Home recording studio wiring method

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This song is the subject of an urban myth. During an instrumental break, there is a scream that sounds a little out of place. It was rumored that the scream was the sound of a woman being murdered in the studio. According to the story, this woman was the model who appeared on the album cover. She was kneeling on glass and pouring honey in her mouth. While she was doing it, she found out that the glass was actually fiber glass and the honey reacted with the fiber glass by sticking to her legs and ripping all the skin off. She went in the manager's studio while the band was still recording and threatened to sue the band, which is when the manager stabbed her to death. The band left in the scream as a cruel joke. The scream was actually keyboard player Billy Beck. A disc jockey started the rumor and the band agreed not to deny it because it would help sell records.
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tonyou812 said:
Far be it from me to say that all recording studios are overkill as I am not an expert in this field. But Im sure they serve their purpose. All in all though I did learn a good deal about studios. Im not the proud type, I feel one can learn from anyone and this dude was a proffesional musician so he knew what he was talking about when he taked about resonace and the need for clean power for his tube amps and such. But he really should have hired a proffessional carpenter for the real work.
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audiophiles can be quite amazing. during the second world war, the british
did a lot of research on sound, for sonar purposes, and found that the
average human cannot detect less than 5% total harmonic distortion on
reproduced music. that number hasn't changed in 60 years.

i've seen people spend $1,500 a pair for custom made oxygen free copper
SPEAKER CABLES.... and they were about 12' long each, and almost an inch
in diameter.

the most insane example of audio excess i've ever seen was a H1 hummer
owned by a 16 year old, son of an investment banker here in town....
aside from the 4/0 cables from the battery banks to the macintosh amps,
this thing had a powered disco ball with lasers bouncing off it in the back
seat of the hummer.... ok, it was a hemisphere, not a full disco ball...
the sonic and multimedia excesses performed on that vehicle exceeded
US $120,000. i'm sure he would have paid more if some of the components
could have been made of pure unobtainium. :D

resonance in a studio is important for standing waves in certain types of
music. stringed stuff and voices are the most are the most sensitive
to coloration.

that's why most voice studios have poly's (arched radius sections)
on the walls to break up standing waves. heavily amplified rock music
goes for an anechoic heavily dampened room with massive sound damping.

about the oddest thing i've ever seen was the chancellor's bedroom suite
at soka university.... extensive sound control thru the whole house, with
his bedroom pretty much an anechoic chamber... the floor was a poured
6" concrete slab floating on special isolation buffers, with framing and and
ceiling attached to that floating floor, essentially a room floating within a
room. temperature control was by tubing in the slab, with 7 boilers in the
basement providing water for the entire house.

all floor surfaces were like this, so you could walk barefoot anywhere in
the house without getting cold feet.... the driveway was done this way
as well... this is in southern california.

there was some seriously OCD engineering designs in place on this one.....
the line item for just the thermostatic wiring for climate control was $30k....
not the devices, just pipe and wire.....

as for the OP, what the customer is seeking more than anything else is
the "ooh..." that comes from audiophiles..... be sure to mention that he
might need to put in vacuum jacketed lines to the heat exchanger in the
back yard for the sodium cooled phase linear amps... and a reference
power source off the grid, powered by organic photocells charging
battery banks made of pure lead mined from pennsylvania, and purified
on the space shuttle to remove gravitational distortion of the molecular
matrix...........

randy
 
Fulthrotl said:
as for the OP, what the customer is seeking more than anything else is
the "ooh..." that comes from audiophiles..... be sure to mention that he
might need to put in vacuum jacketed lines to the heat exchanger in the
back yard for the sodium cooled phase linear amps... and a reference
power source off the grid, powered by organic photocells charging
battery banks made of pure lead mined from pennsylvania, and purified
on the space shuttle to remove gravitational distortion of the molecular
matrix...........
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in the interests of total threadjacking,
i probably should have included this show and tell photo......
there really is no limit to the insanity....
this makes it possible to listen to your classic Led Zepplin
vinyl with your aging baby boomer ears, and discern the
subtle difference of every screecherk......

behold the clearaudio statement turntable at US$150,000 (cartridge extra)

Clearaudio Statement Features:
Patented magnetic-driven sub-platter (makes no contact with main platter)
Additional magnetic vertical platter bearing
All platters dynamically balanced
Kardan turntable chassis suspension
Automatic horizontal levelling device including tonearm platforms
(no air pump or compressor)
80kg pendulum weight for self levelling of top platform
High speed microprocessor-controlled motor drive unit (as used in Mars Rover)
Oil damping devices for the main turntable chassis
Real-time speed control and active blue LCD display
Ergonomic fine speed adjustment (33, 45 and 78rpm)
Accommodates up to four different tonearms
Complete resonance control via damped and sandwiched bullet-proof wood
(Panzer Holz), stainless steel and acrylic construction
Total weight approximately 350kg (770lbs)

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peter d said:
A house with a basement and forced hot water heat in California? Say it ain't so!
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it's so. see attached link to see the severe weather that makes this a
requirement. please remember that it's like this year around... sometimes
gets into the low 50's at the dead of winter. frightening. sometimes in the
middle of january, i have to put socks and shoes on.... flip flops are not
enough.

http://www.soka.edu/page.cfm?p=435
 
jeremysterling said:
After reading the archived posts on recording studios, the ability to accurately record and reproduce the sotto voce yet disturbingly melodic gnat fart can be ruined by ground loops, emf, intermodulation distortion, and a bus driving down the street.
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You know, there was a GreenDay album recorded in a cheap run down studio somewhere in California (I don't remember the name of it, but it was after they were famous) where they would literally have to shut down recording for 1/2 an hour and reset all the equipment after a bus drove by on an overpass. Apperently there was a loose connection somewhere in the wiring, and the vibration of the buss on the overpass caused it to come loose for a moment, which happened to be long enough to shut down all their gear, including the pro tools computer.:D

Speedskater said:
But if they are playing loud enough to shake the wires, nobody will hear it.
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You say that now, but you would be surprised at what some people can pick up. There was an episode of the Chris Isaak Show (He did the song "Wicked Game") where the band was in the studio, and Chris kept "hearing something" when they played back the tape. The short version is, somebody had something sitting where it shouldn't have been, and it caused a vibration that was picked up by a mic.
 
DanZ said:
You say that now, but you would be surprised at what some people can pick up. There was an episode of the Chris Isaak Show (He did the song "Wicked Game") where the band was in the studio, and Chris kept "hearing something" when they played back the tape. The short version is, somebody had something sitting where it shouldn't have been, and it caused a vibration that was picked up by a mic.
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most of this is probably only noticeable to someone in the recording trade, much like when you go out and notice differnt color fluorescent lamps in lay-in fixtures or sodium/ mercury/ or metal halides mixed on a building or in a parking lot, most people would never notice the difference unless they worked with lighting....
 
ultramegabob said:
most of this is probably only noticeable to someone in the recording trade, much like when you go out and notice differnt color fluorescent lamps in lay-in fixtures or sodium/ mercury/ or metal halides mixed on a building or in a parking lot, most people would never notice the difference unless they worked with lighting....
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True. However, I have picked up more than one flub in a song. The best ones were the vocal digital errors in some young female performers songs.:wink::grin:

Then again, I do have a habit of dissecting things, and trying to figure out how they work.:rolleyes::cool:
 
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