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Organization is everything whenit comes to building an efficient

home recording studio. Itsabout space relative to your body, gear relative to your

hands, ideas and possibilitiesclose to your mind.

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the effectsyou needare right where youneed them with MusicPeople's easily portable12-space rack stand.It's easy transport andeasy to place on stage,studio, home, orwherever you need it .Tweak writes: Cheapn' Cheerful I haveTwo. Perfect for atabletop rack system.It's stronger than itlooks and with no side,back or bottom panelsyou have full access

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The most critical variable in the computer based studio is having a keyboard near your computer keyboard.Ideally, you want to be able to press record and play at the same time your other hand triggers notes. You alsowant to hear your music in perfect stereo when your head is pointed to the computer monitor, and also when youare at your mixing desk. Having 2 sets of speakers helps. I suggest near field monitors pointing at you when youlook at your computer screen and larger mid field monitors when you are facing your mixing desk. You switch backand fort h as you build th e song. While you are editing the song on the computer you can use the near fields at amodera te-to-low volume to save ear fatigue, and as you do your final mix, you can use the big guns to criticallyevaluat e depth, boomine ss, crispness, balance and other issues. Your tweeters should be at ear level. That's prettyimportant. Speakers sound different off axis. Build everything else around these considerations. Whatever you do,avoid putting speakers in corners. Move them a few feet out if it has to sit in a corner so you don't get anunwan ted bass b oost.

Rectangular rooms are better than square rooms. If possible have the big speakers pointing down the long side of theroom to maximize the distance between the back wall and the back of your head. If your back is against the wall, thereections off the wall will play some tricks on your ears.

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When setting up or rearranging your studio, think of every possible angle by which you may need to access yourequipment. This gets tricky with items that you may need to access from behind, as well as from the front--especially mixing boards. If the jackfield is against a wall in the middle of a table, I can guarantee you you won'tbe repatching very often. I recommend leaving at least 2 feet behind your racks free so you can get back there andtroubleshoot.

Get a good, comfortable chair on casters that is adjustable and supports your back properly. Many office supplystores have good ones. Make sure it does not squeak. (Though I have to admit, I've gotten some great reallyscary samples out of swivel chair squeaks, but normally you don't want these in the mix, lol.)

Now stretch your arm out and spin around 360 degrees in yournew swivel chair. The circle your arm makes is your primestudio real estate. If there is an object in this space you never touch when working on music, move it back. Move objects youdo touch into this valued inner circle. You will not believe thedifference this can make. Move all your set-once-and forgetpieces to the back. That might include room EQs, effects boxes,synth modules, amps, midi interface racks, etc. Stuff that goesup front, obviously, you main keyboard, grooveboxs, synths withreal time controllers, patchbays, and samplers (unless you edit

them remotely).

All that #$%@& DJ Gear. Hey, Ilike grooveboxs as much as anyone.No dudes. I really do. Yet while theymight be great in a DJ Coffin, theypose quite a problem in a home studio,namely, they take too much verticalspace because they can't be racked. Imean if all my synths were "desktopmodules" I'd have to install a little jetpack to my chair to get to it all!

Of course you could get rack drawers, but once you price those

you might think different. An attractive yet inexpensive solutionis a budget computer desk, the kind parents buy for school kids.They have a sliding drawer for a keyboard and are about 2-3 feetin length. Yep, you just put your electribe, your Kaoss pad, orwhatever else that is thin in the drawers and pu your heftiergrooveboxs on the top. And you get space underneath to storeyour mics, cds, zips, on one side and have some stackable spaceon the other side for stuff like amps, tape decks, whatever elseyou have that can't be racked. You can even store books there,like your manuals, which you have read cover to cover, right?

Lighting. Dimmers and florescent lamps may induce hum intoyour audio system. Invest in lo wattage bulbs if you like to workwith low light. Make an atmosphere of lighting to make your

studio a creative place that's easy on the eyes. Besides, VSTlooks better in low light. Ambient lighting is good, it saveseyestrain, especially if you are spending long sessions staringinto a computer monitor. Avoid all situations of glare reflected

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Keep a well-stocked box of adapters. Yes. Go to Radio Shack.You have my permission. Don't let those smirking pros in thecorner stop you.

