http://homerecording.com/bbs/ Discuss building studios, or show off pictures of your studio, guitars, or other equipment. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:15:29 GMT vBulletin 2 http://homerecording.com/bbs/images/misc/rss.jpg http://homerecording.com/bbs/ http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=292671&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:19:54 GMT Hi there everyone. Although I am not exactly a newbie on the forum, I certainly have not been an active poster or even lurker of late as I found I was using forums to avoid doing any work and generally wasting a lot of time! However now I have reached a situation where I could do with some... Hi there everyone.

Although I am not exactly a newbie on the forum, I certainly have not been an active poster or even lurker of late as I found I was using forums to avoid doing any work and generally wasting a lot of time!

However now I have reached a situation where I could do with some advice obviously Homerecording was the first place I turned.

Basically, I am putting together a smallish studio for a youth club. I have run very low budget courses with the young people from the estate before, but now some funding has come in so its time to beef things up a bit. To give you an idea, nearly everyone on the estate is a budding MC, so in a way you could argue a few channels and simple Cubase/Logic setup will do as it is basically Grime and hip hop that people want to make. However I am determined to have a futureproofed setup, with 16/24 channels and to purchase bass+guitar amps, a drum kit etc so that young people can start learning instruments (pretty much no one does on this estate), learn about multi track and live recording etc.,

The budget I have to play with is £30,000 so obviously there are so many options I can take.

The youth club is one massive room, with a small office as a seperate room within (the office won't be shared with other staff members so it can be used soley as a control room). As the adjoining hall is huge and houses pool tables etc, I have decided to purchase a decent sized isolaton booth to build within that room (rather than getting builders in etc). I have seen one in another youth club that would be ideal, big enough for a band set up and of course for vocalists (mostly what will be being recorded).

I will treat the control room accordingly and the prefab live room should already sound good enough.

Basically here is where I need some advice.

I have decided against a Pro-tools system as in terms of young people getting creative and sparking an interest I have found Logic is the way forward.

A Mac provwill be the main workstation.

Could anyone advise on a mixer/sound card combi? I am finding it hard to just commit to something so any feedback would be greatly appreciated! The idea of an all in one firewire mixer/interface option is tempting for some reason, ease of use, Direct outs with less cables etc. I have looked at this Allen and heath option:

http://www.dv247.com/mixers/allen-an...undcard--52824

Perhaps it would be better to get for something like a Mackie desk with focusrite sound card for example?

Could anyone advise on a particularly good combi for the main hub? Although I have quite a bit to play with I would prefer to keep the desk within about £3000 if poss as I am also kitting out two smaller workstations with software etc, buying the iso booth, amps, instruments etc.

I’ve got a few things in mind for outboard and some other hands on bits that usually go down well, e.g. MPC, a couple of synths etc.

The main thing is just getting the right mixer/soundcard combi or just all in one mixer. I am a bit over whelmed by the choice.

Well, I really appreciate you taking the time to read this. I am pretty excited about this project and am hoping to get it right first time without to many issues. These young people really don’t know how lucky they are!

Any advise would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

Smoulders ]]> Smoulders http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=292671 http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=292650&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:30:41 GMT Does anyone know of any alternative to doing the same thing as these do at a local hardware store? Menards? Lowes? Home Depot? http://www.rotofast.com/wallsCloud.htm Does anyone know of any alternative to doing the same thing as these do at a local hardware store? Menards? Lowes? Home Depot?

http://www.rotofast.com/wallsCloud.htm ]]> ThaArtist http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=292650 http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=292623&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:32:00 GMT Hopefully this complies with the forum rules - if not please delete.

November 19th 2009 Musician's Friend Stupid Deal is 32 sq. ft. of Auralex grey Studiofoam for $59. I'm only an amateur at recording & studio design but this appears to be a pretty decent deal.

I bought some and thought others might be interested. Have a great day. ]]> RejectionNinja http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=292623 http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=292601&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:13:26 GMT We have just finished relocating to some office space downtown and are using one of the rooms for recording studio space. The breakdown is as follows: Image: http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/cane559/OurStudio.jpg Alright I know it looks bad, my apologies, but basically we have a... We have just finished relocating to some office space downtown and are using one of the rooms for recording studio space. The breakdown is as follows:



Alright I know it looks bad, my apologies, but basically we have a control room that is 9ft 5in in width and 10ft 11in in length. The isolation booth in the drawing is 9ft 5in in width and approx. 5 ft in length. It was sectioned off with 2x4 framing with double insulation and sheet-rocked with a standard door and a dual-payne laminated glass window with SPL rating of 52 which is 36x30. That is framed and we used insulation foam for all the cracks and crevices. The material for the original walling is pretty dense. Panel board, lord knows whats behind it. I just want to know with these deminsions what would be the best way to go about soundproofing it utilizing some rockwool or sound board of some sort with some accoustic foam? Im lost when it comes to accoustics. Also in the control room, where would be the best position for the foam if the monitors are located by the iso booth window?

Thanks in advance and sorry if I left out any critical details, your time and expertise are greatly appriciated.

- Fmajor ]]> fmajor7 http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=292601 http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=292581&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:26:40 GMT Thought this was cool, and hadn't seen it before:

On the Beastie Boys' record "To the 5 Burroughs," in the credits, it has"Studio Built by Master Carpenter Mark Edwards." Anyone else know of a record where they give credit to the carpenter? ]]> tc4b http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=292581