First, here is the hightlights of the gear:
Windows PC running Ableton Live and a TON of plug-ins, virtual instruments and sample libraries.
MOTU 828 mk3 (USB/Firewire audio interface)
dbx Crossover (for the monitors)
Yamaha HS80M (monitors)
Jensen JS1000-A (subwoofer)
Korg Kronos
M-Audio Keystation Pro 88
(Native Instruments Kontrol 88 is on order)
Gibson Les Paul
Fender Stratocaster
2x Aphex Project Channel (preamps)
2x ART Tube MP (preamps)
2x behringer Ultragain Pro (preamps)
CAD Equitek E-100 (small diaphragm condenser)
Guage ECM-47 (large diaphragm multi-pattern tube)
Various dynamic mics by Shure, EV, Nady, dbx
Various hand-held percussion
WIRELESS SECURITY SYSTEM
(and a Lava Lamp)
Now the pix...
before I moved to my current location I had my stuff set up in the garage where I don't think I ever recorded anything.... at least nothing good.
At my new house I had a garage where I was given free rein.
I planned out the studio and started building.
I built a control room floor that I filled with sand.
It has conduit in it for running wires from the mix position back to the rack. As you will see in a bit, some of the conduit comes up in the front wall where I mounted patch bays.
The Front Wall has sections angled at 45 degrees so that sound from the monitors will be reflected back to the diffuser.
You can see the conduit coming up inside the wall.
I Miter Cut all the tongue-in-groove paneling by hand, and brad nailed each piece by hand as well.
Lesson learned, in the main part of the studio I used a power miter saw and a compressed-air brad nailer.
I used a table saw to cut each piece of my diffuser at different lengths and angles.
Then I glued each piece to the wall. I had to go only a few rows at a time each day, because the weight of the top pieces tended to want to pull everything away from the wall. If I had that to do over again I would have assembled them on the ground then mounted them to the wall.
(you can see my hand miter saw on the counter that I was cutting the tongue-in-groove boards with)
The carpet is green, the camera was cheap.
I built the rack and mix desk.
And I was MUCH younger then
Here are pictures from when I first started using the control room before Flat screen monitors and rack-mount preamps.
Last year I moved most of the mess on the desk out of the way to take a picture for the Passenger Profile in the TAXI newsletter.
Today I moved some of the mess to post the way things look now.
Regards
Russell Landwehr
Edit: Did I mention that I have a WIRELESS SECURITY SYSTEM
