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Well.....that took a while and there's a ways to go yet.

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic

No. The design office and studio are in a seperate room from the main room with a weather sealed door between them....and they are TWO rooms away from finishing....which also has a weather sealed door.

It did take me years to learn to seperate the finshing room from my studio though.

I bought new mixer after new mixer until the day I realized that it was the nitro that was wrecking them. Same with the Les Pauls but THOSE got wrecked from cleaning nitro off of them with acetone.

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic

Hey Stuart...can I have those speakers? Obviously you won't need them....with all that noise you are going to making in there....

Uhhh....please?....

Seriously though...nice nice nice.

Chris

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There is no difference between the man that thinks he can....and the man that thinks he cannot.

Nice

Lars

Tell you what....stand on the corner of W. Adams and S. Hogan, hang a cardboard sign around your neck that says, "Will work for speakers", and I'd guess your odds will improve.

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic

Soooooooooo it's a long shot right?

Way off topic for your thread but I just picked up a set old Polk Audio 5JR's for 40 bucks. I can remember my dad buying a set of these when I was a teenager. Great spreakers back then but even better now for the shop.

Okay...back on topic.

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Nice pic of nice new shop...

umm... weres the sawdust?

If you need some to seed the space ..let me know.

be
Padma

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I see a lot of aluminum in those pics - and the CNC machine - can you CNC some jigs ? for a moderate price of course. I have some ideas....

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It's this new idea from recent decades that everyone gets a participation award. - MUX

I think you need a woman's touch in the decorating department

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Ken

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

I'd be happy to discuss that. Send me a PM with some details.

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic

Are you a full timer or a part-timer?

Looks like a great setup - have fun!
Trev

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Stuart, that looks great! I bet you'll have somefun there! Quick question. What do you mean, "the nitro was ruining the mixers"? Do you mean you were spraying nitro in the vicinity of your mixer, and that ruined them, or do you mean the nitro off-gassing did some damage?
I'm in a situation where I don't have to spray near my audio equipment, but the only (temperature controlled) place I have available to hang the gits until the nitro dries is in my studio.

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Mike

The only thing nescessary for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing.

Full time with guitars since the shop has been finished but I get other work too. Every now and then I get to do research projects in my previous field. The shop was built to accomodate both possibilities.

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic

Sorry about the humor. I found it absurd that someone would believe I was finishing guitars inside a recording studio. I was being facetious with verhoevenc. I'm still learning the internet.

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic

Whew! Wht a relief! Build on!

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Mike

The only thing nescessary for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing.

nice set-up stuart.
i think your studio needs some sound absorbtion stuff on the walls, like some foam egg-craty panels, as well as some movable
free standing baffles to stop sound from bouncing around against the walls.
my friends recording studio has a section of wall that has 2x4s and 2x6s vertical and alternating, stacked up next to each other
and that helps.

Yeah...when I captioned that pic "do you think I'll need any acoustic treatments?" I was joking. That room echos like a canyon....and I knew it would when I built it. I ususally mix with a series of headsets and then use those V-8 monitors as a reference also...but they are useless without some absortion panels. I got the plan that will make that room dead and put my head out of the bass nodes...but I have other priorities at the moment.

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic