Construction
You may wonder why the blog’s been silent for so long.
Has Eric given up on music? Or been injured by falling furniture?
No, no nothing like that.
I’ve been busy. Building a studio.
I’ve already had a few blog posts about the process, but it’s actually well and truly done, except for some furnishing and hanging of pictures and organizing.
My “bedroom hobby” has slowly been expanding. In the early days, it was a desk in the corner of the spare bedroom. Then, in those days when I didn’t have a spare bedroom, it was most of my primary bedroom.
Then, after the purchase of a house, it became a chunk of the basement. As that started getting too cramped, it became the entire second bedroom.
Well, that second bedroom got too cluttered, and since two of us and a pair of cats live there, we needed the space. So we called a few contractors and got bids on finishing up a chunk of the unfinished bit of the basement. This of course reduced the amount of raw storage space in the basement, and makes the live room for band practice smaller, but in exchange I have a nice 10x20ish room specifically for making music.
That was only the beginning, too. I’ve been hanging heavy curtains to hide storage racks and semi-partition a vocal “booth.” I’ve been building bass traps out of Owens Corning 703 rigid fiberglass, MDF board, and heavy duck cloth. I’ve bought Auralex corner traps. I’ve been jamming eggcrate foam into nooks and crannies to reduce slapback. It’s been a big and rather costly project, but it is great. Sure, it’s not The Strongroom or RealWorld, but it’s certainly better than anything I’ve ever had and it’s got a large amount of room for expansion (and maybe a couch!).
On the musical front, we’ve finished up a few more tracks, started a few new ones, pantsed a few more influences and dragged them around the track…keeping busy, keeping busy.
Pictures of the studio construction project are on my flickr account.