Do you have a Patchbay? Don't think you needone? Take this little test. Have you ever run out of mixerchannels? (Who hasn't!) Is there ever an unused mixer channelin any of your mixes because it was tied up with a synth youdidn't need for the piece? Do you ignore the sub outs on yoursynths and run everything from the main outs? If you answeredall 3 of these as YES then you NEED a patchbay and if youanswered yes to 2 of the three you will really appreciate havingone. Sure it's a bit of a pain to set up and you have to buy lotsmore cables, but it is very much worth it because you can makeyour studio as flexible as you want. Here's the class on settingup your patchbay. Get all your old gear out of the closet andpatch it into the bay. If you ever want to use it again, it will beabout 2 seconds away from being live and patched into yourboard. Using the sub outs of synths and samplers dramaticallyincreases your mix quality. If you dedicate a mixer channel to

just the bass drum alone you improve your mix greatly.

If you do go with a Patchbay, make a list of what gear isconnected to each in and out. A standard 24 point patchbay has96 jacks on it. Don't trust yourself to remember all of them.When you change your rig, update the list.

Kill the Hum. When laying out your studio, route all the ACcords first. Put them in a pathway that will cross audio cables at a 90 degree angle. Should you use cable ties? Isay no, though clearly your studio will look neater if you do. However, you might find that if you ever want to move

a piece of gear you have to undo the harness and it's a pain. Avoid all situations where an audio cable travelsparallel with an a/c cable as the audio cable will pick up dreaded 60 cycle HUM. Keep audio cables away from wall-warts (adapters).

At a normal listening level, with nothing playing, gates switched off, your audio should be silent. Now, carefully putall your faders to 100% and slowly turn up your amp till you hear noises, hums, rfi. Isolate the most offensive of these noises to single pieces of gear and see if moving the ac/audio cable paths helps. Usually, you can improveyour signal-to-noise ratio substantially by running this test, and you learn which pieces in your studio are thenoisiest. This helps during the mix as you can make better decisions about boosting a single level or cuttingeverything else to make an instrument cut the mix.

Acoustics: the really simple way. Treat the walls in your studio. Clap your hands loud in your studio. No, notto find the remote, but to listen for any ringing or resonance. You don't want resonance here, you analog filter heads! (smile). Do the foam thing till the only ringing you hear is your tinitus. Ouch! I mean till you clap and thesound does not bounce back. Shoot for a room where instruments sound full and clear, neither sproingy or muffled.Half dead, half alive. You know, the way you feel after 2 weeks of all night sessions.

Half and Half rule. If you have carpet, don't treat the ceiling. If you treat the north wall, don't treat the south wall,ditto for east and west. Square rooms are not good as they create standing waves where a certain frequency willresonate. Of course this is all a simplification to get you going. A more scientific way is place some of them wherethey will diffuse the early reflections coming off the walls and ceiling over your head and on the wall area your earspoint to. But even just adding some foam will help. Sound travels fast (at the speed of sound!) and the more

diffusion you add, the more dead the room will sound. You don't want totally dead, but a room where things soundgood.

A professional approach will carefully analyze the room and place a variety of bass traps and soundabsorbers/diffusers at strategic locations. Bass is a problem, particularly in small studios. Bass frequencies bouncearound the room in such a fashion to give uneven bass response, depending on where you sit or stand. A Bass trapis normally put close to the corners, where they can be effective at "trapping" the bass frequencies. But this is just

to foreshadow the next article , which will deal with acoustics in more detail.

Keep you cables where you will need them. Behind your rack is a great place.
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Keeping it clean. You'll be happier in your studio if you dust it every now and then. I use cotton cloths witheither a little Windex or Endust for electronics sprayed on them. Just a little. Best not to spray on the geardirectly. A featherduster is very useful for getting dust off of mixers, where the knobs are so close together its hardto get the surface.

Invest in the absolute best all purpose Phillips screwdriver you can find. Get a good pair of needle nose pliers, jewelers screwdrivers, and wire cutters.

Heavy drapes over windows will keep outdoor noises from ruining your tracks. Also, tell the neighbors to keep itdown after 3am, you're trying to make music in here.

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