My name is Alex and I have a home studio. Its nothing much, I just started assembling the pieces a little over 6 months ago. I used garageband for a while beforehand so decided Logic 8 was my best bet. I spent hours reading the booklet learning the program and i’m proud to say i’ve figured out quite a bit (this website was also ALOT of help! Thanks guys =p ).

I use a Firewire 1814 as an audio interface. And usually hook it up through a mixer for times where i’d rather use that to mix. I usually write my own songs (I play drums, bass and guitar and dabble in a little vocal) in my apartment which causes alot of problems usually because the neighbors dont really like the noise. Because of this, I am forced to use an electric drum set.

You can check out some of recordings here http://www.myspace.com/alexmartinijams

Thanks!

I worked in studios as a kid and built my personal rig, slowly, over a decade, with second or third hand equipment. Luckily, I chose well.

A Moog, (whichever one works at the moment, I keep several around)
a Prophet 5,
a Juno-106 (and a spare, its also my controller)
a Jupiter-8.
TAMA Techstar analog drums. (triggered from the audio interface)
A Memory Man delay.
A Maestro Phaser by Tom Oberheim.
A spring reverb.
A Mackie.
An SM57 in an office cubicle with a comforter thrown over the top.
An Ampex ATR-100
A single Event 2020/BAS monitor
Sony MDR-7506 headphones.

I run the cheapest Pro Tools available on a Mac with as much RAM as I can afford.

I’d say my studio would never be finished, but the economy is bad and the vintage synths are out of reach now so I’m no longer a collector. I sold off my racks to simplify and concentrate on quality. I’m considering booking time again to pull off things like mixing and mastering. I would farm out my drum tracks to Jason Martin, he knows the sounds i like. Also interested in cutting my own vinyl.

It doesn’t matter what you have, its how you use it. I was making cool stuff long ago without cool equipment. Apply yourself and refinement seems to find you. Its not about the gear, its about developing your mind.

cheerio,
Brent R

Hello Everyone !

Well actually i don’t really know if this comment belong here, but i will try my best

I don’t have my recording studio yet. I just have a few questions for anyone, who might can help me a little bit. My dad have a mixer Soundcraft 2020, which is working 100%, and a veery quality Sony Dash Magnetofon. He bought it a few years ago, he wanted to start his own studio, but he had another things to do so he never did it. Now he gave ma chance so that he gave me mixer,yamaha monitors, one little mixer, sony dash magnetofon, and i also have a lot of behringer effects,… He also gave me room in a house which do not distrub anyone. So here is a few (problems) i have. I don’t really know where to start… I have place, i have equipement, but don’t know what to do now. I am living in Slovenia (Europe), which is very small country and i think i don’t have a lot of options to recording someone, or anything like that. I think this is biggest problem. I don’t have good vocal, so i cannot sing myself, but i am playing accoustic guitar and keyboard. So what can you guys/girls/masters suggest me ? How to get involved in business.. I don’t want my (a lot) of equipement to get in zero usable.. I want to use it. Please Help me !!
Thanx A ton !

Motu 896 mk3, Motu 8Pre, Mac Book Pro, Logic Studio 9. Countryman Type 89 DI ( incredible DI, and I scored this one for $90 used ), 3 SM57s, 3 SM58s, 2 Studio Project C1s, a couple other mics. We use this setup to record our band and it’s been working out pretty well so far. The weakest links are definitely the mic-pres and monitoring. This is all set up in my band’s practice space, so we always listen back on head phones, which is highly inaccurate. Sometime in the next year I’ll be building a set of mic-pres from 7th circle audio. And eventually when I buy a house I’ll buy a proper desk and have a proper monitoring setup.

One of my favorite things to do is to run the SM57 into the input of my Vox AC30, turn the preamp gain all the way up and the power amp gain all the way down and then run a 1/4″ cable from the effects send loop into my daw. I call this my ghetto tube-pre and it works wonders. Though I’ve been getting arguably better effects by just recording vocals normally and adding the new logic pedalboard plugin as in insert effect to get some warmth and break-up.

Gear aside, I think soldering is an incredible useful skill to have in the studio, and I’d like to see more attention given to it on this site.

Lead Alliance’s Music Academy is a institute that empowers music producers, song writers, musicians and recording artist to take their creative powers to the level of industry competition.

‘The Academy’ operates with seven audio production rooms. The main control room is a a Pro Tools HD System. The productions rooms are designed for composition development and comprehension of music. Lab access is limited to producers and song writers who are working on music composition projects and to faculty wishing to utilize the studio for audio production or audio recording when properly scheduled.

