Members mistersully Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 my room is a converted garage with a storage section off the side... it had horrible carpet in it, so i ripped it up, painted the slab and threw a few rugs down in the main section that left the side bit haven't been sure what to do with this space my mixer has a fan in it, and my more sensitive mics can pick it up (along with the computer noise) so i wanted some isolation... i decided to build a wall... plaster the walls and put a timber floor down... it's now used for recording vocals and acoustic instruments (guitars... djembe/other percussion) i have some of my mics permanently set up in there... i usually have them covered to keep dust from getting to them and here's a few shots of the main area... i recently sold my drum kits but i'll be looking to pick up another roland v drum kit at some stage to trigger bfd2... for now i'm just programming drums or using a keyboard to trigger them my mixer (midas venice F24) is actually my audio interface... it hooks up to the macbook pro via 1 firewire cable... i record through it and send all the tracks back out of logic to the mixer for mixdown... that way i can use the mixer's analogue eq... plus stuff like harware compressors on the inserts.. and hardware reverb on the aux's my rack... which i'll slowly fill... i use a combination of hardware and plugins anyway.. that's about it... it's not pretty but it's functional... i have everything set up so i can just plug in and play, which is bloody great.. eg. all the mics are hooked up to sperate preamps... all the compressors are patched into the mixer... i just have to tidy the leads up and i'm done for now i'll put a timber floor down in the main area at some stage but it can wait... the mixing area sounds good because of all the bass trapping i've built thought i'd share here's a couple more pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nuke_diver Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 Wow That's all I got Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jpnyc Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 That Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Strung_Out Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 That's a pretty awesome music room, Sully! Consider me extremely jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 Woah... That is seriously impressive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 Impressive. My "studio" is one condenser mike and a PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stormin1155 Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 Nicely done! What do you use for acoustic panels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mav64 Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 Nobody likes a showoff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GreatDane Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 mistersully wrote: my room is a converted garage with a storage section off the side... it had horrible carpet in it, so i ripped it up, painted the slab and threw a few rugs down in the main section that left the side bit haven't been sure what to do with this space my mixer has a fan in it, and my more sensitive mics can pick it up (along with the computer noise) so i wanted some isolation... i decided to build a wall... plaster the walls and put a timber floor down... it's now used for recording vocals and acoustic instruments (guitars... djembe/other percussion) i have some of my mics permanently set up in there... i usually have them covered to keep dust from getting to them and here's a few shots of the main area... i recently sold my drum kits but i'll be looking to pick up another roland v drum kit at some stage to trigger bfd2... for now i'm just programming drums or using a keyboard to trigger them my mixer (midas venice F24) is actually my audio interface... it hooks up to the macbook pro via 1 firewire cable... i record through it and send all the tracks back out of logic to the mixer for mixdown... that way i can use the mixer's analogue eq... plus stuff like harware compressors on the inserts.. and hardware reverb on the aux's my rack... which i'll slowly fill... i use a combination of hardware and plugins anyway.. that's about it... it's not pretty but it's functional... i have everything set up so i can just plug in and play, which is bloody great.. eg. all the mics are hooked up to sperate preamps... all the compressors are patched into the mixer... i just have to tidy the leads up and i'm done for now i'll put a timber floor down in the main area at some stage but it can wait... the mixing area sounds good because of all the bass trapping i've built thought i'd share here's a couple more pics frickin fantastic. you deserve that, Dave. it's awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mistersully Posted May 16, 2013 Author Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 thanks guys... it's been a journey getting to this point... you should have seen the room when we bought the placeat our last place i had a tiny little shack up the back yard... when i was in there i could hear both the neighbours next door, and over the back, having a conversation, so it was impossible to really do anything in therei wrapped that i've finally got this room set up how i want... i got so sick and tired of tripping over leads and having to spend time getting everything set up every time i wanted to do anythinghaving the kemper profiling amp has definitely made life a lot easier tooone thing i didn't mention is i have an app on the ipad that works as a controller for logic via wifi... so i can go into my vocal room and shut the door, then control the music software with the ipad... it's great to simply be able to hit play/record/stop... that's what i mainly use it for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mistersully Posted May 16, 2013 Author Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 stormin1155 wrote: Nicely done! What do you use for acoustic panels? i pretty much make them like this although i can't get the same stuff here in australia, so i did the reasearch and ended up going with a product called tontine acoustisorb 3... i use hessian (burlap) to cover them having all that bass trapping has made a world of difference... making it yourself is definitely the way to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BeanoBoy Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mnewb1 Posted May 18, 2013 Members Share Posted May 18, 2013 Very Nice, Dave ...two thumbs up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted May 18, 2013 Members Share Posted May 18, 2013 Awesome...I'm jealous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members benzem Posted May 20, 2013 Members Share Posted May 20, 2013 mistersully wrote: thanks guys... it's been a journey getting to this point... you should have seen the room when we bought the place at our last place i had a tiny little shack up the back yard... when i was in there i could hear both the neighbours next door, and over the back, having a conversation, so it was impossible to really do anything in there i wrapped that i've finally got this room set up how i want... i got so sick and tired of tripping over leads and having to spend time getting everything set up every time i wanted to do anythinghaving the kemper profiling amp has definitely made life a lot easier too one thing i didn't mention is i have an app on the ipad that works as a controller for logic via wifi... so i can go into my vocal room and shut the door, then control the music software with the ipad... it's great to simply be able to hit play/record/stop... that's what i mainly use it for Any clips? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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