As a musician, recording enthusiast, and a tech in the field of audio electronics...I must say I really love what you all are doing here. Really hope to get the opportunity to visit someday!
Nice! Love these rare situations, if only for the fun of finding reusable stuff. Some furniture still looks good, at least it does on the video. If it's just cleaning it needs, it could fill a 'vintage' conference room 😀 Another unexpected gem could be the Compaq computer's keyboard.These sturdy keyboards are ideal for someone who has to type a lot. If it works, clean it up and no need to buy new. Very comfortable to use in long typing sessions on a PC or a laptop. Or, if nothing is to be reused yourself, maybe give the relatively good stuff away in a 'garage giveaway'? That could make some people who are on low budget very happy 😊
Paul and Terri Glad to so the start of the new studio. When my partner started out our little studio many years ago it looked even worse. It was on a second floor walk up with exterior stairs. Carrying gear up was a nightmare. And it never got much better. But we had lots of fun and sometimes things clicked and music happened. We retired it about 20 years ago, still have three ADATs if you need any. Have fun, make music.
Great facility! Although I chuckled at the level of "dirt" inside the building. At a past business, we took over two buildings about ten years apart. Yours looks clean compared to the messes we inherited! A TV repair shop had so much dust and grime that the yellowish cinder block walls were a dark grey up near the ceiling. (They had an oil-fired furnace, and probably hadn't cleaned the place in over 30 years.) The other was a former contractor's building, and we spent a bit having the ceiling and walls painted, and the floor coated with epoxy. As for no heat in the production area, it's possible that their machinery generated enough heat that there was no need to run a furnace or radiant heater. In my industrial days, some of the shops I called on were plenty warm in the winter from all the machinery running.
What a great video! About time we all met your better half, you Sir is one lucky fellow to share your passion with such a supportive and understanding wife. Congratulations on your new venture and I wish you both great success. Best wishes from Australia. 🍻
I recall once hearing Ray Kimber say something along the line that if you are in this business long enough, you will eventually do three things: you’ll build speakers, you’ll record music and you’ll build an organ. Two down, one to go? 😀 Congratulations!
Nice. I just completed a project like this. Line 100% of your ductwork - oversize by 30% and three 90 degree bends and 30 feet of duct between rooms. Control room and studio should be totally separate ducting (I have 150 feet of duct between them as the rooms are on totally separate legs). Use of split units might work but noise will likely be a problem - so get ready for several hundred feet of lined ductwork zig zagging everywhere in your plenum. Exit return air can go to plenum but you need 20+ feet of duct with 5 x 90 degree bends. 60 acoustic panels 2 by 4 by 4 inch of rockwool. All Solid core doors with frame seals and bottom drop seal. Acoustic Windows are like $3000-5000 a pop. Double 5/8 drywall staggered both sides, RC channels both sides, walls to roof deck. Beware of flanking - control room should sit centered and not share an external wall - as sound travels along external walls which form a flanking path. I achieved 50 dB of actual real world sound attenuation without going completely crazy. Conduits - in floor is best. Good Luck. Get your cheque book out - you can easily spend several million on this kind of project. Diminishing returns upwards of 50DB real world performance. Since you chose an industrial area you unfortunately may have to work nights to do recording work but artists love that anyway.
Thank you for bringing us all along 🙏 It is going to be just great, as soon at it is finished! And thanks for bringing your wife Terry 👍 I think it is the first time we see her... Geetings from Denmark 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
Those doors can be super super useful to load gear in and out. So I'd just austically treat them and keep em honestly. The actual beams it's hanging from are not that big of a deal sound wise I don't think.
Very nice place to start! I DO hope, that you will leave a main studio space such as that one with NATURAL acoustics so you can record that 70 piece symphony orchestra OR live jazz quartet to two tracks we talked about.............what do ya say? Pretty please? I will watch with great anticipation as it all comes together (O:
Paul as my father would say, That's what children are for. If I lived in colaraddo I would help you if i could work in the studio, when it was finished. Stay well.
Wishing you and Terri all the best on this new project. Did I hear you say oy vey is mere? Working in commercial real estate,I can honestly tell you that the way it was left is not so bad but you’re going to be doing a complete tear down so bring out the masks again so you don’t inhale sheet rock dust and who knows if there’s asbestos around somewhere. I know that when you are finished you will have built a phenomenal Recording Studio and it looks like a great place to construct your line of speakers.
