Well, It's been a while for me in this group! I hope there has not been
to many flame wars going on (atleast none that got out of control).
Any-hows, I'm am at last starting on my studio after a long and drawn
out quest for the right building (that I can afford). You guy's are not
going to believe how lucky I got with this place! Its a standard city
lot (small) with a 750 SF house (renovated two years ago) and a
separate 1500SF building (9ft+ ceilings, one large room, one med. room
and a few small rooms). The building is in need of some major work but
I have cut a few deals with some people that I used to jam with that
have extensive home remodeling experience.
What I'm working on now is altering my original studio plan's to this
new one I now have. I have so much more floor space now that my live
room is twice as big, so I can now get a good size band/group in it. So
I need to calculate for more power amp's and maybe even free standing
speakers (if needed) etc.
I was going with 40 amp breakers to start but now that I can
accommodate more I'm thinking on going with a 60 amp for the whole
works. I'm using a Power Mac G4 (with some hefty upgrade's) and the old
MOTU 24i, I don't have much on the lines of out board gear (about a
dozen units) and one small Crest rack mount analogue mixer. Speaker
wise I'm sticking with the Tannoy Reveal active's and two Tannoy 5.1
subs (100 watts each), I'm sure I will be up grading the console to
something bigger at some point and maybe a pair of small speakers added
as well. I don't think that I can go with much more speaker (maybe more
sub) given the size of the control room.
The main live room will be good sized (almost 20 ft X 20 ft), so I was
wondering what some of you guys think, 60 amps good enough?