DIY Time Lapse Recording Studio Build

We built MicroMega inside a warehouse, a 'room in a room' design in 2015 and completely dismantled it in 2019 reclaiming it nail by nail and board by board for the next built. There were 2 live rooms with 14' ceilings and 2 booths with floated 3/4" solid oak floors.
Our vintage recording equipment included:
1979 Trident 80 56 channel console
1972 MCI 416 24 channel console
1990 D&R Triton 44 channel console
1990 2" MCI 24 Reel to Reel
1969 Scully 280 1" 8 Track
1976 2" MCI JH16 24reel to reel
1972 2" MCI JH16 16 Track
1974 Ampex 440 1/2" 2 track
In 2019 I delivered to Billy Corgan(Smashing Pumpkins) my Scully 280 1" 8 Track reel to reel in Chicago and I delivered to James Murphy(LCD Soundsystem) in Brooklyn,NY the beautiful Trident 80 56 Channel recording console. MicroMega Recording Studio is relocating to a private space in Austin.
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Original Music in this video 'The Lake' by SkyAcre
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  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc
    @SkyAcreRandomEtc3 жыл бұрын

    SkyAcre 'Protectors and Guardians' FULL ALBUM: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hJWTsZVpm9K2os4.html

  • @nathanielbrice8725
    @nathanielbrice87253 жыл бұрын

    Epic! Totally Jealous! You guys did it right!

  • @sjoerdlintsen
    @sjoerdlintsen3 жыл бұрын

    Wow! Great work, now enjoy!!!

  • @cesararzola
    @cesararzola Жыл бұрын

    wow, this is some serious isolation. Awesome!!

  • @SniffingGlue
    @SniffingGlue3 жыл бұрын

    Ace!

  • @lucalongo28
    @lucalongo283 жыл бұрын

    Wow, what an amazing Job!

  • @laynehoward2870
    @laynehoward28703 жыл бұрын

    The couch at about 4:02 is epic. It totally makes the studio.

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Was my grandparents couch I have pictures of them hanging out on it in the 60’s! We dig it, it really ties the room together

  • @Dipset415

    @Dipset415

    Ай бұрын

    @@SkyAcreRandomEtcwhat was the total cost for a project like this brodie🤙🏿

  • @tadasis1237
    @tadasis12373 жыл бұрын

    Excellent job! Hope to have the same energy for the next one!

  • @DOMusicOfficial
    @DOMusicOfficial3 жыл бұрын

    What a nice video! Best time lapse I've ever seen of a proper insulation.

  • @alainkempa2139
    @alainkempa2139 Жыл бұрын

    I was there to watch the studio build time lapse, I found a really good music. Well done for all

  • @Flaviormorassi
    @Flaviormorassi2 жыл бұрын

    This is so cool! Awesome studio and huge investment

  • @charleshotep6565
    @charleshotep65653 жыл бұрын

    Amazing gear I recorded on Trident in LA in late 80's everything sounded good thru it drums especially you guys did a great job

  • @FredShaw
    @FredShaw Жыл бұрын

    I owned a Trident TSM for many years. I sold it when ProTools came out. I liked the wow effect it created. Good luck with your studio!

  • @wesheriveaux9325
    @wesheriveaux932510 ай бұрын

    Sweet build, love the studio.

  • @stevesrecordingtips7247
    @stevesrecordingtips72472 жыл бұрын

    I watched this probably 20 times before I did my studio build and video. Great job with this!

  • @cultra9292
    @cultra92922 жыл бұрын

    Awesome studio, awesome video, awesome music!

  • @nicojapasmusic
    @nicojapasmusic11 ай бұрын

    So awesome

  • @RandomButtonPusher
    @RandomButtonPusher3 жыл бұрын

    Better than most music videos! What a DIY project! Hope the new space is working well for you.

  • @wesmatron
    @wesmatron3 жыл бұрын

    I like the bass drum skin: "Men and women will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh yea! It’s attributed(or something similar) to the quote by Denis Diderot. Fitting bass drum skin art for a punk rock band, thanks for checkin out the build video 🤘🏼

  • @JulianFernandez
    @JulianFernandez Жыл бұрын

    nice build!

