Go Away, I'm recording

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Dani Pace

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Here's the scene; you are right in the middle of recording the best track of the day, everything is going perfect, then... Crash Bang someone comes through the door and ruins it! Other than multiple doors with locks on all of them what do you guys do to keep out unwanted visitors? My solution, or at least it helps is http://www.jeffsounds.com/jeffsongs/studio_door.jpg that's the front door to my little shop of horrors which I lovingly call my studio.
 
You are still doing better than me!Not to get off the subject,but i'm making this beat for 3 hours and my software just disapears :confused: Bye bye beat :mad:

I keep my front door locked!Joys of living alone :D
 
A sign works I guess.

Between my studio, and the rest of the house is a nasty shaped bathroom with a slanted ceiling, that I have to kinda duck a bit to get through. On the other side of that bathroom, is my wife's office, which is the 4th bedroom of the house. I installed above that door a homemade "recording" light, which I can turn on and off with a switch in my switch panel in the studio wall. It's a small "exit" sign I modified, nothing fancy.

Also, the door between her office/bedroom and that bathroom, has an electronic striker plate. If I energize the striker plate (from the same switch the recording light is on), you cannot open the door from the inside, or the outside without an axe.

Drastic measures, but dispite my saying while I'm walking into my studio "I'm recording now, please leave me alone for a few hours" reality is my lovely wife must come bother me and tell me about how cute her asian leopard is, or how a friend called and had a computer question, etc.

So, when I'm in here, and actually recording, I play prison and flip the switch.

So far it has worked well. Saved me the trouble of attaching a high voltage, low current transformer to the door knob. :D
 
Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time I bought and installed two "RECORDING" light fixtures. One outside over the door that's the entrance to the studio and one in the laundry room next to the washing machine/dryer. The switch was (and still is) by the console. And to make sure no one could miss them, they had red bulbs in them AND a flasher so they would wink off and on. I thought I was pretty clever. Shortly after this I have a band come in and I'm setting up mics and having a great time. I get ready to roll tape so I hit the RECORDING light and we go. We record the one tune and these guys want to hear it back. I rewind, hit play and everyone says "what's that tick tick noise?" Sure enough, there's this tick tick tick on every track. It took me about 45 minutes to figure out it was the flasher on the light. The flasher is gone. I still have and use the light.
 
Personally, I just lock my door from the inside... but because I'm still a "bedroom studio"... im limited to that. If i were you, I would try Frederic's solution? The striker plate is a really good idea. And same with the recording light!
 
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