The low-voltage lamp above this welcome sign in the stairwell was made with a DC converter, a 12 volt bulb and a Bic pen. Incredibly, it has burned non-stop now for 11 years.
This was an "open" basement, and was not acoustically sound until I partitioned it off using scrap 2 X 4s, discarded carpeting and plywood off-fall. The only real expense was the equipment itself, some electrical supplies and a security system.
All of the cold air ducts are carpeted to reduce both resonance and upstairs noise.
This wall was added later and was constructed of 2 X 4s and paneling with eggshell foam backing. This photo was taken before I added the computer workstation shown below.
As mentioned earlier, I mic the bass drums and the snare, and let the overhead cover everything else.
This is an updated shot from the one originally posted. Not very clear but you get the idea.
This is a little better. At least it shows how I got around using a "desktop" recorder with a rack without having a tangled up mess of cables all the time.
"View from the Bar"
No studio would be complete without a musician's "toolbox"
This Tascam mixer has an 8-channel FireWire output that allows for simultaneous transfer of 4 stereo-paired tracks to a recording app such as Cubase or Cool-Edit.
Inevitably, it all ends up here.
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