2019 Tech Cave Tour Home Studio Setup
Vaniria Setser
Ball State's 400-seat mainstage theatre has state-of-the-art technical equipment, including a completely computerized lighting system and acoustically sophisticated recording and reproduction sound systems.
2019 Tech Cave Tour Home Studio Setup
This 100-seat, intimate, flexible, black box space emphasizes the immediacy of the actor-audience relationship and can be configured in a multitude of ways for maximum artistic creativity and innovation.Strother Theatre is accessed from the northeast entrance to the Arts and Communications Building. Find it on our map.
This small laboratory theatre has been the home of many exciting and inspired student-driven productions over the years.Student directors and designers have ample opportunities to practice their craft early on in this space. The Cave is also used for classes and workshops.The Cave is located on the basement level of the Arts and Communications Building. Find it on our map.
Rehearsals at Ball State Theatre and Dance take place in a variety of fully equipped spaces, allowing students a professional-style rehearsal experience in a non-performance location so that time can be devoted to building sets and hanging lights in the performance venues.
Designers and Technicians at Ball State create their visions in a variety of technologically sophisticated venues, working with the latest hardware and software. Our design studio, makeup room, costume shop, scene shop, and sound and lighting labs are the perfect place for young designers to learn their craft.
It is vital to understand that within this assemblage not everyone typically hears the same thing. Engineers often create different mixes for the control room monitors and tracking room headphone feeds, and in some sessions where multiple musicians perform simultaneously, different mixes for each musician. During the tracking of a particularly rhythmically challenging or precise part, a musician might feel they need a large amount of clicktrack in their mix (or the engineer may decide that for them), while the engineer would hear much less, focusing their listening instead on the timbre of the part and how it fits into the mix. In most tracking room monitoring setups, musicians at most could control the volume of their headphones or perhaps adjust the balance of high and low frequencies, while the engineer has ultimate control of what parts are sent and in what balance, and can at will engage the talkback mic and communicate through the headphone feed (while musicians are only audible to the control room if the engineer has chosen to monitor their microphone feed). Thus, an attention to technologies of audition reveals one facet of the asymmetrical power relations of the studio, and asymmetrical listening practices contained within.
With the proliferation of digital recording platforms starting in the 1980s, and especially with the shift from console/tape-based systems to computer-based DAWs, the practice of studio musicianship has accumulated even more technical challenges as digital recording systems introduce audible delays in the form of latency. In exclusively analog systems, the amount of time that it takes for signal to get from tape to headphones is negligible, so the only source of latency is the time sound travels through air, from instrument to microphone or from studio monitors to listeners (roughly 1ms per foot). But analog-digital conversion and digital-analog conversion each incur between 1.5 and 6 milliseconds of latency, and additional latency may be incurred if DSP-intensive effects plugins are used. In other words, studio musicians hear their own acoustic sound 6 to 23 ms before they hear their sound again coming through their headphones, listening to themselves in the past in order to synchronize their performance in the present. This is just one facet of the sensorium of studio work that sets studio musicianship apart from musicianship in other sites, and one of the interesting effects imparted by the studio and the technologies of audition contained within.
Likewise, the studio has been the site of numerous new techniques for working with recorded sound, including many modes of visualizing sound, and transduction between sound pressure, electrical impulses and digital representations. In this way, studios are effectively identical to scientific laboratories as described by Karin Knorr-Cetina:
The importance of coffee and tea encompasses many registers, from the effects of caffeine on the nervous systems of individuals to a calming social ritual that punctuates an otherwise nonstop intensive work environment, from a symbol of pride in the service a studio provides to a defining element of the identity of an individual studio.
I argue that the more we wish to understand the vibe and sound of the studios, the more we may wish to consider the studio as an active agent in the process of recording production, an actor in the social worlds that inhabit its very wombs and bunkers.
7 Also of note has been a host of DIY acoustic treatments that have been popularized on the internet through the active contribution of Ethan Winer and Glenn Kuras to numerous message forums. Ethan and Glenn went on to form RealTraps LLC and Gik Acoustics, corporations that sell similar but professionally-manufactured treatments.
