This is a place for all of the Edge Community members to discuss our free monthly event, Home Studio Show & Tell! We’ll post links to equipment, photos, and we encourage our community to ask questions and share recommendations for creating great home studios.
Remember, this is a community forum that is centered around positive reinforcement – it’s not a place to criticize other peoples’ setups. Get to sharing – we can’t wait to see what you’ve got!
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HEY everybody!!! We’ve got the Home Studio Show & Tell ON for Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 at 8:30 pm Eastern Time!!
We’ll be featuring the INCREDIBLE Melanie Katz!!
Follow her on socials:
LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-katz-vo/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VoiceOverWorksMelanieKatz
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melaniekatzvo/
Hi everyone!! I had suuuuuch a great time with you all at the Home Studio Show & Tell last week. I’m SO grateful for Dale and Micah, who were both amazing in so many ways.
Dale Strickland: what a CHAMPION. Showing us his setup and ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES of a good ole 2020 style zoom bomb. lol.
Here are Dale’s socials:
Tweets by DaleWStrickland
https://www.facebook.com/DaleWStrickland
https://www.instagram.com/DaleWStrickland/
https://www.tiktok.com/@dalewstrickland
And here is his gear List:
AT2020 XLR
Zoom H4N
Adobe Auditin & iZotope RX 8
Sound proofing is a mix of cheap acoustic foam, canvas bags stuffed with rockwool, a closet full of clothes, and a goose down duvet.
And MICAH BALL! Joining us with his dulcet tones from Colorado!
Here are ways to keep up with Micah:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/micahball/
https://www.facebook.com/SeizureSaladPodcast
Home
Seizure Salad Podcast
And here is Micah’s gear list:
DAW= Adobe Audition 3.0 & I have started to learn Reaper
PreSonus 3.5 studio monitors
Audio Technica ATH-M50x headphones
D/I: PreSonus Bluetube v2 preamp into a PreSonus Audiobox usb96
Sound treatment: VB2Go Producer’s Choice sound blankets, foam wedges on one wall, angled ceiling and creative mic placement.
Travel: Vocal Booth To Go (1st generation) plus a sound blanket on a stand when I am away from home.
Microphones:
Main= AT-4033 (bought in 2001 & still my workhorse)
Podcasting= Shure SM7B (running through a Cloudlifter CL-1 mic activator)
Singing / xtra podcast mic= Shure 55SH (the “Elvis mic”)
Travel= Zoom H6 Handycam w/ interchangeable mic capsules
Other= 4 NT-USB Minis (won in an international podcast competition), RODE NT-USB, &
MXL-R40 ribbon microphone
IF you missed the whole episode, we’ve got it right here (zoom bombing omitted):
Let’s hear it for Dale and Micah again. They are GEMS.
Yes, thank you so much for sharing! We moved and I have to rebuild my room, but, I didn’t really know what I was doing the first time anyway lol. I’ll send a pic when it’s done, but I have the Steinberg UR22mkII Recording Pack. I also have a pop filter and moving blankets. No desk in the closet, though, so fixing that will be fun. I’m so grateful for this show and tell. Thank you!
Hello @NC!!! Thank you so much for participating and sharing your journey–PLEASE let me know when you’re ready to show off your space, because we’d love to hear 🙂
Hello Edge Studio Community Members! Thanks for stopping by our Home Studio Show & Tell discussion thread. We’ll post more info from tonight’s session (March 9th) tomorrow, and we encourage you to discuss on this board. Thanks for stopping by and we hope to see you at the next Show & Tell!
Hi! I am just so happy to have a studio and it feels even more rewarding that I built my little workstation myself! My Audio Chain: PVC Booth w/ moving blanket, Rode NT-1 A w/ Pop Filter, PC, DAW is Audacity, Interface is Scarlett 2i2. What do you think for starters?
You wouldn’t believe how hard it can be to find a 26″ solid core door! Maybe that’s why the closet in my home office didn’t have one when we moved in. I have a goofy old house.
So, I got the door on, with a lot of “customizing” which is a diplomatic way to say measure, shave, sand, swear, measure again, shave some more, swear some more, and so on. Two layers of moving blankets covering the doorway on the inside, and a bunch of spiffy looking foam, and this sucker gets a little warm in the summer, but it is vewwy quiet.
Right now, I am using an AT 4040 condenser mic, a dbx286s into a Focusrite 2i2, and into my laptop which sits on a shelf below to mitigate any fan noise. I had some annoying hums and struggled with my noisefloor until I added a Furman M-8×2 power conditioner to my rack.
All of my recordings backup to a network drive, and I have a desktop workstation where I do all of my editing
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I haven’t any photos but here’s a run down of my equipment.
Sennheiser MKH416
SPL Channel One Preamp with optional Lundahl Transformers
Marantz PMD570 Solid State Recorder for long form work
Apogee Duet USB
Apple Logic X
JK Audio Bluetooth adapter for phone patch
AKG K240 headset
JBL LSR4328P DSP Monitors
27″ iMac
The JBL’s offer room correction via a microphone and software that adjust for the acoustics. David and the staff can probably advise you best when the time comes as there are now many brands that offer this function.
The Sennheiser’s are used a lot in LA. If you watch the movie “In A World” with Lake Bell you will see them in a big studio out there. The movie is very funny and an interesting look at the voice industry.