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^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: Mar. 26 2010, 06:47 Okay so other music production forums I lurk always have the "studio pics" thread so that all the geeks can enjoy a bit of gear porno and discuss other people's gear; I've found it useful more than once. So here's mine: I have a crap les paul like guitar on a corner out of the frame. There are a few hardware synths there. On the left hand side, an AKAI AX73 analog synth, and a Yamaha FB-01 FM digital synth. On my desk behind the MIDI controller, a Virus TI desktop. -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

Ginger Daddy Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: April 2002 Posted: Mar. 26 2010, 14:14 Hi, I can't really post a picture of my studio because I don't really have one! I have a corner of sitting room where my Yamaha Clavinova sits and I have an EMU USB-0404 for dealing with the sound aspects. I have 4 guitars hanging on hooks throughout the the sitting room and the upstairs hall - a Fender Strat, Stagg Classical (internal pickups), Tanglewood Electro-Acoustic, and Oldfield 5 string bass. So, I don't really have a studio - I'd love to have one but don't have a big enough house. Can't wait for the kids to leave home though!!! Cheers, Terry. -------------- http://purplerhapsody.co.uk - no words, just emotions Back to top

^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: Mar. 30 2010, 05:00 You can accelerate the process by the medium of a flamethrower. Then you can have that play room you've been years lusting about to put all your gear in -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Mar. 30 2010, 05:34 Behold The Green Room! With great help from friends and relatives this small house was built late last summer. Still not painted though, I will do that later this spring. The Green Room is a very simple studio that works as a recording studio for my own projects (Lars Tängmark, Lost in the Woods) and as a reharsal studio for The Wounded Meadow (therefore the PA rig in the last pic). The recording gear is a PC with AMD processor fitted with two 8-out soundcards hooked up to a 24 track Behringer mixer. For recording i use a Röde N1 microphone. I have a 1979 Ibanez guitar and a late 80s Ibanez bass. For field recordings I use a small Zoom thang. Sometimes I hook up a Behringer composer to the mixer. The monitors are Behringers "Truth" monitors (as in "the ugly truth" I guess!. At the moment I don't own a hardware Synth. I have a Kawai K4 tucked away in the corner that needs to have the batteries replaced, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort. When money allows I'll buy some sort of modern machine instead, possibly a Nord Wave or something like that. Hear my music at http://myspace.com/larstangmark The greatest thing about my studio is actually its location. Last summer we bought a 18th/19th Century cottage 6 kilometers outside the town where I grew up and during the autumn we made it our home and built the little studio house in the garden. From the kitchen windwow we see two kilometers of billowing fields. From the panorama windows in the studio you see a small meadow, pinetrees and an old oak. The house is located at the end of a small private road and the neareast neighbour (apart from summer guests) are over 1,5 km away. Does it get any better? I'm very happy and if I could I'd quit my dayjob today and just spend the whole days in The Green Room! Lars T -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: Mar. 30 2010, 06:15 That's a top environment to work in, nice one What are the two black boxes on the right of the CRT monitor on the second pic? -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Mar. 30 2010, 06:33 Quote (^NabLa^ @ Mar. 30 2010, 06:15) That's a top environment to work in, nice one What are the two black boxes on the right of the CRT monitor on the second pic? Amplifier and cassette deck. Excellent cassette deck actually which comes in handy in saving old demos and such like for coming generations to hear. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: Mar. 31 2010, 06:01 I know of people that actually record instruments into a cassette then sample them back to add character to the sound. Not sure how much it comes from the noise removal process but thought it worth mentioning. -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Mar. 31 2010, 06:06 Quote (^NabLa^ @ Mar. 31 2010, 06:01) I know of people that actually record instruments into a cassette then sample them back to add character to the sound. Not sure how much it comes from the noise removal process but thought it worth mentioning. It works! You can do that to a single instument, like a drum track or a bassline. I have no idea what happens techincally speaking but it sounds very different. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Mar. 31 2010, 13:16 I would surely love to participate in this thread! Everything's in boxes/pieces right now.....but one day.....keep your fingers crossed. The one thing I hope/cherish that still works(no time to try it yet) is a vintage Oberhiem Matrix 1000. So cool. I have so much more, but that thing is FAT sounding synth with so much of a sound pallete.....Hammond Organs, gotcha covered. On and on I could go, even have software to tweek all the parameters. This is a non-perishable item(I hope). I'm praying for my Emu Proteus 2000 too..... -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: April 01 2010, 05:05 Nice one, please do I'm planning to bend my AX-73 from a full size keyboard to a desktop synth the size of the virus TI more or less It's huge and I don't play piano, I'm a MIDI person. Thing is that transporting the AX-73 is a pain in the arse as it weighs about the same as a small volkswagen. Plus I end up not using it as much because quite frankly it's not really at hand. -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: April 01 2010, 05:16 Quote (^NabLa^ @ April 01 2010, 05:05) Nice one, please do I'm planning to bend my AX-73 from a full size keyboard to a desktop synth the size of the virus TI more or less It's huge and I don't play piano, I'm a MIDI person. Thing is that transporting the AX-73 is a pain in the arse as it weighs about the same as a small volkswagen. Plus I end up not using it as much because quite frankly it's not really at hand. But don't throw the AX-73 away! It sounds great. I used to have access to a VX-90 (which is the rack version) and it's great for those early 80s percussive synth sounds. I find Akai's old synths to be underrated (while some of the Roland machines got more praise than they deserve). Lars T -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: April 01 2010, 06:38 No, not at all I love the synth and it's the only true analog piece of gear I have. Riddled with awesomeness if you're a bass and lead person, raw screaming vcf, very powerful unison, brilliant chorus, and once you get to know the interface it's surprisingly easy to program. There's even some software to do stuff with patches I've never really explored. I'm just gonna get an enclosure built, and transplant all the circuitry in there, minus the actual keyboard itself which I don't need. So it's gonna be end up being something like your VX-90 but in desktop form factor. -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

