70 Sq. Ft!

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As you'll tell from this post, I'm a married newbie. My wife decided to be generous and give me 70 SQ Ft. of garage space. I'm planning on moving my equipment out of our current office/exercise/kid's playroom! I've always wanted to setup a small home studio to do my own demo-quality recording. The question is: how can I best utilize 70 SQ Ft for a home recording setup?

I plan on laying down indoor/outdoor carpet, and setting up a fabric panel system (much like an office cubicle), as our homeowner's does not allow for any permanent garage changes.

I can currently do PC-based recording using the following equip:
a) Korg X3
b) Yamaha MT-120 Multitrack Cassette Recorder
b) Applause Acoustic / Electric Roundback Guitar
c) Shure SM-58
d) PIII 550 MHz PC, Win98 SE, Basic SoundBlaster PCI card with Midi Gameport cable
e) Denon speakers (I use this for monitors)
f) Cakewalk Pro Audio v6.0
g) Sound Forge XP v5.0

I have a fair budget (around 3K) to order more equipment, space permitting. I was interested, for space saving's sake, to get an Aardvark Q10, which from what I've heard combines several hardware features into one rack-mountable unit. Is this a good pick? I'd also like replace the Denon speakers with more professional monitors. Also, if you know what kind of furniture works best in small spaces, I'd like to know.

If anyone has experience in setting up a productive environment in limited space, please help!

Thanks.
 
What kind of music are you making and is it just you, or do you have a band?

barefoot
 
The music ranges from light-rock to Dick Dale Surf Music. No band, just me..for now.
 
lizardmc said:
As you'll tell from this post, I'm a married newbie. My wife decided to be generous and give me 70 SQ Ft. of garage space.
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Regebro was correcto.....Studio Building is the best forum for all your questions....... 3k & 70sq ft is all you need bro.........talk to them guys they walked me through some steps on my home setup....some real good pro's in that forum :D
 
My project area is only 64 sq ft?
:D

For now.. I told my wife next year Im invading 1/2 the garage.

SoMm
 
HAHAHAHA,

My wife gave me the WHOLE garage!!! whooooppeeee!!!


God Bless!
 
put your wife in the garage and take the whole bedroom. that'll learn her.
 
JesusFreak said:
HAHAHAHA,

My wife gave me the WHOLE garage!!! whooooppeeee!!!


God Bless!
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Actually I own my house so Im being nice by letting the family live with me. I don't want the whole garage, I need to for repairs on the vehicles, mtn bikes etc. Plus I put drummers in the car area. Im actually thinking about running xlr cables and putting interconnect panels in every room of the house. It would turn me into a 2100 sq ft facility with RV parking. :p

But Id need a more impressive console to justifiy it ya know.

SoMm
 
Here are some of my equipment suggestions:

Monitors - these are THE most important pieces of equipment you will buy and the weakest link in any system. They are your ears to everything you do, every musical decision you make. I recommend the Scanspeak 7 kit from Speaker City http://www.speakercity.com/sc_kits.shtml with the D2905/97000 tweeter option. For about $900, a few grams of solder, and a couple hours of work you will get the performance of monitors costing 3 times as much.

Amp – Hafler P3000.

Sound Card – Echo Layla24. Get it with a free “decent” large capsule condenser mic at http://bayviewproaudio.com/

Mic/Preamp – I’ll leave these suggestions up to others who know more.

Headphones - you’ll need these to monitor while you are recording vocals or acoustic guitar. I like the Sony MDR-V600. It’s exactly the same element as the very popular MDR-7506 but more comfortable to wear and a bit cheaper.

Space saving solution: Keep it all inside the computer with mutitrack, effects, sequencers, virtual instruments, etc.

Acid Pro 4.0 – In my opinion this is the best solution if you want to create drum parts and midi sequences. It’s graphical and easy to learn, you can buy lots of drum samples for about $40 and easily arrange them. It also supports VST soft synthesizers

Sound Forge 6.0 – You already use it, now get the REAL version.

Waves Native Gold Bundle - outstanding signal processing and effects

Emagic EVP88 has fantastic electric piano sounds, Native Instruments FM7 and Pro52 are also winners.

barefoot
 
I don't understand dudes who let their wives force their stuff into one small corner of the house. A newlywed friend of mine just bought a nice new house and he's forced to put his drum set in his office and play with pads over the drums. What a shmuck, drums belong in the living room next to the Marshall cab.

That's probably why I'm single.
 
SoMm,

Hmmm....I guess it's just one of those situations where my wife is being VERY nice and EXTREMELY generous to let me do to the garage whatever I want...I really don't say anything to her about what she does in the house or to the house so I guess there is a subconsious trade off....besides, I'm building a new shed for storage in the back and I told her that it is primarily hers...:)

God Bless!
 
Same here. Other than a bedroom and laundry room, our basement was just used as a kind of lounging area. I took the finished half of the basement for my studio, and she has the other half for her craft stuff. I think the whole key was that we both got something out of it - made all the difference in the world. Plus, she's a hell of a singer, so we do some tracks together (awwwwww.....)

:D
 
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