  • @loureiro2
    @loureiro29 ай бұрын

    awesome

  • @EstudioMantraChile
    @EstudioMantraChile Жыл бұрын

    very inspiring!

  • @my_tube9405
    @my_tube94052 жыл бұрын

    Well shit. Came to see the build. Stayed for the band. Love it.

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for saying!! We are finally getting back to live shows again as a band, and trying to get a new EP recording this spring ✌🏼

  • @Djnabb
    @Djnabb Жыл бұрын

    Respect 👌

  • @isaacdube7650
    @isaacdube765011 ай бұрын

    super dope lads

  • @rbisthatyou
    @rbisthatyou17 күн бұрын

    Wow 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @patrickwoods2583
    @patrickwoods25833 жыл бұрын

    So sad to hear it had to be dismantled. :-( It looked like a fun place to play.

  • @julytoofly7465
    @julytoofly74652 жыл бұрын

    Crazy !!! Inspired me

  • @pakolerma3885
    @pakolerma38853 ай бұрын

    Incredible 😊

  • @musicman212hd6
    @musicman212hd63 жыл бұрын

    Nice build great lookin rooms and that Ampeg cab as a drywall sawhorse :-)

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh yea that bass cab survived the buildout btw perfect height to use as a step stool, saw horse or a way in which to amplify low frequencies

  • @IKnokBeats
    @IKnokBeats3 жыл бұрын

    Nice Gentlemen

  • @sandybeansconqueso
    @sandybeansconqueso3 күн бұрын

    scully 284. nice

  • @robertharker
    @robertharker7 ай бұрын

    Nice studio build. A suggestion for next time: Angle the walls since they are non structural. Break the walls in the middle along the horizontal length and push the middle out by 8-10 inches. You might slope the ceiling. This is to avoid parallel surfaces. For the control room make the front of the room a trapezoidal shape, slope the ceiling and break the side and back walls. Again this is to avoid parallel surfaces. These simple steps will reduce standing wave problems at very little cost.

  • @zakariaelkhachia1533
    @zakariaelkhachia15333 ай бұрын

    Amazing Yoga tutorial at 0:44! 🧘🏻

  • @Rinawati-cw1xd
    @Rinawati-cw1xd6 ай бұрын

    👍

  • @really9238
    @really92389 ай бұрын

    What are those small black pieces that the floor was built on?

  • @scstraus
    @scstraus10 ай бұрын

    How do you handle ventilation?

  • @antoinehurtado4596
    @antoinehurtado45964 ай бұрын

    Beautiful job and thank you for this time lapse. Did you measure the insulation ?

  • @mens.o
    @mens.o3 ай бұрын

    which foam are you using for the decoupling layer? thanks for the video

  • @crazytraiin1
    @crazytraiin1Ай бұрын

    Not sure if this was asked before, but what material are those black pieces under the flooring sheets?

  • @DoyleTX
    @DoyleTX2 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely spot on. I'm about to design and build out our metal barn, which also has a concrete slab, and am wondering what you think a good basic budget would be to do something like you've done here. Thoughts?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    2 жыл бұрын

    From an earlier reply of mine to the same question: Oh man, that's a wide question. So raw building materials alone? Going from memory(we built in 2015) I believe it was somewhere near $29k, doing ALL the labor ourselves from flat slab inside a warehouse to floated floors, walls, doors, lights, windows, etc... The recording gear, cabling and instruments is a whole other deal obviously.

  • @HalcyonGuitars
    @HalcyonGuitars2 жыл бұрын

    Strangest camping video I ever done seen!

