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Hey all!

I thought I would share some pictures of my current music studio / band rehearsal/jam room.
The only treatment is acoustical ceiling tiles, some foam treatment and also some felt on some walls.

Things are a bit messy as I am cleaning things out as part of making some major changes with my project studio.

Some friends from my local cubase club have offered to help me build out a more professional project studio so these pictures represent and end of an era for me. I am starting to really look forward to having a more ergonomic, better organized and inspiring place to work.

My Daws are cubase 8.5 pro and ableton live standard
My interface is a presonus 16.4.2 studio live

I do not have a ton of plug-ins but some current favorite plug-ins of mine are
Final Mix variety of products
PSP Audioware - various
Slate Digital - VPC and VMR

I have collected a bunch of mics over the years.
Mics currently being used
DRUMS
Sennheiser e604 tom mics #1-#3
AKG D110 Tom #4 (My old kick microphone)
AKG C2000B Tom #5 (My 1st quality mic and old vocal microphone!)
AKG D112 Kick Drum
Gauge ECM 84 Overheads
ECM 87 Vocals and Drum Room mic
AKG D220 hi-hat
Shure SM57 Snare
VOCAL
Shure Beta58a Vocal mics for practice
ECM 87 vocal recording
Percussion
ECM ECM84

My out board gear is limited to my Gauge pre-amp MP1076 which I use for guitar, bass and vocal tracking.

Thanks!

Rich

Way to go Richard. Looks like you have some fun in there

Thanks Les, yes lots of fun times to be sure.

Thanks for seeing past the mess!

That looks like a fun room! Is it in a basement?

Thanks Paulie!

Yes it really is a fun room, but seeing some of the project studios in St Louis and now this page has inspired me to go the next level with y project studio.

Also, yes it is in a basement and currently is one open space stretching the length of the house, but there is a back room that will be added to the mix, so the new studio will have an inverted L shape. The will be three sections.
The lounge/unplugged jam area.
The control room/ writing station
and then the drum room / rehearsal/jam room which will take up the entire short section of the L

It will take a bit of time to accomplish but I am hoping for something nice and professional when it is completed
and a place I can't wait to spend time in and have musicians over to enjoy it with.

That sounds like an awesome plan. I grew up with a full house length basement in Connecticut, but basements don't exist here in Texas for some reason (I've heard many reasons). Can't wait to see the finished product!

Is that a Ludwig Rocker drum kit?

Very cool. Thanks for sharing

Hey Paulie,

The large black floor tom is from a Ludwig Vistalite Set. The rest of the set is a Pearl Export Set.

I also have a small set to play out with which is a 3 tom Gretsch set with birch wood and sounds amazing and hope to record on
it on day too.

Basements have their advantages, but a window view like you have is pretty sweet!

Cheers