Where is your studio located?

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Where is your studio?

  • Living Room or Den

    Votes: 90 9.1%

  • Spare Bedroom

    Votes: 326 33.1%

  • Closet

    Votes: 21 2.1%

  • Bathroom

    Votes: 5 0.5%

  • Basement/Rec Room

    Votes: 282 28.6%

  • Garage (Connected to house)

    Votes: 58 5.9%

  • Shed, Outbuilding, or Freestanding Garage

    Votes: 66 6.7%

  • Built a Freestanding Studio from the ground up

    Votes: 32 3.2%

  • Other (Specify)

    Votes: 89 9.0%

  • What's a studio?

    Votes: 16 1.6%
  • Total voters
    985
Fitz..... Take a deep breath..... Your yelling over nothing. You may wish to go have a seat and turn on some easy listening and pop a couple zoloft and chill.
Your gonna pop a vain.

For the record, The studio I have been working in and the new one we are building have been built by us exclusively every nail and screw.
So to assume all pro studio's are full of the people you describe is false.
Second, I don't come in as a know it all and I never said I was an engineer.
I said and I quote "I work in a pro recording studio"... I'm the studio manager.

Assuming can be a weakness my friend.

Both the studio head and I have home studio's too, mine is in a spare bedroom and his is in his basement. Guess we don't much about home record though.

And by the way I work harder for a living than you know brother, I design and install and calculate some of the biggest Geo thermal and heating and cooling systems put into homes. Not to mention my days as a Museum display builder. I would say working in a studio and enjoying what I do is a "Respectable" line of work as well.

Oh and in our studio's we believe in live recording and real tube gear not over processed cheese. There is a lot more to things than "Experience turning knobs" we personally mod and tweak every piece of gear to get the best out of it. This is a hands on operation that involves using our ears, The head engineer has built and worked in studio's up and down the east coast and works/worked for some of the bigger music software company's.

But hey, I'm probably just waisting my breath here Since I don't have a respectable career like sitting at a desk. Well I'm off to haul a couple thousand pounds of sheet metal into a 10,000 square foot house.
Now were is that heat calc and blue print?
 
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...in the attic.

Hoping someone will one day lock me inside and throw away the key! :D
 
For the record, The studio I have been working in and the new one we are building have been built by us exclusively every nail and screw.
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For the record blazingstrings, what part of
Unless they did ALL the work themself.
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don't you understand?;) And btw, kudos to you and your studio mates. I like it like that. I "think" you understand what I was refering to. It may have sounded like it, but I wasn't pointing a finger at you personally.

Assuming can be a weakness my friend.
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I wasn't assuming. First hand experience is all I was using, from the "commercial" studio owners who have posted here. Not ONCE have I've seen a HINT at helpfull advice from these people over 5 years. Although, there may be people here who ARE commercial studio owners and are helpful but dont acknowlege their studios. If you disagree, then SHOW me one post by a commercial studio owner who shares his knowlege of studio building with the members. If you can, I'll eat my words. I don't mind the flavor of crow if I'm wrong.

Both the studio head and I have home studio's too, mine is in a spare bedroom and his is in his basement. Guess we don't much about home record though.
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Again, kudos to you. although I don't believe I've had the privilege to witness your vast knowlege of studio building here.;) Maybe you could point me to a few crumbs.:D I'm all ears to even the most miniscule of data regarding the innermost secrets of the studio building art, held by those holy bearers of stuido design truth.:p

And by the way I work harder for a living than you know brother, I design and install and calculate some of the biggest Geo thermal and heating and cooling systems put into homes. Not to mention my days as a Museum display builder.
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Will wonders ever cease to exist. A man of many talents huh? And you still manage to find time to not only build home/pro studios, but put in the thousands of hours practice it takes to valididate a name like blazingstrings as well. More kudos to a man of all seasons. How DOOOO you do it?;)
"Oh and in our studio's we believe in live recording and real tube gear not over processed cheese".....
....:and works/worked for some of the bigger music software company's."
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Hmmmm, I smell an oxymoron.:p:D Ok, anyone who uses tube gear and tweaks/mods them MUST be ok.:o;) Care to share a few tidbits in the Analog forum. :p

But hey, I'm probably just waisting my breath here
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Not at all. You had the guts to stand up to my verbose rant. Another stack of kudos to ya!! Now, waste some more and open that profound book of knowlege and share it.:) Btw, I used to work for a Display company myself. Designed and built many displays for Museums, tradeshows etc. I liked the field but it didn't pay worth shit. So I went to work for a Store Fixture company. Macys paid better. :D

