Building a Home Recording Studio in a Barn // Ep. 5

Recycled, repurposed, and reclaimed amps & instruments only in this Home Recording Studio Build inside a 19th century barn. I’m building this barn studio only using things I find inside the barn, filling in the gaps with a couple things I had (my telecaster and an audio interface).
Episodes 1-3: https://youtu.be/zXY2dGhPxWI
Episode 4: https://youtu.be/yOYQM7hC0Tw
Episode 6: https://youtu.be/FmtfRXWZTjw
An old acoustic, a couple old amps, some hi fi equipment, speakers, desks, speaker cable - all of these things that I’ve found in the process of cleaning up this old barn I’ve fixed and repurposed into this recording studio.
In case you’re wondering about the speakers, those were my grandpas speakers, and they had been sitting so long that the speaker surrounds had completely dissolved. I thought they were blown, or maybe need to have the speakers reconed. I didn’t even know this particular problem existed. Anyhow, I found the appropriate speaker foam surrounds, cleaned the speaker metal edge frame by scraping, vacuuming and using alcohol to really get in there. I used a speaker repair kit from simply speakers and I did not use any foam edge sealer (I don’t remember what the gasket trim frame situation was exactly). Then applied the new surrounds with an adhesive (having to pause for an hour twice in the whole process) and then fired them up. It worked! Only to discover that my grandpa’s old sansui power amp which I have been reviving, seems to have drop outs at higher volumes. So that is a whole other project, making that Sansui amp work 100%.
So this was pretty much the last phase of cleaning which took months and months. After all those years of having cats in the barn, all the hair, dandruff, piss, shit, and vomit had really done a job on the barn. It was a disaster. I really absolutely wanted to get the smell out, so I used a ton of different things, most of which did not work - bleach, ozone machine, sage, febreze, boiling vinegar, dehumidifier, of course vacuuming, scraping. I found a couple things effective - firstly getting rid of anything that can absorb cat urine (so basically all of the furniture), then enzyme based urine cleaners seemed to work, and I used that stuff liberally. I poured it on. I’m not sure if the ozone machine actually worked.
In case you’re wondering about ‘historical documents’, basically there’s some spooky stuff going on in this property. I go into more in the other episodes, but basically I’ve been finding weird messages written on the walls of the barn - german writing, weird symbols, stuff about someone named John. I think a care taker used to live in the barn and we found his little room where he lived in, and basically the place creeps me out at night. So I reached out to a historian who sent me an envelope full of historical information about the property, which I open in episode 6.

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