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hah yes, well this would be filed under the ‘DIY’ category of this channel. Honestly this was kind of an afterthought video of one of the biggest DIY projects I’ve done and it’s actually eclipsed the first/main camping SUV set up a video that I made. Never figured that’d happen. Thanks for watching :-)

  • @psollero
    @psollero3 жыл бұрын

    Really cool video. Hat off to you guys. What's inside those sacs under the floor?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    3 жыл бұрын

    Appreciate that! I think you’re asking about the batts of insulation between the plywood layers. That’s just typical pink fiberglass, we wanted a slightly resonant floor, more to control the low frequencies rather than totally dead like a sand fill sub floor would do. Floating the whole thing on the rubber pucks and having just enough pink insul in the sub floor was perfect for the drums and amps to sound full in the room on the oak floors.

  • @adamphillips6747
    @adamphillips6747 Жыл бұрын

    Cool room. You should stagger your drywall seams though.

  • @scottfox3770
    @scottfox37702 жыл бұрын

    Such a great vid! Did you do anything special to make the materials easy to deconstruct and reuse on your next build?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    2 жыл бұрын

    Spent many many days slowly dismantling screw by screw board by board, saving virtually everything except for the drywall and stored it for awhile, then using it for many other random builds. Pretty nice to have a stock pile of reclaimed materials. Poured a slab here in Austin to eventually build another smaller studio. Thanks for checking out the video.

  • @jordanstephenson6906
    @jordanstephenson6906 Жыл бұрын

    What did you use to float the floor?

  • @alvinwilliams1806
    @alvinwilliams18062 жыл бұрын

    What are the black squares you put on the floor to float it please? Are they rubber? I am wanting to build the same in my warehouse. Room inside of a room

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi, yes they are square 4” x3/4” hand cut rubber pucks from 3’x4’x3/4” horse stall floor mats we bought at Tractor Supply. We gridded it out, cut them by hand with razor blades and cop saw and a good metal 4 foot level. It took a while but was worth it, very strong and heavy duty. Good luck on your build. Very rewarding and quite and undertaking ✌🏼

  • @Incube2podcast
    @Incube2podcast Жыл бұрын

    How much you spend in this studio?

  • @quaffermusic
    @quaffermusic Жыл бұрын

    Great video! Could you tell me, please what material did you use to separate the building floor from the studio floor?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    Жыл бұрын

    @quaffer781 Hi! So we made them out of heavy black rubber 3'x4'x 3/4" horse stall mat we bought at Tractor Supply. Cut them into 4" squares. It took alot of work and a couple days, cutting strips by hand with razor blades and with a chop saw eventually after our hands gave out, and a 4' straight edge level. I think there is a short blip of us chopping the pucks behind my Sprinter van somewhere in the video. Labor of love. Thanks for the question and watching!

  • @Chxsne
    @Chxsne9 ай бұрын

    that drywall partition isnt going to offer any sound isolation

  • @trejohnson7801
    @trejohnson78012 жыл бұрын

    What was the rubber or foam you layed down before the floor? Looking to diy a sound room in a warehouse by train tracks that would be great for the vubrations

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi Tre, it’s 1/4” rubber roll beneath the oak wood flooring, we got it from Tractor Supply. If you meant the pucks we laid out at the very very beginning of the video before we laid out the sub-floor frame, those were sliced up 4” pucks of 4’x6’x3/4” horse mat we also got at Tractor Supply and spent 3 whole days slicing by hand with a 4’ aluminum straight edge level and SEVERAL packs of razor blades. Labor of love. ✌🏼

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    2 жыл бұрын

    PS works very well for low end or sub freq vibrations, this studio was located directly next to a print shop with some huge turn if the 20th century lathes and iron presses, really helped decouple our floor and walls from that rumble.

  • @trejohnson7801

    @trejohnson7801

    2 жыл бұрын

    Appreciate man

  • @motifex4979
    @motifex497910 ай бұрын

    Fantastic job! Well done! May I ask how much it cost you to build the studio ?( excluding the recording gear)

  • @thekembe27
    @thekembe27 Жыл бұрын

    What are the black squares on the floor at the beginning of the video made out of please? I'm looking to build a rehearsal and recording studio and I'm researching materials at the moment.

