this is so very cool! i can only dream that one day... onee daaay.. Such cool stuff in this room. Epic that you make such amazing stuff seem possible for a real person in a real house. Amazing ! Glad you immortalized this before you moved.
Thanks! It's absolutely possible for any of us with time, patience, and some research and planning. This room has been my little personal wonderland, carefully curated over many years of collecting and playing. Set your mind to it, focus, plan and strategize a bit, and you can make it happen!
thank you very much for your encouragements. I once would've though it impossible but my dream is also appearing slowly. This is my little incipient magical room scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/15875125_10212099957638046_3682451413819315618_o.jpg?oh=47c57098dc6f41aee50b4f36ccdff63a&oe=591BE152 (in my defense there's also another acoustic guitar out of frame and had to abandon 2 guitars on moving from Romania to Germany. Thanks to your advice an audio interface is also on the way and some of my proudest stuff in the "magic room" to me is my Band in a Box everythign pak and a lame edition of Cubase... it's tiny ... but like you said, with slow growth over years I hope it'll get even better, and even if not, i'm incredibly thankful and amazed of the things so far. We live in the most amazing times ever. I mean heck, the other day i discovered a bunch of synths and music software running on my little android tablets that's in many ways more powerful than the music software my pentium 200mhz computer was struggling to run back in 1997. And bought a little akai midi controller i couldn't believe it communicating with midi with that... just amazing miraculous times when even i can get software emulations of hardware that normally reserved to big music stars with the kind of money only a Beatles or something made.
Man you got yourself a new subscriber! Thank you for sharing your very nice studio and rig! It is a very joyful studio tour and also a home studio class of how to do things right!
I have a small laptop 6gb ram with integrated graphics, a Rock band USB mic, A guitar and a small piano that has a midi connection. All in my small closet/room. Don't feel bad. I'm happy with my setup. So far I've recorded 6 songs with my uncle singing. I mix with some cheap "studio" headphones I got on amazon. I'm only 16 so once I get a job I might be able to upgrade. You are a great inspiration for me. I keep moving forward. Music is my life. Thank you for sharing your setup.
Starting 2 9:30! I really paid attention, because I have two Sony DSR-pd170 cameras in which I'm using fire wire and I'm using xlr in and out for microphone and other uses. So when you went in to detail on your rack server mount, It was very interesting. I'm still attempting to integrate my Alesis 1622 mixer in my mix (smile)
Cool video. You have such a laid back demeanor, I feel like I've known you for years, yet I just happened across this video by accident. Thanks for showing us this piece of your life. Entertaining, informative and endearing.
Very cool to see what you got in there! The room itself must be great! I hope you will be able to have such a great place in your new home! Love the jazzmaster and the green marshall! Would love to hear you play them. 🎸
Yes, the room is terrific! I will miss it terribly. I recorded a song with the Jazzmaster, but that was before I started this channel. I might have to port that video over to this channel just for the sake of having more music here. I'll certainly make more music with them and maybe even a spotlight video for each.
Your Home Recording Studio a spotlight video for both of them and your other gear would be great. I got myself a focusrite 2i4 and a sm57 but i am looking for some monitors do you have any advice on what to look for? Or would it be better to buy some quality headphones first? Thanks!
Great setup brotha. RME ftw. I've been on the Fireface UFX for over 5 years now and it's been an utter joy to work with. Best of luck in the new space.
please dont stop making videos after the move! you are the only one that i found that i can relate to. an every day guy. sorry i havent commented before :( keep it up! i have watch all your stuff! much love from sweden :D
Emil malmström thanks so much! It's been a rough week here (more on that soon) but your comment really made me smile today. much appreciated, and I'll certainly keep making videos, even despite the move!
Cool tour / video. I have my old Aria Pro II (Matsimuko?) bass from when I was 14 as well as my old '67 Jazzmaster - like yours. I totally agree about those Aria guitars, they play so well. Cheers!
Great job on the home studio. Love the enthusiasm. Swap in some Joe Barden Gatton T pickups on your Tele, you won't regret it! Hope the move went ok, good luck with the new studio build!
Great studio buddy ! awesome isolation work you did, hope you already replaced it with a similar or nicer one. You might be able to raise your desk to match the height of the side rack carts if you want.
Actually, another commenter pointed out that there are adjustable screws on the feet that allow the desk to be raised up to an inch or so. I'm looking forward to getting this desk set back up so I can try it!
i sorta like the "look at me. look at what i have" videos. it's just sorta kewl to see what's on the market really. i'm always looking for something interesting. ;)
We bought our new house exactly 1 week ago. I have yet to see it in person, my wife did the leg work and did the face-to-face stuff. I'm headed out tomorrow to go see it myself. So I'll know more about my future studio space within the next few days!
Like others found this by accident, great studio and tour.. (Nice to see you have room for live drums) I'm sure there are many who aspire to this kind of set up... We are all wondering will your new place have a studio room?
Hi, and thanks! My new place does have an unfinished basement that I'm planning on turning into a new wonderland studio. But it's going to take a while to save up enough money to pay for it. So for now, I'm relegated to a small office room without a door. I'm trying to make it work.
Nice workspace.... you must be sad to leave it. Also: Find a couple small round cork coasters or something to put under your desk feet to shim it up to the same height as your side cabinets ;)
Hey man I saw you on Vatche's live stream just a minute ago, came to your channel and realized I watched this video a while back lol I am putting together my first home studio, I am new to it all. I am mainly just a gigging singer songwriter haha. I noticed you have a Lonestar, one of the best amps I ever owned was a Maple cab Lonestar. I just picked up a Mesa Mark Five 35, and matching 2X12 cab and it's my new favorite, a beast of an amp. If you have yet to check out OKKO they make some great pedals ;-)
Hey thanks! Yeah I really like this stuff from Middle Atlantic. The desk is the MDV-DSK, and the sidecar racks are MDV-R12 (with the caster kits). They're versatile accessories for that desk, no doubt.