Well I'm off to haul a couple thousand pounds of sheet metal into a 10,000 square foot house.
Now were is that heat calc and blue print?
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At least you were smart enough to not quit your day gig. Now, maybe you can offer a bit of wisdom to aspiring newbie "engineer wanabes" looking for a decision on a career.;)

In all seriousness blazingstrings....I believe you know who I referred to with my rant. ;)
fitZ

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And don't tell me they don't because building commercial studios take BIG BUCKS
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we believe in live recording and real tube gear
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I believe I'll rest my case.:D
 
Once the new place is done and built we will have plenty to talk about I'm sure Fitz.:)

As far as the tube gear and sharing info there.... I would probably be sued.
Since most of the gear and prototype models technically belong to some well know gear designers and close friends of my friend and I am bound by contract not to talk out of turn. And hell some of it I'm not allowed to open and look at.:rolleyes:

The new place is going to be interesting though I will say that, And the Client el is going to keep me on my toes.

But in all seriousness we are going to have a bass,keyboard and recording gear shop attached to our building too. Its nice to have access to that stuff.

BTW, what were you doing in terms of museum work? I pretty much did it all.:eek: Like make tree's from scratch, Rubber dirt, Building fossil mounts repair broken displays.

Funniest thing ever was when I had to make a cradle for a fossilized piece of dinosaur poop.... I had to make it look like it was just floating in mid air. Irony Floating crap Thats as Heavy as a rock.:D

Its all good Fitz, I'll stand up to people more times that not. LOL

Peace!
 
I personally welcome the presence of commercial studio owners and engineers here on the board. Yes it's Home Recording, but it's also Home Recording, and they should be able to contribute in many ways. (That's the key, they should contribute--not just drop in and show off!)

I don't know that I'll ever build and own a commercial studio (I can't afford the pay cut! :D) But if I did, I'd do it all myself--just like I did my house, my last business, etc. Besides, I'll bet there are a number of folks on the board who aspire to go from Home Recording to Commercial Recording. I think they'd appreciate being exposed to the commercial side.

So I say the more the merrier. We've all got something to teach, and we've all got something to learn.
 
I'm just starting to put my first studio together. I have a large view out basement, with 2 rec rooms, a spare bedroom, and a full bath. I'm thinking about claiming the larger of the 2 rec rooms and the spare bedroom for tracking. I might be able to fit my "control room" in the other rec room, which is actually my media room.

That way I can record 2 sources at the same time (3 if I record a bass with a DI)

I just ordered a Firepod, upped my laptops RAM to 2 gigs, and am researching mics. I've already got a studio full of instruments. I'm excited.
 
crawl space...just so happened to be a 10x10 slab of cement surrounded by gravel under the house...big enough for me to stand hunched a little but perfect when sitting down to my drumset and computer.
 
Don't tell me im the only one whos done this. Wheres the button for the whole house? I was working with a band back in the day and the talent was good and getting them to work was a major pain. Me and a partner rented a house for 3 months and filled it full of gear every room was used and we rented the best stuff we could for the vocal chain. I miss his college days cause that was some serrious fun. Now I have 2 studios one I own 1/2 of same best friend/studio partner. We took a big shed and redid it with double walls a vocal booth mix room drum room think 3 space garage. Then at my house I have a spare room I use just for mixing cause most of my work comes from producing singer song writter types so they goto a studio record there bare bones guitar and vocal send me the tracks and go what can you do with her and then the fun begins
 
Spare room

Mine is in one of the spare bedrooms, 10x12. But I will be moving out of it in the next couple months, 16x24. I can't wait, neither can my wife, and neither can I.
 
My "studio" is currently in the corner of our basement. I've just started building it.
 
Most of the house

I use the Dining room for control.

The sun room for bands. Vocals and Drums ( moving quilts to reduce reflections )

The Stairwell for vocals able to close the doors and have the singer sing towards the carpeted stairs.

The Living room for Bass and Guitar and sometimes vocals.

Able to run monitor mixes in all areas as needed.
 
Why wasn't "Same bedroom i sleep in" on the list? I have a big room haha

-Hype
 
Good question. I use most of the rooms in my 1,000 square foot house. I know it's very small. Some day I'd like to build a huge recording studio in back of the house.
 
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