Show me your Recording Room

[Adam!]

Was their not a thread about this already? Here is a somewhat fun-house-mirror view of 210 degrees of my studio room. I mostly took it to show off my new old drumkit (you can't see it, but there are 5 toms, a downright over-compensatory number of cymbals, and a stolen fire-bell) and my room damping. That keyboard obscures a herd of guitars/amps/basses/banjos/ukuleles.



What does your room look like?

[Reist]

Wow, Adam ... I'm jealous. It's cool that you've got so much space in there. I can hardly walk in my recording room. I guess I'll try to get some pics up after work.

ps - what are you using for room damping? I can see the fabric and stuff, but I can't tell what exactly it is.

[Hoblit]

Wow, Adam ... I'm jealous. It's cool that you've got so much space in there. I can hardly walk in my recording room. I guess I'll try to get some pics up after work.

ps - what are you using for room damping? I can see the fabric and stuff, but I can't tell what exactly it is.

Yeah, how do you think mine got the name Bread Box Studios anyways? (Rhetorical)

That IS nice. Plus I don't have those monitors or a nice keyboard...heck, even my drum set isn't NEARLY as nice.

That room does look acoustically challenging though. I mean...if I had to poke a hole in such a nice (and clean) set up.

Kudos.

Maybe I can get someone to take a digital picture of Bread Box Studios for upload here next week for Songfight! LIVE Hot & Sweaty.

[Rabid Garfunkel]

Yeah, once upon a time there was a thread for this. Here's some of my chaotic little playpen.

No-name *cheap* drums, packing material panels on the wall, timbales being used as tables/music stands

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Turning to the left, guitars & amp, camping mat nailed up in the corner

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Further to the left, organ, guitars, bass amp, propoganda

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[Rabid Garfunkel]

More lefterly, computer & old-school (literally) monitors, pa, keyboard

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pa, keyboard, "rack" things, floor monitor, backup laptop, tape deck, mess

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The room's more or less 13'x13'x20'. Having crap piled in the corners seems to help with breaking up the cavernous sound of it.

I must've cleaned recently, I'm only seeing 2 beer containers in here

[Billy's Little Trip]

Cool rooms. So those corner bass traps work pretty good? They seem pretty practical, being that my room isn't very big and corners are a waste of space.

[Rabid Garfunkel]

If I could have them running all the way up to the ceilings without fear of being crushed when they collapse, they'd be better, but yeah, they do improve the sound of the room greatly.

[Billy's Little Trip]

So, your 13X13X20? 20 ft high ceiling? Cathedral, like?

[Rabid Garfunkel]

13' ceiling in the studio. Old house (late 1800s).

[Adam!]

ps - what are you using for room damping? I can see the fabric and stuff, but I can't tell what exactly it is.

Cross-posted from the room treatment thread:

As promised, here's a picture that shows off my homemade bass traps. I can't get OC703 here, so I made them out of Roxul Safe'n'Sound on a wooden frame, wrapped up in the cheapest thin fabric I could find. Not a great colour, but you get what you pay for. They're not as fancy as those ModTraps, but they sure are cheaper: I made all four (there's another one behind the camera in this photo) for about 50 dollars total. Also, check out the egg-carton-foam ceiling diffuser.

As hoblit points out, my room has some bad standing wave problems. The bass traps get me half-way to the solution, but I really need something on the walls as well.

Woah Pat, I'm impressed at how many cubic feet of music equipment you've got packed in there.

I should probably complete my 360 to show off my messy workstation.

[Spud]

[rogerroll]

[mkilly]

Those must be old pictures, spud. I don't see the bottle opener.

[Spud]

busted.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Rabz, are those studio monitors or full range speakers, up tharrr? The wedges. I would love a set of flat range speakers like that to free up desk space. Plus it gives you a little distance without moving from your work space.

[Reist]

I might as well join in, even if my room is not as pimpin as the rest of yours.

[melvin]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Reist, I believe you're supposed to put your noise into the SIDE of that mic, not the top.

[Hoblit]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Reist, I believe you're supposed to put your noise into the SIDE of that mic, not the top.

Depends on what he's trying to accomplish actually, but yeah...typically.

[Rabid Garfunkel]

Rabz, are those studio monitors or full range speakers, up tharrr? The wedges. I would love a set of flat range speakers like that to free up desk space. Plus it gives you a little distance without moving from your work space.

Urrr? There's a 7" Muzak (Jensen) speaker in each cabinet. '60s era, if the research I did isn't completely bogus, heh. Rewired to take the volume pots out of the signal path. A bit lacking on the bass end, but I think I've found the sweet spot on the stereo receiver's settings that makes up for it. We'll see, if'n I ever submit a song before the end of *this* century.

Man, I love craigslist.

[Reist]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Reist, I believe you're supposed to put your noise into the SIDE of that mic, not the top.

Yeah, I've been notified kindly by several prominent SF artists, and I'm gonna fix that.

Man, I feel dumb.

[Dan-O from Five-O]

My studio is located in a renovated attic at the top of my Victorian style home. It's basically the entire 3rd floor, and I'm blessed to have it. So here we go.



Mixing Board. This is as you turn left and standing in front of the couch visible from the previous shot.

The lounge. This is an about face from the mixing area.

This is a drumset I got for $300.

This is looking into the vocal booth from in front of the board. It's a bit cramped getting in there.

Vocal Booth Inside. Looking left as you enter. I can't believe I forgot to put the microphone in.

Guitar Booth. Ok it's the same area, just pulling double duty. This is looking left from in front of the vocal mic.

That's pretty much it except for the left wall area (as you enter) which was messy and I didn't want to show it. I need to work on room treatment and such, but it's not too bad as is.

[Adam!]

NIce! Why is there a toilet seat on your micstand?