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  • Building a studio, part 2

    The building continues - at the end of last week, the wall between the 2 garage spaces was up to about eye level. Yesterday, the wall was built right to the roof and the sliding door was installed. Today the guys plastered the "garage" side of the wall. They should finish plastering the "studio" side tomorrow, and then it's onto bricking up the original back-room door.

    I've decided to polish or varnish the concrete floor - the hard reflective surface should be good for recording, and I can always get a carpet or rug in to deaden it if it's too much. I also got a quote today for a DIY acoustic paneling kit (see www.acousticpanels.co.za). They supply the kit with self-adhesive, but I think I want to put rails along the walls - that way I can attach and detach the panels according to what type of sound I want to get. I will likely stick panels to the ceiling permanently, but I'll have to see how the place sounds first.

    Here are the latest pics.

    The door is installed
    The door from the inside looking out

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  • Building a studio, part 1

    That's right, we're building a studio! We're converting the left hand side of our double garage into a studio for Sounds of the Nations SA, East London. I am very excited (obviously) because this is a life-long dream, will make my wife happy (I'll get all my instruments and computers out of the spare room) and is just the beginning of the dreams that I have for SotNSA.

    The building began last week (we're converting the room under our deck into a guest cottage at the same time) and I am going to be posting pics of the progress as the studio develops. For now the plan is to get the basic "shell" into place - once I've moved in I can start thinking about dry-walling and acoustic treatment and so on. Baby steps!

    In this news article, you can see the plans for the studio, and below are some pics (you can see my 16 month old daughter Nia pottering around... she is just inspecting the place to make sure it's up to scratch for her up-and-coming musical debut!).

    From the outside

    Breaking through to the back room

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  • Designing the website

    Me? A website? Nah...

    So I am finally doing what I never thought I would do for a very long time - putting up my very own website! It's more focussed on my music and some of the projects I am going to be involved in.

    I am setting up the site using Sitefinity - a really great CMS package by Telerik. Since I am a .NET developer, this is quite fun. I look forward to customizing some tools, the design and getting the site live.

    Happy reading!

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