That is a pretty sickly cool set up you have! I have a 2 Room studio but it is up in my house. I have different things set up but with drums, guitar, amps, computers etc. It is cool that you have a great place to store all the goods.Scot Solida wrote:As some of you know, I have spent the past six months building a studio in my basement. I have, so far, only finished the control room (and even that needs some bits and pieces added, like trim around the window and floor). There is also a vocal booth (nearly finished) a reverb chamber (still working on that) and a sort of live room (basically a big, unfinished space where drums, Hammond, etc will go). My baby grand piano is upstairs in the dining room (high ceiling, wood floor, sounds great!). I have installed XLR and 1/4" panels in the wall up there so I can record the piano remotely.
The control room was entirely built by myself and a friend from the ground up. I am not, I emphasize, knowledgeable in the ways of construction, so this was a real adventure. I designed the room so that it meets the cubic footage requirements for an acoustically sound space, and there are no parallel walls (the east and north walls are set to just over a 5 degree angle from the south and west walls). Walls were all double-framed and isolated. This was very much a DIY project. I made the desk, the big rack (the rollaway rack was purchased from Guitar Center, the monitor stands from Musicians' Fiend), and even the acoustic panels and bass traps. Here's what it looks like so far:
Desk with V-Synth GT, 24" iMac, MotorMix, Event 2020bas monitors, Frontier Designs Tranzport. In the rack: Allen + Heath mixer, Effectron II, XLR patchbay, Furman line conditioner. Teac 80-8 reel-to-reel on top.
South-East corner. PPG Wave 2.2 peeking in on the left, Minimoog (restored by Analogics and housed in curly maple cabinet), Prophet-5 (ditto), '50s-era Brenell tube Tape Echo, homemade Theremin (PAIA/Big Briar hybrid). On the bookcase: ARP Sequencer, Wersimatic drum machine, oscillator, Roland MIDI-to-CV converter, Sequential Model 800 sequencer, Small Stone phaser, Univox drum machine, assorted stomp boxes, manuals and tapes. DIY bass trap, HF absorbers on the walls.
North-East corner: EMS VCS3 w/ DK2 keyboard, Roland CR-78 drum machine. Homemade bass trap.
East wall: ARP Odyssey, PPG Wave 2.2, another view of the Mini and Prophet-5.
This wall is angled between the North and West walls. A DIY mid-high absorber hangs above a Chroma Polaris, and Oberheim DX drum machine, and an ARP Omni II.
South wall: The Big Fella. 70+ modules of Syntehsizers.com and Blacet goodness, sitting atop a homemade rack. Oscilloscope on the right. Lots of patch cables.
DIY rack. Column 1: Furman line conditioner, MOTU 828 MkII, 3 x Neutrik patchbays, Chandler Limited EMI/Abbey Road TG-2 preamp, Aphex compressor, vintage LA3A compressor, TC Intonator, dbx compressor, Eventide Clockworks H-910 Harmonizer, Aphex Aural Exciter.
Column 2: Furman Line Conditioner, M-Audio MIDIsport 8 x 8, TC M-300, Muse Receptor, Lexicon MX200, Lexicon MPX-1, Lexicon Jamman, Lexicon Vortex, Capybara 320 (Kyma), Ensoniq Mirage.
Column 3: Furman Line Conditioner, Emagic AMT-8, Korg Wavestation A/D, Casio VZ10m, Akai Z-4 (with all options), Roland MKS-30, Roland MKS-50, Roland JV-880, Yamaha TX-802.
There's lots of stuff not shown here, including guitars, ethnic instruments, organs, a few more synths, etc.
good luck with your music!
That is one serious studio!-James- (Patch)
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