Show Us Your Home Studio Setup!

[thebeesknees22]

No half-measures applied, really impressive

thanks man! haha. Everything for this year went into my room. The rest of my apartment is pretty spartan. All I have is a couch, and my tv is sitting in the floor, and I'm sleeping on an air mattress. Priorities amiright? lol

..now if I can just write good songs lol

 

[Paradox916]

Nothing to crazy just a nice little spot to vibe

 

[ElRay]

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Nothing to crazy just a nice little spot to vibe

I may have to use this as my web meeting background.

EDIT: I'll have to flip it. Those left-handed guitars will likely spook the more observant.

 

[Paradox916]

I may have to use this as my web meeting background.

EDIT: I'll have to flip it. Those left-handed guitars will likely spook the more observant.

I guess you could crop the one righty out, there might be some that one guy who says”hey I didn’t know Matsumoku made left handed guitars in the 70’s!”

 

[BigSwede]

Some cool setups in here. Figured I'd post mine. This started several years ago as a simple, completely in the box setup to just record my own guitar stuff and over time it has transformed to more of a hybrid setup with some select pieces of analog outboard gear (definitely more outboard gear on my wishlist as well).

I started doing collaborations with other musicians doing full band cover songs on my YouTube channel and have additionally moved on to producing/mixing my own band's original stuff as well as the occasional outside project.

 

[crushingpetal]

Some cool setups in here. Figured I'd post mine. This started several years ago as a simple, completely in the box setup to just record my own guitar stuff and over time it has transformed to more of a hybrid setup with some select pieces of analog outboard gear (definitely more outboard gear on my wishlist as well).

I started doing collaborations with other musicians doing full band cover songs on my YouTube channel and have additionally moved on to producing/mixing my own band's original stuff as well as the occasional outside project.

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Very cool. How do you like the distressor?

 

[BigSwede]

Very cool. How do you like the distressor?

I LOVE the Distressor...I need a second. I mainly use it for tracking vocals, but they are great on kick and snare as well as bass. Nothing sounds bad through it. It's kind of a "swiss army knife", "jack of all trades" kind of compressor...very versatile. I always tell people that are getting into outboard gear and are looking to buy a compressor to start with a Distressor (or two), and then add other compressors to the rack as you go. I'd love to have some 1176 and LA-2A style compressors at my disposal one day, but for now, the Distressor gets the job done and I use plugins to get the other flavors of compression I may want.

 

[thebeesknees22]

I LOVE the Distressor...I need a second. I mainly use it for tracking vocals, but they are great on kick and snare as well as bass. Nothing sounds bad through it. It's kind of a "swiss army knife", "jack of all trades" kind of compressor...very versatile. I always tell people that are getting into outboard gear and are looking to buy a compressor to start with a Distressor (or two), and then add other compressors to the rack as you go. I'd love to have some 1176 and LA-2A style compressors at my disposal one day, but for now, the Distressor gets the job done and I use plugins to get the other flavors of compression I may want.

I too am in the distressor camp for tracking vocals. I usually go api 512v mic pre> distressor with british mode on (but not always)> neve 542, and it does the trick for me.

For me the distressor is like THE sound I was wanting. But then again I haven't tried an 1176 hardware version so I can't compare.

 

[LunatiqueRob]

My studio's about to go through a third reorganization at the current location, and since I've never posted it in this thread before, I'll post photos of the previous incarnation, and then when the new changes are finished, I'll post some new photos.

This was the second incarnation of the studio when I lived in China (the first incarnation was quite shabby, in an apartment). It was designed and constructed from the ground up to be a music production studio. You can see the design schematics and mockups and construction photos here: https://ethereality.info/etherealit...d_pagoda/cloud_pagoda-design_construction.htm


The second incarnation is after I moved back to California and converted a living room into my current studio (by adding a two-layer air-gapped wall and heavy-duty fully sealed door). It's not as nice as the previous incarnation because it's a conversion and not designed specifically for music production, but I did rip out some of the acoustic treatments from the previous studio and shipped them with our stuff back to California to be reused. I didn't reuse the wall-to-ceiling corner bass traps because they were designed specifically for that studio space's measurements and not universal. I also realized as pretty as all the colorful LED lights are, they don't actually help with my focus or comfort while working, so stopped bothering with turning them on, then eventually just got rid of them. My studio now is much more utilitarian.



But I'm running out of room to store all these:


Which is why I'm reorganizing. I ordered a two-decker guitar rack that cost me a pretty penny (about $800) and that should take care of the problem (It can hold 14, and along with the 5 and 7 guitar racks I also have, will hold 26 total). I'll post photos when the reorganization is done.

 

[narad]

My studio's about to go through a third reorganization at the current location, and since I've never posted it in this thread before, I'll post photos of the previous incarnation, and then when the new changes are finished, I'll post some new photos.