Hey thanks! I've got a really out-of-date SoundCloud page here: soundcloud.com/cd_prewett Those are in various stages of completion, recorded over the course of a few years, and you can hear me progressing along the learning curve. I'm not particularly proud of any of those mixes, but they're nice time capsules from when they were written and recorded.
Thanks! Humidity is nice and stable (if a little high) in that room since it's a fully underground basement. It usually seemed to hover around 55% for most of the year. A little higher after heavy rains, a little lower after long dry spells. Ventillation was the achilles heel of that room though. It had an exhaust vent, but no return. We were basically at the max of how many holes we could put in the walls and still retain isolation. So I'd have to open the door to allow air to circulate every so often. With the halogen track lights, one or two warm bodies, and a few amps all generating heat, it'd get stuffy in a hurry.
I have a home studio but I not a TH-cam guy. I knew the guy who invented the boogie guitar amp: Randy who worked at Prune music store in Berkeley CA! Really a nice guy! That was so long ago! Yes, I’m a guitarist!
so this is maybe a silly question but my wife and I are planing to have a house built and I had planned on finishing the basement to (home) studio specks. I have been planning out a very similar layering structure as far as the walls and the off setting on the joists. one thing I have recently started to hear more and more about is this green glue. I understand it has acoustical dampening uses for building iso cabs. did you green glue the two layers of sheet rock together and then those two to the safe and sound or how did you do that exactly. its almost spot on with what I was planning out. Sweet set up by the way! l love the Vla ii and the depressors
In that room, the green glue is sandwiched between 2 layers of drywall. It's not so much "glue", but just a gooey elastic layer between drywall layers that helps convert vibrations into heat. The drywall was screwed directly to the wall studs, but in retrospect I should have used a resilient channel between the drywall and the wall studs. Also, all of the drywall corner seams were sealed with acoustical caulking. The Safe n' Sound was used in place of regular pink insulation between the wall studs inside the walls. I've heard that in this situation Safe n Sound doesn't really perform any better than the pink stuff, but it's what we ended up with. Best of luck with your build, and thanks! Yes, all of those compressors are awesome, I highly recommend them!
Hey dude, I don't know if you know this but the bottom caps of the legs of your M.A.P. desk play as raisers to match any extension racks that you might add. Just twist them to the desire hight, you might have to remove most of you gear though.
Hey thanks! Actually, somebody clued me in to that fact in the comments here. I went and checked and it's true! Now I can't wait to get that desk set back up someday when I have enough room!
I do have a question though. does your middle atlantic rack good at keeping your servers fan noise to a minimum? I haven't purchase mines yet because of the lack of space I have, but I'm also about to move to a new space.
Since it's dense MDF and pretty thick, it certainly doesn't make fan noise worse. But the biggest things to keep my computer's fan noise to a minimum is both choosing quiet fans in the first place (Noctua PWM fans for me), and using the motherboard manufacturer's fan control software to set them to the quietest noise profile that I can. I've got them set so that they spin at the minimum RPM to get adequate cooling. Also the front face of my computer case has a foam filter that, when I shut the case face, dampens what little fan noise remains.
@@YHRS when i got mine, it was a basket case.....i paid $250 for it, it had been caght on fire, dropped off the back of a truck ( looked like ) and the first time i plugged it in it burst into flames....i honestly had very little hope it would EVER work again....i have two others like it, a 76 and a 78 - all 2204s, 50 watt heads....the '76 is a non master volume one....both have 6550 power tubes....which i have determined to be MY favorite tubes...(EL 34's sound too brittle to me....the 6550's have more bass, and cleaner highs... ) SO i figured out from the web how to make a few changesand replaced the bad parts that were causing the 'overheating and shorting out' and put 6550's in it....and it sounds EXACTLY like my 78 !!!! so another $100 in parts AND tubes....and 3 or 4 days of my labor and studying online, and i have a perfect amp for my purposes....i had people offering to buy it BROKEN....lol....double my $250, just when i ASKED about how to fix it....yours, being mint, is worth $2800 EASY....maybe more...they are EXTREMELY rare- and people laughed at 'the cute LITTLE Marshall' at first...but those things are fire breathing monsters....also they will do the super clean pretty sound as well as any Fender ...and they sound GREAT through 2x12's ( thats what i tend to use .... ) i have been playing through my '78 since about '82, and it has only ever needed pre amp tubes....and i have played all over the country, in loud 3 piece bands, and worked it to DEATH...two of them in stereo sounds like heaven...that one is a keeper-
Hi m8. Just got back into hardware synths. I have mininova atm, with blue sky reverb, and fousrite. I have 800 euro to spend. I am into ambient, deep house, jarre, 80's synth pop and boards. What would you recommend as upgrade? I have synth xp (1986 dx7-207 ish) Digital and analogue both sides mono/poly. What would you recommend? Mike....if not your style, sorry.......I ask your opinion ;)
I don't have much experience with hardware synths. I'm not much of a keyboard player, so I haven't invested much in synth sounds. When synths do find their way into my songs, it's usually the Arturia V collection of soft-synths. It's a collection of emulations of classic analog synths from Moog, Roland, Vox, etc. Some fun stuff in there, although I have no idea what I'm doing :)
I really like your vid. I am setting my home studio as well. I really felt identified with cause I want yo install and have quiet the same gear. Doubt: what about the room dimensions?
