OK. Here goes.

We have a few threads up with some interesting photo timelines, and yeah many of our friends like them, I've had a lot of great feedback from many folks saying how they enjoy seeing how long time professionals put studios together, but I kind of get the feeling that something is missing.

I have no idea if this will work or be a really boring disaster but if you don't try you never know.

We don't have a film crew or a post production team, but we have a couple of cameras. I got a DVcam that was destined for the trash that I rescued (don't care if it gets wrecked with construction dirt), a Go-Pro session, and a DSLR rig with a Nikon D7100 on it, I just built (on site) a PC for putting the videos together (i7 8700K and QuadroP2000). Lighting will be a bit of an issue, there will be a bit of grain on some footage, but, hell, lets give it a go.

I'll throw up videos onto YouTube probably about one a week, and try and keep each one themed on a stage of the job. They will all be inserted here and an explanation of what is going on written.

We're not going to narrate the videos or put a soundtrack to them, they will just be quite raw at the moment. If this is popular, and folks find it interesting we have another job coming up that is right after this (It already has a thread on here) where we may be able to think of doing better presented videos.

The studio.

The studio is for a team of people and it is being built in an old conference room of a nice beachfront hotel (which is closed for the winter). The team get to live in a deserted hotel for three months.

We have two rooms to do, Control room and a hybrid 3D sound experimental space and normal recording room.

The studio is designed by Philip Newell, and I (Joules Newell) am putting the meat on the bones of the design and project managing the build. I'm also on the build team doing all the ancillaries (Electrics, Data, Vent, and infrastructure) and much of the filming and editing.

We are running a team of 5 people and have 63 working days to deliver the acoustics and about another 20 or so days to do the whole install.

We started about 4 weeks back with the delivery of two 44 foot semi-trailers full of building materials. There are more materials than we can fit in the building, and we needed some serious machinery to off-load it all and get it into place. all 30 tons of it.


We will start with a video of the process of handling all the materials. it's an important part of the project and one that if we don't get it right we end up spending days moving tons of materials about instead of building a studio. Many people don't even consider the logistics of the arrival of two semi-trailers of stuff.


So here goes (nothing) A video of a pile of materials and a forklift - This is only the second trailer, one arrived the day before.