Wednesday, May 16, 2012

A Turning Point

As some of you may know, a year and a half ago I stopped touring to work a full-time job in order to get out of steepening debt and to finally afford the gear that I need to reduce costs on future projects. Thanks to an artist endorsement with the kind folks at Auralex Acoustics, I've finally completed my tracking room, mixing room, and vocal booth. I also recorded a quick Before and After comparison of drums, rhodes, and out-of-tune piano. Note: these drums are not close-mic'ed; I set up two Shure KSM 137 condensor mics (set on "omni") in the middle of the room, about 5 feet away from all 3 instruments. I made sure they were in exactly the same place for the before and after recording.

Now I just have to learn how to play music. 

Tracking Room - before



Tracking Room - after





Mixing Room and Vocal Booth


7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome

Andrew Brown said...

Wow... I was jealous of your "before" room. That's an amazing set up. Great work, Gavin!

There's a huge difference in the before and after audio. The drums are especially cleaner. I can't wait to hear what albums come out of that room.

Jeff said...

room to create. badass.

Johnny said...

wow such an awesome set up. A sidenote, I also have that FNY poster on my wall

Anonymous said...

hot. so very, very hot. I cannot wait to hear what comes out of this. :)

Anonymous said...

Looks/sounds great. Now come and play phoenix!

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beautiful...i ...cried looking at the photos...