‘The Academy’ has a in-house production team that uses new technologies to gauge the value of creating production that can communicate to the masses. Our online production store allows up-and-coming producers the opportunity to use their creative talent for profit.

With 35+ high quality microphones plus an eclectic mix of mic pre-amps and outboard analogue compressors along with two fully tuned tracking rooms (dead and live) a very high quality sound can be achieved here for a lot less money. The studio runs a ProTools HD 7 rig using a Digidesign control24 as its mixing interface. For monitoring it has JBL’s LSR 32’s and LSR 28’s.

YO!!
macbook 1.83ghz 2gb ram
ableton 8
reason 3
m-audio firewire
m-audio oxygen 61
korg padkontrol
novation nocturn
sm 57
roland tr 626
other bits and pieces people have given me and
my baby…korg monopoly(not used in my tracks yet tho)

Mine is small but effective for recording / mixing / mastering for my band Fall From Below

Windows XP Pro
4GB RAM
Intel 2.4 Quad Core Processor
1.5TB Storage with full redundancy

Cubase 3
ezDrummer (songwriting)
Guitar Rig (songwriting, guitar thickness and reamping)
Korg Legacy Collection (for fun stuff)
izotope ozone 4 (mastering)

2 Presonus FirePods
Audix i5s
Audix D6s
Shure SM58s
MXL 604s
Shure Beta
etc.
etc.

I must say that the magic happens with software and good micing techniques. With everything that is out today, most people can afford a home studio and be able to produce tracks without the need to spend thousands of dollars on just a CD…

Home studio that also doubles for my work office.

Guitars: Alvarez-Yairi CY116 Classical Guitar, Jasmine Acoustic/Electric Classical Guitar, Ibanez AF85VLS Hollowbody, VOX VT30 Modeling Amp

Keys: Edirol PCR A30, Novation Remote 49 SL Compact, Korg M3-88, Ensoniq ESQ1

Rack Synths: Roland D110, Kurzweil PX1000Plus, Emu Proteus 2XR

Misc: KRK RP5s, M-Audio iControl, Midisport 2×2 Midi interface, Inspire 1394 Firewire Audio Interface, Audiotechnica 2035 Mic, Samson C03U USB Mic, Zoom H2 Field Recorder, Contour ShuttlePro2 Jog/Shuttle wheel.

Computers:
MacPro 8-core 2.8 GHz, OSX 10.5
MacBook Core2Duo 2.26 GHz, OSX 10.4
PowerBook G3 500Mhz (Pismo), MacOS 9.2.2

Music Software
OSX: Garageband 4, Logic Studio 8, EWQLSO, SD2, and lots of other instrument and effects plugins, Sibelius 5

OS9: Opcode StudioVision Pro 4.5.1, VST effects plugins, T-Racks24, Reason 2.5, Finale 2004, MixMan Studio Pro

I dont have even a semi legit studio lol. Here is my setup:

For the mic I use the Audio Technica At2020 USB Condenser for my vocal tracks and it works pretty good for beginners I suppose lol. Good price for HQ recordings.

For my mic stand I used an old table lamp with a design similar to a goose neck of a desk lamp it just is a thin piece of wood instead and I took of the top of the lid, unscrewed the light bulb, and there were these hooks from what that help the lid steady and the mic came with a screw on clip which slid right on to one of the hooks and so i set that all up on my desk above shelf and there is space next to my desk where i stand to record

for my pop filter it is also home made it was used from a bottom of a small decorative bird cage for the base of it and then i cut circles of a pillow case to fit and hot glued it.

for my monitors (speakers) I have a cheap stereo system about 3 years old and a audio transfer cable that plugs into my laptop as if it where headphones and plug the other end to the stereo as “line in” and then the sound comes from my laptop to the speakers.

So overall its an ok setup not anything pro just everything homemade and improvisation

Virtual Studio gives the facilities includes: Talk shows hosting, using virtual sets; live & on-demand web-cast streaming studio; recording by voiceover artists; production facility for audio video presentations; option for live call outs or live phone-ins; radio shows; panel discussions; training-educational videos with software demos audio-video processing, optimization & encoding facility.

my studio is a 10′X 13′ room w/ carpet and and drywall . 8′celing
auralux treatment across the sidewalls and some moving blankets too
my set-up: a KORG D1600MKII digital studio in a box(my bassist and drummer each own one too ..we link em up and record in 24 track 24 bit!) ,KRK Rokit 5 nearfields ,sevral mxl large diaphram mics (my weak point i admit ….) a presonus tubepre, presonus h4 headphone amp, alesis nano compressor, alesis nanoverb, line6 PODxt amp modeler, Zoom H4n for field work .

that’s about it …….is it sexy enough?????