has to do and is about an equal cost to using the radar technique that my brother in law suggested, he said it would be as stable as a cable and wouldn't run the risk of having breaks in the line that'll be buried underground. I'll have a further chat with the moling company to see what the cost is to run a 4th line (16mm armoured cable, water line, waste line) for the ethernet, but when we briefly discussed it a few weeks ago, the cost is similar to radar WiFi.
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Timber frame on top of a steel based which will be on ground screws. It'll be white render finished, fully insulated. Plastered on the inside and painted white. We're using a mechanical mole to route the utilities underground to save digging a trench 200ft up the garden. Need to get WiFi down there too... not sure on the best route for that. My brother in law who's a bit of a IT whizz suggested some kind of radar system, not sure how that's works but he'll help us with that.
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So, it's actually officially happening! We've broken ground today on building a studio rehearsal room. It's going to be a big old beast... circa 40sqm. Time frame to completion is around 8 weeks. I shall update in due course, but suffice to say I am quite excited about having a proper studio rehearsal room! 😁 The band will be moving in as soon as its ready and will save use between £200 and £250 a month in practice room fees.
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metaphorically, what does your bass sound like?
binky_bass replied to Jean-Luc Pickguard's topic in General Discussion
When you say 'look this one up' you really mean you had to flick through your laminated stack of vintage 'gentleman' magazines to find this particular edition... -
Take a look at the GR Dual 1400. It has 2 separate 1400w channels with independent EQ sections. Incredibly lightweight too at 3kg. I bought one after selling my Mesa rig that @Bunion was showing off above! Oh, and they are comparatively very cheap at £999.
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metaphorically, what does your bass sound like?
binky_bass replied to Jean-Luc Pickguard's topic in General Discussion
🤣 Horrific, but excellent combination of words!
