How many comedians does it take?

A better part of my summer's activities will be working with the staff of Tri-C's Recording Arts program. We are in the process of preparing/decommissioning the studios and taking inventory so that we can move everything (along with the gobs of new gear that we're getting) into the Metro campus's new Center for Creative Arts building. The recording program - along with the other creative and performing arts programs - will be sharing two thirds of the building while the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame will have an archive/library in the remaining space. I don't have the slightest idea of how ANY of this is being funded but, holy crippity crap, there ain't gonna be anything like this building once it's finished. It is planned to begin classes there this fall.

So, yeah. Generally speaking RA&T will be occupying a large portion of the first and third floors. The main tracking and control rooms will be on the first floor. Most of the student hands-on labs will be in the lab rooms on the third floor. There will be much stair climbing. Much.

As a troop we are chugging along trying to make this transition as hassle-free as possible.

Anyways... pictures:


Decommissioning Studio C



Refurbishing the patchbay on the Trident


The Trident up on casters, outboard gear disconnected: all of Studio "A" gut out and ready to roll. This stuff is getting hucked up to the new third floor control room.


Soldering patchpoint cables to new D-sub 25-pin connectors. The insulation wrapped around Kevin's big fat head is to keep the aliens from reading his brain waves a la Signs. Yep... That's Kevin for you.



On to the new building. This is a shot of the brand new first floor tracking room. Nifty variable acoustic treatments on the walls.


Holy wall-of-overpriced-computers, Batman!!




Chrismack's "I AM HANDSOME, DAMMIT!" face.


One of the new DigiDesign C24 control surfaces. Wall of over-priced computers not included.




Throwin' the horns for whomever has to sort out this mess.


It is also worth mentioning that the following two videos have been replayed enough that it's gotten to the point where not five minutes go by without someone, somewhere in the department yells out a line.