Day 1 - Let's get rid of all these Cassette Decks, the CD Changer, DAT, MD, etc., etc. and really "gear up" for studio recording!
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All guitars/amps are moved off the back wall so that we can paint that half of the room first. This is going to be the easy half.
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Chris spackles where needed.
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I wipe down the wall just before we start painting back there.
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Chris does the detailed work around the seams.
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I do the power-roller work...
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...and then put Lauren to work.
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Day 2 - First half of painting done... Now it's time to move *everything* to the other side of the room. This will be the hard half.
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I'm tearing down the audio workstations and one of the servers. This table and some of this wiring hasn't moved since 1997.
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Working my way west... towards the corner. The table's out of the way now...
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...but things aren't looking up yet. The amount of wires and the complexity are extremely intimidating.
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I made this... and I'm going to have to make it again. (This is behind the audio patchbay in the old rack.)
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The room's filling up and I realize that I cannot finish tearing down and moving everything out until tomorrow.
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Day 3 - Finally have everything out and away from the corner/wall where we need to paint.
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The room is essentially full. We have just enough room to paint the other two walls. Tomorrow the new stuff starts arriving.
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Looks like we might be offline.
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We finish up painting the other half of the room close to midnight.
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Day 4 - Now the fun part starts. The new 48 channel/8 bus mixer has arrived and we can start the rebuilding process...
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...but first we have to dismantle the old entertainment center. Chris built this herself in 1991. Today, she undoes that.
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We had problems building the new mixer desk - 1 broken drawer bottom and 6 missing screws. Guess that's why it was on sale.
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Ryan gets put to work building the desk.
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Oops. Looks like we've built it upside down and backwards.
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"Hmmm... Things are looking up. We might be done in another 2 weeks at this rate."
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That's a good feeling! Mixer... on the desk! We'll start tomorrow with building the new rack units.
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Day 5 - Good feeling gone. One of the rack units is broken in half.
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The other rack unit is built and loaded up. That's easy. Wiring it up is hard.
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Day 6 - Lauren (like all of us), is overwhelmed by the mess...
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...but helps out by categorizing all the colored patch cables by length and color in the only open space left in the room.
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Day 7 - The mess is just amazing. Didn't realize we had that much stuff up here.
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I start wiring up the first rack unit. Things get complicated pretty quickly.
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It's amazing anything works. Things get so tight in places I can barely squeeze my hand in there to work.
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Week 2 - Starting to hook up the mixer now. Lots of I/O with a big mixer means lots of wires.
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Things are getting pretty ugly back there... but it's coming together.
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Still wating on the replacement 2nd rack, so this is all I can get hooked up. Looks good from the front. Nice and neat.
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So while we wait, let's start cleaning up the rest of the room and all the guitar equipment.
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Week 3 - Still have a good bit of mess to clean up going in to week 3, but it's getting better. Where is that other rack?!?
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Things are shaping up. We have 4 boxes of leftover / spare wires and parts.
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The other rack finally shows up on Day 18 or so. It just doesn't matter at this point what day it is. I'm ready to finish up.
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That's going to be a tight fit. I've got to get the components in the two racks talking to each other now.
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Yep... It's a tight fit. I can barely fit in between the two. I'm sitting on the mess of wires.
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Wired up and in place... It's working and it looks pretty good! Very tight fit.
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Very, very tight fit. Measure twice. Buy once. We don't have to move to a bigger house.
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The mixer is a working out well. I'm very pleased with it. It's got about 1,000 knobs and buttons - taking some time to learn.
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Week 4 - Finally done. Everthing's in order and cleaned up. Back to working on the Worship Tracks Project...
and whatever comes after that.
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Also added a 20" flat panel display on the right side, and the webcam now has an audio feed. That mic is live to the world.
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...as are the guitars, and everything else going through the mixer.
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