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%
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ATTIC ROOM with sheetrocked ceiling sloping 45-degrees all the way to the carpeted floor:

-Floor to Center Ridge = 12'
-Floor Area = 12' x 24'

I wouldn't choose this shape room, but it's what is available to me.

Best studio I ever recorded in was 20' x 20', acoustic ceiling, wood paneled walls, and a tiled concrete floor with a BIG round braided rug in the middle. Sun Records would have been jealous.

Rich Smith
 
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I have the spare bedroom it's 14 x14 with an 8' ceiling one side is angled to coincide with the roof pitch. it's a really good space since it has wall to wall carpeting & i've added acoustic foam in specific places.
It's not theives I worry about - it's my wife re-converting it back to a spare bedroom - the other nightmare i keep having is her smiling at me and saying she made $100 at the yard sale cause she sold all that electronic junk in that room i used to hang out in
 
mine is in the attic

mine is in the attic. worked one full year to build it.....

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:eek::eek::eek: Gak! Not one piece of treatment?






































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Nice. And here I thought ONE M3700 was cool.:eek:
 
peroja said:
mine is in the attic. worked one full year to build it....
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Okay, nobody needs nine tape machines. And what, two or three mixers?

Do you actually use all of that stuff or did you find a good surplus auction? :confused:
 
I'll take two of those....three of these...maybe a handfull of them.... :D

Nice gear...maybe a bit overkill on the tape machines...but hey, all the bases are covered!


What I want to know is how do the slanted ceilings of the attic work out with the sound???
The mix position is kinda wedged way under there....

Oh...and what are all those black "spikes" on the beam over the mix position...?...lights?
 
Middle bedroom...fine for mixing, but tracking is usually a problem when it comes to guitars/vocals. I much prefer to crank up one of my tube amps for guitar instead of using a modeler, so the opportunities to record guitars are few and far between.

Sometimes I'll take my laptop to a rehearsal place near my house that has soundproof walls, and track in the room with my laptop out in the hallway. When you rent the room solo it's only $10/hour and the guy that runs the place is happy to open early for me so it works out nicely. Then I bring it home and mix it here. :)

I'd love to get a warehouse space somewhere like a couple of guys I know have. 500-700 sq feet is all I need. It would need to be around $400-500/month to justify it to the wife though, and bargains like that are pretty scarce.
 
My daughters bedroom. I had a small little nooky in the guest bedroom that my family allowed me to use and from which I was banished when we had visitors.
I finally persuaded my daughter to leave home and find her own place. :eek:
I am now the proud owner of my own space. Pure Heaven. :D
 
Basement room/converted large extra bedroom for me (it's about 13x17 w/ a 3x6 closet tacked on).

Does the job, as long as no one decides to pound their way down the basement stairs.
 
The main room in my apartment is 25' x 22', carpet on the floor and the usual drop ceiling. The beauty part is that the business on the rest of this floor closes at 5 PM and I have no outside neighbors, except for the drummer who lives upstairs (he's in a band, but I could probably talk him into playing when he's not busy). I set things up so I can push my table, chairs, etc. to one side of the room and have plenty of room for 3-4 people.

This isn't the final configuration, but gives an idea of what I've got in mind. The monitors are mounted on the wall aimed down at the desk.
 

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12x18 "live room"
10x10 "iso-booth"
In the basement.
 
I LOVE all the pictures. Mine is such a mess right now I can't take a pic. You see, here's how it went (cue "way back" music...)

My wife and I bought a 2 bedroom 1,300 sf house in Holiday, FL, and we lived there for about 6 years and had two kids. We bought the house for 48k and hit the market just right - sold it for about 98k. We had our new house built, 2,200 sf two story 4 bedroom. Since we only needed 3 bedrooms, we decided the fourth one we'd share - half would be my studio, the other half would be a desk for my wife. Better than nothing. But then we decided to get a big flat screen. Where did it end up? In the 4th bedroom. "Oh, it's no problem, you can kick us out any time you want to do music" the family chimed. Except that my wife and kids are slobs. I am, too, but not about music stuff. So now the room is a mess and I can't set foot in it without getting depressed. And with the mess came some boxes and some other crap that is being stored.

Add to that the fact that my studio is just for me - I don't record others in it. And I just released my third CD, so it'll be a while before I've got enough material written to record a new CD. What to do?

The long term plan is to have a talk with the family and reclaim the room. The short term plan was a big more drastic. I set up my keyboard, my guitars, and a small version of my live PA system in the living room. You wanna take my music room? Fine! I'll take the living room. Surprisingly no one has complained. So I'm writing songs in the living room and up in the bedroom. I need my music room back!

I've got a Mac running Logic Pro, a set of Alesis Monitor One speakers, a bunch of guitars and a bass, and so on.
 
2 spare bedrooms on opposite sides of the house - everything is wired through the roof and I have a wireless security camera so I can see what's going on in the live room.
 
In a wooden hut on top of a giant chicken's claw which hops around inside a circle of wooden stakes, topped with children's skulls.

Dr. V
 
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