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    Жыл бұрын

    @thekembe27 so we made them out of heavy black rubber 3'x4'x 3/4" horse stall mat we bought at Tractor Supply. It took alot of work and a couple days, cutting strips by hand with razor blades and with a chop saw eventually after our hands gave out, and a 4' straight edge level. I think there is a short blip of us chopping the pucks beghind my Sprinter van somewhere in the video. Labor of love. Thanks for the question and watching!

  • @thekembe27

    @thekembe27

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SkyAcreRandomEtc that’s fantastic information. I really appreciate the reply. The studio looks amazing. I’m very jealous. Enjoy it and treasure it. Thank you.

  • @wahkingIV
    @wahkingIV2 жыл бұрын

    Great stuff! Can you please tell me who is the manufacturer of the rubber pieces you used to decouple the floor?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    2 жыл бұрын

    We made them out of heavy black rubber 3'x4'x 3/4" horse stall mat we bought at Tractor Supply. It took alot of work and a couple days, cutting strips by hand with razor blades and with a chop saw eventually after our hands gave out, and a 4' straight edge level. Labor of love. Thanks for checking out the video!

  • @wahkingIV

    @wahkingIV

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SkyAcreRandomEtc Oh man, thanks for replying, Great build you Kat's did,

  • @GeeWillikersMan
    @GeeWillikersMan Жыл бұрын

    How is the isolation with those Pella ThermaStar windows?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    Жыл бұрын

    Those were surprisingly good, VERY heavy higher end model, can’t remember the exact number. They were spaced about 1’ from each other, slight tilt on one if them to prevent cross waves or standing waves from building up. If I did a another studio again I’d reuse them, cheaper than heavy slab glass. I think these Pellas were $450 each, but that’s 2015 or 16 prices. Thanks for checking out our video ✌🏼

  • @pietrogubernarimusic
    @pietrogubernarimusic10 ай бұрын

    Woah how much did it cost?😮

  • @miscmisc1023
    @miscmisc10239 ай бұрын

    WHO UNWRAPPED THE CABLES? LMAO!!!!!!!!!!! NICE BUILD MAN

  • @jasonwilson9775
    @jasonwilson97752 жыл бұрын

    This is awesome. I am going to be building one. Is there any way to visit yours?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    Жыл бұрын

    No it’s no longer up and running, completely dismantled it screw by screw board by board late 2019. Getting into live shows again, Austin is changing ALOT and I found a large format studio just wasn’t viable for me to keep open. There are so many world class established studios here.

  • @king-korestudio6311
    @king-korestudio6311 Жыл бұрын

    Nice work, Rockwool would've been a better choice, but can get expensive.

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    Жыл бұрын

    @king-korestudio6311 Thanks for watching our build video, This was a room in a room build with a 2 foot airgap between us and the adjacent tenant which was an industrial print shop. The additional cost of "Rockwool" would have been wasted, and deemed unnecessary. The sound coefficient wasn't there. But if you have personal experience to show otherwise please include a link, love to see it.

  • @Sonrazuma
    @Sonrazuma2 жыл бұрын

    Please, tell me, what name your mixer?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s a 1979 Trident Series 80 56 Channel. An original 80 before the 80B and 80C.

  • @supermooch1758
    @supermooch17582 жыл бұрын

    what was the total cost of the studio, including materials, and labor

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    2 жыл бұрын

    From my earlier reply to the same question: Oh man, that's a wide question. So raw building materials alone? Going from memory(we built in 2015) I believe it was somewhere near $29k, doing ALL the labor ourselves from flat slab inside a warehouse to floated floors, walls, doors, lights, windows, etc... The recording gear, cabling and instruments is a whole other deal obviously.