Congratulations! That large room, as is, would be great for tracking drums. You're going to give it a new name? Not Octave Records? Too bad they took the oven out-how cool it would be to have a pizza oven in a studio.
Interested to see how you deal with acoustics. Today it's a big cement and metal box. That can't be great for a studio? It looks nice from the outside and sure has great volume with the super high ceiling. This is going to be a learning experience for me.
Oh on the contrary, a studio that has a room like that should be highly prized for recording LIVE orchestral and jazz artists. ANYONE can build a room FULL of isolation booths that are as dead as my bedroom closet (O;
Howdy Paul, Your key is sticking because the screws are loose on the back of the lock cylinder. You should call a locksmith to change the locks any way just in case someone who worked there in the past has a key.
They only heated the area of the executive's office. This is all too familiar throughout my working experience. Glad I'm retired. Congrats and best wishes to your next project. Take care and stay healthy.
Just checked out the company from the logo on the door. Still quite in business and NOT making transformers, but seem to be specialists in the manufacturing of all types of precision DC MOTORS !! FYI
This was like an episode of back to the future. There are some teenagers or older that would not even know what an overhead projector looks like or even recognise
Is it Octave Records Studios or is it Octave Studios? That computer was so hilarious to see. I used a monitor just like that in the early 2000s for my homeschooling.
Paul,
Glad to finally see the BEAUTY behind the BEAST. You have a very lovely wife! Good for you !!
Thanks!
As a musician, recording enthusiast, and a tech in the field of audio electronics...I must say I really love what you all are doing here. Really hope to get the opportunity to visit someday!
What a fantastic blank canvas... good luck guys, and great to finally get to meet your wonderful wife !
Brought a tear to my eye Paul and Terry.. So pleased for you..
Nice! Love these rare situations, if only for the fun of finding reusable stuff. Some furniture still looks good, at least it does on the video. If it's just cleaning it needs, it could fill a 'vintage' conference room 😀
Another unexpected gem could be the Compaq computer's keyboard.These sturdy keyboards are ideal for someone who has to type a lot. If it works, clean it up and no need to buy new. Very comfortable to use in long typing sessions on a PC or a laptop.
Or, if nothing is to be reused yourself, maybe give the relatively good stuff away in a 'garage giveaway'? That could make some people who are on low budget very happy 😊
Thanks Guys, can’t wait to hear the fine music that comes out of this new space!
Congratulations! Thank you for sharing. Can't wait to view the many updates.
Best of luck to you lovely people for inviting new friends into your life.. Paul
Looks beautiful and peaceful. Good for the mind
This was a fun tour. Look forward to the build videos
Great!! Congratulations!!! Looking forward to the new projects!
Alot of potential in that building .Good to have the brewery nearby too.☺
Paul. Hang up a few camera's then live stream the whole thing. I would watch.
Octave Records will record inside “The Octavarium”. (= a series of events or actions that will continue forever). There it is. Free of charge.
Beer and Bill Withers..... What more could you possibly need!?!?
New space looks perfect, I wish the crew best of luck getting it all together : D
The sarcasm in this video is one octave higher 😅
Really happy to see the new building and hopefully new videos. Cheers to Octave Records!!! 🍻
Paul and Terri
Glad to so the start of the new studio. When my partner started out our little studio many years ago it looked even worse. It was on a second floor walk up with exterior stairs. Carrying gear up was a nightmare. And it never got much better. But we had lots of fun and sometimes things clicked and music happened. We retired it about 20 years ago, still have three ADATs if you need any. Have fun, make music.
Looks good. On another note, any business that only keeps the higher ups warm deserves to fail.
Great facility! Although I chuckled at the level of "dirt" inside the building. At a past business, we took over two buildings about ten years apart. Yours looks clean compared to the messes we inherited! A TV repair shop had so much dust and grime that the yellowish cinder block walls were a dark grey up near the ceiling. (They had an oil-fired furnace, and probably hadn't cleaned the place in over 30 years.) The other was a former contractor's building, and we spent a bit having the ceiling and walls painted, and the floor coated with epoxy.
