Hi all,

I have recently moved house and in my new house I have a HUGE workshop 39 foot long by 15 foot wide, and I am wanting to turn this into a recording studio.

My question is I am a little worried about the temperature in the workshop, it can get a little cold here in the UK in the winter.

My main worry is that if I don't keep my equipment above a certain temperature that anything that contains LCD could get damaged (ie the liquid could freeze up)

Am I right to worry and do I need some kind of heating in there to keep the temp above freezing or am I been silly???

(i was going to put an heater in there for me when I'm in the studio, but I'm worried about when I'm not)

Cheers

Darren

As long as you let it warm up to a decent temp before using, no damage done.

I live in the northern portion of the US, and during storage times and moving, etc, or leaving equipment in the truck during the winter, I have not had any problems.

As far as the 'liquid' it takes a pretty cold day to freeze that.

Just let the equipment reach a decent temp before using (above 10 C is probably good enough.)

RhoneRanger wrote:

As long as you let it warm up to a decent temp before using, no damage done. I live in the northern portion of the US, and during storage times and moving, etc, or leaving equipment in the truck during the winter, I have not had any problems. As far as the 'liquid' it takes a pretty cold day to freeze that. Just let the equipment reach a decent temp before using (above 10 C is probably good enough.)

Yes and this warming is IS VERY important, because as the gear warms up small amounts of condensation form on the electronics, this can short circuit.

Might be an idea to put a heater on for a while to warm things up first.
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Thanks Guys,

The reason I was worrying is because I once left my mobile phone in the car over night and the cold damaged the LCD display. the phone still worked but it took ages to move from screen to the other and left faint traces of the last screen still on the phone.

I don't mind this too much on a cheap phone, but I don't think I'd like to do this to my studio euipment..

although at the moment they are all sat in a spare room collecting dust because I can't get to use them till the studio is done.. I don't imagine that's too healthy for them either..

Again Cheers

Darren..

If your going to be storing any instruments in that space as well (especially drums or acoustic guitars) there may be some worry with the expanding and contracting of the wood that could cause unwanted difficulties tuning. What you could do is spend $70 bucks and get a space heater. It'll cost you a little money every month in electricity but then you don't have to worry at all. Just a suggestion.
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LiveSine Productions
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