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.
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.
This conversation was originally posted to my Twitter feed.
Good morning! I hope you’re having a great weekend. Got another #CoffeeAndKlon for you this week. I hope you enjoy it.
Continue reading “#CoffeeAndKlon 16: Boosting With A Graphic Equaliser Pedal”This conversation was originally posted to my Twitter feed.
Good morning! I hope you’re having a great weekend so far. What’s on my mind for this week’s #CoffeeAndKlon? I want to talk about how a first impression doesn’t always stand up to scrutiny.
Continue reading “#CoffeeAndKlon 15: First Impressions Can Be Wrong”This conversation was originally posted to my Twitter feed.
Good morning! I hope you’re having a great weekend. And, if you’re here in the UK, enjoying the unseasonable bank holiday weather. Got another #CoffeeAndKlon for you this morning. Only there’s no Klon today …
Continue reading “#CoffeeAndKlon 14: Sans Klon”The plan this month was to finally buy a nice rack for my home studio, so that I can get the Synergy amp wired up once again. That didn’t go so well. Silver linings and all that though …
I found a rack that I liked on DV247’s website, paid for it … and later that day received an email from them asking for almost 30% extra money before they’d ship it. Now, the regulations on selling online are clear: you’re not supposed to do that. So yeah, that purchase fell through.
Before I could find and order an alternative from somewhere else, some of the remaining pedals from my bucket list turned up for sale. Interesting (to me) pedals have been hard to find at prices I’m willing to pay all summer long. Having three come along at once was an opportunity I’m glad I didn’t have to pass up.
Continue reading “New Arrivals For August 2019”