Maravilloso gracias poder ver lo que Es un estudio de un musico enamorado de su musica compartir con los músicos como yo en otras partes del mundo muchas gracias esto es cultura y conocimientos gracias amigo
Thank you so much, I appreciate your compliment very much. I hope that you're making some great music and enjoying the process of creating great recordings!
I could get along fine without the subwoofer. I originally got it for the extra wattage, to take some of the low end load off of the HS80M monitors just so I could get some extra volume out of the system when jamming along with MP3s and such. But now I've gotten used to the extra low frequencies. I love the sub, but it's certainly not necessary unless you really need those super-low frequencies in your monitoring chain.
Oh man I missed this comment. I love your FaderPort extension! Actually I need to reinstall it after having to wipe Win10 a while back. Actually I'm looking forward to looking further into its features. I'm kind of a neanderthal with the FaderPort and I mainly use it for the transport and fader.
Thanks! Absolutely, I can record up to 16 tracks at a time with the ADA8200 and RME together. 16 outputs as well. And there's another 2 ins and outs via S/PDIF!
The ADA8200 will convert its 8 preamp signals into digital and send that to the interface. And it'll take a digital output from the interface and convert that into 8 analog outputs on the back of the ADA8200. So it'd be one conversion in each direction.
Hey thanks! Macs just aren't for me. I "grew up" using Windows, and Apple's philosophies on design and function irritate me to no end. I like to tinker and upgrade components inside my computer, and the PC mentality fits that ethos to a T. Windows is just comfortable and familiar to me since I've used it for so long, at home and at work.
I totally get that. I grew up building and upgrading mine too. The only reason that I have migrated over to Apple is because it seems that they have some much stability since they tightly control the ecosystem. However, yeah, flexibility is not a strong suit of Apple products! That is the thing that frustrates me most about their stuff. Anyhow, thanks for the answer! I hope you get to build another nice studio like this one some day!
When you play drums inside your room, can your family hear it upstairs as bad as the Marshall stack turned up? I'm building my room the same exact way and I'm wondering how good it can actually be for drums.
I'd say that the Marshall is overwhelmingly louder when it's really wound up. The low frequencies of the drums are definitely audible upstairs, but they're not overbearing at all. They can still watch TV or talk on the phone upstairs when I'm playing.
The cables buried at the bottom of the pile have velcro straps on them. But I ran out of straps and the pile on top is just an awful mess of tangled cables :D I'm hoping to have a peg board or some sort of wall storage next time around.
I'm jealous of this set up. I wish I could have a basement in my house. I live with my mum still as only young ish. But I suppose living in England when your not making exactly lots of money XD houses with basements aren't a popular thing. Anyway nice vid :)
Thanks! With proper planning and saving, there's no limit to what we can accomplish. Hopefully someday you get the opportunity to create a great recording space.
Your Home Recording Studio I really hope so. Maybe next 5/10 years I'll have a great space and learn how to mix to perfection (well professional level) would love my own basement or get a converted garage. :) good luck with the career :)
Studio tour might be a show off, but if it is, it is a good show off. I don't have my own personal studio but every time i need motivation, i search for videos like this, now i am waiting for many of my personal studio equipment to arrive from ebay. Once they do, i won't need any help setting them up because i have watched enough videos like yours. So no it isn't a show off
At you desk, have you checked if there is a possibility for screwing on the legs/stands/pods? - It might just give you the right hight for the side-racks. All the best
Since my desk is laying in pieces in my new basement, I went down and checked the legs. And holy crap you're right! There are screw adjustments on all 4 legs, so I can make up the height difference. Thanks a bunch!
Flooring is a weird thing when it comes to tracking audio. Humans seem to like the sound of a reflective floor. The trouble comes when you have both a reflective floor and a reflective ceiling. By nature, they're parallel to each other and can cause some nasty acoustical anomalies. It's easier to properly treat a ceiling because it's out of the way. Nobody wants to step over 6" deep absorbers laying all over the floor. So, we leave the floor reflective and treat the ceiling instead. An area rug goes a long way towards absorbing high frequency reflections though.
Not as far as I can tell. I've really only been able to record the whole drum kit a few times (a shame, I know!), but I haven't yet had any problems with the vibrations interfering with the sound of the mics. Same with the guitars...I haven't noticed any interference from using the Cab Grabbers.
I don't have hands-on experience with either of those, but just from specs I'd say that the slightly larger speaker and enclosure on the HS7 will allow for slightly deeper bass frequencies. Honestly, I've got a lot of confidence in Yamaha as a brand in mid-level pro audio gear and I wouldn't turn my nose up at either of those monitors. Either of them would blow away a hi-fi or computer speaker pair.
I had no idea what the hell you was going on about when you was talking about them machines with the all the switches on them but i still liked the video.
I think that's a valid concern. Although with that room, it would get uncomfortably hot and stuffy well before air supply became a problem. I had an air vent, but no return in that room. So as soon as the door shut, I was basically on a timer waiting for it to get uncomfortably hot and I had to open the door again and let in some fresh air. That'd take a few hours, though.
Interesting! Thanks for the reply. Im actually building my own home studio. We just moved into a house and I have the basement to turn into what i please and thought a studio would be fun since i like singing. I will actually build a vent system into it though as i wish to remain in there for hours on end and not have to leave hahahaha I recognize that you reply to most of the comments on here. I appreciate the effort you're putting into this sir. I must say that is a quality not many TH-camr's have. I also must say i really appreciate the attitude you have in this video. You seem very humble and seem to have loads of humility. Keep up that attitude!! It's what seperates small minds from the great ones.
