Where you Never must build a studio

[F_cksia]

Aaargh
I'm getting frustrated again.

I'm still living with my parents and... my two little brothers.
I have turned one room into a home studio, but that's just the room everybody has to walk through.

So almost every time I do an important take on the piano, there's a little brother coming in and banging on the keys of the piano. He just doesn't get it that I am RECORDING and that also his noise is being recorded. And he is 13 years old!

Whatever.

Just one year and I hope to buy or rent a house to build a studio, with only a fish as other organism, safely in a aquarium.

 

[NoFO]

Record him...

Tell your brother that you are running a professional enterprise and that you will record him for free to get in the swing of things, then record him and make him a copy... then when he comes in and tries to play, tell him his freebie is up and now it's $45.00 (or however many duetchmarks (sp?) that is) per hour and that he has to book time with the secretary... might work!!

 

[Krakit]

Solutions

Build your studio in another room. Bedroom perhaps?

If you're using a small digital or other portable studio go on location and record the piano parts when no one is home. Send them to the movies or something.

If you're studio is a bit less mobile and if you can afford it, use a Nagra, Zoom or other digital portable to record the piano parts.

If money is tight run two mics down the stairs and through the hall to the piano or use a cheapo analogue to get the piano parts and dump the tracks into your mix. Of course, you only want to do the latter if no other options are available for obvious reasons.