John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Hello everyone.

I have a home recording studio. I have a room 11X11 which has served as my all in one recording/mixing area. I have sorted out its acoustic probs and it works quite well.

I am branching out into recording bands. These will be tracked (at least in the short term) in the room next door which is a irregular shaped lounge room. There is a hollow core door seperating the two. The door will probably be changed to solid wood, and some sort of sealing done around it to minimise noise from the tracking room.

My question is, I have a recording set up capable of recording 16 sources at once(AW4416), and like the flexibilty of maintaining that amount of inputs. So i can set up and track a band live.

Now it seems quite impractical to run 16 mic cables out from the control room, let alone quite expensive to buy/build that amount of mic leads. So i was thinking of getting a multicore stage box type dealy.

CC's light and sound here in Melbourne, have a 16 in 4 out multicore/box going for 540 AUD. Now that seems to be quite a feasible propositon, cost wise. It has a loom lenght of 30m.

Is this a good idea?

The reason i am keen on the multicore, is its flexibility, if i move house, it comes with me. If i build my carport(which is the other wall of the control room) into a proper tracking room, i can run it in there. I also with having 30m of lead length be able to utilise other rooms in the house (upstairs) maybe as seperate recording areas, say drums in one upstairs bedroom, guitars in the other, vocalist downstairs.

any ideas/advice would be appreciated.

thanks in Advance

Peter

Rye Victoria

Further to my original question...

anyone know of a good supplier, quality, price on these things....i am in Australia...so that would help if its a Oz link.


thanks

Peter

Hi Peter - Rye is a cool place, I was there last year
The multicore cable will work fine plus the 4 out will give you headphone sends etc.

cheers
john

Hi John

thanks for that.

Yep, Rye is nice.

Hey if you get down this way again, you have a place for a beer and a bbq feed if you wish.....8^).....of course you will get dragged in the studio for oh, 5-10 mins.....8^).

Do you have any info on where to get one, i am researching furiously, and not having a lot of joy. I am concerned about what quality of cable i require.


thanks mate


Peter Knight

03 59851542 (stick this in your diary, in case you get down this way.)

Sorry can't help you on the cable. Hey do you know and old friend of mine who I gather is in Rye - John French?

Could be down in Melb in May so I'll call if I get out to Rye.

cheers
john

Hi John


Re John French,...the name rings a bell, cant be sure.

I did go to see a friend sing at a place in Sorrento (near Rye) and I met an older couple that night, who were friends of the singer.

I got to talking to they guy, about music, and somehow Your name came up, he worked at Festival, he was a manager there...if thats the John French, then i have met him, but dont know him, if not him, then i dont know.




thanks for your help

take care


Peter

No that's not John - John worked at TCS with me during the early 70s. I wonder who it was from festival

cheers
john