How to build a recording studio: Part 1

[@MusicalWizardryMarcoIannello]

Very much looking forward to the next videos in this series. The studio already looks amazing, Paul

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Marco!

[@samshrimpton407]

Can’t wait to see the studio finished! It’s like grand designs, but way cooler! Congrats, must be such an amazing feeling!

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

haha! Thanks Sam - it sure is!

[@weschilton]

Wow, what a dream come true... to build your own studio from the ground up. I'm sure it has been a long time coming. Congratulations! I hope it turns out exactly how you want it to.

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Wes! It certainly has - I've dreamt about doing this for over 25 years now.. Got there eventually!

[@gustavocoutinho3489]

This is great, Paul! Really looking forward to the rest of the series. As someone who is planning his own studio right now, this is some invaluable material to me and I’m super grateful, thanks for sharing!

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Glad to hear it Gustavo! More coming!

[@jornkux9033]

Congrats Paul, that is going to be awesomesome! Best of luck for all construction stages that are yet to come and thanks for taking us along. Interesting and exciting! Cheers from Hamburg, Germany

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Cheers Jörn!

[@yes_its_THE_Dave_Alleckna]

How exciting! I have never dreamt of building a whole house for a studio - only re-use one. Very inspirational! Thanks, good luck, blessings and great ideas! And thanks for sharing your insightful ideas!

[@aefv.eliane]

Just on time! :) I decided a couple of weeks ago to add some acoustic panel, make some adjustments and new routines with a new patchbay that bought (an ADC one; is with soldering and, cutting for the signal). Very interesting about the building, the material and the map design of different your patchbay. Looking forward to the next episode... Thank you so much Paul. Have a nice Saturday, the first of the spring.

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

éliane en automne thanks éliane! Good luck with your adjustments.

[@aefv.eliane]

@@PaulThomsonMusic Thank you Paul! I have to share my time between that and, otherwise, the music! I guess you know that as well. :)

[@cornerliston]

Oh Paul. You know I was hoping to see this. Many thanks for sharing and what a studio this will be!

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Corner!

[@edmasters4454]

Very much enjoyed part 1 -- looking forward to the upcoming build-out!

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Ed!

[@FytchMusic]

Great work!

[@TheJoba75]

Thank You Paul! You've read my mind, as I constantly "revamp" my home studio, I was hoping you would do a video such as this. Especially with your experience building studios. Can't wait to follow along. Cheers!

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Miles! Yes quite a few years prep for this!

[@nedfo72]

Congratulations, Paul! I imagine that's an incredibly exciting build

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Donovan - yes very exciting!

[@kc12394]

What a coincidence. The post production facility that I'm working in is currently in the planning stage of constructing a new mixing room, so I know while it's very exciting to dream up new work spaces, a lot of hard, sometimes even stressful, work is involved. Thanks for sharing this wonderful journey of yours, I'm very much looking forward to seeing the rest of this series.

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

jon Chen thanks Jon! Hope their new mix room goes well.

[@zoommpro]

Great video Paul and very pleased to hear it's the start of a series. Particularly looking forward to the machine episodes and what choices you make and your reasoning. 👍

[@skylightmusicshowree]

Thanks Paul 👍🏻 I’m having a cabin built in our garden , but only as a compositional space and nothing on the scale of your build! I have, however, remembered to time lapse film the clearing and laying of foundations, but I know that, once finished, it’s going to take an age to edit 😜 So, a big thank-you for taking the time to put this together... it was worth it! 🙂

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

skylightmusic showreel haha yes a lot of editing!! Ended up looking like a boy band vocal! Hope your cabin build goes well!

[@skylightmusicshowree]

Paul Thomson 👍🏻

[@richdewhittaker1746]

What a gorgeous life achievement!! Right On ...PaulWorld Studios! :)

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Rich! nice name idea haha.. it has actually inherited the name from the old building... "The Bull Pen"..!

[@richdewhittaker1746]

@@PaulThomsonMusic Love it!!

[@BradDollar]

Awesome to see it from the ground up! Thanks.

[@dsrduff]

Awesome shots, thanks for posting.

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Duffer!

[@jeremyhollobon1723]

Christian mentioned your studio build quite a while ago, and I've had my fingers crossed that you'd cover it on your channel. It's fantastic - and much appreciated - that you're going into so much depth. Thank you. (And the time-lapse footage is great, by the way).

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Jeremy! I planned ahead with the time lapse - took some dedication to keep it going!

[@KonradLunde]

Paul. This is insane. Thanks for the insight. Are u doing an episode tackling economics and project management? Thanks again for taking time to enlighten us!!

[@ambientdave]

Hi Paul I love this kind of stuff!! To have and build a project like this is a dream for me Alas,I have to contend with my tiny home studio,squirrelled away in my mobile home,bedroom It works fine,bit of a squeeze,no room for speaker monitors though .So as a good neighbour,I work from headphones esp when I working late evenings ,when I'm not working in my day job.

[@adpriviera]

Great video ! There’s not much like that on KZbin, I really really enjoyed your video.

[@peterbjargo3440]

Looking forward to follow this!! Looks awsome! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Peter!

[@arronmungul1990]

Great stuff! Thank you for sharing your thought process. Very helpful

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Arron! keep an eye out for ep 2 - its changed even since I uploaded it lol

[@stephenbishop9641]

It's often worth pulling in a few more extra cables for expansion, or a change of mind, especially if the route is awkward. The cost of the cable is minimal compared with the cost, and hassle, later on. Thanks for taking the time to record the build, looking forward to the series.

[@henryjamessimm1]

This is an amazingly helpful series mate, thanks so much!

[@jimM196]

Excellent!

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Jim!

[@jarekb2043]

Thx for sharing your journey... It’s brilliant... keep it coming please

[@vinnieRice]

Great stuff! Living the dream...

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Vincent! A long held dream!

[@CaptJackAubreyOfTheRoyalNavy]

Wow! I'd love to see what your property and house look like!

[@R1dgeR1der]

Great video Paul! I’m not there yet but this will come in very handy in a few years!

[@fivewattworld]

Love the construction of the new "barn". Love the stone and interesting to see the "triple skin" of that building. Honestly the layers of your specific gear routing were less interesting as you see to be leaving lots of spaces for new stuff in the future and I am always struggling to pare back the total number of tools to try to simplify the tech and have a shorter gap between inspiration and execution. Keep these coming. "Downbeat Abbey" perhaps?

[@ArturoAlbero]

There are people who show you how to cook or how to sew. And there is Paul Thomson who shows you how to build a recording studio. That's amazing :D :D :D

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Arturo Albero haha! Thanks! To be fair my kids can attest to the fact that I’m a terrible cook and can only just sew a button on..

[@Ryanfilmscores]

Perfect. I'm building a small studio at home as well. So, great insight on how you do it :)

[@davidking1674]

‘This is great, thanks for sharing this

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks David!

[@daniellee3059]

What an awesome place you'll have there, Paul! Are those little vials of magical crystals on your desk? I mean, it does explain a few things... But seriously, thanks for posting this build - inspiring and informative.

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Daniel Lee thanks Daniel! Some fairy glitter one of my daughters bought me for Xmas!

[@mikeseal3053]

So inspired. Trying to build my in Africa

[@russell_szabados]

I mapped out my patch bays in the exact same way in Excel. Numbered by snake or pair, normalled status, connector type and destination. Great minds think alike!

[@ulfrohdin]

What an amazing feeling it must be to be able to achieve this. Well done. I can't turn around holding a guitar without hitting som other equipment!

[@franm6569]

It's like an episode on "Bob the Builder". ...Thanks for sharing!

[@4kfreelance]

I would cover the window with blackout material or a cool curtain and add ambient lighting for better results when color correcting, or color grading. The light from outside is to be over exposed in order to prevent filming in low light , and I can see it reducing the capability of the camera used. Blackout, and lighting to eliminate dark spots resulting in low light and more noise in a shot. From a wild guess you may be using a GH5 like Christian is. They are better in low light compared to its predecessor the GH4. Try to keep aperture on f.2 or lower if you have it, and try not to go above 800 ISO speed. The GH5 is good with higher ISO speed. The more it goes up, thhe more noise it will create.

[@jima5150]

Awesome!

[@robertkerr8601]

Paul, how much did a building like this cost? Even a ball park figure. Great stuff my friend.

[@Henkkamachine]

Instant subscribe!

[@mojito6629]

Awesome. But why you didn't made it as 'non pararel walls' building/studio room since from the start?

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

I prefer the look of the room rectangular, so my preference was to fix it within that parameter!

[@jimsanger]

I'm very jealous Paul, look forward to seeing the progress

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Jim! Lots to come!

[@chrismassa5891]

wow. when christian said you were building a studio, I had no idea it was ground up.

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

From below the ground up!!

[@willscherrer2642]

Thanks Paul! Going to be beautiful. Looking forward to the next. How many square feet total for the recording space (including control room or 'area')?

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Will! just over 900 sq ft for the main space.

[@jaredbeach5650]

What do u pull up on the computer to record

[@johnmartin2466]

What was used for insulation?

[@Thr3-Words]

I'm way too green to properly follow your patch bay setup, which makes me anxious (EDIT: AAAH, it's just getting worse and worse!) when I think that I'll be building my own small studio in a years time or so. I've only ever either worked in-the-box or with a maximum of six ins, all going straight to my interface. How the hell did you initially figure this all out!? Would you be able to work without it all? Is this something that can be figured out after the building is up and the live and control rooms have been built? It would also be really interesting to hear you explain or demonstrate what it is that tape gives you that actually translates into 44.1khz 16bit digital, because as far as I've experienced, the three-dimensionality doesn't survive the conversion

[@user-ib7jr6ub2n]

I am having an EXTREMELY tough time figuring out how to configure/route my patch bay...can you make your routing document available for download by providing the link to it? Or is there anyways you could help me with my set up? Thanks.

[@petegiant]

Had to thumb it down for the use of a pop shield on a EV-RE20.

[@hb8182_]

Top!

[@Malama_Ki]

Covid hit in 2020, Paul got no clients and went mental running around an empty room acting like Sir George Martin. He can currently be seen on the high street wearing a bright yellow flower dress and combat boots with a three string guitar, drooling on himself while attempting to busk.

[@anastav6915]

My dream is to build up a studio. I dont even care if i'll make money from it, i just want to build it and create my music :)

[@joshsizemoremusic]

I wish I had someone to help me record LOL.

[@andywooten622]

Sadly I have no where near the type of money it would take to achieve something like this😢

[@AirskiiMusic]

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[@markowalski1]

I wish I had money

[@randomhobbies5796]

im dreaming here of buying a house...this guy just build a whole house just to put a studio in there … wth am I doing wrong?

[@ivanklass1]

Typical studio for the posh LOL