  • @85MONEYBAG
    @85MONEYBAG Жыл бұрын

    What type of building is this

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    Жыл бұрын

    A typical storefront style industrial warehouse in North East Austin ,TX. 16' ceilings and s lab concrete floor. Nothing fancy. In cognito exterior. Loud neighbors, and low brow clientele all around so we fit right in :-)

  • @jdubbs9655
    @jdubbs96553 жыл бұрын

    NICE Restore!!! What did you use to float the floor?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! So the initial pucks we threw down are made from 4x6x3/4” heavy duty rubber horse stall mat from Tractor Supply, sometimes gyms use these for their flooring, that we scored and chopped into 4” pucks with razor knives into strips then chopped to 4” square pucks with a chop saw. Laid those out on grid with chalk lines on the slab. 3/4” inch plywood sheets on those, then dbl 2x4 cross supports with batt insulation then 2x 3/4” plywood layers. Then 1/4” rubber roll on top of the plywood as an underlayment for the 3/4” solid oak floor planks. Quite a chunky floor. Made the drums sound great! Thanks for checking out the video 🤘🏼

  • @jdubbs9655

    @jdubbs9655

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SkyAcreRandomEtc Awesome! Thank you for sharing! Beard On Brother!!!

  • @MonsterNorm
    @MonsterNorm2 жыл бұрын

    Hi do you guys do this as a business? I need help building mines

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    2 жыл бұрын

    No not as a business, we are lifelong musicians always moving forward and wanted to try our hand at a legit studio space. I’ve built out several garages sheds and bedrooms as jam rooms and studios in the last 25 years. A little carpentry knowledge, sone youtube videos and patience and I’m sure you can come up with a space that will work for you. Thank you for checking the video out ✌🏼

  • @bramrutten7957
    @bramrutten7957 Жыл бұрын

    Cool! What kind of black iso blocks did you use for the flooring?

  • @mojito6629

    @mojito6629

    9 ай бұрын

    Same question, what are those small black boxes you spread on the floor at the start of the video? And did you just put them on the floor without any further reinforcement or etc? Don't they move, later, if you just put them like that?

  • @skinnyniggawidfatbelly7212
    @skinnyniggawidfatbelly7212 Жыл бұрын

    I didnt any special techniques used for sound proofing?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    Жыл бұрын

    Just double sheet rock, and decoupled stud walls. Regular pink insulation. It did the job because it was a ‘room in a room’ build inside a warehouse. The studio walls did not touch any external walls.

  • @shashanktandon3701
    @shashanktandon37013 жыл бұрын

    Which wood has been used to make all that frame sir?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    3 жыл бұрын

    2x4’s mostly. With 2x6 top and bottom plates so the wall was wider, floated double stud walls. Where the inside sheet rock is only attached to the inner row of studs and the exterior sheet rock is attached to the outer row. Cutting down on low end frequencies and vibrations continuing through the wall. The ceiling joists are 2x8’s or 2x10 for the wider spans in the live room. Thanks for checking out the video.

  • @shashanktandon3701

    @shashanktandon3701

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SkyAcreRandomEtc Thank you for the reply sir, but my question is which wood you have been used to build that fram?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    3 жыл бұрын

    Untreated yellow pine

  • @85MONEYBAG
    @85MONEYBAG Жыл бұрын

    Is a warehouse?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    Жыл бұрын

    Hi, yes it a warehouse. A typical bland front commercial space with "store front" style entrance and commercial overhead roll up garage doors out back. Very helpful with getting building materials in and out. This warehouse had 16' ceilings with an insulated roof. So we built the studio floated off the slab and the walls/ceiling just up to the inside ceilings. A plus is you get to build year round without any weather threats. A drawback is finding a space that will let you build inside, and you are limited to whatever the space size is. Thanks for watching

  • @RozsaAmplificationLLC
    @RozsaAmplificationLLC Жыл бұрын

    After all that work, you used regular insulation instead of Rock Wool?!??😮

  • @SkyAcre

    @SkyAcre

    Жыл бұрын

    You used rockwool in your studio build? Can you send me pictures of the install?

  • @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    @SkyAcreRandomEtc

    Жыл бұрын

    @rmroza This was a room in a room build with a 2 foot airgap between us and the adjacent tenant which was an industrial print shop. The additional cost of "Rockwool" would have been wasted, and deemed unnecessary. The sound coefficient wasn't there. But if you have personal experience to show otherwise please include a link.