only 2 frames left
disco came over on sunday and helped me put up the other frame where the window goes between the studio and vox booth. thanks to a combination of some sloppiness on my part and the floor joists above being kind of annoying around this area, i didn't fully finish attaching the frame until last night.
all that's left to frame in now is the doorway to the vocal booth. the inner doorway is causing me some grief, again a combination of the floor joists being a pain and me being a bit sloppy with my measurements on the adjoining frame. i unfortunately didn't have any reason to suspect there might be any problems until i had already raised the adjoining frame, nailed it into place, and then came back to start stick-building the doorway some time later. long story short, the top plate over the doorway needs to be about 1/2" higher where it meets up with the other frame. rather than rip apart the stuff i've already put up and fight a losing battle with the joist unevenness, i'm just going to give it the ghetto solution and route out a shallow channel through the plate right under the nearest joist it attaches to. i hate to do stupid hacks like that, but at least that'll make the top plate be more level than it would be otherwise and will help the adjoining plates match up better.
not only that, but this give me an excuse to by a router! woohoo!
i'm still on the fence about whether to use furring strips for the exterior walls in the vox booth and storage room. either i get hosed on sound attenuation, or i get hosed on temperature/humidity control. after reading this posting i'm leaning back towards passing on the furring strips and just gluing 2 layers of drywall directly to the concrete block. it's sounding like no matter what i do, i'll never be able to get great temperature/humidity control in this space, so i may as well go the good sound isolation route.