Circle Studios refurb

[Rimskidog]

There's been no building work for a few days as I've had sessions this week that couldn't wait any longer. We were about to do acoustic guitar in this one:

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[Archetype]

That helps put the room size in perspective!

[Rimskidog]

but that's only a little bit of the room!

[51m0n]

Love the polystyrene formwork idea, dont fancy being the poor chap picking it all back out though!

Tremendous gear list that, much droolage!

[charic]

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1347281350' post='1798750']
Love the polystyrene formwork idea, dont fancy being the poor chap picking it all back out though!

Tremendous gear list that, much droolage!
[/quote]

Superglue melts polystyrene down to nothing

[apa]

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1347281350' post='1798750']
Love the polystyrene formwork idea, dont fancy being the poor chap picking it all back out though!

Tremendous gear list that, much droolage!
[/quote]

Burn it out. Oh its inside........ maybe not.

To the OP: Whats that bloke doing in your fishtank anyway!!

A

[51m0n]

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1347289269' post='1798865']
Superglue melts polystyrene down to nothing
[/quote]

I would imagine it produces some very unpleasant gasses while that happens though!

[Rimskidog]

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1347290282' post='1798882']
Burn it out. Oh its inside........ maybe not.

To the OP: Whats that bloke doing in your fishtank anyway!!

A
[/quote]

Heheh!


Setting up for vocals yesterday:

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[Rimskidog]

After 10 days of recording sessions including a 20 piece ensemble and a 90 piece choir, we got back to the much more exciting job in hand...

more plasterboard arrived:

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[51m0n]

Ooooh!

Thats got to be enough for at least one of the remaining rooms. Dont fancy bumping that lot out though, sweaty work

[charic]

Bet you can't karate chop through it

[Rimskidog]

A triangular fashion statement?

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[51m0n]

There's gonna be a lynching boyyyyyy.....

[Rimskidog]

Haha! Here's another clue:

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[51m0n]

Dunno, you hiding all the AC gubbins up there?

(see that, thats me grasping at straws that is)

[Rimskidog]

heheh. No young padwan. It's all about isolation. You'll remember we went to a lot of money, time and effort to isolate each room from the rest of the building. If we just put up the ceiling in the normal fashion we would effectively re-couple the isolated bunkers back to the rest of the building. For that reason the ceiling can only be joined to the corridor wall and must not touch the studios. Triangles make for a much stronger structure. You can see in this picture that the triangles dont touch the studio walls:

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[51m0n]

Oh right-ho, get it now, makes alot of sense, so you are using those to support the ceiling right across the top of all the studio rooms (they all already have their own high mass ceilings anyway, but for the sake of looking remotely professional you need to hide the 'old' space above without reintroducing anything for sound to be transmitted through thus ruining your hard won isolation.

Well that makes perfect sense

[Rimskidog]

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1348428107' post='1813535']
Oh right-ho, get it now, makes alot of sense, so you are using those to support the ceiling right across the top of all the studio rooms (they all already have their own high mass ceilings anyway, but for the sake of looking remotely professional you need to hide the 'old' space above without reintroducing anything for sound to be transmitted through thus ruining your hard won isolation.

Well that makes perfect sense
[/quote]

Pretty much, its a false ceiling that runs the length of the corridor so you cant see that it's just an industrial unit you are in.

[Rimskidog]

Oops. I've fallen behind on this. Here's how the corridor looked when it was done:

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And on this one you can see the 10 mm gap that runs the length of the corridor:

[IMG]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/DSCN8316_zps75f51fda.jpg[/IMG]

[Dad3353]

Good work..! Now it looks like [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]it's just an industrial unit you are in. Very clever. [/font][/color]

[Rimskidog]

Lights are up in the corridor:

[IMG]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/DSCN8322_zps07aef291.jpg[/IMG]

[charic]

How about making the gap a "feature" rather than people wondering why it's there.

If you were to send a little coloured light down there for example

[Rimskidog]

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1349208799' post='1823414']
How about making the gap a "feature" rather than people wondering why it's there.

If you were to send a little coloured light down there for example
[/quote]

Cool idea! Thanks man!

[charic]

No worries

[Rimskidog]

This week at Circle Studios we've had the very amazing drummer and percussionist Fergus Gerrand (Spice Girls, Madonna, Mike Oldfield, Duran Duran, Peter Gabriel, Katie Melua, Sting etc) in session doing drums and percussion:

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