Music Room

[ZMAN]

Most of the excess noise that people get from guitars and pedals is noise from the power. IE: improper grounding. I am not an electronic wizard but I have done it by trial and error. IF you plug into a power bar, and say you have several wall warts and a couple of pedals, you will be multiplying the hum from each pedal, which creates a lot of noise.
The conditioned power supply is properly grounded and when you plug it
directly into house current(wall plug) you get dead quiet. That is if your house is properly grounded and I would hope so! The Furman board also has plugs for any "special" voltage wall warts that are also properly ground.
My room has to do double duty when my relatives stay over, and last Christmas we had to move a couple of things around. My wife plugged my pedal board into a power strip and when I turned it on I thought one of my pedals had been fried. I spent all day trying to find out which one was bad. I finally decided to unplug the board, and that is when I found the problem.
Back into the wall and problem solved.
The room is 10 by13, with an 8 by 2.5 foot double closet on the end wall.
I keep 12 of my guitars in their cases in the closet and It has an organizer with shelves for any books, and the rest of my Die cast Camaro collection.
I use the Sony Unit to learn new songs. I buy the "recorded edition" tab books, that are specific to a recorded cd. I use the replay button, and the remote to play and rewind licks so I can learn them. A great tool.
My room took a lot of planning and I am lucky enough to have no backyard neighbours and the ones on either side are never home. So I can wail away.
This is the board, and they are better at explaining the power thing.
This company sells a ton of power conditioner for pros.
http://www.furmansound.com/product.php?id=SPB-8
http://www.furmansound.com/index.php?div=01
Paid 180 US, at GC in Portland Maine. Worth every nickel.

 

[just strum]

This has to be one of the slowest projects. Today I took the time to evict items belonging to my kids, threw away some clutter and moved things around.

Once the room is painted, I will have the guitars hanging from the wall behind the amp and drums. The wall to the right where you see a portion of a bookcase will be soundproofed. Not in the photo is a desk and two, two drawer file cabinets that will stay. I would prefer a smaller desk, but it's needed for when I'm working from home. I will have the desk double as a place to operate on my guitars and use one of the drawers for tool storage. Storage is another good reason to keep the desk.

so, today I went from this,

to this for some gain.

 

[thearabianmage]

Soon I'm going to be moving to London, which is notorious for lack of space. How can I fit 3 electrics, one nylon string, 2 fretless nylon strings, a bass, a keyboard, a computer desk, speakers, effects, amps (1x30w +1x100w), 2 laptops, and floor pedals in my tiny room and still have clothes and stuff?

I'm sacrificing a bed, getting rid of my 120+ DVD collections (6 disc boxsets still count as one - in total, maybe 200+ DVDs alltogether), I'm getting rid of my DVD players, games consoles, television, and I may copy my 250+ CD collection to my 500GB hard drive and, after shedding many tears, sell the majority of my CDs. But that last one is a last resort.

And before any of you think I'm a spoiled brat, just about everything in this message I mentioned I bought with my own money that I worked crap jobs for.

If you really want your music room, it will happen, dude! Keep at it!!!

 

[just strum]

Soon I'm going to be moving to London, which is notorious for lack of space. How can I fit 3 electrics, one nylon string, 2 fretless nylon strings, a bass, a keyboard, a computer desk, speakers, effects, amps (1x30w +1x100w), 2 laptops, and floor pedals in my tiny room and still have clothes and stuff?

Why the move? More opportunity in London?

 

[just strum]

I was thinking of a mural painting where the guitars will be hanging.

Hmmmm, what to paint??? I know something will come to me.

 

[Rabies]

Nothing would inspire you more than a deer on the wall :AOK:

:rotflmao:

 

[thearabianmage]

Why the move? More opportunity in London?

I've been accepted into The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. . .so yes, a lot more opportunity. Plus, London is where it's at, musically speaking, as far as Britain is concerned. Not Cheddar. The closest big city to Cheddar is Bristol, the hometown of Drum 'n Bass. Not the place for rock'n'roll. . .

Plus, I've grown up my whole life in the countryside. . . I wanna move to the city!!! :bravo:

 

[just strum]

I've been accepted into The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. . .so yes, a lot more opportunity. Plus, London is where it's at, musically speaking, as far as Britain is concerned. Not Cheddar. The closest big city to Cheddar is Bristol, the hometown of Drum 'n Bass. Not the place for rock'n'roll. . .

Plus, I've grown up my whole life in the countryside. . . I wanna move to the city!!! :bravo:

Geez, do I feel like an idiot, I didn't realize you were the guy posting the clips for feedback from the fretters. Sorry dude, sometimes I don't pay attention to who's doing what or what I said this or that to (now if that isn't a train wreck American sentence, I don't know what is), but hopefully you understand what I'm saying.

 

[thearabianmage]

Geez, do I feel like an idiot, I didn't realize you were the guy posting the clips for feedback from the fretters. Sorry dude, sometimes I don't pay attention to who's doing what or what I said this or that to (now if that isn't a train wreck American sentence, I don't know what is), but hopefully you understand what I'm saying.

Wehey! So how was my playing?

I know what you mean, though. :AOK:

 

[street music]

Strum, about the DEAR on the wall??? You sure you want it behind you? And I only noticed four guitars sitting in the floor??? There were more???

 

[just strum]

Strum, about the DEAR on the wall??? You sure you want it behind you? And I only noticed four guitars sitting in the floor??? There were more???

actually when I play guitar I am facing that wall and I play guitar far more than drums.

