Just sold my HD rig and most of my outboard to my studio partner.

[Michael Hynes]

Been thinking about this concept for some years now and have decided

to pull the trigger! Make a clean minimalist control room.(In my case

Barefoot MM 27s, iso box + one rack of useful gear, monitor and seat).

Have one room overdub capabilities with phones + acoustics tricked out

like a mastering room with no clutter. Make the gear disappear (I am not

certain but did I just bust a rime? anyway I digress) and go zen......

Gonna do Logic and get 2 Metric Halo ULN-8s and A Jazz Mutant Dexter

multi-touch Screen. The plan is to pick the room for cutting that serves the

song / artist then go back to the pod for production and mix. Two interfaces,

one 500 series rack, some mics, all able to be loaded in my scion.


What say you?

Michael

[Mixwell]

Make the gear disappear

Space Magic!

Losing PT is the furthest thing from Tragic!

[Zachg]

Make the gear disappear (I am not

certain but did I just bust a rime? anyway I digress)

Never read something like that on a forum before. hahaha

Anyhoo, I think thats a real good idea. Would you be making yourself capable of recording drums, though? If not that might scare away some potential clients who couldn't afford a real nice place to record the basic drum tracks. I don't know if that's a concern for you though.

My concern may or may not matter, but either way, good luck with the remodled studio!

[seaneldon]

Let me get this straight...

You're holding the cash from selling your PT rig and a bunch of rack gear? What are you doing, man?! Take the money and RUN. FAST. FAR.

Half-kidding.

When I was in NY and "in-between" studios I tried to employ the idea of bringing bands to various spaces to record, and then mixing at a small mix suite at home or at a buddy's full-blown-room-turned-mix-room. I would own microphones, gobos, wires, a recorder, that kinda stuff...

It turns out that finding these magical spaces (at least in NY) is REALLY fucking difficult. It's possible to get warehouse/similar spaces for short-term, but short-term generally means a lot more money. Other places don't want you making noise. I can go on if you'd like...

I wound up freelancing at various studios around Manhattan and Brooklyn. Purpose-built rooms that I didn't have to pay for, and that cost the client less money than temporarily renting a warehouse.

All the best, really...I want you to make it work! I just know that I tried the same thing for several months and it was a lot of tail-chasing before I wound up back in regular recording studios.

[Michael Hynes]

I am going to work at a couple of rooms in town as well as my thing.

I already have a few spaces in mind I can get cheap. The thing is I

work with artists that need a producer and arranger, psychologist and

witch doctor, I just happen to be an engineer! My room at home is 10 by 20

so drums are not a problem + I started out as a mobile guy.

We will see.............

[Mixwell]

Michael,

It sounds like your plan has been assimilated to match how you work; the bands/artists you work with, the rooms you have access to, your style and "program". There is no stopping a man with a vision. This new smaller rig sounds like less of a headache anyway. I can COMPLETELY identify with wearing the hats of different social workers, even mythical ones. Its easy to turn yourself into a voodoo shaman/high priest/rabbi of sound and audio with a demanding client. All you've gotta have is some imagination and be the eldest bull and wise man of your village.

I like this quote;

"I am only as good as the people I record"

[Phil O'Keefe]

I like this quote;

"I am only as good as the people I record"

That's probably one of the most honest things anyone's ever said.

[Zachg]

I like this quote;

"I am only as good as the people I record"

That's probably one of the most honest things anyone's ever said.


Yep, one of the truthful things I've heard in a while. Definately good sig. material.

[Tomasz]

I like this quote;

"I am only as good as the people I record"

That's probably one of the most honest things anyone's ever said.

yeah..Kinda like: "which mic did you use to get those killer vocals?" THE ONE WITH THE GREAT SINGER IN FRONT OF IT!

[Ken Morgan]

I dunno about the outboard though...gimme da knobs and wires.

I do like the quote, though....

[gslaw]

the skillet lives.....

nice plan, mikey