Where is your studio located?

[TerraMortim]

a spare bedroom. It works for my needs =D

 

[TerraMortim]

yeah it sucks...

plus I get home at 7 (that's when I have dinner) and he goes to bed at 10.15.

I really want to move out

I had 2 rooms, but I moved back with my parents and oh well, this is right now.

But I'm hopinh to move out in february, so that's cool.

having that problem with my neighbords upstairs...they have a 4 year old who's bedroom is located above my studio room...god damnit, it's annoying because he goes to bed godawful early (8pm) and then it makes it REALLY restrictive when I can do audio.

 

[Dave_M]

I have rec room in my house; about 12' X14'.

 

[mikeyhasnobones]

rented practice space....not too many spare rooms here in SF

 

[>Mojave_Gary<]

When I bought my home in the high desert, it came with a connected 2 car garage which I promptly gutted, re-framed, re-wired, re-insulated and finished to my liking.

 

[RousseauBABA]

my bedroom

 

[timthetortoise]

A cozy 15'x18' storage unit. Fully carpeted, couch, it's-a-very-nice (at least, for $180/mo.)

 

[irg82]

Mine's in a spare bedroom, I'm only 15 though, and it used to be my parents gym type room, and they won't move our treadmill out of there, but other than that, it's mine. At least I have a studio.

 

[EdWonbass]

Mine's in a spare bedroom, I'm only 15 though, and it used to be my parents gym type room, and they won't move our treadmill out of there, but other than that, it's mine. At least I have a studio.

Use the tread mill as a mic stand.

 

[irg82]

Use the tread mill as a mic stand.

Haha, actually, I didn't have a mic stand (I'm just getting started building the studio up), so I was using a lamp as a mic stand for about a week.

 

[EdWonbass]

Haha, actually, I didn't have a mic stand (I'm just getting started building the studio up), so I was using a lamp as a mic stand for about a week.

No shame in that. I have used just about everthing as a mic stand including broom sticks, shower curtain rods, and 2x4's. You can pretty much tape a mic to anything.
These days I have more mic stands and booms then I care to count.

 

[Benyah]

In our bedroom and my wife hates me for it...

 

[Richard King]

A cozy 15'x18' storage unit. Fully carpeted, couch, it's-a-very-nice (at least, for $180/mo.)

I used to own a mini storage business here in Zero Beach and I was one of the few places in town that would rent to bands for rehearsal spaces. Never had one turn a unit into a studio before, but I suspect there was much recording going on there that I wasn't aware of. If I had been I would have demanded rights to any profits from their first million selling record.

 

[Wolfram]

The Spare bedroom is the spot.

-Wolfram

 

[cello_pudding]

i'm currently in this small room that's more like a small hallway.

it's a horrid location. i have 0 treatment on the walls, wood floors, a metal cabinet to my left, and the room is small so there's standing waves when i sing sometimes...it's made my last vocal track kinda crappy. i'll do it over.

it's a definite step down from a decent sized room (not 6X8) that is treated, has carpet and a decent ceiling...

I was EQ'ing and just wanting to attenuate everything.

sucks.

 

[Treeline]

When I bought my home in the high desert, it came with a connected 2 car garage which I promptly gutted, re-framed, re-wired, re-insulated and finished to my liking.

Pics! We want pics!! Gimme some ideas to copy!

 

[Mindset]

I have 3 commercial recording studios and 1 being constructed.
Mansfield (900sqf), Ft Worth (2200sqf), Irving/Los Colinas area (1150sqf), and the newest one being constructed will be located between Ft. Worth & Dallas (5500sqf). I have a vision to change Dallas into a music scene. A place where both the east & west can meet half way.

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

I have 3 commercial recording studios

Apparently you don't understand the meaning of "Home" recording. Go tell the people at the "Womb". Maybe they'll give a damn. BTW Mr. Commercial Recording Studio owner, what makes you think that one studio in Dallas will make musical east meet musical west? good grief.

i'm currently in this small room that's more like a small hallway.

I like it. ROCK ON DUDE.
fitZ

 

[blazingstrings]

Jeez, Fitz. Whats next a systematic flogging with wooden paddles for Mindset? LOL Wanna rag on me next Fitz? I work in a pro recording studio and am a part owner. That should get a me a life time in purgatory, Aye?

I get what your saying about the East Meets West concept Mindset, But your a little late. Theres this thing called Minneapolis(Kind of half way), We have been doing it for years.

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

Jeez, Fitz. Whats next a systematic flogging with wooden paddles for Mindset? LOL

Not yet. Sorry if I ruffled your feathers. But what the hell does "commercial" have to do with HOME recording. The fact is, 90% of the guys who come here, do so to learn how to make every dollar count because they don't have deep pockets like commercial studio owners do. And don't tell me they don't because building commercial studios take BIG BUCKS. If EVERYONE here had the bucks to do a commercial stuio..WHAT WOULD BE THE POINT OF HR????

And here is another "fact"After five years on this board, I've seen quite a few people post pictures of their "commercial" studios, but have they ever offered a SMIDGEN of knowledge about "studio building"? FUCK NO!! Thats because most of them don't have a goddamed clue. All they have to do is dig in their account and PAY an architect/studio designer to design it, an Acoustition to consult on the acoustics, a contractor to build it, an equipment vendor to stock it, a manager to run it, and a few engineers to make them money. Meanwhile, these HOME STUDIO guys do it ALL, and do it on a budget that a common commercial studio owner wouldn't have a fucking clue how to manage...BECAUSE HE WOULD HAVE TO DO THE FUCKING WORK HIMSELF!!! THATS WHY I GET NASTY. I've got more respect for these guys than ANY of the commercial studio owners. Unless they did ALL the work themself.......they can go fuck themself.

btw, I've got nothing against ENGINEERS who work for "pro" studios. However, after 5 years of listening to some of you who think you're gods gift to the music world...I've got a clue for you.

Who the fuck gave you the right to call yourself an "ENGINEER" in the first
place, hmmmmmmm? Audio "engineers" don't have to get a degree in ENGINEERING of ANY KIND, they don't have to pass a State competency exam, and don't have to get a LICENCE to practice thier discipline. Ask a STRUCTURAL ENGINEER what he thinks about about you using "engineer" as as professional moniker. I bet I can guess. As far as "I'm" concerned, Audio "engineering" is something ANYBODY can do cause in the final analysis, its only experience at turning fucking knobs!!!
BTW, if your ever out of work, you can always take a step up the respect ladder and apply for a REAL job....like a SANITARY ENGINEER job. At least you'll learn how to WORK for a living.

And another thing. If long term professional "advancement of the art" is any kind of measurement of success...I'd say by the sound of most modern recordings I've heard lately, compared to the "engineers" who did it LIVE to disk, and the sounds they captured, all I can say is.......sheeezus. You guys
got a lot to learn. I mean really........spare me. Most of todays shit sounds like an over processed, distorted, tedious, homogenised, chameleon-esque scribble which amounts to nothing more than the demented cacophonous racket of a drugged lunatic banging loudly on kitchen pots and pans.
fitZ