if you’re following progress, you’ll glad to read that we’re now building the partitions in the loft. framing is done. electrical inspector signed off today. i’m going to go pull some UTP & coax (while neglecting music entirely.) balance what?
by the way, these beat the hell out of a reel of steel fish tape.
i’m told by A Person Who Matters that there will be some form of remedy for the party wall sound problem. and we now have a contractor to pull permits. building is imminent. meanwhile, seth has happened upon a whole shitload of sonnex and auralex. that’ll be nice for the proto-studio until i build the [...]
i can’t believe how different building shit in your own loft is when your loft is legal. not such a fine line between respecting ‘the spirit of building code’ and code. it’ll be a while before this thing comes to pass. i’m mixing on headphones for the time being.
In other news, this building’s developer claims [...]
Neighbor on the other side of my studio area’s party wall had a cold last week. I would not know this, but for the lack of isolation between our units. With this in mind, Blackmer suggested I open up the walls enough to have a look inside for acoustic paths. We suspected that the [...]
Famous studio designer Michael Blackmer just came by to measure the space that will be my new recording studio. He’s serious…
to the point that I’m not sure I deserve a the kind of room he’s about to make. That AutoCAD file he left for me results in this rendering I made in C4D, via Sketchup [...]
because lara and i bought a loft. yay. we’re owners. in the South End, which is much better than the previous locale, South Boston. world of difference. i feel like i live in Boston again. More posts as build-out begins. new studio forthcoming. still shiny and new:
