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Posted by: Ulrik Mar 4 2012, 10:35 PM

I just moved to a new appartment this year, and I'm experimenting with my office/music room.
Now I decided to move it just next to the fridge in my kitchen/living room.
I just need to put two of the guitars on the wall I think.

No room for the big keyboard, it is under my bed smile.gif


What does your music room where the magic happens look like?

Posted by: Todd Simpson Mar 4 2012, 10:53 PM

Congrats! Having a space just for music is AWESOME thing. Here is my current setup.




Posted by: Ulrik Mar 4 2012, 11:02 PM



Nice and overwhelming ohmy.gif
I see we both have the Digitech

Posted by: thefireball Mar 4 2012, 11:30 PM

Funny you should post this topic right after I ordered a new computer desk. biggrin.gif I blogged about it last night. This is my VERY, VERY HUMBLE setup. But my desk is going to be here in around a week. That stereo there has got to go. It's cheap and I don't need it now. I have studio monitors. My room will be re-arranged for sure.

 

Posted by: Todd Simpson Mar 4 2012, 11:30 PM

QUOTE (Ulrik @ Mar 4 2012, 05:02 PM) *


Nice and overwhelming ohmy.gif
I see we both have the Digitech


The GNX3 is still a fav pedal board of mine smile.gif I'm actually using it as a PREAMP! I run in to it for the cabinet emulation and noise reduction/gate before going in to my recording interface then use Guitar Rig / Overloud TH2, or some other plugin. Much more consistent results than when I used to try close micing a cab in another room.




Posted by: thefireball Mar 4 2012, 11:31 PM

I am amazed at your setup, Todd.

Posted by: Todd Simpson Mar 4 2012, 11:32 PM

QUOTE (thefireball @ Mar 4 2012, 05:30 PM) *
Funny you should post this topic right after I ordered a new computer desk. biggrin.gif I blogged about it last night. This is my VERY, VERY HUMBLE setup. But my desk is going to be here in around a week. That stereo there has got to go. It's cheap and I don't need it now. I have studio monitors. My room will be re-arranged for sure.


Nice Monitors! smile.gif How are they sounding? Glad you got a pair of those for mixing! Yeah, putting together a home recording setup takes time, effort and above all money. It's a process, but one worth doing. Being able to record whenever you have an idea is great.



Posted by: thefireball Mar 4 2012, 11:37 PM

QUOTE (Todd Simpson @ Mar 4 2012, 04:32 PM) *
Nice Monitors! smile.gif How are they sounding? Glad you got a pair of those for mixing! Yeah, putting together a home recording setup takes time, effort and above all money. It's a process, but one worth doing. Being able to record whenever you have an idea is great.


I'm LOVIN' them, Todd. Thanks for recommending them. I can even watch videos on youtube now, at the full experience!! Whether it's combat stuff from Freddie Wong and Corridor Digital, or metal madness from fellow youtubers. My mom and dad are so generous to gave gotten these things for me at this last Christmas. Hey, they even got my little brother a small synthesizer (AkaiMiniAK).

Brandon

Posted by: spacebran Mar 4 2012, 11:39 PM

QUOTE (thefireball @ Mar 4 2012, 10:30 PM) *
Funny you should post this topic right after I ordered a new computer desk. biggrin.gif I blogged about it last night. This is my VERY, VERY HUMBLE setup. But my desk is going to be here in around a week. That stereo there has got to go. It's cheap and I don't need it now. I have studio monitors. My room will be re-arranged for sure.


I have the same keyboard as you laugh.gif

Posted by: thefireball Mar 4 2012, 11:40 PM

QUOTE (spacebran @ Mar 4 2012, 04:39 PM) *
I have the same keyboard as you laugh.gif


NICE! biggrin.gif I use it one and a while.

Posted by: Todd Simpson Mar 4 2012, 11:42 PM

QUOTE (thefireball @ Mar 4 2012, 05:31 PM) *
I am amazed at your setup, Todd.


