80 Sheets of Drywall...

Ryan and I spent Saturday from 8:30-2:00 moving drywall. By ourselves.
Home depot loaded it on our truck and we drove it to the studio where we moved it:

From the truck to the loading dock, from the dock to the freight elevator, from the elevator, 70 yards down the hall to the studio. Two sheets are realistically all the heavier two people can go at a time.

Damn.

And ouch.

Soundproofing 101

So the studio is coming along slowly. We have the largest of the soundproofing walls completely framed. The two foot top sections (trusses) take about 5 times as long as the rest of the wall, because we more or less have to be exact in our measurements for the wall to stand straight and have a tight seal against the blocks and rubber that decouple them from the floor and ceiling.
The idea is to build a very dense wall inside the existing wall to cut down the STC or sound transmission coefficient to practically zero at high and mid frequencies and to reduce low end transmission to negligible amounts. To accomplish that we place a layer of highly absorptive foam rubber over the studs and conventional insulation, then two sheets of drywall, and a rigid fiberglass product generically called 703 covered with fabric. So after passing through an inch of rigid fiberglass, 1 and a quarter inches of sheetrock, 6 millimeters of high density foam rubber, 7 inches of packed fiberglass insulation, and another half inch of sheetrock, the amplitude of the sound waves has died enough that 2 feet of dead air and a conventional wall will do the rest. The hardest thing is that we really will have no idea how much we've reduced the STC till the wall is finished and we place a drum set or guitar amp inside and rock out.

Lots of happenings.

In the last 2 weeks we:
Incorporated as an LLC in the Commonwealth,
Insured our space and property,
Registered with the IRS,
Created a business checking account,
Signed a Lease,
Measured and taped our construction plan,
Shopped for a piano,
Won super-nice patchbays for super-cheap,
Shopped for THX Gipsum and Sheetblock,
Began to price for Pro Tools HD, &
Framed walls.

In the next 4 weeks we should:
Finish construction,
Cable the control room and studio proper,
Normal the patchbays,
Move in the gear and instruments,
Rock a brand new HD System,
Throw an opening bash, &
Invite you.

This is our blog.

Welcome to the unofficial, official blog of dirty water sound and music a Boston-area recording studio and audio post facility owned and operated by Ryan Pedersen and Jared Mooney.

We've kept a blog for a few weeks at our website which is still under major construction. So I'll post those older goings on, then update you on some exciting new stuff. Like you care...

You should.