Only in a HOME studio...protecting your studio from children

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TheSpanningTree

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So I just made an investment and bought some rather large 8" monitors. My 3 year just loves them! "they are super rockin' daddy!" she says as her cookie covered hands are on a collison course with the monitor's cone :eek:. I saved the day with my super fast dad reflexes, but it worries me that she'll go in there while I'm at work and try it again. I guess I can get some speaker grills and some adhesive, but IDK, any ideas? Has anyone had the same concerns with kids with other equipment, or child proofing the studio?
 
As a parent, we teach children not to touch things like stoves and electrical outlets. Take the same attitude with gear.

A locking door doesn't hurt, either...
 
As a parent, we teach children not to touch things like stoves and electrical outlets. Take the same attitude with gear.
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Sure, absolutely, but that doesn't mean they aren't going to push you sometimes.

I can't look the room, because it has other uses.
 
They're smarter that you think.

By age two, our youngest knew which faders to push on a DM1000 mixer to bring up the sound from my DAW...and how to start the DAW playing.

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Now 7, he thinks nothing of plugging in a mic, patching in some reverb and yelling "get up you lazy bones" at a level loud enough to be heard in the master bedroom.....

(Bonus points for noticing the lava lamps. Alas, they didn't survive the move to Australia.)
 
Bobbsy said:
Now 7, he thinks nothing of plugging in a mic, patching in some reverb and yelling "get up you lazy bones" at a level loud enough to be heard in the master bedroom.....

(Bonus points for noticing the lava lamps. Alas, they didn't survive the move to Australia.)
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haha thats cute.
 
Bobbsy said:
They're smarter that you think.

By age two, our youngest knew which faders to push on a DM1000 mixer to bring up the sound from my DAW...and how to start the DAW playing.

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Now 7, he thinks nothing of plugging in a mic, patching in some reverb and yelling "get up you lazy bones" at a level loud enough to be heard in the master bedroom.....

(Bonus points for noticing the lava lamps. Alas, they didn't survive the move to Australia.)
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Put that man in the newbies section! ASAP!
He can answer tons of questions
:D
 
TheSpanningTree said:
So I just made an investment and bought some rather large 8" monitors. My 3 year just loves them! "they are super rockin' daddy!" she says as her cookie covered hands are on a collison course with the monitor's cone :eek:. I saved the day with my super fast dad reflexes, but it worries me that she'll go in there while I'm at work and try it again. I guess I can get some speaker grills and some adhesive, but IDK, any ideas? Has anyone had the same concerns with kids with other equipment, or child proofing the studio?
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1) Lock the door

2) Tell her no

3) Donate her to Goodwill

4) Keep your child outside

That's really all I can come up with right now :D
 
guitaristic said:
1) Lock the door

2) Tell her no

3) Donate her to Goodwill

4) Keep your child outside

That's really all I can come up with right now :D
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Or 5) Get her to join in. Teach her the ways of the home recording artist. =D Never know, she could get awesome at it, end up getting some fancy real studio job, then looking after you when your bones are slowly turning to dust. ;D
 
Grill or metal bars or a moat! Apart from training the squid there's not a lot that really will save the day or the gear. You could use a baby gate!
 
I have some dust cover things I used to have over my speakers (I took them off because I like the looks of them that way).

These can work for 2 purposes for your situation.

(1). They look boring (get grey or black colored!).
(2). They can prevent damage to the speaker tweeter and cone. Make sure you get a nice solid, tight cloth (or something else) one.

See if that works! :D
(Hey, it worked for when I was 8 yrs old!)
 
ive just accepted defeat... might as well get my boy into it early...

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but seriously.. lock the door and just occasionally take them in to your studio sometime - supervised. it quenches their curiosity and makes them understand its "daddy's room". well that, kinda worked for me.
 
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