As for no heat in the production area, it's possible that their machinery generated enough heat that there was no need to run a furnace or radiant heater. In my industrial days, some of the shops I called on were plenty warm in the winter from all the machinery running.
Good luck with a new endeavor. It’s gonna be real exciting to see the evolution of Octave Records unfold. 👍👍
All the best to the whole team on this new journey!
What a great video!
About time we all met your better half, you Sir is one lucky fellow to share your passion with such a supportive and understanding wife.
Congratulations on your new venture and I wish you both great success. Best wishes from Australia. 🍻
Thanks! I am indeed a lucky guy.
Congratulations to you both. Can’t wait to here CD’s that will be coming in the near future 👍
Congratulations Paul! Much potential here. I wish you all the best in your recording producing and marketing endeavors!
4:55 those movies are going to have the best sound ever..,🤭🤫😅😅😅... best wishes on your new building 🤙🏽🎶
👍🤗 Seeing the beginning of GREAT THINGS 😍😍😍
Congratulations! looking forward to the transformation... install some time-lapse cameras... Nice to see Terry too!
Congratulations!! I can't wait to see the end result! It'll take time but I'm happy for y'all
Best of luck and succes with your new studio.
It looks fantastic, I am looking forward to see how an industrial estate is converted in to a high end music studio.
Congratulations on the new studio, guys! In addition to recording, it looks large enough that you could even have live music shows there too.
I wish that were true! As it is, we're squeezing three studios in and barely enough room to do that!
Nice to see good people having good experiences. Congrats!
Cheers! Good for you and your new building. All the best
Good luck with the new project Paul You've come a long way since you built my Linear Contol Center III & matching phono preamp!
I recall once hearing Ray Kimber say something along the line that if you are in this business long enough, you will eventually do three things: you’ll build speakers, you’ll record music and you’ll build an organ.
Two down, one to go? 😀 Congratulations!
Can’t wait for the ps organ
Nice. I just completed a project like this. Line 100% of your ductwork - oversize by 30% and three 90 degree bends and 30 feet of duct between rooms. Control room and studio should be totally separate ducting (I have 150 feet of duct between them as the rooms are on totally separate legs). Use of split units might work but noise will likely be a problem - so get ready for several hundred feet of lined ductwork zig zagging everywhere in your plenum. Exit return air can go to plenum but you need 20+ feet of duct with 5 x 90 degree bends. 60 acoustic panels 2 by 4 by 4 inch of rockwool. All Solid core doors with frame seals and bottom drop seal. Acoustic Windows are like $3000-5000 a pop. Double 5/8 drywall staggered both sides, RC channels both sides, walls to roof deck. Beware of flanking - control room should sit centered and not share an external wall - as sound travels along external walls which form a flanking path. I achieved 50 dB of actual real world sound attenuation without going completely crazy. Conduits - in floor is best. Good Luck. Get your cheque book out - you can easily spend several million on this kind of project. Diminishing returns upwards of 50DB real world performance. Since you chose an industrial area you unfortunately may have to work nights to do recording work but artists love that anyway.
Thank you for bringing us all along 🙏 It is going to be just great, as soon at it is finished! And thanks for bringing your wife Terry 👍 I think it is the first time we see her...
Geetings from Denmark 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
Congratulation and my best wishes!
Great place Paul. Good luck!
Congrats!! What a great blank slate for octave records! Are u guys putting in an audio room as well?
Best of luck from Portugal for you guys and the project! 👏
Congratulations!
I think you may want to keep a set of overhead doors for symphony orchestras and rock pyrotechnics.
Those doors can be super super useful to load gear in and out. So I'd just austically treat them and keep em honestly. The actual beams it's hanging from are not that big of a deal sound wise I don't think.
Absolutely agree on the symphony orchestra's ease of entry/exit !
Congratulations! This is pretty exiting!
congratulations! You are really nice people :), all the best!
Excited to see the progress being made!! Can't wait for it to be "complete"!
Octave Records ROCK!
Rocktave Records?
Good luck. I keep my fingers crossed for your quick success, because I'm waiting for new OR recordings.
Super nice! Congrats!
I thought you were gonna say “ they were kind enough to leave us a roll of toilet paper”
Overhead psychedelic oil on water projection !!!
