I procreated and now my wife is going to have another child so i have to make "my area" a bedroom instead of a studio. if i could i would build a facility out back for this stuff but that would be some "cash"
I went through exactly the same thing when the kids came along. Had to get rid of the upright, the Fender Rhodes, the Hammond, the double bass, the sitar, the tambura, the cello..........But in the 10 years since our first child, I've done more recording {or at least as much} than in the ten years previous which encompassed singleness and married life but no kids. I've not built anything "out back" or anywhere else. I've just commandered every possible space, kids bedroom, mine and wife's bedroom, kitchen, front room, even the bathroom. Kept basic instruments {electric and acoustic guitars, electric and acoustic bass guitars, drums, congas, bongos, timbales, tablas and a host of percussion, mandolin} and supplemented with a plethora of VSTis, plus the instruments of various friends like flutes, saxes, clarinets and oboes. It can be done. I also use both analog and digital recorders and though I'm phasing out the analog, there's really little difference in terms of the sound quality. Digital doesn't make music brittle and nasty. Not any more. I'll always support both.
Analog will never go out of style, hang in there.
I hope analog never goes out of style. I suspect, however, that manufacturers of recording equipment and the decreasing number of those that can repair and maintain older stuff will be the ones to determine in the long run whether or not our machines and equipment will one day just be museum relics.
As a sidenote, it's fascinating seeing people like Slowrider and Beezlebubba posting in the on topic forums having been only used to their cave existence. It's like seeing vampires coming out in the daylight !