Anaon Group: Members Posts: 77 Joined: May 2006 Posted: July 04 2010, 11:23 Here is my new home studio : More here : http://www.flickr.com/photos....9679451 -------------- > My music: http://www.spleenarcana.com > My blog: http://www.awenwoods.com Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: July 04 2010, 11:47 Nice studio, Anaon! Nice to have stone walls (as I noticed in a few photos). Gives an old-castle type feel that should go well with your prog band.   -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Anaon Group: Members Posts: 77 Joined: May 2006 Posted: July 04 2010, 15:05 Quote (larstangmark @ July 04 2010, 12:47) Nice studio, Anaon! Nice to have stone walls (as I noticed in a few photos). Gives an old-castle type feel that should go well with your prog band.   Hey thank you! Yes, you're right! I love this place! I return there this summer to record vocals and various percussion -------------- > My music: http://www.spleenarcana.com > My blog: http://www.awenwoods.com Back to top

Thea Cochrane Group: Musicians Posts: 445 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: July 09 2010, 09:00 Quote (Anaon @ July 04 2010, 15:23) Here is my new home studio : More here : http://www.flickr.com/photos....9679451 Excuse the silly question, but where did you get the main desk (as in furniture, not mixing) from? I'm in the planning a move and looking at re-jigging my setup a little and it looks like the sort of thing I'm looking for. Of course if I had thousands to spend I would get something from Argosy or AKA Design. Back to top

Anaon Group: Members Posts: 77 Joined: May 2006 Posted: July 09 2010, 09:49 Well, it's not a silly question at all!! But it comes from a French store. This is this model here I didn't want something which looks like studio furniture and I found this one which is great anyway because you can plut two screens and your monitors and keyboards, like a studio desk indeed. But I prefer how it looks and it's very solid -------------- > My music: http://www.spleenarcana.com > My blog: http://www.awenwoods.com Back to top

trench Group: Members Posts: 26 Joined: Aug. 2010 Posted: Aug. 19 2010, 09:25 Heres a couple of pics of "PRIMITIVE STUDIOS" where i produce lavalamp.   http://soundcloud.com/trench-2/01-springheeled-fear http://soundcloud.com/trench-2/01-springheeled-fear Back to top

Incantations Group: Members Posts: 157 Joined: May 2010 Posted: Sep. 23 2010, 12:28 I've been looking for my camera, if/when I find it, I will show you my very minimal studio. Basically its a computer with Audacity on it, a portable recorder (good quality though), a piano (of the grand kind), and a keyboard. Casual, I know. -------------- Hmm... Back to top

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