Been using the new Abbey Road EMT140 plate reverb plugin from Waves. Very nice!
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My New Studio Build (perhaps overly detailed)
- Thread starter silky smoove
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Been using the new Abbey Road EMT140 plate reverb plugin from Waves. Very nice!
Thanks for the reply. This thread has grown to 19 pages containing a lot of details. Never hurts to keep them in context with the current stage of construction.
Your brain will need a break, you should look forward to making music when it's done. While I was doing my room my brain had to catalog every small step in the process that nobody else cared about. It starts to consume you, I'm sure you are there already. I have some small things to finish but I've been putting it off.
Well here's one more towards part two.
I hope the windy rainy weather this weekend didn't interfere with progress too much. I am really loving this thread.
I hope the windy rainy weather this weekend didn't interfere with progress too much. I am really loving this thread.
I didn't work on it at all over the weekend. I came down with pneumonia back on the 6th (I think it had been lingering since 2/20) and have been incapable of doing much more than sitting on my couch. I missed an entire week of work save for two hours last Monday when I foolishly tried to come in. Feeling well enough to be at the office today though. Things are looking up!
In project related news: I'm going to be scheduling the rock delivery for later this week, and will hopefully do some backfilling over the weekend.
In project related news: I'm going to be scheduling the rock delivery for later this week, and will hopefully do some backfilling over the weekend.
All the rock to backfill the deficient areas, as well as the two other kinds of rock for the French drains arrived today. One of the guys that helped me with the blocks needs my help ok Saturday, so it looks like I won't be able to spend a ton of time on this over the weekend. Hopefully I can make some headway as the weather is back to looking awful next week. I'm going to chip away at this when I can. I'm confident that I'll have a building in place within the month of April.
Just got home to find all of the materials were delivered. The additional blocks, additional caps, the crushed rock to fill in the deficient areas, crushed rock to go under all of the adjacent hardscaping around the structure, the pavers that make up the hardscaping, the washed rock for the French drains, and the decorative rock that will finish off the landscaping around the studio... All of it. Waiting for me.
The only problem was that about 1.5 cubic yards of the crushed rock was spilling out and blocking half of the alley. Cars could still get in and out, but garbage trucks on Tuesday wouldn't have been able to make it. The delivery guy could have backed in another 4-feet easily. This is what happens when I'm not there to supervise! I grabbed my trusty shovel and rock, and proceeded to relocate the 1.5 cubic yards, and then spread the remaining skiff of material out into the alley. Not exactly what I wanted to do after a long day at the office, but... Such is the life!
The only problem was that about 1.5 cubic yards of the crushed rock was spilling out and blocking half of the alley. Cars could still get in and out, but garbage trucks on Tuesday wouldn't have been able to make it. The delivery guy could have backed in another 4-feet easily. This is what happens when I'm not there to supervise! I grabbed my trusty shovel and rock, and proceeded to relocate the 1.5 cubic yards, and then spread the remaining skiff of material out into the alley. Not exactly what I wanted to do after a long day at the office, but... Such is the life!
I haven't touched the project since late February. Between waiting for the building guys to do the substructure and battling pneumonia for a week I've been completely off of it. I need to extend the block wall a bit and bring in some crushed rock (currently sitting in my driveway) to address some areas of settling in the building pad. I'm out tomorrow, but depending on the weather I'll make some progress on Sunday. My goal is to have the pad re-leveled so the building guys can finish the substructure by April, which will allow the building construction to follow as soon as there's a run of decent weather.
We've got a run of good weather coming up. I'm going to be working hard on Sunday to get the foundation re-leveled. I'm currently waiting for a call back from my contractor to see if we can snap into action next week. If the forecast holds and schedules allow, we could conceivably have the building in place by the end of next week. That feels optimistic at this point, but... Fingers crossed!
Just heard back from my contractor. The current plan is that I'm going to re-level everything on Saturday and Sunday (most of Saturday is shot, but Sunday is wide open). Part of the re-leveling will be extending the block wall by a few pieces to tie more completely into high ground. Once that's done I've been given the green light to remove all of the concrete blocking they put in when installing the substructure. It should be a relatively easy task to level such a large structure compared to the hundreds of small pieces of leveling I was doing for the block wall. In theory I should be able to set the corners to level it off, and then just backfill the middle legs. My contractor will be out on Monday morning to verify that everything got done, and if I'm successful he's going to schedule the steel inspection with the City for Tuesday. After that we're about 1.5-2 weeks out on the building due to other people getting in line ahead of me. If the weather holds, the building will happen in the next couple weeks. Definitely into April, but hopefully ahead of May.
Fun to read.. Dread the idea of living it.
Also reminds me of all the things I need to do to my house this spring.
Good luck with your build and thanks for sharing it with TB.
Also reminds me of all the things I need to do to my house this spring.
Good luck with your build and thanks for sharing it with TB.
In a surprise turn of events in ahead of schedule. My wife and I attended the Washington state Democratic Party caucus this morning (no hard feelings towards any of the Republicans reading this thread). We expected it to last all day after seeing what happened in my wife's home state of Iowa, which is historically one of the biggest political battle grounds in the country. We were very pleased when the process went smoothly, peacefully, respectfully, and had us home before noon. That allowed us to get to work on re-leveling the building pad a day earlier than I'd planned. It's supposed to rain tomorrow and it was nice out today, so it's a win-win-win!
Got it all re-leveled after removing the blocking by bringing in 1/4"-minus crushed rock one 5-gallon bucket at a time. That proved too slow, so I sent my wife down to Home Depot to grab a few more buckets. When she got back we set up an assembly line where she filled buckets and I shuttled them back and forth. Three buckets per joist bay, 24 joist bays, three buckets for each of the two ends, three buckets per each of the two sides, 0.13 cubic feet per gallon, 27 cubic feet per cubic yard, 2.2 tons per cubic yard... And... I don't know... It was a lot of heavy trips. I did my civic duty AND moved a bunch of rock. I'm not doing math too
Contractor is coming out to verify on Monday and schedule the city inspector for Tuesday if all is good.
Progress!
Got it all re-leveled after removing the blocking by bringing in 1/4"-minus crushed rock one 5-gallon bucket at a time. That proved too slow, so I sent my wife down to Home Depot to grab a few more buckets. When she got back we set up an assembly line where she filled buckets and I shuttled them back and forth. Three buckets per joist bay, 24 joist bays, three buckets for each of the two ends, three buckets per each of the two sides, 0.13 cubic feet per gallon, 27 cubic feet per cubic yard, 2.2 tons per cubic yard... And... I don't know... It was a lot of heavy trips. I did my civic duty AND moved a bunch of rock. I'm not doing math too
Contractor is coming out to verify on Monday and schedule the city inspector for Tuesday if all is good.
Progress!
Oh, and I'll have some photos of today's action once my wife downloads them off of her camera's memory card.
At 6:20 this morning I pulled the tarp off the structure before I headed off for work. It rained a lot yesterday, so it was completely full once again. The good news is that the weather is still holding based on the forecast, so my contractor will be at my place later today to confirm that we're good to go on the substructure in terms of having our inspection. If all goes as planned he'll be scheduling that for tomorrow. Once it's passed inspection he'll be scheduling the building, and he's going to try and fast-track me up in the line since my structure is on the larger side of what they commonly do and the weather window is more critical on larger projects (mine will take a few days, whereas the average structure they build is assembled in an amazingly fast 5-hours).