Hey thanks, that means a lot. This channel has been a lot of fun, and it's exciting to see a small community forming around it. I appreciate your comments! As for ventilation, I'm now a firm believer in getting a good air flow through your studio. There are several good designs online for baffles and other things to help reduce sound in/out of the room via the HVAC, and to reduce mechanical noise coming and baffling from being transmitted from the furnace to your room. Good luck!
Yeah you will need to do another tour at your new house once its all set up be great to see with some before and after photos of the room when you get there and after its all set up
If I remember correctly, it was about 16' x 13', with the ceilings at about 7'6". It's been a few years since I took those measurements so I might be off by a few inches here and there :)
Yeah, it was painful to leave that room! But I've been making due with my new room. No room for drums or guitar cabinets, but I've been managing OK so far.
Oh man, wy wife and I were just trying to remember any of the color names in that room but we couldn't recall. We do know that it was Behr Ultra, the one with the primer mixed in. The red had a very slight purple undertone to it, and the beige walls were almost a peanut butter color. Sorry that I can't remember the color names, we left those paint cans behind at that house!
Another commenter pointed out that the desk actually has adjustable feet on it, so I was able to make things flush with each other by adjusting them up/down.
Susan Smith hahaha right! We joked with the contractors about that exact thing. That's why I told them not to put locks on the doors...had to keep the creepy factor to a minimum :)
I'm just using the default driver right now. But there is the "Faderport XT" driver that somebody at the Reaper forums created. It adds more of the Faderport's features available to Reaper (like the footswitch and other functions).
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Thanks for being humble..
Hello from 2023... You're Chiefs are playing in the Super Bowl today...congrats!
Had a great time taking the tour, fine example of a well thought out home studio. Cheers to the move and a new room!
Thanks so much man, I appreciate it!
I've been working on putting my home studio together for many years now. This video offered some great insight for me. Thanks a bunch!
Awesome, I hope that your studio is coming together!
this is so very cool! i can only dream that one day... onee daaay.. Such cool stuff in this room. Epic that you make such amazing stuff seem possible for a real person in a real house. Amazing ! Glad you immortalized this before you moved.
Thanks! It's absolutely possible for any of us with time, patience, and some research and planning. This room has been my little personal wonderland, carefully curated over many years of collecting and playing. Set your mind to it, focus, plan and strategize a bit, and you can make it happen!
thank you very much for your encouragements. I once would've though it impossible but my dream is also appearing slowly. This is my little incipient magical room scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/15875125_10212099957638046_3682451413819315618_o.jpg?oh=47c57098dc6f41aee50b4f36ccdff63a&oe=591BE152 (in my defense there's also another acoustic guitar out of frame and had to abandon 2 guitars on moving from Romania to Germany. Thanks to your advice an audio interface is also on the way and some of my proudest stuff in the "magic room" to me is my Band in a Box everythign pak and a lame edition of Cubase... it's tiny ... but like you said, with slow growth over years I hope it'll get even better, and even if not, i'm incredibly thankful and amazed of the things so far. We live in the most amazing times ever. I mean heck, the other day i discovered a bunch of synths and music software running on my little android tablets that's in many ways more powerful than the music software my pentium 200mhz computer was struggling to run back in 1997. And bought a little akai midi controller i couldn't believe it communicating with midi with that... just amazing miraculous times when even i can get software emulations of hardware that normally reserved to big music stars with the kind of money only a Beatles or something made.
You forgot to mention the best asset of your studio, your friendly, humble personality.. ✌️
Man you got yourself a new subscriber! Thank you for sharing your very nice studio and rig! It is a very joyful studio tour and also a home studio class of how to do things right!
I have a small laptop 6gb ram with integrated graphics, a Rock band USB mic, A guitar and a small piano that has a midi connection. All in my small closet/room.
Don't feel bad. I'm happy with my setup. So far I've recorded 6 songs with my uncle singing. I mix with some cheap "studio" headphones I got on amazon.
I'm only 16 so once I get a job I might be able to upgrade. You are a great inspiration for me. I keep moving forward.
Music is my life. Thank you for sharing your setup.
Sounds like a good setup to start out on! Best of luck man, and those upgrades will come soon enough.
Excellent presentation. I actually enjoyed this.. At 3:42 AM in the morning (LAUGHTER) YOU make me enjoy MY studio better (smile)
Good deal, glad that you enjoyed it!
Starting 2 9:30! I really paid attention, because I have two Sony DSR-pd170 cameras in which I'm using fire wire and I'm using xlr in and out for microphone and other uses. So when you went in to detail on your rack server mount, It was very interesting. I'm still attempting to integrate my Alesis 1622 mixer in my mix (smile)
Cool video. You have such a laid back demeanor, I feel like I've known you for years, yet I just happened across this video by accident. Thanks for showing us this piece of your life. Entertaining, informative and endearing.
Hey thanks man! I'm just some random dude that likes to make music and geek out about the related gear. So glad that you stopped by!
Yeah, me too. But I'm not the one who had a sound proofed room in their basement so maybe NOT so random :)
Nah, if anything, you sense jealousy. Well, not any more. Did the people who bought your old house care about the room?
Very cool to see what you got in there! The room itself must be great! I hope you will be able to have such a great place in your new home! Love the jazzmaster and the green marshall! Would love to hear you play them.
