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Thanks guys, I appreciate the help!

Greetings, Is if possible to get decent sound in a typical room with carpet and drywall without modifying the walls, ceiling and ripping up the carpet? For example if you were renting the place? Can panels and diffusors be effective? I know the carpet dulls the sound. I'd like a slightly...

In my case, I'm recording myself, not a band. So it's mainly one track at a time. For guitars, two. And of course two stereo tracks for keyboards and drum machines. The most extravagant I might get, is two amps in stereo, so two close mics and one or two room mics. So the very most inputs I...

Greetings, I have a Yamaha AW16G recorder that is about 10 years old now. I'm looking to upgrade to the latest and greatest. I don't want the expense and long learning curve of computer-based recordings. I basically just do demos at home; when I want to make a real album, I go to a studio...

book Today I received the books, Basic Home Studio Design and Creative Recording 2 by Paul White. I had ordered them from amazon.com. The former was $7.95, the latter $13.57. Basic Home Studio Design is a small book. I started reading it, and it appears to be very good. Had I known about...

bass traps What do y'all think about the "bass traps" from www.realtraps.com? Effective?

Hmmm... I'll ask some construction guys about the building code issue. Sounds weird though. If true, I wonder why?

Rick, I read most of those this weekend. Great stuff! I'm considerably more educated now about home studios! Thanks for taking the time to post those links. Now if I can just find a house with a big enough basement for a price I can afford, I'll be able to implement all that I've learned. Rob

Thanks Thanks for the recommendations. Guess I got my work cut out for me.

I'd like to solicit recommended books, documents, websites, etc. that contain all you need to know about building a home studio. I it might be nice to centralize it all in one thread. Also, it might serve to weed out the bad recommendations from the good. I hope to be building one soon (if I...

triplex basement Hey guys, I looked at a place today that I can afford. It's a triplex with a basement. The basement walls that border the neighbor are brick, or rather, stone. It's unfinished--cement floor, explosed ceiling, etc. It's an odd shape and kinda small--the room you come into...

condo thread John, See the thread I started about using a condo room for a studio in this section. Everybody said it's basically impossible. Your situation is even worse--near a freeway! ("I'm gonna build myself a house, in the shade of a freeway"). Rob

Want one I don't have one but I want one. :p I only have 5 electric guitars, so that's obviously not enough. A Gibson ES335 or maybe a Gretch is on my list. Or perhaps somebody else make a better one than those two big names? They're known for their clean, bell-like tone, but when you...

I do both I've bought guitars from stores, but also from Carvin. I've been happy with the Carvin guitars. I like the fact that I can specify whatever color I want, options, etc. And by skipping the middleman, I get a guitar for half what it would cost in a store, due to the wholesale and...

My 2 cents Well you got 3 pages of replies and 100 opinions, so here's one more. I have an Eric Clapton strat, paid $1100 10 years ago, sounds and plays great. I also have an American Standard Tele that I paid $600 for in the early 90's. But those are out of your price range, so what's the...

Thanks Thanks guys, although it wasn't what I wanted to hear. :( But I appreciate the brutal honesty. Guess I need to get a better job so I can afford a house with a basement. What about a ground-level or 2nd story room in a standalone house? Can those be made soundproof enough so the...

hallway I'm hardly an expert, but... in a previous apartment, I used a 2nd bedroom as a "studio", and found that the hallway outside had great natural reverb. So I recorded vocals in the hallway. The floor was tile, walls just regular apartment drywall. So, who knows, your stairwell might...

Vox AC15 I have a Vox AC15. I love it. They only made them for a couple of years in the 1990's, now they're discontinued. Class A, EL84 tubes. Awesome clean sound, awesome overdriven sound, the greatest tremelo. My strat with the neck pickup, the Vox overdriven, with tremelo, that's...

Clarification To clarify my question: I was reading some of the other threads in this section, and so I just want to point out that I'm not looking to build a professional or even semi-professional studio, with near-perfect acoustics and isolation, etc. I just want to be able to play my...

Is a basement necessary for a home studio? Greetings, I'm currently house-hunting, and I've told the real estate agent that I need a basement big enough to use as a studio/band practice room. However, it's hard to find a place with a basement that 's in my price range. I've been assuming...