Our ever changing studio.

[ausrock]

I originally had planned to do the live room/vocal booth/control room thing, but dollars always seemed to be diverted to something else and consequently the "studio" has evolved into a more flexible design. A vocal booth may still be on the cards but otherwise I like the open plan vibe and the option to move things if the need arises.

This pic was taken last night while my son's band were rehearsing and auditioning a guy for rhythm guitar. The drummer is behind the console and the honey of a bass player is near the air-lock door which is the escape to the outside world.

 

[Track Rat]

EXTREMELY cool. Is that someone playing a Rick there thru the glass?

 

[ausrock]

TR,

Thanks for the comment. The bass is a Spector, and she is actually on the camera side of the glass air-lock, although the image is deceptive........lol.

Just as a sweetner, this is some of the toys my son and I have.

 

[F_cksia]

awwwww.... So cool!

 

[F_cksia]

I bet that are no Epiphones/ Squiers?

 

[Flatpicker]

Just as a sweetner, this is some of the toys my son and I have...

You don't like Matons much, do you?

BTW is that the iso box under your rack on the right (I think that's what you said in the other thread)?

 

[ausrock]

LMFAO............Tim, I should have realised you would pick up on the Matons. The "archtop" is a late 50's Maton Alver which was my first "REAL" guitar, of course as a young guy I had to put pickups on it back in the mid 60's. The 12 string is a Maton CW80/12 I bought new in '69 when I started doing the folk/coffee shop thing. The back row has my ECW80 and Matt's early 80's Maton JB-6 electric (his first REAL guitar) and at the other end is his EM525C slimline elec/acoustic.................so yeah, we kinda like them . Matt has just purchased a heap of LPauls plus a couple of other guitars from a guy in Canada with the intention of selling most of them.............he should make sufficient profit to justify the exercise, so once they get here I will have to take some more pics....the place is going to look like a bloody guitar store for a while.

Re the Iso box............yep, that's it and you can see the air inlet duct just in from the door hinges. The unit is 2 "racks" wide and at this stage the only thing holding up completion is finding suitable locks at a sensible price so that the doors stay air-tight.

ChrisO

 

[longsoughtfor]

Looking nice Aus!

Kevin.

 

[ausrock]

Thanks Kevin, we are slowly getting there. I'm still trying to complete the cabling from the p/bays to the racks then I get a techie friend in to sort out a couple of problems in the console. Once I am satisfied that everything is functioning ok, we start tracking Matt's band again, so I'll probably take more pics at that stage.........might even give them to John Sayers to put up for me.

F_cksia,

Behind the black Les Paul is an "Epiphone by Gibson" Sheraton..........it is an early one and the finish leaves the later Epi's for dead, other than that there are Australian Matons, Fenders, Gibsons, my Patrick Eggle (English) and the double neck was made by master luthier Jim Williams and was my son's 21st present.

 

[Flatpicker]

...at this stage the only thing holding up completion is finding suitable locks at a sensible price so that the doors stay air-tight.

Does it need to be air tight? Mine just has the normal cabinet style hinged door and a drawer above it. At first I thought I was going to have to make some type of air-tight seal, but when they're closed I can't hear a thing. (Of course, I'm deaf, but that's beside the point. )


I'll try to snap a pic or two of mine and put it up.

 

[ausrock]

FP,

I put the stick on sponge rubber sealing strip around the openings so I need locks/catches to compress that as the doors close. The idea was to both minimise noise from the front and aslo to stop air getting in or out of somewhere it wasn't meant to. The drummer in Matt's band is a builder and has some commercial grade ball catches for me to fit, he feels they should be ok for the job.

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

of course as a young guy I had to put pickups on it back in the mid 60's.

Always nice to find I'm not the only one here who's been playin since the 60's. Lookin mighty nice in there Chris. Love the vibe. Playing music isn't the same in a sterile environment. Vibe is the "magic" ingredient for great recordings. Like slackmasters "suck" knob, theres no black box with a "vibe" knob. Gotta have the real thing, and you got it! Cool. Nice collection of geetars too! How long you been pickin and grinnin Chris?
Cheers
fitZ

 

[ausrock]

Hey Rick.

I started learning in '62 when I was 12, although I remember plaguing my parents for a guitar for maybe 4 yrs before that. The recording side of things was a dream I had back in the mid 60's that wasn't realised until the last couple of years...better late than never and I proved that an old dog can learn new tricks .

This room "grabbed us" when we first saw the house 5 1/2 yrs ago. When we first inspected it, the previous owner had a piano and a guitar in here so it was almost inevitable that we woud buy the place and we were only here a couple of months when Matt joined a band that was having airplay success locally and they started rehearsing here and the vibe grew from there. It was while they were back in a real studio recording that I remembered that old dream and I started researching recording which led me here to HR and this forum. What I didn't find out till later was the "real" studio I had been sitting in was one of John Sayers designs...................ironic ain't it. I guess it is all his fault .