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Yes, the room is terrific! I will miss it terribly. I recorded a song with the Jazzmaster, but that was before I started this channel. I might have to port that video over to this channel just for the sake of having more music here. I'll certainly make more music with them and maybe even a spotlight video for each.
Your Home Recording Studio a spotlight video for both of them and your other gear would be great.
I got myself a focusrite 2i4 and a sm57 but i am looking for some monitors do you have any advice on what to look for? Or would it be better to buy some quality headphones first? Thanks!
Great setup brotha. RME ftw. I've been on the Fireface UFX for over 5 years now and it's been an utter joy to work with. Best of luck in the new space.
Hey thanks! Yeah, I'm sold on RME at this point. It's been a wonderful interface day in and day out.
please dont stop making videos after the move!
you are the only one that i found that i can relate to. an every day guy.
sorry i havent commented before :(
keep it up! i have watch all your stuff!
much love from sweden :D
Emil malmström thanks so much! It's been a rough week here (more on that soon) but your comment really made me smile today. much appreciated, and I'll certainly keep making videos, even despite the move!
Cool tour / video. I have my old Aria Pro II (Matsimuko?) bass from when I was 14 as well as my old '67 Jazzmaster - like yours. I totally agree about those Aria guitars, they play so well. Cheers!
Very nice! Yes the APII is really a player. Just a perfect feel up and down the neck. With a little work, the electronics could be great as well.
My room studio just like this, has a bed, closet, tv, pc, PlayStation, 3 guitar, 2 amplifier and some stuff guitar equipment.. Lol 😂
Great job on the home studio. Love the enthusiasm. Swap in some Joe Barden Gatton T pickups on your Tele, you won't regret it! Hope the move went ok, good luck with the new studio build!
Thanks! I'll have to look up those Barden Gatton pickups, thanks for the suggestion!
That fender amp sounds awesome! Nice guitar rack! RME always a good choice! ToonTracks comes in handy!!
Thanks!
Very inspirational, I love your humble spirit
Great studio buddy ! awesome isolation work you did, hope you already replaced it with a similar or nicer one.
You might be able to raise your desk to match the height of the side rack carts if you want.
Sorry you had to move, I hope I could do similar arrangement in my place
Nice setup... You could always add some pads to the legs of the desk for height so they sit flush with the caster side tables. Boom!
Actually, another commenter pointed out that there are adjustable screws on the feet that allow the desk to be raised up to an inch or so. I'm looking forward to getting this desk set back up so I can try it!
Down to earth cool type dude, much like myself...... Salute to you!
Thanks so much!
i sorta like the "look at me. look at what i have" videos. it's just sorta kewl to see what's on the market really. i'm always looking for something interesting. ;)
Thanks for the look inside man! Planning on making a 'studio tour video' myself...
That's a dream for me. Beautifully done.
Thanks man! I really miss that room...
Great taking my call to make this video for your memories.
Thanks for being the catalyst to finally kick me into gear and do the walkthrough!
Glad. Do you have any idea about the new place you are moving into?
We bought our new house exactly 1 week ago. I have yet to see it in person, my wife did the leg work and did the face-to-face stuff. I'm headed out tomorrow to go see it myself. So I'll know more about my future studio space within the next few days!
I hope it all works out. Once ready, we can continue our project of collaborating together and recording the song. No rush.
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Like others found this by accident, great studio and tour.. (Nice to see you have room for live drums) I'm sure there are many who aspire to this kind of set up... We are all wondering will your new place have a studio room?
Hi, and thanks! My new place does have an unfinished basement that I'm planning on turning into a new wonderland studio. But it's going to take a while to save up enough money to pay for it. So for now, I'm relegated to a small office room without a door. I'm trying to make it work.
Nice workspace.... you must be sad to leave it. Also: Find a couple small round cork coasters or something to put under your desk feet to shim it up to the same height as your side cabinets ;)
I like that idea, thanks!
to be honest you explain so great mate , thanks for this video !!
Hey man I saw you on Vatche's live stream just a minute ago, came to your channel and realized I watched this video a while back lol
I am putting together my first home studio, I am new to it all.
I am mainly just a gigging singer songwriter haha.
I noticed you have a Lonestar, one of the best amps I ever owned was a Maple cab Lonestar.
I just picked up a Mesa Mark Five 35, and matching 2X12 cab and it's my new favorite, a beast of an amp.
If you have yet to check out OKKO they make some great pedals ;-)
Ha, small world! That Mark V/35 is a cool amp. Big power in a small package!
That was funny! " NOT because anybody asked for it" (laughter)
Talk Back?? "Im a one man show here, Who am I going to talk to"....LOL
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Great studio setup :) Love it... might look at getting that compressor rack
Hey thanks! Yeah I really like this stuff from Middle Atlantic. The desk is the MDV-DSK, and the sidecar racks are MDV-R12 (with the caster kits). They're versatile accessories for that desk, no doubt.
Very nice studio. Great job and you should be proud. I was wondering if you have any music to show that has come out from your studio? Thanks
Hey thanks! I've got a really out-of-date SoundCloud page here: soundcloud.com/cd_prewett
Those are in various stages of completion, recorded over the course of a few years, and you can hear me progressing along the learning curve. I'm not particularly proud of any of those mixes, but they're nice time capsules from when they were written and recorded.
Cool video! Thanks for sharing... Could you tell us a bit about humidity and ventilation in that room?
Thanks! Humidity is nice and stable (if a little high) in that room since it's a fully underground basement. It usually seemed to hover around 55% for most of the year. A little higher after heavy rains, a little lower after long dry spells.
