General - Total Numbers

	Description	Stock	Qty	Each	Total
	Shure SM57 Instrument/Vocal Mic Buy Warranty Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $199!	In Stock	remove	$89.00	$89.00
	AP Audio APC-24S 24" Stereo Patch Cable/8 Pack Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $199!	In Stock	remove	$24.99	$24.99
	Behringer Eurodesk MX2442A Mixer Buy Warranty Heavy Item - Does NOT qualify for free shipping.	In Stock	remove	$379.99	$379.99
	American Cable Co. Standard Lo-Z Microphone Cable 50 Foot* Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $199!	In Stock	remove	$7.99	$63.92
	American Cable Co. Stage Snake 12x4 100 Foot* Heavy Item - Does NOT qualify for free shipping.	In Stock	remove	$169.99	$169.99
	Musician's Friend Mic Stand with Regular Boom Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $199!	In Stock	remove	$12.99	$12.99
	Shure KSM27 Studio Microphone Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $199!	In Stock	remove	$299.00	$299.00
	Shure PG 6-Piece Drum Microphone Package Buy Warranty Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $199!	In Stock	remove	$399.00	$399.00
	Nady MST-5B Tripod Mic Stand with Boom Black* Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $199!	In Stock	remove	$14.99	$104.93
	Audio-Technica ATH-M30 Professional Monitor Headphones Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $199!	In Stock	remove	$59.99	$179.97
	Behringer B2031A Truth Active Monitors (Pair) Buy Warranty Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $199!	In Stock	remove	$339.99	$339.99
	RME Hammerfall HDSP Multiface Buy Warranty Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $199!	In Stock	remove	$649.00	$649.00
	RME Hammerfall HDSP PCI Card Buy Warranty Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $199!	In Stock	remove	$269.00	$269.00
	MXL MXL 990/991 Recording Mic Package Buy Warranty Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $199!	In Stock	remove	$99.99	$99.99
Sub Total: $3,081.76 *Applicable sales tax will be added for MO, UT and WA orders. Estimated Shipping to 78660 Express Shipping (2-5 business days) $50.24 Two Day Shipping (2 business days) $271.52 One Day Shipping (1 business day) $461.60

Plus $1227 for the Computer + 1196.55 for the Isolation room = $5555.55

Isolation Room - Price Estimates

• Drywall - 150 ft for walls + 8 ft for ceilings = ~160 ft = 40 sheets @ $7/per = $280
• Studs - 51 studs @5/per = $255
• Plates - 5 @ $7 = $35
• Isulation - 13 rolls @ $10/per + 1 pad @ 50 for Ceiling= $180
• Carpet/padding = $50
• Solid Core Doors - 2 @ $80 = $160
• Hinges/sound stoppers - $40
• Drywall Tape/Drywall screws/Calk - $100
• Padding and Acoustic treatment inside - $100

Total : $1200

Now, what I'll need is to borrow power tools like a good table saw and figure out how to hang the door frames. Besides that, it looks like we're in business. I'll end up with about $50 in cushion. Hopefully this will cover tax/shipping/etc.

DAW - Ardour

Ardour should be releasing it's 1.0 version in the next 2 months. I'll be super excited to dig into it and try recording once we have a computer built for such things. We'll see how it all goes down. I feel that a lot of this process will be wrestling with the computer to get it up and running, but that things will run very smoothly after that. Very exciting! I have also decided that since this project is required to come in under-budget (at least by a few dollars), that the difference in cost and the actual budget will be donated to Ardour. All the more reason to come in as under-budget as possible!

General - Pricing

Over the last 24 hours I've priced out several things. This will give me motivation to get my butt moving because a lot of these things are on sale.

Computer :

• Tyan tiger S2466 Motherboard - $184
• Athlon MP2400+ (2x) - $278
• 200 GB Firewire HDD (Audio storage/recording)- $149
• Matrox G450 DUAL HEAD Graphics Card - $49
• PC2100 DDR 1GB Ram (2x) - $154
• 22 inch Monitor - $263
• Case / Fan - ~$120
• Hammerfall Multiface + HDSP PCI Card - ~$1100

Mics/Recording Equipment

• MXL 990/991 Prcording Mic PKG - $99
• SHURE PG 6-piece Drum Mic Pkg - $399
• KSM27 Studio Mic (Vocals/Acoustic) - $299
• SHURE SM57 - $89
• Cables, Stands and Clips - $300
• Bheringer EuroDesk MX2442A - $379
• Bheringer Monitors - $339
• QH560 Deluxe Studio Headphones (4x) - $98)

Garage "conversion"

• Structure and drywall - $400
• Soundproofing/acoustic treatment (also in control room) - $600

Under this budget, there's still another $250 left in the BLASP fund for cushion/Tax/extra building materials/etc. If there's any left, we'll get a webcam and throw it down in the isolation room.

The first thing that has to happen is setting up Tim's college fund (of some sort) so that I can start buying some of this stuff while it's still on sale.

The next step is to get it okayed with the HOA (no garage conversions are allowed, but we're not converting it to a living area, just using it for a recording space.

Isolation Room - Tools and Test

Over the Christmas Holidays, I received a slew of gifts related to the isolation room including a drywall repair kit, a saw, a box cutter, and a book on design, which is very cool. I did more precise measuring when I got back into town and concluded that a 7.5x14 room is pretty much what I'm looking at if I want to be able to fit storage and a car into the garage as well. As a test we're going to set up the whole band on one half of the garage this week and test it out, just to see if it's really enough space to practice in. I fear that it will basically end up being for recording only and not for practicing with the whole band. I think the way to fix that is by making a window which does 1 good thing and 1 bad thing : It gives the bassist the ability to sit outside of the isolation room and still jam with the band, but it leaks more sound no matter what because glass is going to be harder to sound-proof than drywall. We will see how it works. Before pictures coming soon.