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My New Studio Build (perhaps overly detailed)
- Thread starter silky smoove
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Tech will be at my place between 2:00 and 6:00. Hopefully he can remedy the situation.
Fingers crossed. There is little worse than working so hard to then have a grand plan fail or be delayed by a component you didn’t build yourself!
The tech just called me. When he arrived it was displaying an error code. He reset the disconnect for the power (he said I could do this by just flipping the breaker). That got it back up and running by resetting the error code that had developed. He then waited for it to begin heating the room back up to 68F, and after it had been running for a while he checked the head pressure of the system. The maximum pressure the system can handle before it locks itself out is 450 lbs. He said when it had climbed from 47F (where it was when he arrived) to 53F it was already at 420 lbs. He thinks the system was overcharged from the factory and it was going into lock out mode due to excessive pressure in the system, then the error code activated and it wouldn't restart once it was back in a safe operating range. He lowered the freon charge in the system in an attempt to keep the pressure lower when it's operating at full power. We've had an uncharacteristic cold snap in Seattle recently which coincides with the timing of the issues, so his rationale makes sense to me. Hopefully this resolved the issue.
Something you can question the factory about. Might be a manufacturing defect or design flaw and covered under warranty or they may have a permanent fix for you.
You do have to vacuum it in on a mini split as well. I trust this tech, who happened to be the guy who installed it as well, so when he said it was overcharged I’m guessing it was extremely overcharged.
I checked in on the studio before heading to my office this morning, and the mini split was still working just fine. Hopefully the pressure issue resolved things, but I suppose only time will tell.
Mini split was still working great this afternoon and into the evening. I spent a couple hours out there composing a new jazz tune. Hoping the issue is resolved.
Nice name you have for that tune, “Hoping the Issue Is Resolved.” I’d like to hear it when it’s done.
No posts since Feb 16th, I'm getting restless. I need a fix.
Got home from work and saw the new post thread alert and excitedly clicked...
I feel your pain Ulf_Hansson. Why have you abandoned us Silky?
So much to live up to with this thread! 
Full disclosure: I haven’t done anything to progress the studio in a while. I’ve been teaching my wife to snowboard, prepping for a few gigs (one of which is a wake, which will be a first for me), prepping for an audition that has the potential to be very lucrative ($15,000-20,000 per year with nothing further out than regional shows and no tours required), and generally taking some time to enjoy life.
I’ll be ordering a new studio computer very soon, and at that point I’ll have no hurdles to making music anymore, even if everything isn’t completely finished. At that point I’ll likely be more motivated to finish off the vestibule, baffle boxes, hardscaping, etc.
Full disclosure: I haven’t done anything to progress the studio in a while. I’ve been teaching my wife to snowboard, prepping for a few gigs (one of which is a wake, which will be a first for me), prepping for an audition that has the potential to be very lucrative ($15,000-20,000 per year with nothing further out than regional shows and no tours required), and generally taking some time to enjoy life.
I’ll be ordering a new studio computer very soon, and at that point I’ll have no hurdles to making music anymore, even if everything isn’t completely finished. At that point I’ll likely be more motivated to finish off the vestibule, baffle boxes, hardscaping, etc.
...but seriously, thanks for the motivation everyone. I’m out here right now learning songs for tomorrow’s gig at a wake with a 9:30am call time. 
At least I’ll be done gigging for the day before lunch
Had to write some basic charts for five new tunes on this gig tomorrow morning. Learned these today and don’t want the dearly departed to come back from the dead as a result of me blowing the changes on “At Last” at his wake
Also... feel free to laugh at my poor use of proper enharmonics in my charts. I learned to play from a guitarist who only called sharps, never flats. It’s taken me years to even begin to break the habit (note the Ab in the chart for Bubby at the bottom).
At least I’ll be done gigging for the day before lunch
Had to write some basic charts for five new tunes on this gig tomorrow morning. Learned these today and don’t want the dearly departed to come back from the dead as a result of me blowing the changes on “At Last” at his wake
Also... feel free to laugh at my poor use of proper enharmonics in my charts. I learned to play from a guitarist who only called sharps, never flats. It’s taken me years to even begin to break the habit (note the Ab in the chart for Bubby at the bottom).
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funny, i played with a guy that only did flats, and i only did sharps. now i only do flats and it pisses off the music teachers in my band 
lol
lol
Get a pencil for that studio.
When you get to the IV chord in At Last do you play the open C double sharp string as part of the triad? What makes that A# choice even cooler is it leaves you the option to chromatically move to the 5th of the chord by playing an open low D double sharp to the E sharp.
When you get to the IV chord in At Last do you play the open C double sharp string as part of the triad? What makes that A# choice even cooler is it leaves you the option to chromatically move to the 5th of the chord by playing an open low D double sharp to the E sharp.
...but seriously, thanks for the motivation everyone. I’m out here right now learning songs for tomorrow’s gig at a wake with a 9:30am call time.
At least I’ll be done gigging for the day before lunch
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Had to write some basic charts for five new tunes on this gig tomorrow morning. Learned these today and don’t want the dearly departed to come back from the dead as a result of me blowing the changes on “At Last” at his wake
Also... feel free to laugh at my poor use of proper enharmonics in my charts. I learned to play from a guitarist who only called sharps, never flats. It’s taken me years to even begin to break the habit (note the Ab in the chart for Bubby at the bottom).
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Good work Silky! Thanks for taking us along on this multi-year journey!
Honestly, I played it once last night, wrote a minimal chart and called it good. So... Not sure. Just trying to roughly outline the chords on the gig today and calling it good.
Pretty dope setting for a gig though!
At Last is a bold choice for a wake, no? Especially as the opening tune. Title-wise, I mean. This family must have a great sense of humor.