Ventillation was the achilles heel of that room though. It had an exhaust vent, but no return. We were basically at the max of how many holes we could put in the walls and still retain isolation. So I'd have to open the door to allow air to circulate every so often. With the halogen track lights, one or two warm bodies, and a few amps all generating heat, it'd get stuffy in a hurry.
I have a home studio but I not a TH-cam guy. I knew the guy who invented the boogie guitar amp: Randy who worked at Prune music store in Berkeley CA! Really a nice guy! That was so long ago! Yes, I’m a guitarist!
so this is maybe a silly question but my wife and I are planing to have a house built and
I had planned on finishing the basement to (home) studio specks. I have been planning out a very similar layering structure as far as the walls and the off setting on the joists. one thing I have recently started to hear more and more about is this green glue. I understand it has acoustical dampening uses for building iso cabs. did you green glue the two layers of sheet rock together and then those two to the safe and sound or how did you do that exactly. its almost spot on with what I was planning out. Sweet set up by the way! l love the Vla ii and the depressors
In that room, the green glue is sandwiched between 2 layers of drywall. It's not so much "glue", but just a gooey elastic layer between drywall layers that helps convert vibrations into heat. The drywall was screwed directly to the wall studs, but in retrospect I should have used a resilient channel between the drywall and the wall studs. Also, all of the drywall corner seams were sealed with acoustical caulking. The Safe n' Sound was used in place of regular pink insulation between the wall studs inside the walls. I've heard that in this situation Safe n Sound doesn't really perform any better than the pink stuff, but it's what we ended up with. Best of luck with your build, and thanks! Yes, all of those compressors are awesome, I highly recommend them!
you had a good setup and a good amp there man ..and also you sound like a fun guy ,,,, nice video
Thanks! One of these days I'll rebuild and have a great new setup.
Now this is epic
Thanks Ryan! I hope all is well with you and your family!
We are doing very well! Thanks
Hey dude, I don't know if you know this but the bottom caps of the legs of your M.A.P. desk play as raisers to match any extension racks that you might add. Just twist them to the desire hight, you might have to remove most of you gear though.
Hey thanks! Actually, somebody clued me in to that fact in the comments here. I went and checked and it's true! Now I can't wait to get that desk set back up someday when I have enough room!
I do have a question though. does your middle atlantic rack good at keeping your servers fan noise to a minimum? I haven't purchase mines yet because of the lack of space I have, but I'm also about to move to a new space.
Since it's dense MDF and pretty thick, it certainly doesn't make fan noise worse. But the biggest things to keep my computer's fan noise to a minimum is both choosing quiet fans in the first place (Noctua PWM fans for me), and using the motherboard manufacturer's fan control software to set them to the quietest noise profile that I can. I've got them set so that they spin at the minimum RPM to get adequate cooling. Also the front face of my computer case has a foam filter that, when I shut the case face, dampens what little fan noise remains.
i have the same 2204S Marshall head- modified by me, but what a GREAT amp.
I still love that amp! It's a little beast!
@@YHRS when i got mine, it was a basket case.....i paid $250 for it, it had been caght on fire, dropped off the back of a truck ( looked like ) and the first time i plugged it in it burst into flames....i honestly had very little hope it would EVER work again....i have two others like it, a 76 and a 78 - all 2204s, 50 watt heads....the '76 is a non master volume one....both have 6550 power tubes....which i have determined to be MY favorite tubes...(EL 34's sound too brittle to me....the 6550's have more bass, and cleaner highs... ) SO i figured out from the web how to make a few changesand replaced the bad parts that were causing the 'overheating and shorting out' and put 6550's in it....and it sounds EXACTLY like my 78 !!!! so another $100 in parts AND tubes....and 3 or 4 days of my labor and studying online, and i have a perfect amp for my purposes....i had people offering to buy it BROKEN....lol....double my $250, just when i ASKED about how to fix it....yours, being mint, is worth $2800 EASY....maybe more...they are EXTREMELY rare- and people laughed at 'the cute LITTLE Marshall' at first...but those things are fire breathing monsters....also they will do the super clean pretty sound as well as any Fender ...and they sound GREAT through 2x12's ( thats what i tend to use .... ) i have been playing through my '78 since about '82, and it has only ever needed pre amp tubes....and i have played all over the country, in loud 3 piece bands, and worked it to DEATH...two of them in stereo sounds like heaven...that one is a keeper-
I appreciate your attitude. Thanks!
Hi m8. Just got back into hardware synths. I have mininova atm,
with blue sky reverb, and fousrite. I have 800 euro to spend. I am into
ambient, deep house, jarre, 80's synth pop and boards. What would you
recommend as upgrade? I have synth xp (1986 dx7-207 ish) Digital and
analogue both sides mono/poly. What would you recommend? Mike....if not your style, sorry.......I ask your opinion ;)
I don't have much experience with hardware synths. I'm not much of a keyboard player, so I haven't invested much in synth sounds. When synths do find their way into my songs, it's usually the Arturia V collection of soft-synths. It's a collection of emulations of classic analog synths from Moog, Roland, Vox, etc. Some fun stuff in there, although I have no idea what I'm doing :)
I really like your vid. I am setting my home studio as well. I really felt identified with cause I want yo install and have quiet the same gear.
Doubt: what about the room dimensions?
Awesome vid, thanks for sharing!
