Yamaha Man |
08-12-2017 11:15 PM |
Downsizing my home studio...
I live in a 2 bedroom manufactured home, for the past twenty-three years, I had my home studio set up in the smaller bedroom. Over the years I collected a lot of equipment and a lot of junk I don't really need but was taking up space. Lots of clutter.
Well I met a nice beautiful Italian woman with a 5 year old son, she's talking about moving into my place in a month or two. We need the smaller bedroom for her son. So I'm dismantling my current studio and setting up a bare bones studio in the master bedroom. I'm planning on using just the best equipment I have connected to my computer, and do all "in the box" recording. I'm setting up Yamaha HS 8 monitors, Sennheiser headphones, Focusrite 18i8 interface, a Supro amp, a Boss Katana amp, my Art tube pre-amp and compressor, a couple of mics on desktop mic stands and a couple of guitars. So far I'm loving the new setup plans. This will all be setup on my large long dresser, and a tall heavy wire rack. The new wiring I put in will insure I get quality recordings every time.
I already have all the equipment I need except for a cat 5 LAN cable to connect up the computer, which I've ordered and should be here in a few days. (Groupon has them cheap)
I've already set up the Supro and it sounds fantastic in the new digs.
It's amazing how little equipment I actually need to make quality recordings for my own personal use. Cakewalk's Sonar and some other software I have will provide me with all the computer tools I need.
The rest of the stuff I have will either be sold or put into storage for future use. A lot of stuff will be thrown out as it's just clutter. I have a 8x10' storage shed that I cleaned out and will hold lots of the stuff I no longer need. The truth is, my studio was overdue for a major re-build anyway.
The new girlfriend loves my plans and is very supportive about my music hobby.
If the new girlfriend doesn't work out, I can rent out the smaller bedroom to a border and make some extra cash. So it's all good.
So does anybody else have a similar super small bedroom setup they'd like to post pictures of ???? I could probably get by with a good Zoom recorder, but I like my software and monitors.
My other option was to rent out a building and setup a small pro studio, but that would be silly given the condition of the current music business in this area.
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