2006 DBAR Productions Studio Remodel

The "Before" shot of the original layout in the new home....	The "Before" shot right at the start of the studio...	Door and Drywall removed from rear wall, showing the room...	Cutting the hole in the wall which will be the door for...
End of the first day and the framing is already in place...	Better shot of the framing for the rebuild of the wall...	Close up of the drain pipe after using a jack hammer to...	Framing of the gear closet from the garage side.
Another shot of framing and dug up drain pipe area from...	Insulation and resilient channels installed. Lounge / CR...	Insulation and channels on the studio wall.	Close up of the resilient channels.
Another shot of the studio wall with insulation and...	Drain pipe in gear closet rerouted around the edge of the...	Pipe rerouting across the ceiling of the gear closet,...	The drain pipe running across the not yet enclosed gear...
Gear closet shot from inside the control room, with the...	First layers of drywall in place.	Drywall on lounge / CR new wall.	View of the studio window cutout showing a cross section...
Lounge / CR door cutout, again showing cross section of...	Mud / Tape for drywall	Studio wall mud / tape	Even more mud / tape
Mud / tape around lounge wall and gear closet	Cross section showing third layer of drywall, and texture...	Bottom of studio wall showing channels, and backer rods...	Another cross section of the studio / CR wall.
The heavy duty equipment (server) rack I bought and...	First door in place in the lounge / CR wall.	Shot of gear closet with drywall installed	The fairly quiet ceiling exhaust fan in the gear closet. ...
The exhaust outlet outside of the gear closet in the garage.	Studio door frame in place.	Sealing up the cement floor in the studio after removing...	Another shot of the studio door frame.
Studio door frame bottom	Lounge area already painted the new light gray color	First coat of paint in the control room. Deep purple...	Same light gray color as lounge is used on the studio walls
The purple wall color from the control room is used on...	Gear closet exhaust fan outlet with the cover on	Shot of the gear closet after first coat of paint in the...	The studio floor was left as concrete and painted with a...
A shot of all three colors used in the studio room	View from the lounge looking into the control room with...	Repainted the garage entrance area of the lounge as well....	After painting. Still waiting for the window glass.
Another shot after painting. Looking at the gear closet.	Gear closet after painting. The door on the garage side...	The inside of the gear closet with the filtered air...	The ceiling of the gear closet with the cover over the...
What will be the wall behind the console with two PVC...	Close up view of the new studio wall... no glass for the...	The microphone / tie-line panel in the studio wall. This...	Close up shot of the studio panel. Redco Audio made the...
Another shot of the three colors in the studio. This...	A shot of the big mirror in the studio. Will eventually...	PVC cable pass-through pipes from the garage side.	Here's where the snakes from the studio panel come out...
Garage side of the gear closet with the filtered air...	Equipment rack installed in the gear closet. Bolted into...	In this shot of the lounge / CR door, you can see the...	The bottom of the door has a Pemco drop-down seal that is...
The drop-down seal ended up not working so great, so I...	Contractors finished with the window and doors while I...	Gear closet door shown shut.	Shot from inside the studio with the window installed
Shot of finished window and door from the studio. Even...	Another shot from inside the studio	Shot from the control room side, again, before the new...	Realtraps HF Microtraps installed on the ceiling above...
Microtraps on the ceiling and Minitraps up in the...	Another shot of a couple of the Realtraps Minitraps in...	Another shot of the microtraps and a minitrap.	Yet another shot of the Realtraps Minitraps... I put one...
Close up of a Minitrap in place above a door.	Here's the minitrap over the studio door on the opposite...	First curtain in place on the wall behind my mix/monitor...	Here is the set of curtains for the side wall that can be...
Here's the same curtains shown shut over the studio window.	I installed a second set of the same type of curtains on...	Here's the first big curtain installed in the studio...	Another one of the same large, long, but thin, curtains...
The other shorter, but very heavy duty, theater curtain...	Ran out of black curtains, so used a couple of the green...	Curtains closed.	Getting ready to install the gear. Argosy console...
Here you can see two more of the GIK Acoustics Tri-Traps,...	Showing another corner	Voltage regulator and two Balanced Power supplies, plus...	The two gear racks and the Yamaha O2R96 mixing console...
First couple of analog snakes wired up to the patchbay.	Back of O2R96 after the first two snakes wired up.	Underneath the effects rack with the analog snake in place.	Underneat the other desk side rack with the first analog...
Sneaking some cables through the small area between the...	Starting to get a bit messy, but doing the best I can...	Lots of wires, and not done yet!	Lots of analog connections for a digital console!
Top down view of the patchbays.	top view of the patchbays and digital console.	Still a few more analog snakes to go.... messy work in...	My best equipment purchase for this project was the wired...
I used some "wall grabber" type picture handing hooks and...	Here they are coming out from the pentration into the...	Here is the rolling pre-amp rack that sits next to the...	Here is a look from the "back" of the rack while it's...
Here is my big digital mess. Fiber optic and AES/EBU...	A shot under the Argosy desk side rack with both analog...	Getting closer. Got the BM15A monitors in place, and the...	A shot behind the desk, where you can see the BM12S sub...
Closer up view of the mess of cables along the floor...	I ended up not using the big desk I had previously setup...	Computer and power cables running into the gear closet.	Getting messy behind the console again as I start hooking...
Computer monitors and the other two front BM6A monitors...	Final layout shot. Normally the computer monitors would...	Cables behind the console cleaned up a bit and tied...	Finished layout shot from the keyboard/composing side.
Two more GIK Acoustics Monster Traps in front of the...	I put six of the GIK Acoustics 242 traps on the ceiling...	I've also put my four old 2x2 Minitraps in the studio...	More panel traps in the studio.
Pretty good shot of a good portion of the acoustic...	Simple peg hook thing from Lower's for studio headphones	... and for microphone cable storage. However, the pegs...	The gear closet with my old computer standing on top of...

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