upper box is control room, lower is drum room

this old orange tree stump is kicking my arse

conduit to run audio and video cables
enjoy...
sam

Awesome pics!

I always wanted to call my country band Stump Grinder....

The PVC cable conduit may be a pain in the arse. Getting cables in and out of it is difficult, and changes later on are nearly impossible. A trough is a much better idea.

Looks good!

Yea they are actually 2 1/2" pipe. (know they look smaller in photo) and I ran two to the side that is between the control room and the drum room. I may still run one to a spot behind where I would sit in case later down the road I get some racks to hold gear in front of the console. I see that in a lot of studios. For right now all my rack stuff fits in the console and two rack rollers that would go left and right the argosy.
Any other good observations ;-)
S

If the floor is going to be raised at all, then troughs can be easily laid above the concrete. You'll thank yourself later. Put extra snakes and lines in the PVC if that is permanent, including LCD, USB extension cables, etc. You may want to try to feed cables through it right now before the pour, and see if it will work for you.

You are going to have a very nice setup!

Looks good.

Is the contractor going to let the conduit sit on the dirt when they pour concrete or will he elevate the conduit so it is within the slab?

If you position the conduit close to the slab you can install pull/junction boxes so it can be accessed from the finished floor.

When pulling the wires you can use that wire lube stuff if you don't mind all the slime.

Rich

"A trough is a much better idea."

Sorry if I'm being naïve and it's a much more expensive proposition, but wouldn't a raised foundation with crawl space be still better? Then you can run your cables wherever you want without worrying about changes - which will certainly come, for example you may not even want a console at some point.

"but wouldn't a raised foundation with crawl space be still better? Then you can run your cables wherever you want without worrying about changes - which will certainly come, for example you may not even want a console at some point. "

Nick, you just beat me to it! That's exactly what I would do - forget the PVC cable conduits altogether. All you need is a 6" space and a cable-fishing friendly framing design.

Well yea the problem with all of that is no raised floor. The pergo will sit right on the treated slab, not sure what all they put under pergo wood floors but my contractor knows. I already have talked through all of what will run where with my gear guy and we are trying to think ahead so yea LCD, USB, video, CAT9, Aviom personal mixer line, I forget what all he said but its short enough runs and big enough PVC that we will really be able to run anything anywhere. I'm trying to beat it all to the punch so that I will not wish I had some other run later down the road.
Oh and there is anywhere from 4 to 6 inches some parts of sand before the concrete so the pvc will be under the cement and rebar.
thanks all for the advice! its helping me think...

Yeah, now is the time to do all the thinking you can. And then some!