Thanks man smile.gif It's been a very, very, long time in coming together but it's finally where I want it to be. I can do move scoring, recording, overdubs, even voice over work, etc. It's a very flexible setup. Full Midi, 8 channels of Simultaneous recording with my interface so I've actually miced a guitar cab with 7 mics (one channel clean/dry/direct) before and panned them across just to research mic placment.

Funny thing is, after that, I ran the direct box/dry signal in to OVERLOUD TH2 and liked my preset better than real thing so I unplugged the mics and use some of them togetherfor video chat to get good pickup on my voice.




Posted by: The Uncreator Mar 4 2012, 11:42 PM

My humble setup, built this yesterday actually - everything bolts to the wall behind, I have two more shelves to add on either side for some more equipment stashed away, but this is the jist of it.

 

Posted by: thefireball Mar 4 2012, 11:52 PM

QUOTE (Ulrik @ Mar 4 2012, 03:35 PM) *
I just moved to a new appartment this year, and I'm experimenting with my office/music room.
Now I decided to move it just next to the fridge in my kitchen/living room.
I just need to put two of the guitars on the wall I think.

No room for the big keyboard, it is under my bed smile.gif

Cool, man! Do you have to keep it down since you are in an apartment? I mean, can the neighbors hear you play guitar and stuff? I would be self-conscience if they could hear me because they would hear all my wrong notes whilst practicing! laugh.gif

QUOTE (The Uncreator @ Mar 4 2012, 04:42 PM) *
My humble setup, built this yesterday actually - everything bolts to the wall behind, I have two more shelves to add on either side for some more equipment stashed away, but this is the jist of it.

oooh, nice one, Brett!! I like the simpleness of it. Also, nice monitor! But doesn't it hurt your neck to have to look up all that way? It would mine..maybe.

Posted by: Ulrik Mar 5 2012, 12:09 AM

Our appartment has got two walls facing out, one next to a hallway and one near the elevator.
Then we have the basement underneath, so it's actually only one neighbour upstairs I have to worry about.
My last place I had neighbours on two sides and above and below, so this is now far better


I only really turn it up, if I have to do a REC or something like that.

Posted by: tonymiro Mar 5 2012, 03:40 PM

Here's an oldish one:


Posted by: thefireball Mar 5 2012, 03:44 PM

haha, Tony, I expected some very complex network like Todd's. biggrin.gif Cool though.

Posted by: tonymiro Mar 5 2012, 04:07 PM

Lol Brandon smile.gif

- well mastering isn't about having tons of kit but having a high-end professional set up and knowing how to use it. Even so you can see about $30-35k worth of equpiment just in the photo.

We have more outboard on the other side of the desk and under it but I like to keep things out of the way of the speakers to prevent comb filtering. LHS of the desk (the side you can see) is hardware we use sometimes, RHS (which you can't) is the outboard we use frequently, under the desk is the PC, multichannel i/o, etc. We also have a small, separate equipment room where we store cables, mics, recorders (we still carry MD, HD, muti-track tape etc just in case we get sent stuff in thse formats), multi-meters, SPL meters, an oldish 32 channel mixing console (for when we have to do stems), etc.


Posted by: thefireball Mar 9 2012, 06:30 AM

Updated workspace! Yay!! smile.gif


Posted by: PosterBoy Mar 9 2012, 07:41 AM

Hey Fireball, watch out for interference from the refridgerator.

Posted by: thefireball Mar 9 2012, 01:16 PM

QUOTE (PosterBoy @ Mar 9 2012, 12:41 AM) *
Hey Fireball, watch out for interference from the refridgerator.


