Jam Spaces

[Granny Gremlin]

I love jam spaces.  Classic "Third Place" that can feel more like home than home.  I like looking at other's not only for the gear porn but also for good ideas as regards organisation,/layout and general mess management  - most of us are making due with not quite enough space; spare bedrooms, attics/basements etc.  Post pics of your music cave here, and I guess we can talk about related issues too.

This was the studio/venue I was running for a while (Polyhaus).  Closed down for a number of reasons, but mainly that the lease was up a couple months before my daughter was due to be born and I would not have the time to run shows (required to pay the rent on this place) with the new kid so I just let it go:





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The wood balcony thing is the AV loft (front of house + projector control).  My studio was the room to the left of the stage.  Inside there (old pic, forgot to take another one after I finished wiring up the patchbays and hung up the cloud):



The fisheye lens really distorts.  The room was designed by me to be a symmetrical (on the axis that bisects the mixing position and the drum throne) septagon (the wall behind the drums is actually 2 walls joining at a rather obtuse angle - something like 120-140 deg - behind the throne, and the wall in front of the mixer is actually 3 walls, the side 2 joining the middle one at 60 degree angles - which was a perfect toe-in for my soffit-mounted monitors) with no parallel surfaces (aside from floor and ceiling - was gonna slant the ceiling but the shape was already weird/hard enough to build).  Sounded awesome in there.  RIP.

Anyway, after stabilising my life again (with regards to the children and their routines), I have a new spot.  No shows (still no time for that) just studio.  Currently setting that up.  Pics soon - I got just enough stuff moved in to jam, but my bass traps are all stacked in what will soon be the mixing nook, and one whole wall is a mess of tools and random supplies.

[Granny Gremlin]

Come on, nobody?

Just spent the last 2 days (earned over a week in liu time on a recent implementation project at work so took some staycation) in my new space getting all the acoustic panels mounted (I was procrastinating because I was dreading hanging the cloud from the solid concrete ceiling - what a pain), mixing desk (modified Ikea Jerker - I highly recommend them, nice and modular and easy to modify /config to your needs; too bad they're disco'd, but you can still get them, there's actually a pretty striff market for them on craig's and ebay last I checked) and wiring up the right hand patch bay (left hand is all front end stuff and was completed at my old space - mic preamps, monitor control and problem solvers like passive attenuators and splitter/isolators; right side is the mixing outboard (FX) - comps, EQs, reverb etc).

[nofi]

we are all older than you  and already have our state of the art studios installed in all of our mansions. it's time for you to play catch up.

[Granny Gremlin]

Bollocks/pics or it's all lies.  I've seen some of the glorified rec rooms in the pics of the brothers thread.

[Pilgrim]

Bollocks/pics or it's all lies.  I've seen some of the glorified rec rooms in the pics of the brothers thread.

Um, mine is in my head.  Don't go looking for photos of the basement bedroom where I practice.....I think I've avoided taking any....

[nofi]

it's a joke, son. its not the room its what comes out of it. glorified rec rooms, indeed.

[Granny Gremlin]

the kids can joke back, pops

[chromium]

Nice looking setup!

I have a bit of "stuff" in my space, cheap old DAW (Win7, Cubase SX3, M-Audio FW1814, and UAD-1), some outboard gear, and have picked up a handful of used Neutrik TRS bays... but haven't wired them in.  I'm still in ad-hoc mode - hooking up stuff as I need it, and given a general lack of time it's all usually just for creating demos of synth controllers that I build/sell...

One of these days...

[nofi]

have you ever seen the video of rush practicing in someones family room! complete with comfy furniture and sliding glass doors to the patio.

[drummer5359]

Mine is a tad cramped, but works well for me. It is the rehearsal space used by three of the four projects that I play in. All of the gear shown is mine, it all gets used.

[drummer5359]

The configuration varies as to who is practicing. The hand percussion rig is set up when needed and amps moved.

[Granny Gremlin]

Holy crap - that looks like a small music store.  Love the rack of snares just sitting right there - how do you avoid rattle-city?

[drummer5359]

Holy crap - that looks like a small music store.  Love the rack of snares just sitting right there - how do you avoid rattle-city?

Thanks! Yes, I have all of the gear that I'll ever need and then some. I have the snares shut off, I stick a small piece of foam between the snare and head. I throw couple of furniture pads over the rack as well. It works fine.

[Granny Gremlin]

Finally got pics of the new digs.  Not as swanky as the last place, but for for the insanely small  amount of rent I am paying this can't be beat.  It is just big enough (we did have to get rid of a few things and think about organisation a lot - still busy looking, but my brain registers that as 'cozy').

[Basvarken]

Cool! Looks like you're using every single inch of the room 


Here's our rehearsal room.




It's a former hide out bunker built during the cold war, when people were scared of WWIII.
The current owner turned it into a private pub when he bought the house "upstairs".