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Rimskidog
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  • 1 month later...

So, as you know by now, over 2 years in, this build has cost way more and taken way longer than I ever expected. Along the way I also bought the building next door leading to more complication and cost. All in all these extras have, inevitably, had an impact on my overall budget. As the business plan was always based on the idea that fantastic sounding big rooms are disappearing fast and, therefore, an awesome sounding drum room would be a very attractive proposition, I've long had in mind building the control room around an API Legacy+.

Well, given the diminished budget, at this point, a new Legacy is sadly out of the question (never say never of course!) So when I spotted a used API 1608 advertised on GS classifieds by Renato at Starlight Studios in Italy I pm'd him pretty much immediately.

Completely underestimating how far Naples was I thought I'd just do a little roadtrip down there and collect it. I now know its a 3000 mile round trip... mezed. I made a video diary of the trip for your delectation. Let me know what you think:

[url="http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/?action=view&current=IMG_0617.mp4"]Naples roadtrip: day 1 video by Rimskidog - Photobucket[/url]

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It better be the be all and end of of 2nd hand consoles for that much of a road trip!

BTW cheers for the heads up (on GS) about the Red5 kick mic being only £35 at the moment, just got mine delivered, superb for the cash, incredible really!

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[quote name='51m0n' post='1163916' date='Mar 16 2011, 01:29 AM']It better be the be all and end of of 2nd hand consoles for that much of a road trip!

BTW cheers for the heads up (on GS) about the Red5 kick mic being only £35 at the moment, just got mine delivered, superb for the cash, incredible really![/quote]

You are telling me man!

No worries.

Here's day 4 (I think):


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhO81wgPPHQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhO81wgPPHQ[/url]

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I guess my attempt to build some tension failed miserably! Well, in the clip below you can see me finally arriving at the very awesome Starlight Studios in Naples, Italy! Can I say right off the bat how great Renato and his crew were and how welcome they made me. If you are in Italy and need a studio, this one should be high on your agenda!

Anyways, for now, enjoy

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vovFz5e6EM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vovFz5e6EM[/url]

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[quote name='Rimskidog' post='1167671' date='Mar 18 2011, 09:28 PM']I guess my attempt to build some tension failed miserably! Well, in the clip below you can see me finally arriving at the very awesome Starlight Studios in Naples, Italy! Can I say right off the bat how great Renato and his crew were and how welcome they made me. If you are in Italy and need a studio, this one should be high on your agenda!

Anyways, for now, enjoy

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vovFz5e6EM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vovFz5e6EM[/url][/quote]

ALL THOSE WIRES :) very nice. Wish i had a desk like that...

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[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='1168020' date='Mar 19 2011, 11:27 AM']ALL THOSE WIRES :) very nice. Wish i had a desk like that...[/quote]

You aint seen nothing yet! They had hardly any outboard. I have loads to wire in. In fact I feel slightly nauseous at the thought...

Anyway, it would have been rude to come this far and not take a quick look around the ruins at Pompei... right?

Here's one of the entrance gates:



And here's another with Vesuvius in the background:



After that, it was time to head back north:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EPDoHgr124"]YouTube - Roadtrip to Naples to collect 1608: the return journey[/url]

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I won't bore you with the trip back (the debris in the road, the shredded tyre, the underslung spare that the debris damaged, the closed M25 etc) suffice is to say that after about 2900 miles I finally arrived back in Birmingham. Now all i've gotta do is get the console wired in and useable. After considering long and hard the most efficient way to do this I decided only to wire in a portion of my patchbays to get the console up and running (when my new control room comes on line everything will have to move and be re-wired again). It'll mean that mic tie lines will be hardwired so I wont have quite as much flexibility as I'll ulitimately require but it save a LOT of work for the time being. So here's a snapshot of that (128 patchpoints into the process...):

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Things are starting to take shape now though I still can't wait until the new control room kicks off. Still waiting from British gas to come and remove the gas meters so we can lay the floating floors! In the meantime, here's a pic of the console in it's temporary home:



Let me know what you think!

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So this week I got in a bunch of EQ's for trial: 2 x VOGs, 2 X Chandler Little Devils, @ x Harrison EQ 32s and a tonelux:



And in the penthouse:



And in other news... call me crazy but... I decided to turn one of the production rooms into a stone room. wooooooooohahahahahaha. boing

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ooooh nice toys in da house.

A stone room-m-m-m-m-mm-mmmm-mm-m-mmmmmshhhhhhhztt?

Nice for drums and bright bright sounds. Will you put some of your patented hinged absorbers/reflectors on the walls so you can tame it a bit if you need to?

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It's been a while but here's a quick update...

A desk shot and live room combo this week:





this one is my U47 through the booth window:



And not exactly a 'wall of doom' but here's my 'small corner of some irritation':



Keep watching, we'll be starting phase 2 shortly!

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