15 Kalan Stdyo, founded in 2007, is one of two studios owned by Kalan Mzik Yapım, the largest independent record label in Turkey and the Turkish diaspora. Kalan Stdyo primarily records arranged rural folk, urban art and Anatolian ethnic musics, both for album releases and for TV and film soundtracks.
16 Studio Yekre is a private home facility owned by percussionist/engineer Yılmaz Yeşilyurt, while Stdyo Arica is a commercial facility that typically records Karadeniz (Black Sea arranged folk) album projects and fantezi artists.
The coolest thing about owning an online business is that when a resource doesn't exist (like, you know...the most-bad ass article on the internet showcasing 100+ home studio design ideas and inspiration), I can simply go ahead and build it.
So that's what we're doing here. I wanted to create a post that not only categorizes different music production home studio styles into various buckets, but also acts as near infinite inspiration when it comes to building your dream home studio.
But before we get into 100+ home studio design ideas, we thought we would take you through a tour of Masterclass Lead Instructor, Zach Montoya's studio, above. It's a simple, bedroom studio that has everything you'd ever need to make professional quality music.
What I like most about Zedd's space is the mostly monochromatic, simple wood choice through out. Surely, acoustics were a top priority for Zedd, with an emphasis on minimal design. The pops of color are vibrant and lively (just like his music).
When I look at this studio from The Chainsmokers, I think functionality. It clearly is optimized for laptop production, and checks all the major boxes. A little bit of hardware as needed, dual screens, and this space gets the job done.
Deadmau5's studio conveys one thought: this dude loves hardware. The studio is built to satisify Joel's nerdy side, and it gets the job done in a clean, efficient mannor despite the incredible amount of hardware and wiring needed to pull this off.
Martin Garrix's home studio design is another in the line of progressive house DJs who went the LED lit, clean, futuristic and minimal vibe with their studio. With an emphasis on acoustics, my first thought about this studio: I would love to try listening to music here.
This utilitarian studio looks like an obsessed hobbyist more so than an environment of three international electronic dance music stars. Let this be a reminder that less is more. None the less, this studio is cozy, warm and extremely inviting.
This home studio from Squarepusher looks like you're stepping into a friend's living room. Some organized chaos, a few instruments, and plenty of hardware looks like an environment that you could easily spend hours in.
Kygo's home studio design is more or less reflective of many, many bedroom producers. And don't underestimate the value of that window. While window's are not' ideal for acoustics, they do a lot in regards to sanity.
Ahh, the cave-darkened home studio design is an extension of the man-cave. If you Google the definition of a man-cave, it's pretty spot on: a room or other part of a home used by a man as a place to relax and pursue hobbies away from the rest of the family.
If you have a little bit of extra space in your studio, it might be worth investing in standalone sound rooms like Whisperroom. Used by top studios, these customizable sound booths can elevate even the most humble studios!
Stonegate Recording Studios in England makes me feel like I am commanding fleet from Startship Troopers. That beer looks tasty as well. Worth noting: lighting behind the acoustic panels is a nice touch.
Could we have put this home studio design into the darkened-cave category? Absolutely. But the bright lights do wonders in coloring and changing the space. This is now less man-cave and more LED lit and alive.
This studio is perhaps staged for a live performance, but again, plants and various accent lighting is doing all the work here. If anything, the lesson is that your equipment is already beautiful. Vibe items like lighting, plants, windows, natural light, etc. just go a long way in emphasizing your home studio design.
Our physical possessions are actually linked to our mental health. Which is why studies show that when we do something as simple as clean out our closets, it has a massive impact on our mental clarity. Plus, even science has shown that there is a direct correlation between cleanliness and productivity.
This home studio design from Mountclear Productions is pretty damn epic. The acoustic panels are an incredible statement piece in an otherwise white, clean and simple room. I absolutely love the angular ceiling panels and roof panel absorbers as an incredible statement piece in an otherwise white, clean and simple room. Modern gear against the rustic wood tones of the vintage dresser, and a down-to-earth couch helps contrast the room perfectly.
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