waiting...and waiting...
still stuck in a holding pattern. insulation won't be in until friday at the earliest, and even then, i still have to wait until the ductwork is installed. which was originally supposed to happen this week but the HVAC peeps are swamped and can't come until the end of next week. bleah.
in the meantime, i'm spending a few minutes here and a few minutes there finishing up the bulkheads. i bought yet another drill today to help with some of the spots where the joists are really close together. unfortunately, the one area where i need it the most not even a right-angle drill can fit in there, so i'll need to figure something else out.
i'm also planning out all of the installation audio wiring. each iso room will have 2 mic jacks running to the console, as well as headphone connections and 1/4" patches to connect to the main studio room. the main room will have 3 panels spread across the room. each will have 8 mic jacks, midi in/out, and headphone connections.
i'm still a little on the fence as to what to do about the headphone connectors. currently i have the furman hds-6 headphone distribution system, which is nice, but i know at some point i'll outgrow it and want to get a hunkier headphone system. a weird feature of the hds-6 is that it passes analog data over cat5, thus requiring each mixer box to have 2 cat5 cables coming into it in order to pass all of the channels. their next model up is just as kludgy, with DB25 cables running to each of the boxes.
i think if/when i outgrow my current system (and have buttloads of money to blow), i'll look to the aviom system. nice thing about this is it uses cat5 also, but using a digital protocol over ethernet. with that in mind, i'm going to go ahead and wire up 5 pairs of cat5 jacks (1 in each iso booth, 3 in the main room). the furman headphone mixers can be daisy chained, for a maximum of about 8 mixers total (the limit of 8 is due to the mixer boxes not being powered--they get their juice over the cat5).
then there's the whole issue of hooking up to the computers out in the lounge. there are so many connections to be made there in so many different forms (vga, db25, usb, coax, firewire...) that it'd be really hard to design a panel which accommodates all of them. and is flexible enough to deal with changes down the road. probably what i'll end up doing is putting a hole through the wall just big enough to fish all this stuff through, and then pack in any gaps in the hole as tightly as i can. i'll also have to offset the hole on the lounge side from the one in the studio side to further help with sound attenuation through this weak point.
the nyquil's beginning to kick in and make me loopy, so i'm gonna call it a night.