Home rehearsal room project underway

[lojo]

Taking a break and thought id share this as i am excited

Converting the back of my garage into a music room

Please share any thoughts for ideas

Plans basically for home office, electric drum kit, keys and guitars going through std hi fi system for fairly quite rehearsals and song writing etc

Boy is also taking up the drums




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Edited November 2, 2010 by lojo

[thisnameistaken]

A mate of mine did this, called it the "man room", and also put a bed in there and a fridge and a big poster of Cantona!

[crez5150]

My first thought is buy your missus something nice.... as you'll be spending more and more time in that room...

Also I would look at buying a 5/6 way headphone amp and some half decent cans so you can wear these while rehearsing.... much better than going through the hifi

[Dom in Dorset]

I did the same with a garden shed, insulated, lined it and put in power.
It seems to have turned into a brewery at the moment.

[dougal]

Mine's called "the man cave".

We do quite a lot of playing with electronic drums & headphones in there.

I heartily recommend the fridge like rack unit for mounting all the rack stuff (and a rack mixer, of course, for evening out levels). Saves a lot of time plugging everything in.



Also, I second the headphones over hi-fi; it'd have to be some pretty serious kit for volume levels, and you're liable to blow the speakers unless you compress the mix: have you considered a cheap PA / active monitors instead?

[Pentode]

God, I'm sooo envious!

[EdwardHimself]

Since we're posting "man rooms":


unfortunately I'm nowhere near rich enough to afford posh things like "soundproofing". When i'm older i'm going to have a go at making a proper home studio that's for sure

[lojo]

I have some pretty good large speakers and an amp, I was hoping to mix it all on a small mixer, DI from guitars, drums etc, and then have that all run through the amp as one mix?


I know its not very professional, but I thought it might work ok without having to spend out on to much new kit, then we can play at the same sound level as Id listen to CDs / movies etc.

Edited November 2, 2010 by lojo