OMG! this is great Guy.. u're blessed.. u did a lot.. kudos
Hey thanks! I sure do miss that room. I'm doing OK in my current space, but I really miss being soundproofed. And having a door was nice too :D
Maravilloso gracias poder
ver lo que Es un estudio de un musico enamorado de su musica compartir con los músicos como yo en otras partes del mundo muchas gracias esto es cultura y conocimientos gracias amigo
Thank you so much, I appreciate your compliment very much. I hope that you're making some great music and enjoying the process of creating great recordings!
Is Yamaha woofer really needed? How is your experience with it vs without it?
I could get along fine without the subwoofer. I originally got it for the extra wattage, to take some of the low end load off of the HS80M monitors just so I could get some extra volume out of the system when jamming along with MP3s and such. But now I've gotten used to the extra low frequencies. I love the sub, but it's certainly not necessary unless you really need those super-low frequencies in your monitoring chain.
Great vídeo. So Nice to see . Congrats!
Thank you!
Bro i have a Behringer U-Phoria UMC404HD Audiophile 4x4 audio interface.
Is that good for my home recording unit?
I think you may be using my faderport driver (or rather my extension of it)!
Oh man I missed this comment. I love your FaderPort extension! Actually I need to reinstall it after having to wipe Win10 a while back. Actually I'm looking forward to looking further into its features. I'm kind of a neanderthal with the FaderPort and I mainly use it for the transport and fader.
Great space! Some killer gear!
Hey thanks! I'm putting off packing up this room until the very last minute. I'm still wringing all of the joy that I can out of it.
Don't blame you. Awesome.
Hi, great video ! Can you recording 8 tracks in the same time with ADA802 ADAT with RME interface ?
Thanks! Absolutely, I can record up to 16 tracks at a time with the ADA8200 and RME together. 16 outputs as well. And there's another 2 ins and outs via S/PDIF!
Great. With or without signal AD/DA Behringer converter?
The ADA8200 will convert its 8 preamp signals into digital and send that to the interface. And it'll take a digital output from the interface and convert that into 8 analog outputs on the back of the ADA8200. So it'd be one conversion in each direction.
man... i like this guy !
I like all of your studio decisions! Quick question: why not use a Mac? I am not pushing it, just wondering.
Hey thanks!
Macs just aren't for me. I "grew up" using Windows, and Apple's philosophies on design and function irritate me to no end. I like to tinker and upgrade components inside my computer, and the PC mentality fits that ethos to a T. Windows is just comfortable and familiar to me since I've used it for so long, at home and at work.
I totally get that. I grew up building and upgrading mine too. The only reason that I have migrated over to Apple is because it seems that they have some much stability since they tightly control the ecosystem. However, yeah, flexibility is not a strong suit of Apple products! That is the thing that frustrates me most about their stuff. Anyhow, thanks for the answer! I hope you get to build another nice studio like this one some day!
When you play drums inside your room, can your family hear it upstairs as bad as the Marshall stack turned up? I'm building my room the same exact way and I'm wondering how good it can actually be for drums.
I'd say that the Marshall is overwhelmingly louder when it's really wound up. The low frequencies of the drums are definitely audible upstairs, but they're not overbearing at all. They can still watch TV or talk on the phone upstairs when I'm playing.
Just get velcro straps for the cables. 2 of them for 1 cable and you good to go :D
The cables buried at the bottom of the pile have velcro straps on them. But I ran out of straps and the pile on top is just an awful mess of tangled cables :D I'm hoping to have a peg board or some sort of wall storage next time around.
I'm jealous of this set up. I wish I could have a basement in my house. I live with my mum still as only young ish. But I suppose living in England when your not making exactly lots of money XD houses with basements aren't a popular thing.
Anyway nice vid :)
Thanks! With proper planning and saving, there's no limit to what we can accomplish. Hopefully someday you get the opportunity to create a great recording space.
Your Home Recording Studio I really hope so. Maybe next 5/10 years I'll have a great space and learn how to mix to perfection (well professional level) would love my own basement or get a converted garage. :) good luck with the career :)
Studio tour might be a show off, but if it is, it is a good show off. I don't have my own personal studio but every time i need motivation, i search for videos like this, now i am waiting for many of my personal studio equipment to arrive from ebay. Once they do, i won't need any help setting them up because i have watched enough videos like yours. So no it isn't a show off
Awesome, thanks so much! And best of luck with your studio gear!
Thanks, Tom Cruise!
At you desk, have you checked if there is a possibility for screwing on the legs/stands/pods? - It might just give you the right hight for the side-racks.
All the best
Since my desk is laying in pieces in my new basement, I went down and checked the legs. And holy crap you're right! There are screw adjustments on all 4 legs, so I can make up the height difference. Thanks a bunch!
Hehe, Great video btw.
I'm glad to help.. ;)
All the best
why do you have wooden floors? wouldn't carpet take away more noise when making music? I know nothing about how a room should be, I am just curious.
Flooring is a weird thing when it comes to tracking audio. Humans seem to like the sound of a reflective floor. The trouble comes when you have both a reflective floor and a reflective ceiling. By nature, they're parallel to each other and can cause some nasty acoustical anomalies. It's easier to properly treat a ceiling because it's out of the way. Nobody wants to step over 6" deep absorbers laying all over the floor. So, we leave the floor reflective and treat the ceiling instead. An area rug goes a long way towards absorbing high frequency reflections though.
Thank you so much for your response, That helps a lot! I will consider it in my future :D
When I put this on FULL screen on an HD monitor, it is great!
Good to know! This little Canon G7X does a pretty good job, as long as the camera operator (me) can get it set correctly.
do the clips which are attached to the drums and amps for mics not pick up vibrations when recording?
