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The
Tailrace Recording Studio is purely a non-commercial home studio,
situated in a spare bedroom, and is used by myself and
friends. I get lots of enjoyment from it and it is my main
hobby. I used to incorporate
the
band
on
the site, with a gig guide etc, but alas the band is no more, as we
have decided to call it a day. Who knows. Something else
may get going in the future.
Update!
I
have recently 're-launched' myself as 'Alan Winchester'. A name I used
to use several years ago when I played as a soloist. It's early
days yet, but I have recorded a demo CD and within a week of
'inflicting' them on people, I have gigs up to April next year.
Please follow this link for the
Alan Winchester
web site.
Thanks
very much for dropping by. My wife and I moved
house in December 2001 and it was very hectic for a couple of years to say
the least! What with fitting a new bathroom and bedroom and the
million and one other things that needed to be done after the
upheaval of moving, the prospect of re-wiring and re-fitting
the studio was a daunting task that lay ahead of me.
The
whole lot was sitting around in boxes for months, and when I came to
unpacking it all, I quickly realized that it was not going to be a
case of just connecting it all up and hoping for the best!
For a start, the wiring harness was never going to reach all the
places where it was supposed to! What was called for was a
complete re-think. The price of studio furniture that I needed
was such, that to buy it was totally out of the question. As I
don't consider myself a thief, I sat down and designed my own.
I reappeared from the garage with what I considered to be exactly the
furniture I needed to do the job. Not bad for a lorry
driver. I saved myself a fortune.
Luckily,
I'm quite adept at soldering.
The wiring
took me four complete days in all, and it involved salvaging all the
jack and phono plugs from the old wiring harness, cleaning them all
and re-using them on a newly made wiring loom. There are over
one hundred of the little blighters, and buying new ones was not an
option. Remember, I had recently moved house! Almost 200
metres of screened cable was used. All this was married to 2 x 44 way
patch-bays, again, soldered. It was a nightmare. But, I
have to be honest and say that once I got into it, an enjoyable
one. I believe the end result was well worth all the effort.
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