Glad to hear you're doing alright! And good to hear about the kids, I have a close friend going through the same thing and all they want to do is be able to hang w/their children. Very glad she's not being a total jerk about that.
You know, that's crazy; the power spiked or something about a month ago and I lost a computer monitor. It was over 5 years old but what the hell it just turns on and off, it's not like it has moving parts or generates a ton of heat! Better luck with the next TV.
Great idea to match/meet the Huart tracks, that's honestly the way to go: getting it as close as possible at the source. And getting a sense for what to listen for when you track your own stuff. Hearing "that's what it's supposed to sound like" and getting used to that in your monitors is so key.
Definitely spend more time than I did making your bass traps look good
. I did not prioritize looks on my triangles. The fabric probably could stand to be hit with the clothes steamer, because more than a year later there's still wrinkles from how it was originally folded up, ha. I have doors in two of the corners of that room, so I can only put stacks of those triangles in the two corners as seen in the picture. When it comes time to track something, I just place a couple rectangular panels in the two door'ed corners and seal myself in the room a bit. It's a little bit of a pain to place/move it each time I go in and out of the room but it's not the end of the world.
I was shocked that the triangle traps made that much of a difference! I totally thought I was going to eat the money I spent on making them, but the A/B test resolved me to making more. I want to see what they can do in the closet with the guitar/bass cabinets. Since I put all those traps in there I record as much as I can in that room now, even though it's easier to sit at the computer in the other bedroom (which does have panels in it, just not like the drum/recording room). Everything sounds SO good. You can use more distance on the microphones and not have things sound smeared or muddy. The punchiness of the drums an how much better they come through in mixes is just huge to me. It's like hearing an out of focus vs. in focus camera if that makes sense.
I also love that close mic and direct overhead setup for acoustic guitar in that room. The guitar is also punchier. Everything recorded in that room just sounds like the instrument instead of instrument smeared with room.