Bin Your Studio
Posted on July 3, 2007
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Barely into his 20’s, farm boy Charles Driscoll of Hamilton, Michigan may have built the worlds most ridiculous recording studio in an unused granary bin on his parents farm.
“It was terrible,” Driscoll said of creating the interior’s semi-rounded walls and ceilings, plus a spiral staircase, during renovations that took place over three years’ time. “It’s 10 times more complicated than building something that’s square. Doing the ceilings was miserable, cutting drywall into triangles multiple times.”With the help of his parents, Tom and Mindy Driscoll, Charles also had to make things acoustically suitable for recording singers and musicians. He installed extra layers of drywall in a pair of lower-level recording booths and wedged 100 used hockey pucks above the ceiling “to reduce sound transmission between floors.”After months of sweat equity, $10,000 in building supplies and $50,000 in equipment, the results are impressive: Amid barns and fields, Big Bin Studios is a slick-but-cozy and infinitely unique place to lay down tracks in West Michigan.
Audiotechnews wonders what the pecking order is when building something like this.
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