Thank You Homerecorders!

[Heserosfer]

I haven't been visiting the Homerecording.com BBS much anymore, I've been so busy recording and programming (my job) but wanted to pop into this forum and say "thank you" to all of the people that post here with their helpful tips. There are too many people to list them all, but I appreciate the advice of John Sayers, and the links you provided helped me out when I didn't know what to do. I went from recording on an old Tascam 424 in my bedroom (and not knowing a thing about studios) to building my own! It has turned out better than I expected, and I am really enjoying it. Here are links to my studio during construction, as well as completed. Thank You again to everyone!

Studio Construction 1

Studio Construction 2

Studio Construction 3

Studio Construction 4

Studio Gallery - Start to almost Finish

Studio as it is Today


If anyone is interested, here is what I am using to record with:

- Home built AthlonXP 1800+ DAW, using n-track studio as my recording software
- Soundcraft M8 mixer
- ST Audio C-Port sound card
- Behringer Powerplay Pro headphone amp
- Behringer Composer Pro
- 1 AT 4033 microphone
- 2 Behringer ECM8000 microphones
- 6 EV Black Knight 1 microphones
- 2 Shure SM58's
- 1 EV 660 microphone
- Johnson J-Station
- Tech 21 NYC Trademark 10 amp
- Advent Calypso speakers - these were $50 at Costco - were meant to just be temporary replacements but have ended up hanging on to them - they sound excellent!
- lots of pedals and other crap


Anyways, once again - thank you everyone - I couldn't have finished this without all of your help!

- Brian

[DJTonyMOMO]

Very good job. So when are you going to come over and Get my Studio DOne for free. Just kidding

[relliker]

Yo H,

First of all congrats for your new studio. I'm no pro (yet, alas!) but I think there are a couple of easy improvements that you can make without much investment that might make a big difference to how your control room sounds. I beg other peope to please correct me if I'm wrong but I notice you have mounted your speakers bang on the wall. From what little I've read and from my own speaker's manual, near-fields should be mounted at least a couple of feet away from walls and corners because your setup as it is now will give false rendering of the bass frequencies due to the interaction with the walls. Also, the computer monitor being so close to the right speaker will also give you an incorrectly balanced right part of the stereo image. I hope you find these two little suggestions to be correct and useful!.

Cheers,

R