What refrigerator?! laugh.gif

Posted by: PosterBoy Mar 9 2012, 02:00 PM

Sorry that was meant for Ulrik

Posted by: thefireball Mar 9 2012, 02:04 PM

QUOTE (PosterBoy @ Mar 9 2012, 07:00 AM) *
Sorry that was meant for Ulrik


That's okay. biggrin.gif You had me confused there. wink.gif

Posted by: Ulrik Mar 9 2012, 02:59 PM

Yeah off course, but it's so convinient with the fridge biggrin.gif

Posted by: JTaylor Mar 9 2012, 10:37 PM

QUOTE (Todd Simpson @ Mar 4 2012, 04:53 PM) *
Congrats! Having a space just for music is AWESOME thing. Here is my current setup.



Todd, do you ever get the feeling like you are flying a 747 when you sit there? biggrin.gif Man, that is amazing!

Posted by: The Uncreator Mar 9 2012, 10:43 PM

QUOTE (thefireball @ Mar 4 2012, 07:52 PM) *
Cool, man! Do you have to keep it down since you are in an apartment? I mean, can the neighbors hear you play guitar and stuff? I would be self-conscience if they could hear me because they would hear all my wrong notes whilst practicing! laugh.gif


oooh, nice one, Brett!! I like the simpleness of it. Also, nice monitor! But doesn't it hurt your neck to have to look up all that way? It would mine..maybe.


Neighbors dont care, its an older bulding with poured concrete walls, so sound hardly gets through. The height doesnt bother me as my chair is rather high, plus I didnt have enough wood to spread the monitors further out left and right so oh well I guess laugh.gif

QUOTE (tonymiro @ Mar 5 2012, 11:40 AM) *
Here's an oldish one:



That one knob, cost $1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

To turn it? dont even get me started...

Posted by: Todd Simpson Mar 10 2012, 04:12 AM

QUOTE (spacebran @ Mar 4 2012, 05:39 PM) *
I have the same keyboard as you laugh.gif


So do I! smile.gif I love that little keyboard. It's a cheapy and the keys are not "weighted" but for under $100 it's big enough to use both hands at once (the little one octave boards are a tad small imho) and it's very handy to have MIDI in the rig!


Posted by: Todd Simpson Mar 10 2012, 05:10 AM

QUOTE (JTaylor @ Mar 9 2012, 04:37 PM) *
Todd, do you ever get the feeling like you are flying a 747 when you sit there? biggrin.gif Man, that is amazing!


Now that you mention it! smile.gif A bit! Whoooooooshhhhh! Coming in for a landing, on the root note!





QUOTE (The Uncreator @ Mar 4 2012, 05:42 PM) *
My humble setup, built this yesterday actually - everything bolts to the wall behind, I have two more shelves to add on either side for some more equipment stashed away, but this is the jist of it.


Do you have a Subwoofer there under the desk? I see you have a spiff 7 string. The nearfield monitors on the desk are going to roll off before getting very low so some other method of hearing the bottom end, even good headphones for quick and dirty listening, is gonna help.

I ran in to this issue myself with my KRK rokit 6 monitors. They are punchy, but when I listened to a mix on a friends rig with much better speakers and a matched sub, I found what I was not hearing. He's using JBL studio monitors with a matched JBL 15 inch sub. I was just shocked at the difference. But his rig is just insane.


Posted by: thefireball Mar 10 2012, 06:23 AM

I love this thread!! I hope more people post their setups. It doesn't have to be "killer." wink.gif

Posted by: tonymiro Mar 10 2012, 09:58 AM

QUOTE (The Uncreator @ Mar 9 2012, 09:43 PM) *
...
That one knob, cost $1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

To turn it? dont even get me started...


Exactly wink.gif

Posted by: The Uncreator Mar 10 2012, 09:35 PM

QUOTE (Todd Simpson @ Mar 10 2012, 01:10 AM) *
Do you have a Subwoofer there under the desk? I see you have a spiff 7 string. The nearfield monitors on the desk are going to roll off before getting very low so some other method of hearing the bottom end, even good headphones for quick and dirty listening, is gonna help.