Use some graphite for the lock.
The USAF themed calendar - the building now reminds me of the radar station I was assigned to during my ROTC days back in 1989.
Looking forward to the occasional updates of this project.
His 'n' Hers Beer - dark and light. Congrats.
i cant wait to see it come along bit by bit
I think I prefer your better half Paul. That is how it ought to be, doing everything together. Great. Long Life to you both.
Terri seems like a very cool and lovely lady.
Good find, Paul! : )
A little TLC and it will be a fine place. You have a great-sounding live room in the making also.
Ageed, now lets see if it stays that way!
Very nice place to start! I DO hope, that you will leave a main studio space such as that one with NATURAL acoustics so you can record that 70 piece symphony orchestra OR live jazz quartet to two tracks we talked about.............what do ya say? Pretty please? I will watch with great anticipation as it all comes together (O:
Is Terri the lady in the outro holding the big white dog?
Congrats guys
Wow, this is going to be awesome!
Paul as my father would say, That's what children are for. If I lived in colaraddo I would help you if i could work in the studio, when it was finished. Stay well.
Congratulations guys ❤️
Wishing you and Terri all the best on this new project.
Did I hear you say oy vey is mere? Working in commercial real estate,I can honestly tell you that the way it was left is not so bad but you’re going to be doing a complete tear down so bring out the masks again so you don’t inhale sheet rock dust and who knows if there’s asbestos around somewhere.
I know that when you are finished you will have built a phenomenal Recording Studio and it looks like a great place to construct your line of speakers.
The late great Bill Withers 👍
Looks nice this place for your plan :) I'm curious what will come out of it :)
Beer sounds good
Really enjoyed this👌
Bit of Bill Withers there - good omen
Congratulations! That large room, as is, would be great for tracking drums. You're going to give it a new name? Not Octave Records? Too bad they took the oven out-how cool it would be to have a pizza oven in a studio.
Congratulations!, Vocal boy Michael here can’t wait for BOULDER‘s newest recording studio to open, let me know what I can do to help
Interested to see how you deal with acoustics. Today it's a big cement and metal box. That can't be great for a studio? It looks nice from the outside and sure has great volume with the super high ceiling. This is going to be a learning experience for me.
Oh on the contrary, a studio that has a room like that should be highly prized for recording LIVE orchestral and jazz artists. ANYONE can build a room FULL of isolation booths that are as dead as my bedroom closet (O;
My goal in life is to work there some day.
Why wouldn't you leave the overhead door and have some space to back in a van with equipment? Seems like an ideal feature.
Howdy Paul, Your key is sticking because the screws are loose on the back of the lock cylinder. You should call a locksmith to change the locks any way just in case someone who worked there in the past has a key.
Oh, so that's Terri wearing the scarf with the dog in the outro!!
Name the studio after your friend, Arnie.
Great acoustics. You won't need any reverb effects.
Sounds like one of the Capitol rooms.
Good luck
Nice!
Cool. Tell the brewery to work on the room acoustics :)
They only heated the area of the executive's office. This is all too familiar throughout my working experience. Glad I'm retired. Congrats and best wishes to your next project. Take care and stay healthy.
Would love to see a room treatment video
I wish I lived closer (Ohio) . I could help with the concrete work . Hope it's coming along okay .
Congratulations!
𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 is a 𝙗𝙞𝙜 property for a recording studio, mastering etc.
Ooh, that large space -> reverb room! lol
NATURAL too !
Just checked out the company from the logo on the door. Still quite in business and NOT making transformers, but seem to be specialists in the manufacturing of all types of precision DC MOTORS !! FYI
Congratulations
Maybe you can make a deal with the brewery to upgrade their in-house music system. 😁
Having read 99% true.....that woman is a saint....
This was like an episode of back to the future. There are some teenagers or older that would not even know what an overhead projector looks like or even recognise
Is it Octave Records Studios or is it Octave Studios? That computer was so hilarious to see. I used a monitor just like that in the early 2000s for my homeschooling.
Why wouldn't the realtor clean it up?
Good luck!
Please use PCM ADC
Dang! Nice
🍷👍
You can play all your favorote DOS games on that computer. I wonder if thay bad boy has a soundblaster.
Is that a model m keyboard? 🤤