Top 7 Recording Studio Design Principles Explained

Table Of Content

• The DUAL Recording Studio Setup
• Ableton Live: Innovative Performance Tips for Electronic Music Producers
• Speaker Stands vs Speakers on the Table
• HotPatch: Your Partner in Creative Space
• Rack for Guitars and Other String Instruments
• Available Programs
• Recording & Mix Engineer Home Studio
• Note Gradient Hammer Action MIDI Controllers & Keyboards

If you don’t like the feel of the keybed action, you might not be playing the keyboard much. You should actually learn to play the piano/keyboard if you’re serious about making electronic music or beats. I teach private one on one piano and beat-making lessons here at Current Sound in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

The DUAL Recording Studio Setup

Acoustical requirements may conflict with common green building practices, placing constraints on structural form, building materials, passive heating, ventilation and natural lighting. But, if you’re interested in how having a green recording studio can help you save costs in the long run (and help you stand out from your competitors), you’ve come to the right place. I believe that sustainable design is good design, and a well designed studio will benefit you for years to come.

Ableton Live: Innovative Performance Tips for Electronic Music Producers

Argosy and Sterling Modular make most of the furniture you see in professional recording studios in the US. Overall, he did a decent job on the layout and lighting. It has a great vibe and has a lot of really expensive gear but there is no acoustic treatment or soundproofing.

Speaker Stands vs Speakers on the Table

There was a noticeable switch, relatively recently, whereby musicians and producers sought a path away from their laptops. Portability became as coveted a feature as any other, with battery power and smaller form factors helping people travel out of their darkened studios and out onto mountaintops and into forests. This is my idea of the perfect producer studio for your apartment – sleek, stylish, minimal. The LA-610 Tube Channel Strip & 6176 Tube Preamp shows that this producer cares about quality, and it shows in the design of this fantastically appointed studio. Everything feels particularly weighted by gravity here. Whatever it is, it’s a perfect minimalist studio setup with all the right tools to do some damage.

HotPatch: Your Partner in Creative Space

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The reality is, Apple want you to think Macs are better for music but they’re the same hardware, it’s just the OS and software that is different. You can get the same and better software for the PC anyway but the cost of Logic is cheap compared to the other top DAWs so it might be worthwhile to go Mac if you want to use Logic as your DAW. Keep in mind that thinner laptops run hotter due to having smaller fans. When a laptop overheats, it throttles and slows down.

However the modules themselves are made for the pro studio market and are usually very high quality. A very large number of 19″ racks also come in 500 Series format, sometimes referred to as lunchbox format. One 500 series rack is super small, fitting into the palm of your hand, yet it can contain almost all the electronics of a larger 19″ rack. The difference is, is has no power supply or connections. The power supply and connections take up the bulk of the space in most 19″ racks.

Available Programs

Obviously, absorbers can look strange in the home environment. But there are creative ways to cover them, as with this colored fabric applied to a special acoustically absorptive surface. There are also acoustically porous plaster finishes available, which look no different than standard drywall but absorb rather than reflect sound energy.

A lot of companies would like to tout their sound-absorbing treatments as noise and soundproofing technologies, it’s just simply not true. The crate of wax and turntable says this home studio setup is one of a die-hard sampler. This feels like a rustic cabin to me (rather than an apartment music studio), but is one of our favourite bedroom recording studio ideas .

Note Gradient Hammer Action MIDI Controllers & Keyboards

GIK Acoustics and ATS Acoustics make triangle corner bass traps but they’re expensive if you want them to go all the way up to the ceiling. Auralex made foam bass traps also and while aren’t as good as those from GIK and ATS, they’re a little smaller and cheaper and are surprisingly useful and useful for spaces where you can’t fit a GIK or ATS trap. It is best to avoid sitting in the center of the room whenever possible. If you must sit in the center, you will need more bass trapping and more acoustic panels. Before you fill the room with gear, fix the acoustics.

So it’s quite literally twice the amount of inputs and outputs. There are three types of audio interfaces in terms of form factor. Desktop interfaces, 19″ rack interfaces and half rack (9.5″) interfaces. What type you get will depend on how many inputs and outputs you need. A clean line in is one that bypassing the preamps of the unit completely. The mic/combo line jacks on an interface usually means that a line in still passes through the preamps but the preamps are effectively padded down/turn down so they are not amplifying the sound as much.

If you can blow through it but the weave is tight enough to keep all the fibers in, it will allow the sound to pass through without letting the fibers escape. I’ve seen a lot of people selling home made acoustic panels on Craigslist that are very unsafe. Acoustic panels should always be 100% sealed in fabric and wood. You should not see any holes or exposed insulation. You can make frame-less acoustic panels like we made earlier for the window plug, glue some velcro on the back with a very thick glue like Liquid Nails. Or you can make acoustic panels with a wooden back or thick wooden edges and staple the velcro strip to the back with a staple gun.