30 days episode 3

I'm writing this a day late cause last night I ended up getting sick and wasn't done testing stuff at my job till nearly midnight. So, I'm sorry that my consistency is rather lacking. But as I recall I promised some pics and stuff so enjoy!!

This is my flyer I made up to give to distributors. All the drawings are from Google Sketchup.

So, in case you've never seen one of these, you open it up and slide the "forks" under the bottom of the case...

... roll it upright, drop down the legs in the back so it can't accidentally roll back over. remove the lid, and you're ready to mix!
Leave me a comment and et me know what you think of the stands. Anything you would like to see me build? let me know and I just might do it.

 

So, I'm sure you are wanting to know who my distributor is, 

The Audio Dawg:

Michael "Spunky" Brunone

400 E. Royal Lane, suite 230

3 Dallas Communications Complex

Irving, TX 75039

972-759-1131

spunky@theaudiodawg.com

www.theaudiodawg.com

He carries all sorts of recording stuff, so if you're trying to buy stuff for a home studio (or if you wanna buy my simple tilt) give him a shout.

Also, today I updated my website, put out some pics of the stand and a new contact page.

www.entertainmentfabrication.com

That's all for today, I'll talk to you all soon

So, re-wiring a rack... it's what I love about this industry... there is always room to improve upon an older design or method. But it seems like no matter how well you plan a project, there is always something that comes up unexpected. I couldn't really risk that though since we have nearly daily shows in all our rooms. Fortunately I was able to schedule during a few days off to hook up a set of splits on stage for a monitor console, since this will save us a ton of money on our shows and be a great service we can now offer...

 so it started with chasing down conduits, pulling of tons of covers on junction boxes, thinking, writing out how things were currently wired, and then thinking some more. The problem was that since panels had already been moved around once, the numbers didn't match up, and some of the higher numbered lines had been removed and re-purposed. So I kinda had to work backwards through history and then rewrite it...

 I'm pretty sure whoever installed this last though thought it was called "service slack" not a "service loop". Between jumps and extensions on terminal blocks and cables that were a lot more tangled than I thought, it took a whole day on just one rack, and I got 2 more.

But fortunately on this one I mainly just had to rip stuff out of it.

Here are some of the final documents that I generated to reference wires, since not all of them were numbered I had to also write down the color combinations, in case I needed to remove more than planed to re-pull wire through a conduit or something.

 

and that's all for today... Tomorrow I will be taking a prototype console stand to a distributor to see if they want to carry it. Hopefully all goes well and is worth my driving all over town. I'll post the press kit and whatnot tomorrow.
But until then,
-Steven A.

So, today marks way too long since I've last blogged, too much has happened to catch up, so I'm just gonna pick up for 2012. I have made a new years non-resolution to blog for 30 days about the interesting stuff that happens. And assuming I remember to take pics and stuff I have some cool stuff planned for this month.

Tomorrow I start rewiring several thousand wires in a rack. Hopefully at some point we're gonna weld some stuff on my friends car for storm chasing. Cut down some trees and  prep land for shipping crates talk about some guns and stuff and hopefully build some fun targets to shoot, maybe even finally get around finally recording a song I wrote a little while back.
So, anyways, stay tuned, leave me comments of what you think of my work, and I'll be back soon.
-Steven