My holiday project - home studio website

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:59 pm

Hi all, I'd never built a website before but took the opportunity this weekend to put together some pages regarding my learnings from putting my home studio together many years ago. I'm by no means an expert, but think I learned enough that it might be valuable to those of you who are thinking of putting something similar together.

I'm still working it but at least my initial thoughts are composed there.

Here's the link if interested
http://www.doityourselfhomestudio.com/

feedback and ideas appreciated. Did I miss your favorite mic, preamp, recording approach, etc? Suggestions appreciated for those who've gone through the same process.

thanks in advance for the input,

Shane/smili

moderator Joined: Jun 30, 2007 Posts: 333

looked fastly at your site, building music is a real investment in matter of time and money, depending on what you are doing, but it's ALWAYS EXPENSIVE to make something good, but i realize my music with computers mainly and think it's enought for psytrance and i don't have money.I'll look at your site more seriously tomorrow to have an idea.
happy new year to all ! Very Happy

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:58 pm

thanks PPB,

I wrote it more from the standpoint of recording a band, but when it gets to the computer recording part I just have to claim ignorance. I use a Paris DAW, but it's more of a recording/mixing platform, and doesn't do all the stuff that some of the newer software does.

again, I appreciate the feedback.

smili

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:07 pm

Hey Man, How ya been??
checked out the site.....very informative, some very good tips also,
checked out the songs....hard to believe it was done in the living room....sounds great!!

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:08 am

gunner, thanks for the comments. Well it wasn't all done in a living room... for isolation I ran mic lines into the side room and a bathrooms when tracking the live drums in the living room. ! Very Happy

I'd also send the scratch vocalist into the john so we go to listen to him take a leak in our headphone mix between takes Shocked

again, thanks for the comments.

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:33 am

I LOVE IT!!!

Nice work Shane, and thanks for the link to ubw!!! Laughing

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:58 pm

just dropping by to say what others already have. i spent quite a bit of time at your site wednesday when i found the post. i like how easy it is to navigate. that's always a big plus. there's also a lot f great stuff that a noob needs to know, like the whole 'you can't polish a turd' portion. but yeah, the info is nice and condensed, easy to read, but not written at a 4th grade level so it doesn't bore the crap out of you. i like the fact you also included some links to similar products you talk about.

thanks for sharing!

ubw rookie Joined: Sep 17, 2004 Posts: 149

Nice job! I went through the first few pages and I think it's great! I'll finish checkin it out a little later. It would be cool if you could add pics of mic placement, sound muffling etc.. from the next session you do.
Again, nice job! Very Happy

I'll be sure to pas the link on.

Alan

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:30 pm

Thanks Cynl, I actually have some mic technique on the drawing board, hopefully with some photos showing setups I've used fo micing acoustic guitar to start with. I've got a pretty raw resources page up now, but I linked to a couple of very good Shure microphone pdf files that talk about mic technique.

thanks for comments again...

smili

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