Tone. At Home.
“The Hermit’s Cave” is my little home recording studio. This is a general catch-all tag for anything about me and my gear.
I’m currently getting my home studio more organised, and along the way I’m sharing my thought process, decisions, discoveries and regrets.
I think I’ve finally figured out how I’m going to use the Neutrik NYS-SPP-L1 patchbay that I bought from Thomann for my studio rack.
I hope it makes sense to someone 🙂
Continue reading “Studio Diary #7: Getting The Most Out Of The Neutrik NYS-SPP-L1”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”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”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?”I’m currently getting my home studio more organised, and along the way I’m sharing my thought process, decisions, discoveries and regrets.
The Hermit’s Cave – my home studio – is little more than a corner of same room that doubles up as my home office for work. In September last year, I bought new furniture for the room … and since then, most of my gear has been sat in a pile completely unplugged.
Continue reading “Studio Diary #1: The State Of Things”August was another really slow month on the second hand market, and things didn’t pick up for September. Instead, I’ve ended up concentrating on the first guitar of my #PlayAlternative series.
Continue reading “New Arrivals For September 2019”David @SigilPickups made the pickups that are in Ghost, my Les Paul Custom. I said at the time that I’d buy again from him, and I finally have 🙂 Really looking forward to hearing how these sound in my 59 RI.
