Various foam pictures. I packed this stuff everywhere. 2 Full walls of these, and another fair chunk on the ceiling after hanging curtains and some other rugs and blankets. Back to the Drum Room Project Table of Contents.
Category: Home Studio
These are the post around the home studio. Some men want a man cave, I want to record live music in my home.
Drum Room Project :: Cleaning the floor a bit
A quick post this time. Just a small post on the floor, so you can see how it started. There are some new rugs now, by the time this post comes out, so I will add those as I get them up. I have been busy working on other parts of the family basement. Non-music Read More …
Drum Room Project :: Make a new ceiling
I know the curtains post, came before this one. Things are all jumbled up right now. I need a better media organization system, than the current one. Anyway this post highlights the building the ceiling portion of this task. This was all basically from found lumber. The sheets of plywood came from a friend who no Read More …
Drum Room Project :: Hang Some Curtains
Drums can be quite loud, especially when you have a spouse, children, and various animals in your house as well. The dog is not fond of the drum set at all. My thinking, as flawed as it may be, is that it will take many layers of objects and surfaces, along with types and angles in Read More …
More Bass Guitar Recording Tricks
Tune the bass. Tune the bass. Tune the bass. Everything harmonically else in the song is going on top of the bass. If it is a little bit our of tune, then the rest of your tracks are not going to sound right. I like to tune the bass just a little bit flat, so Read More …
Notes :: Tune the Drums
When you are tuning drums make sure that you do cross tension. Meaning that you start with the lug nut furthest across from you give it a 1/2 a turn, then go across from that do half a turn, across from that half a turn. It ends up being a star pattern on the drums.. Read More …
Getting Started :: Expand on our Little Setup
In truth, the only limitation the studio could possibly have is the songwriter. In some ways it doesn’t matter what first made the noise. In many ways it does not matter how the noise is recorded. In almost every case, the only opinion that matters is the individual making the noise. I think Miles said, Read More …
Getting Started :: My Home Studio PC
My home PC is not an off the shelf model. In fact it was actually built by a friend of mine to be a server not a desktop. He offered to sell it to me for a decent price right at the same time my original studio laptop was dying. Price + need, and this Read More …
EQ Tips :: Bass Guitar
These are Tips per se, more just my collection of notes for recording or mixing the bass guitar. Hope some of these help you! 2022-11-04 Yes of course you want the low end from the bass. It is the instrument that most often glues the harmony together in the song. Around a 100Hz that will Read More …
Old and New Sound Interface
I will admit that this device did not die on this specific day, but I held off on this post until Day of the dead to celebrate this old piece of gear. I used this for many years. It traveled from place to place many times, and I think just finally died of use. Too Read More …