This was the second incarnation of the studio when I lived in China (the first incarnation was quite shabby, in an apartment). It was designed and constructed from the ground up to be a music production studio. You can see the design schematics and mockups and construction photos here: https://ethereality.info/etherealit...d_pagoda/cloud_pagoda-design_construction.htm
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The second incarnation is after I moved back to California and converted a living room into my current studio (by adding a two-layer air-gapped wall and heavy-duty fully sealed door). It's not as nice as the previous incarnation because it's a conversion and not designed specifically for music production, but I did rip out some of the acoustic treatments from the previous studio and shipped them with our stuff back to California to be reused. I didn't reuse the wall-to-ceiling corner bass traps because they were designed specifically for that studio space's measurements and not universal. I also realized as pretty as all the colorful LED lights are, they don't actually help with my focus or comfort while working, so stopped bothering with turning them on, then eventually just got rid of them. My studio now is much more utilitarian.

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But I'm running out of room to store all these:
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Which is why I'm reorganizing. I ordered a two-decker guitar rack that cost me a pretty penny (about $800) and that should take care of the problem (It can hold 14, and along with the 5 and 7 guitar racks I also have, will hold 26 total). I'll post photos when the reorganization is done.

Damn that studio in China was insane! Definitely living up to your username! I can't even imagine all the time it took to make those mockups, probably more time than I spent making music total.

 

[LunatiqueRob]

Damn that studio in China was insane! Definitely living up to your username! I can't even imagine all the time it took to make those mockups, probably more time than I spent making music total.

It took probably around 6 months of full-time research, study, designing, drawing, more research, shopping for materials, communicating with the contractors, construction, and then finally moving the stuff in and setting them up.

 

[narad]

It took probably around 6 months of full-time research, study, designing, drawing, more research, shopping for materials, communicating with the contractors, construction, and then finally moving the stuff in and setting them up.

Hope you got some good use out of it before the move back. Now that you're in cali with a double-decker guitar rack incoming, are you not worried about earthquakes? I don't know how bad they get there, but I have nightmares of like nested guitar racks failing. I'd like to at some point have wall mounts for guitars, so in theory if something happens, it happens to a single guitar, but we're not allowed to drill in the walls unless basically you own the place so they remain in cases virtually unreachable by me without a huge amount of effort.

 

[cthsqd]

It took probably around 6 months of full-time research, study, designing, drawing, more research, shopping for materials, communicating with the contractors, construction, and then finally moving the stuff in and setting them up.

Sweet! Do you have any music vids made in that studio in China?

 

[LunatiqueRob]

Sweet! Do you have any music vids made in that studio in China?

I actually do. I made one "fly-through" video of the studio back then.

Hope you got some good use out of it before the move back. Now that you're in cali with a double-decker guitar rack incoming, are you not worried about earthquakes? I don't know how bad they get there, but I have nightmares of like nested guitar racks failing. I'd like to at some point have wall mounts for guitars, so in theory if something happens, it happens to a single guitar, but we're not allowed to drill in the walls unless basically you own the place so they remain in cases virtually unreachable by me without a huge amount of effort.

When we were researching where to move back to in Cali (I grew up in the Bay Area), natural disasters were one of the things I considered (along with housing cost, pollution, weather, crime, education level, income level, political affiliations, etc.). Here in Lincoln, we have relatively fewer problems compared to other areas in northern Cali. The most worrying thing in the last 10 years has been the wildfires, and even those mainly affected surrounding areas (although we got to choke on all that smoke).

Also, I always keep my guitars/basses in gig bags when they're on the racks, because I hate having to vacuum/blow dust off of them all the time, and I also don't have to worry about accidentally banging them into each other when I'm being careless. So if an earthquake does hit us, at least they'd all be in their gig bags.

 

[Stiman]

@LunatiqueRob It's interesting that you have a mix of high end guitars and some mid tier. I'm curious about your RG8. Have you done any mods to it? Pickups, electronics, bridge, tuners?

 

[LunatiqueRob]

@LunatiqueRob It's interesting that you have a mix of high end guitars and some mid tier. I'm curious about your RG8. Have you done any mods to it? Pickups, electronics, bridge, tuners?

I got the el cheapo beaters to try different tunings with. My higher-end ERGs are all floating trems, so trying different tuning with them would be a total pain in the ass. They (the RG8 and the Schecter Demon 7) were so cheap used (exactly $250 each) that it was a no-brainer. I might sell them off since they take up precious room in my studio and I've pretty much settled on my tuning preference for ERGs.

 

[rokket2005]

Cleaned up and organized my desk somewhat.

 

[Stiman]

@rokket2005 I just listened to your album cover-to-cover. Good stuff, very proggy which I really like. I also really like your heavy guitar tone in general throughout.

 

[brector]

Cleaned up and organized my desk somewhat.

Rocking those Focal's!

 

[rokket2005]

@rokket2005 I just listened to your album cover-to-cover. Good stuff, very proggy which I really like. I also really like your heavy guitar tone in general throughout.

Thanks man, I super appreciate it! I still like those songs a lot and it's always nice to hear other people also have listened to them. Probably about 90% of the guitars on that record were a Tremoverb and Ecstasy through a torpedo live. Hard for me to think that was almost 7 years ago at this point.