f.A.O Andy Sneap

[pharrell]

Hey Andy,

I'm just setting up a little project studio and the building is in an industrial area, Ideally we want 3 phase power but it could cost £5000 + to install (Laying a cable under the road!). So I'm tempted to bite the bullet and just use a single phase rig

Does your new studio use 3 phase power??
Was the original Backstage setup run off single or three phase?

Any advice andy would be much appreciated

-Pharrell

 

[Andy Sneap]

3 phase is best obviously if you can get it. We're just on single phase here as it was SO expensive (£30000) to get a new supply put in, seems to be ok though.

 

[pharrell]

Cheers Andy.....

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

What the hell is 3 phase power? Or 2 or 1 phase for that matter?

 

[pharrell]

Most residental (UK) homes have a 1 phase power source, which basically means you have one main power source to your house which feeds your lighting / sockets/ heating etc....this can cause interference with musical equipment. A 3 phase system seperates these out to reduce any possible interference....

 

[Impy]

I know they don't come cheap, but wouldn't a power conditioner (or whatever they're called) take care of most of the interference?

 

[egan.]

I know they don't come cheap, but wouldn't a power conditioner (or whatever they're called) take care of most of the interference?

Not as well as actually having an isolated power source.

 

[Impy]

Yeah i know that hehe, but surely it's not as expensive as installing a 3 phase system, right?

 

[pharrell]

Looks like we'll be going down the single phase route....

you can get a surge protector installed on your system incase your neighbour fires up his weilder mid way through your intimate vocal session....!!!

 

[Glenn Fricker]

One great way to avoid noise problems with your power is to install outlets with an isolated ground. Yes, they're fucking ugly, but they are a lifesaver.
Basically, it's a 4 wire system. Hot, Cold, Ground 1 for the box, and Ground 2 for the ground pin. Ground 2 doesn't share with anything else. Each outlet gets its own breaker/circuit on the panel. I installed 3 of these outlets in my place, and every time a noise problem has cropped up, plugging into one of these has made it go away.
I'm fortunate to have an electrician in the family, because I never would have thought this up on my own!

Here's a pic of the outlet during construction. The green triangle indicates the isolated ground

 

[vile_ator]

Do as above. And if you wire up quality and you dont cross signal and digital and power lines and you get a noisey output, but yourself a power conditioner. I have a Monster Cable one thats about $500 and its really nice. Clears up a lot. Also I run a Spectron digital amp for my monitoring. And even though my power is pretty clean, if I bypass the Monster supply, the output transformer in the amp buzzes like mad. Plug back into the Monster and its gone. The thing works.

Colin

 

[pharrell]

MMmm clever stuff guys..

I've got a meeting with the electrictain next week

 

[Andy Sneap]

to be honest, dont go overboard, its easy to spend a fortune on this, especially if its only a project studio.