Great interview!
@Chordwainer Dave had some pictures of his…I can’t remember the thread though. Maybe if someone finds the last thread like this we can merge the older one into this one. Great thread topic though! Thanks @Cristina!
I moved my mixing rig into the lounge room under the air conditioner for the summer…
…it normally goes down the end here with my intruments and amps (which are all covered with dust sheets)…
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hehe nice yea, they are moving blankets, they work decently well on vocals
I am always on the move, my vocal booth is my car and a laptop!!
Here’s a link to my post in the Studio Pictures thread showing some still photos:
http://indierecordingdepot.com/t/studio-pictures/1006/30?u=chordwainer&source_topic_id=2938
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Me in my vocal booth
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Didn’t realize you play the drums also, Christina…
Is that lowest keyboard resting on your legs?
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Like the look of the basement, not so much the thermometer…
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I play the drums a little. Just learned this past year. And yep the keyboard is just resting on my lap. It’s less than ideal, haha.
It’s usually cool to see pictures of other people’s studios. I just got my acoustic panels installed in mine and am trying a new layout.
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Looking great!! Love the picturesque view outside too!
Out of curiousity, how did you end up doing the panel overhead?
My wife assembled all the acoustic panels with denim insulation, wood studs, chicken wire, burlap, staples, and screws. They feel super solid once assembled. The cloud one is bracketed directly into the ceiling studs.
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Looks awesome mate!
I’m so jealous of that amazing view you have!! I’d choose that over any size analog console any day!
It must be a real inspirational place to work. Especially at dawn, dusk , stary nights etc!
Amazing!
Your acoustic treatment looks great. Excellent work.
Here’ s my little room…
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First of all, that’s awesome that your wife put all that together! She’s a rock star! 
I’ll be curious to know how well that cloud does over time. I’ve wanted to do one for a while, but I keep wondering about sagging/drooping over time.
Well hopefully it stays firm - the chicken wire is stretched tight to the frame and stapled on with a crap ton of staples so theoretically it should be fine for a long long time.
Looks great! I’ve found keeping several instruments out is huge, and you’ve got that nice stand with 5 instruments sitting there, seems great. I like the colors and stuff, looks good. Looks like you have two different speaker setups? How do you switch between?
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cheers, yeah it works for me i just need to find more time to get in here!
yes i have two speaker setups and a sub too .
there is no direct switching between like say if i was using a dedicated speaker switch box or something advanced like a presonus centralstation.
i run the big speakers through my hifi which is connected to my interfaces line outs.
my genelecs and sub are the main daw output but if i want to use the loud speakers i just turn on my stereo amp to the input channel and they then sound too.
i could have rigged them up differently but i like to be able to use my hifi set up (200w sepakers on 100watt per chanel marantz amp) as a stand alone hifi but also run my d3200 through it for recording so i didnt want to have to fire my computer up and everyting just to jam/record/play music.
i like to not have to turn the screen on and just pick up an instrument or listen to music without getting sidetracked with computer stuff.
but yeah regardless of that i can still just swith between the outputs for mixing purposes if need be its easy enough , or i can have all 5 speakers on at once if i like! no need and probably terrible realy
i can record to daw or to d3200 , all my gear is routed through the d3200 which i either use stand alone or as a midi slave to cubase. although i tend to sync a lot of stuff with my mpc.
if i record something on my d3200 (i like the non glitchy 24bit recording it has and its pres dont seem too bad either) i just drag the files from it and usb them straight into cubase.
also i usb beats or drum patterns to and from the pc to mpc or d3200. its all midi`d up together so i get best of both worlds and maximum creativity.
i tend to track into my d3200 as i have no problems with latency that way at all.then just pop everything into cubase and add more stuff, tweak, synths,etc. i spend a lot of time just playing about to be honest lol