I ran in to this issue myself with my KRK rokit 6 monitors. They are punchy, but when I listened to a mix on a friends rig with much better speakers and a matched sub, I found what I was not hearing. He's using JBL studio monitors with a matched JBL 15 inch sub. I was just shocked at the difference. But his rig is just insane.


No not yet, the bottom end on those monitors are actually quite intense, nothing that substitutes for a subwoofer but its quite decent for small setup like myself. It has a bass enhancer switch although I don't use it, its too much. I am currently doing my first song with these monitors, mixed with a pair of Sennheisers for reference, so I will probably post that soon to see exactly what I am missing.

The guitar is the 7 string version model of your 8 actually smile.gif

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Mar 10 2012, 10:05 PM

QUOTE (Todd Simpson @ Mar 4 2012, 10:53 PM) *
Congrats! Having a space just for music is AWESOME thing. Here is my current setup.



Wow killer setup Todd! It looks like a space shuttle command center smile.gif

I have lots of gear I would love to put in one space and make a dedicated recording room.
I'm getting tired of connecting and disconnecting stuff when I need to record something.

Posted by: Ben Higgins Mar 18 2012, 07:08 PM

How did I miss this awesome thread ??

Here's my totally humble 'don't know how I get away with it' setup ! wink.gif


Posted by: The Uncreator Mar 18 2012, 07:38 PM

This reminds me. I think I could sit down in Todd's workspace, I could press any button while closing my eyes, and I would immediately blow his entire house up most likely.

That setups looks like the cockpit to a shuttle.

Posted by: Olivier777 Mar 18 2012, 10:48 PM

lol great thread !

QUOTE (The Uncreator @ Mar 18 2012, 07:38 PM) *
This reminds me. I think I could sit down in Todd's workspace, I could press any button while closing my eyes, and I would immediately blow his entire house up most likely.

That setups looks like the cockpit to a shuttle.

That's exactly what I thought ! biggrin.gif


Here is my current and multipurpose messy setup :
I haven't got any complain from neighbours yet. rolleyes.gif


Posted by: The Uncreator Mar 18 2012, 10:52 PM

Ha, I used to have that desk lol

Posted by: Todd Simpson Mar 21 2012, 06:00 AM

Thanks man! smile.gif "Houston we are go for launch!"

Having a place to leave everything plugged in is really handy. If you can parse out just a bit of space and declare it the music area, it really makes the creative process a bit more simple IMHO, being able to just sit down and record is just plain spiff!

QUOTE (Bogdan Radovic @ Mar 10 2012, 05:05 PM) *
Wow killer setup Todd! It looks like a space shuttle command center smile.gif

I have lots of gear I would love to put in one space and make a dedicated recording room.
I'm getting tired of connecting and disconnecting stuff when I need to record something.



QUOTE (The Uncreator @ Mar 18 2012, 02:38 PM) *
This reminds me. I think I could sit down in Todd's workspace, I could press any button while closing my eyes, and I would immediately blow his entire house up most likely.

That setups looks like the cockpit to a shuttle.


3, 2, 1, BOOOM! Darn I thought that was the compressor? Not the BLOW UP THE HOUSE button!

Posted by: Alex Feather Mar 22 2012, 01:31 AM

QUOTE (Todd Simpson @ Mar 4 2012, 09:53 PM) *
Congrats! Having a space just for music is AWESOME thing. Here is my current setup.


Wow man!!! I like your space a lot!!!!! Looks awesome I am sure you can record anything in there!!!!!!

Posted by: Todd Simpson Mar 22 2012, 03:17 AM

QUOTE (Alex Feather @ Mar 21 2012, 08:31 PM) *
Wow man!!! I like your space a lot!!!!! Looks awesome I am sure you can record anything in there!!!!!!


Thanks smile.gif It's been great having the gear set up and ready to go. I do all kinds of work in there. Web stuff, Video Editing, Digital Special Fx/Motion Graphics, film scoring, etc. Having a flexible space is really handy. I don't look forward to my next move though!

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