Dark Pines Studio/DM Mobile Blog

I’m tired and exhausted from the heat and humidity, but I’m now VERY pumped up about making progress!!
After day 2 of doing insulation;
The iso booth is done, except a 4″ strip of insulation, and most of the tracking room is done… probably 2/3 of the way there. As buddy was supposed to help yesterday, but […]

WOOOO HOOOOOO!!!
I can honestly say that today was incredibly nerve racking.
First, my wife had a terminally ill relative she was extremely close to. Which is always playing on your mind that soon, you will get the call.
So, I woke up with  a migraine and  stressed-over whether I had gotten everything to spec or not.
While I […]

WOOO HOO!!
Another great day! (Although somewhat unexpected)
The plumbers startled me about 10am, when they walked in the studio to see if I was here workin’.
They were here to find the water line and install it. It was the beginning of a good day progress wise, but one in which I had actually not planned on.
Since […]

Man… The heat has been BRUTAL!
It’s amazing how hot it gets in the studio… and how quickly it does it! If I can leave the doors closed, it slows the heating down, but you can’t do that too long.
So… I’ve only been getting in a couple of hours in the early AM, then going […]

WHEW!!
It’s been pretty hectic the last few days…
I’ve been hacking into the learning curve for ProTools, dealing with fire safing (big shock) and going over everything under the sun I can find in the studio that’s gonna be affected by the framing inspection.
A couple of days have been lost to excessive heat, thunderstorms and needing […]

You know what? Fire caulk is beyond anything sane.
I’ve been fighting this stuff for days on end and I’m finally at my wits end with the stuff.
Does anyone have any tips, hints or otherwise with this stuff? It’s driving me insane.
I put in a call to the electrical contractor last night. I asked him to […]

I gotta tell ya’ sumpin’…
When I got home yesterday, I almost immediately called the police.
When I pulled into my driveway, I saw this big, ugly, ornery reddish orange MONSTROSITY in my yard. I wondered what in the world happened?
Instead of the cops, I called Andy to let him know that someone had mistakenly trailered his […]

WHEW… making headway with fire caulk is like herding kittens…
FINALLY, the entire front Control Room/Tracking Room fire safing is complete!
The process of getting the caulk in place is amazingly insidious. I’m sure that there is a way to get this stuff done much easier… but as the only one I know that’s done this is […]

The trip to Cincinnati was long and arduous, but I hope well worth it.
There was a thunderstorm just before the event was to kick-off, so that kinda’ eased off the attendance, but all in all, probably 4-5 thousand were in attendance.
The tracking was a bit tedious, but I think we have a few decent tracks.
I […]