Tone. At Home.
Here in the UK, the online second hand gear market is in the worst shape I’ve seen for decades. Even frequent ‘sell for £1’ events by eBay haven’t helped.
So instead, I’ve decided to sit down, and sort out my home studio setup.
Continue reading “New Arrivals For October”This conversation originally appeared on my Twitter feed.
Good morning! This week’s #CoffeeAndKlon is a day late … because Kristi and I went to the UK International Guitar Show yesterday. Today, I want to talk about giving up gear. As in, letting go of gear you’ve outgrown or stopped using.
Continue reading “CoffeeAndKlon #20: Giving Up Gear (That You’re Not Using)”I’m currently getting my home studio more organised, and along the way I’m sharing my thought process, decisions, discoveries and regrets.
I’ve had the new studio rack and the two new patchbays for a week or so now. I’ve experimented with a few possible layouts. And I’ve come to an awful conclusion: running all of this into my existing desktop interface just isn’t going to work for me.
Continue reading “Studio Diary #6: I Need To Upgrade My Audio Interface”This conversation was originally posted to my Twitter feed.
A couple of very interesting bits of new gear announced today.
This conversation was originally posted to my Twitter feed.
A couple of very interesting bits of new gear announced today.
This conversation was originally posted to my Twitter feed.
Good morning folks! I’m back with another #CoffeeAndKlon for you. This week, I want to step away from gear (for once!) and talk about time … the time we have for music.
Continue reading “CoffeeAndKlon #19: Make Time For Your Passions”I’m currently getting my home studio more organised, and along the way I’m sharing my thought process, decisions, discoveries and regrets.
My studio rack is here.
Continue reading “Studio Diary #5: The Rack Has Arrived”I’m currently getting my home studio more organised, and along the way I’m sharing my thought process, decisions, discoveries and regrets.
The studio rack is on its way. Now I need to choose a couple of patchbays to go in it.
Continue reading “Studio Diary #4: Picking The Patchbays”I’m currently getting my home studio more organised, and along the way I’m sharing my thought process, decisions, discoveries and regrets.
The guts of my studio is going to be the rack that most of my gear lives in.
Continue reading “Studio Diary #3: Picking The Rack”I’m currently getting my home studio more organised, and along the way I’m sharing my thought process, decisions, discoveries and regrets.
It’s far too tempting – and far too easy! – to go browsing Thomann and Andertons, and put together a wish-list of gear to turn into a fab home studio.
I’m going to sound like a heretic here. I don’t think that the gear alone makes the studio. Not a home studio at any rate. I think what matters most for a home studio is what it’s like to use.
Continue reading “Studio Diary #2: What Should The Studio Be Like?”