I spent the day waiting to hear from an ad client whether the actual client client approved what I had been working on. BTW, still no answer as of 7:20 PM. And I had a nice little stomach flu (I'll spare you the details). So I had some time to kill.
Ya know, give me some time, and I'm not just gonna kill it, I'm gonna torture it first. I started looking around the studio. I was, and am, determined to come up with an ergonomic place to put my amp heads, near enough to the control area to be able to tweak them while wearing a guitar and headphones while recording. Unfortunately the only logical spot to do this is the ugliest spot in my studio (which ain't all that in the first place).
What I don't want to do is screw up the very careful placement of my acoustical treatment, or my main recording controls. But everything else is fair game.
And there are limitations. One wall where it'd be fairly sensible to put amplifier heads in terms of ergonomics and even looks has no AC outlets, and I'd have to run speaker cables into cable races in the ceiling to avoid stringing them across my doorway. That might be too much work for not much gain.
I figured I'd have an amp rack made. I probably still will. But in the meantime I decided to move furniture around to give myself a temporary amp location. The cabs are no problem, I can move them around in the recording area. But we all know what it's like to walk back and forth to the recording controls wearing headphones and a guitar and what happens between the headphone cable and the guitar cable. It's an invitation to step on the cables, get all tangled, and probably trip and fall, which I'll admit isn't a pleasant prospect at my age.
So I got busy with furniture glides, and started moving gear and tables and whatnot. If you're me, you can't visualize how things are gonna work out without putting everything in place and seeing how it works and looks. I must've tried a dozen things.
As of this evening, I have kind of a half-baked scheme going that seems to make logical sense in terms of how I work the gear. It looks like crap, though. I have both heads on one desk thing. I've done this before but in a different location. The desk doesn't fit the area I stuck it in, looks-wise, but I found that not having shelves and having two heads on a desk makes them awfully easy to adjust without bending over. That's kind of a plus. Good function.
I just finished dinner and am going back into the room to tweak placement. It's stupid, I know it's stupid, because most likely it's too ugly to live with. But I'm into self-torture and I'm going to keep moving furniture until I drop.
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Ya know, give me some time, and I'm not just gonna kill it, I'm gonna torture it first. I started looking around the studio. I was, and am, determined to come up with an ergonomic place to put my amp heads, near enough to the control area to be able to tweak them while wearing a guitar and headphones while recording. Unfortunately the only logical spot to do this is the ugliest spot in my studio (which ain't all that in the first place).
What I don't want to do is screw up the very careful placement of my acoustical treatment, or my main recording controls. But everything else is fair game.
And there are limitations. One wall where it'd be fairly sensible to put amplifier heads in terms of ergonomics and even looks has no AC outlets, and I'd have to run speaker cables into cable races in the ceiling to avoid stringing them across my doorway. That might be too much work for not much gain.
I figured I'd have an amp rack made. I probably still will. But in the meantime I decided to move furniture around to give myself a temporary amp location. The cabs are no problem, I can move them around in the recording area. But we all know what it's like to walk back and forth to the recording controls wearing headphones and a guitar and what happens between the headphone cable and the guitar cable. It's an invitation to step on the cables, get all tangled, and probably trip and fall, which I'll admit isn't a pleasant prospect at my age.
So I got busy with furniture glides, and started moving gear and tables and whatnot. If you're me, you can't visualize how things are gonna work out without putting everything in place and seeing how it works and looks. I must've tried a dozen things.
As of this evening, I have kind of a half-baked scheme going that seems to make logical sense in terms of how I work the gear. It looks like crap, though. I have both heads on one desk thing. I've done this before but in a different location. The desk doesn't fit the area I stuck it in, looks-wise, but I found that not having shelves and having two heads on a desk makes them awfully easy to adjust without bending over. That's kind of a plus. Good function.
I just finished dinner and am going back into the room to tweak placement. It's stupid, I know it's stupid, because most likely it's too ugly to live with. But I'm into self-torture and I'm going to keep moving furniture until I drop.
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