ChuckC


Looks like good stuff Mike but I can't find their price lists?

Yeh I tried to locate it as well.


Might have to give them a call.  

Here is the USA Rep for them

http://www.audiopile.net/


Here is what your looking for in a 20 & 30'  

http://www.audiopile.net/products/Stagelink_snakes/PSX-12/PSX-12_cutsheet2.shtml

I bought a bunch of 2 gang and 4 gang wall plates, Most were XLR some were TRS locking type 1/4" all mounted on stainless steal wall plates.

That's similar to what I did (see below) when I built my studio, I used Star-Quad cables in the walls and floors. I used a lot of wall plates. I'm showing just the wall behind my mixer, but I stuck them everywhere, walls by the drum kit, floors of the ISO booth, etc. 









As you can see it was pretty clean when I was done. I made most of the cables too, bought a huge spool of quality cable and several cases of XLR connectors. 

Thanks Mike, that looks great.

Eric, Nice set up man!

Ya Eric yours looks a lot like what I did. It's all still in the walls but I have since rented the place out as an apartment to generate a little income. 
Is that window a "w" design? 
The glass in mine was set at an angle forming a W. For now I painted it out as people don't seem to like having a picture window between the bedroom and front room....

Nice looking setup Eric.

I love nice neat setup like that.

I understand Chucks setup as well which is about what Im running in a 16x20' room.  Cables can get to be a mess and a simple short snake will really clean things up while keeping it simple.


In our situation Id recommend a GOOD 30' snake to account for 2 different wall lengths and 1 corner to get the box somewhere around the center point for connections depending whats going on.  That way if it does get tripped over or yanked it wont get back to the main connections  

Is that window a "w" design?  The glass in mine was set at an angle forming a W. For now I painted it out as people don't seem to like having a picture window between the bedroom and front room....

No "W", I though about angling the panes but instead simplified.  It's just two panes that are 1/2" thick each. For acoustic reasons I probably should have made on pane a different thickness, but oh well ... It works great! Due in part to the fact that each pane is attached to it's own wall, and each wall is on its own foundation. The only thing connecting the walls is the rubber gasket you see in the last picture, so vibrations from the drums don't make it through. That window took me more that 40 hours to build, I had to work like it was a "clean room" so I didn't trap any dust or leave hand prints on the inside of the panes. 


If I had to do it again today there would probably be no window, just a big LED Flat screen up on the wall and a few cameras in the performance room.  Back when I was building the studio it was a 10 years ago and flat panel screens were cost prohibitive so I took the cheapest way out. 


Anyway, what I ended up with works VERY well. You can drum at full volume at 2 AM and nobody hears anything in my house or outside my house. Mission accomplished! :-) 

Nice looking setup Eric. I love nice neat setup like that.

Thanks! It was a labor of love ... :-) 


We had twins in the oven and we needed another bedroom, so the wife said, "Maybe you should convert the shop under the garage into a music space to free up a room?". She didn't fully understand what she'd put int motion as I moved at the speed of light to make it happen ... ;-) 

Eric, Nice set up man!

Thanks! It's kind of over the top, but I _am_ a hardware/software/systems engineer by day, so that makes sense I guess. At times I over-engineered and my wife thought I'd _never_ get it done. But, I did and it paid off in spades, all of the cable runs are dead quiet when I record since they were the best shielded wires I could find and I crossed the A/C wiring only at 90 degrees to avoid coupling, etc.  I wired in headphone jacks all over the place too. 


A good cable snake should work well for you.  I wouldn't worry if it's a bit too long.  Back when I was recording in my little apartment I used 50 foot cables running down the hall into the master bedroom's walk in closet and it worked fine. 50 foot cables were all I had, so I used them. 

eric_peterson

Nice looking setup Eric. I love nice neat setup like that.

Thanks! It was a labor of love ... :-) 


We had twins in the oven and we needed another bedroom, so the wife said, "Maybe you should convert the shop under the garage into a music space to free up a room?". She didn't fully understand what she'd put int motion as I moved at the speed of light to make it happen ... ;-) 

NICE WORK!!!!!


Congrats on the twins too.


:-)