If you want to see where I ended up after moving from this studio room, here's my 2019 studio tour: • YHRS Studio Tour 2019 A walk-through of my home studio, before I have to dismantle it and move to a new house.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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)
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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 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. ;)
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.
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.
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?
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
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!
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! 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.
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!
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'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).
@@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 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.
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!
I have a home studio but I not a RU-vid 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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 :)
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 RU-vidr'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!
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.
I ended up moving to the Denver area. I have to say, I love the weather here! Although my new studio room pales in comparison to the one in this video. But hey, I can still make music!
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.
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
FRB Contracting LLC, out of Liberty MO. This was part of a larger basement project, and they did a great job overall. It was his first soundproofing project, and he did well with my suggestions and pleas during the design phase, and they all did a great job of the actual construction and finish. It was a doozie of a project!
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 thank you for the quick answer, I plan to do a small studio too and the engineer told me that it will be about 7.3 :)) so I wondering how it affects sound
@@Funnychainsaw26 I think the room was somewhere around 13x16 feet. It was plenty large for a one-man setup, even with some drums in the room. The low ceiling was really only a problem when miking drums, it always sounded like a small room. But all in all, the room worked very well.
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.
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.
Yeah that Mel9 can do some really cool things. I'm just not a fan of the odd metallic room reverb sound that it has. And I can't seem to get it to track all that well as I play. I'm too ham-fisted when I play to give it the nuance it wants.
