why people build studios

[Beat Poet]

I wish cellars were more commonplace in the UK, I don't think I've ever been in a newish house with one...let alone lived in one. rickertd's place looks great!

 

[rickertd]

Thanks much for the compliment.

 

[Hakea]

Great thread.

My 'studio' is not yet a slice of acoustic paradise, it's just a large comfortable attic room with a bunch of gear in it. My reasons for setting it up go like this:

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  1. I need a space to store the fruits of my gear addiction.
  
  2. I like having a ‘man-cave ‘ to escape to, and where I can explore making music, writing songs, and indulging in harmless fantasies of making demos that get snapped up and recorded by established artists. I don’t mean anything outlandish like Jennifer Lopez and Lady Gaga wrestling in mud for the rights to the song, just basic dream stuff like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen turning up together and arguing about who gets to record it first. You know the sort of thing, don't you?.... Yes you do.
  
  3. Applied geekery is its own reward. It’s like building your own computer out of parts instead of just buying one. Humans mostly enjoy solving little problems (which is what a lot of creativity involves) , and when the simple ones don't quite satisfy any more you need to move on to the harder stuff. Even without adding computers, audio has enough complex geekery to keep even the most masochistic tech junky happy for ever. Combine it with the insane complexity of the potential hardware/software interactions involved with computing and you have either a geek heaven, or a special kind of hell, depending on your perspective. Mostly I enjoy it - but yelling at your equipment can be quite cathartic too, and what better place to do it than relatively soundproof room? I’m not yet being fussy enough about herding every last decibel, or yelling loudly enough to upset the neighbours, but it’s sure to come - and then I can start buying all those panels and traps and baffles, and……

Good luck with your own studio.

Chris