Update

Nearly nearly there now - will post some pictures when I get a camera that works properly.

All cabling is now in, with the exception of the instruments / MIDI. Two PCs are in together with all the racking and patch bays, plus all soldering is now complete too.

Spent most of the weekend trying to install ProTools onto a clean install of XP SP2. What a nightmare - it just wouldn't boot up properly. The fault turned out to be that ProTools was unhappy being installed into a partition other than the C: drive. Once all the default paths were used it appeared to open without any problems. It is a pity that the error message displayed discussed an "Assertion Error in ...... code line 242"??? :)

Just all of the other software and plugins to go back on now, together with the speakers and control surface etc.

The booth was tested yesterday by simply recording a voice over and I was very pleased with how dry and quiet the recording was and there was obviously no annoying PC fan noise in the background. A neighbour was revving his motor bike in the ajoining garage and this couldn't be heard at all. One thing that lets the isolation down is the window so clear mastic has been placed around both sides of the perimeter which does appear to have improved things slightly. However, another single pane of glass may be installed vertically on the control room side which should help things out a little too. Also, the void between the inner and outer doorways are going to be lined with foam rubber to help give a little absorption between the void.