Not as far as I can tell. I've really only been able to record the whole drum kit a few times (a shame, I know!), but I haven't yet had any problems with the vibrations interfering with the sound of the mics. Same with the guitars...I haven't noticed any interference from using the Cab Grabbers.
You built the studio and youwere moving???? Anyhow great studio man!!!
Yeah, we finished the studio and then 2 years later I got transferred to a different state for work. I shall rebuild, though!
@@YHRS Make a another video of the new studio man!!! Cheers!! Marco from Uruguay
as per your Suggestion,which monitor is good & good clearity between hs 7 & msp5??
I don't have hands-on experience with either of those, but just from specs I'd say that the slightly larger speaker and enclosure on the HS7 will allow for slightly deeper bass frequencies. Honestly, I've got a lot of confidence in Yamaha as a brand in mid-level pro audio gear and I wouldn't turn my nose up at either of those monitors. Either of them would blow away a hi-fi or computer speaker pair.
I had no idea what the hell you was going on about when you was talking about them machines with the all the switches on them but i still liked the video.
1:58 if you want to skip the tour of a person's face and go to the actual studio tour
What about ventilation? Is there risk of asphyxiation in a completely closed/airtight studio?
I think that's a valid concern. Although with that room, it would get uncomfortably hot and stuffy well before air supply became a problem. I had an air vent, but no return in that room. So as soon as the door shut, I was basically on a timer waiting for it to get uncomfortably hot and I had to open the door again and let in some fresh air. That'd take a few hours, though.
Interesting! Thanks for the reply. Im actually building my own home studio. We just moved into a house and I have the basement to turn into what i please and thought a studio would be fun since i like singing. I will actually build a vent system into it though as i wish to remain in there for hours on end and not have to leave hahahaha
I recognize that you reply to most of the comments on here. I appreciate the effort you're putting into this sir. I must say that is a quality not many TH-camr's have. I also must say i really appreciate the attitude you have in this video. You seem very humble and seem to have loads of humility. Keep up that attitude!! It's what seperates small minds from the great ones.
Hey thanks, that means a lot. This channel has been a lot of fun, and it's exciting to see a small community forming around it. I appreciate your comments!
As for ventilation, I'm now a firm believer in getting a good air flow through your studio. There are several good designs online for baffles and other things to help reduce sound in/out of the room via the HVAC, and to reduce mechanical noise coming and baffling from being transmitted from the furnace to your room. Good luck!
Awesome studio!
nice studio you did a good job
Thanks so much! The room has been such a pleasure.
Lovely room maybe one day ill have one of my own
Thanks! I waited way too long to build the room I wanted. I say do it as soon as comfortably possible!
Yeah you will need to do another tour at your new house once its all set up be great to see with some before and after photos of the room when you get there and after its all set up
Great vídeo, nice setup
Thanks man! I've enjoyed it thoroughly.
Great setup you had there!
Thanks man, I really miss it!
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Nice place you had sir!
Thank you! I already miss it. We will rebuild!
Cool video !
Why don't you make a video of sessions and music / projects that are done in that room.
Sort of compilation video. :-)
That's a great idea! I'll have to comb through my mixes and find a few. I might just add them to my "Music for no reason" playlist.
Look forward 2 it ! :-)
Did you talk about your mics in here?
I glossed over them since the video was already running long. I basically just pointed at the pile of mics :)
i hope you build a better studio in your new house
Me too!
Great！May I know the room size?
If I remember correctly, it was about 16' x 13', with the ceilings at about 7'6". It's been a few years since I took those measurements so I might be off by a few inches here and there :)
@@YHRS Thanks for your sharing!
Oh man. I would HATE to move after getting a room like that built~
Yeah, it was painful to leave that room! But I've been making due with my new room. No room for drums or guitar cabinets, but I've been managing OK so far.
How to buy a studio and how much it costs
hey what red color did you paint your wall?
Oh man, wy wife and I were just trying to remember any of the color names in that room but we couldn't recall. We do know that it was Behr Ultra, the one with the primer mixed in. The red had a very slight purple undertone to it, and the beige walls were almost a peanut butter color. Sorry that I can't remember the color names, we left those paint cans behind at that house!
The next owners of that house will use that room for a bomb shelter, lol.
Thank you
Get some rubber feet for the middle table to make flush.
Another commenter pointed out that the desk actually has adjustable feet on it, so I was able to make things flush with each other by adjusting them up/down.
Welcome to my basement... No one will hear you scream!
Susan Smith hahaha right! We joked with the contractors about that exact thing. That's why I told them not to put locks on the doors...had to keep the creepy factor to a minimum :)
Last Christmas the Yamaha did go on sale lol
What driver/dll do you use with the faderport?
I'm just using the default driver right now. But there is the "Faderport XT" driver that somebody at the Reaper forums created. It adds more of the Faderport's features available to Reaper (like the footswitch and other functions).
i like this guy
sick setup! :)
Thanks man!
can you make a cover of bad and boujee clean
Contact "4 seasons pickups" for a handwound pesonal cusom set PU's... They are awesome.
btw, what's that device next to the mouse?
Let's see...next to the mouse is a PreSonus FaderPort, and a coaster with the album cover for Exile On Main St. :-)
Nice job, colega!
Thanks!
A would say to anyone have ago designing n making your own desk,£16 buys a massive bit of mdf more than long,wide n thick enough
Good point. If you have the tools, then a DIY desk can be great. You can design it to exactly fit your space and your needs!
its a kinda heaven..!
Awesome
100.000$ home studio...congratulation