I just took the pic to show how the space is beginning to open up and the guitars shown are the four I play the most.

The SG is in its case and the Squier is about to be packed for shipping if Kazz ever gets his a$$ back on the forum.

 

[Rabies]

actually when I play guitar I am facing that wall and I play guitar far more than drums.

I just took the pic to show how the space is beginning to open up and the guitars shown are the four I play the most.

The SG is in its case and the Squier is about to be packed for shipping if Kazz ever gets his a$$ back on the forum.

Squier? What was it? Or is...you know what I mean...:AOK:

 

[just strum]

Squier? What was it? Or is...you know what I mean...:AOK:

A Bullet - inexpensive first guitar. I was going to save it so if I ever get the talent and the B's to get up on stage, I was going to end it with my Pete Townsend imitation, but no one would loan me an amp.

 

[Rabies]

A Bullet - inexpensive first guitar. I was going to save it so if I ever get the talent and the B's to get up on stage, I was going to end it with my Pete Townsend imitation, but no one would loan me an amp.

Smash it into the Vox...that armor grill can probably take it!!

 

[just strum]

Smash it into the Vox...that armor grill can probably take it!!

What will cook the burgers and hotdogs on this weekend if I do that?

 

[thearabianmage]

What will cook the burgers and hotdogs on this weekend if I do that?

Use your Shaolin Warrior Might! Concentrate hard enough and they should cook themselves :AOK:

 

[just strum]

Just spent time tearing down the drums and loading them into the car. Boy, they took up a lot of room. It is the slowest guitar room transformation, but it is progressing.

Should be able to paint soon, but until then maybe I'll put in a basketball hoop.

 

[just strum]

Warning!!!

Don't deliver drums to someone that has a two car garage converted into a miniature house/rehearsal room with an abundance of guitars (and amps-Marshall's and Peavey's) of which some of the guitars are for sale.

Details of possible guitar purchase to follow.

Regarding the rehearsal room - He removed the garage door, installed a outer wall with door and a window on each side. Put in a bar (seats 5 or 6), brick fireplace on back wall. Definitely a great place to escape and crank it up. So instead of guitar room, he made him self a guitar house.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Music room (or at least area) is coming!

We have had some changes in the last year, and the short version is that my mother in law (who I get along with splendidly btw) is moving in with us due to slowly degenerating health reasons. It is sad, but it is a blessing that between her and us, we can make this work and not have her just move into assisted living. It would not work for her.

So that we have some space and are not in each others' faces all the time, we are adding on also to the kitchen, and moving my wife's office into another part of the house, and expanding it and turning the end of the room into a tech room/music room. The project in the works is below.

The way I have it envisioned is that the computer desk, with the Toneport, and all wiring ready for connections for use as a recorder, etc. will be in the left corner of the pic by that dry wall. you can see the data and phone coming into the wall there. The keyboard will be in front of the window in the left of the photo. Amps will be along the wall under the window straight ahead. TV and stereo will be in the right corner, initially in a hutch that will be diagonally across the corner. Speaker wire is run up the wall in those corners. I am thinking of having guitar hangers on the wall on either side of the window.

Couch in a L type formation will be in front of the gas fireplace you see there, and have a view of the vid area.

The idea will be to have the iMac be able to run music and video to the stereo and TV, and I will run sound from GB to the stereo so I can use it as a PA. I will be careful about levels, but we will have just guitars, backing tracks, and keyboards. No live drums yet. I may have to look into some PA setup some day instead of trying to run that through my stereo, but would welcome advice on this. I plan on having a decent humidifier in the room. The foreground of the pic is past the couch and will have a foosball table and maybe have a ping pong table, and will have soft tip darts somewhere.

The equipment is basically bought and paid for but for my good old speakers that need to be reconed. They will hang up in the corner, or be placed in the corners in some good, traditional way for music imaging. We may have to add some speakers for movie watching someday as it seems dialogue does not come across through traditional stereo setups that well.

Any advice or thoughts as I am in the planning stages?

This pic is where the door from the rec/tech/music room leads to, and I just submit it because I like it. It is the new dining area off the kitchen, and the difference the skylights are going to make is huge! :AOK:

 

[Gutmann]

The back bedroom of my house is my sanctuary:

...Erdinger - hmm :beer:

This is my heaven:

 

[wingsdad]

...This is my heaven: (pics) ...

gutman... is that some type of G&L Legacy leaning on the bench with guitar cases? I knew about that ASAT...we have common tastes...and now I spot another commonality: a Yamaha AW16G [or 1600?] on the desk?

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Nice looking room and gear there Gutmann. It is fun to see the more professional rooms. Mine will be much more "home player" oriented, but I hope to have some good recording/computer mixing/playback capacity.

 

[Gutmann]

gutman... is that some type of G&L Legacy leaning on the bench with guitar cases? I knew about that ASAT...we have common tastes...and now I spot another commonality: a Yamaha AW16G [or 1600?] on the desk?

You're talking about the red strat? That is a Fret King Corona SP60 I got 3 months ago for a nice price.
Here some pics:

I really want a G&L S500 - but it's hard to find one for a good price here.
And yes, the recorder is a yamaha aw16g. All the miked amps and drums are plugged into it everytime - so it's easy to record everytime we play (which doesn't seem to happen very often unfortunately).

Last week, we took out everything from that room to clean and rearrange it - the reason why I made som pics
Here is a nice pic when we had a couple of amps and guitars frome some friends to check out:

:master: