How to build a recording studio: part 3

[@ringchamp6543]

Amazing detail Paul, thank you for taking the time to share the specs.

[@flashlinemediaconsultancy8543]

Paul, you and Christian as well as the rest of the Spitfire family, are inspirations to what I want to achieve,

[@stephenbishop9641]

The 3D mockups really bring it to life from the 2-dimensional plans. Looks like you have a great team around you to design and install your system. Thanks for sharing your journey through the build and equip, it is fascinating to watch.

[@drakebailey6104]

Incredible!! Thank you for sharing the process with us!!

[@westhave]

Great videos Paul! The batchbay planning is a bit over my head, but being an engineer by day makes seeing the construction work and designwork a lot of fun to watch!

[@PeteCalandra]

So cool!. The bookcase idea is really good one. When I was living in NYC the last apartment had a 300 sq foot living room with 10 ft ceilings that was used as a living room and studio. I had treatment on some walls, carpets, couch and 4 large and filled bookcases in there. I had a couple of my engineer friends over to mix some scores and they really liked the sound of the room and felt the diffusion characteristics of the bookcases really helped. Do you have any electricity in there yet? In the house we moved to last year I set up one bedroom as temp studio till I do my build out over the next year and had a dedicated separate electric line with separate grounding, hospital grade receptacles and an expensive Furman filter and I still get much more guitar noise than my NYC apartment and the thought that my electrician and studio designer friend both feel is that it is some sort of an airborne disturbance that is being picked by the guitars pick up so when I build out my space I'll have to have shielding on the internal walls to help reduce that issue. Good luck with the last bit of the build.

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Yes theres quite a lot of elements to the electrics - I'll talk about that in a future vid - all the lights transformers are in the machine room, got iso and power cleaning etc!

[@daniellee3059]

Love to see how you've thought everything out - thanks for posting, Paul!

[@davidking1674]

Many thanks again for taking the time to do these posts, really enjoying the process. 👍

[@tyerac]

I was wondering if the one room setup would work out, but then I saw the renders. WOW. Paul - You just put Junkie on notice for having what might be the nicest studio of all my youtube music sub's. Awesome stuff and thanks for letting us follow along.

[@joedimattia3646]

Thanks for sharing, Paul! It's always fun to see a studio come to life.

[@cornerliston]

Paul, as always so happy that you share this process with us. Should be an amazing work place for you and good to see you get daylight in the studio! : ) Would also be good to see and hear some words from the studio sound designer, how he plan and pre-design considering sound quality and so on. Looks as if there will be very little (or hidden) sound treatment?

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Thanks Corner - theres quite a lot but hidden! I'll see if I can get Chris to talk about what he's planned out in a few weeks once its all up!

[@cornerliston]

@@PaulThomsonMusic That would be very much appreciated. Hidden makes me even more curious.

[@jornkux9033]

Cool, makes sense. Looking forward to seeing it in use.

[@WillWilson]

So excited to see this drop in my inbox. Great journey to be part of. Looking forward to sorting out the spare room of my new house although somewhat bummed that your studio is bigger than my whole is house is!

[@AsteroidKiller]

It looks very, very nice 😍 I see you’ve put the monitors in the center of the room opposed to the front and your listening position 38% near the backwall rather then the front wall. Can you elaborate the thinking behind that? 🌸

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

I'll get Chris on vid to talk about the acoustics!

[@AsteroidKiller]

Paul Thomson that sounds great

[@StephenBaysted]

Nice one chap. Best of luck for the final push.

[@chrismassa5891]

Beautiful a lot of room.

[@morayonkeys]

Very exciting! I much prefer studios with 'natural' scattering materials, stone and bookshelves etc, they're got a much nicer vibe that looking at egg boxes! Also, a Voyager, Sub Phatty SE1X *and* a D?? Somebody likes a ladder filter!

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

can't get enough! ;-)

[@jarekb2043]

Thanx for sharing your journey... Great stuff 👍

[@skylightmusicshowree]

Thanks for this Paul..great stuff. Nice to see the consideration and planning that went into your choices for the patchbay. I'd also like to thank you for reminding me to check my Spitfire App for updates! I caught the Tundra one when I bought Ambient Guitars, but I hadn't realised that there was already one for AG. I really should check this facility more often... :-)

[@jimsanger]

Very nice Paul, it's looking great. You look like a little kid at Christmas when you're talking about it :)

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Santa's come early!

[@elliot14]

Can't wait to see the build!

[@vinnieRice]

Fantastic stuff. Planning it all is just ridiculously fun. Do I take it clients just don't visit anymore in the UK? Any plans for an assistant's station?

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

No assistant - I'm too much of a control freak - generally only get directors visiting, but often everything done over the net!

[@jornkux9033]

Thanks again for sharing Paul. Incredibly exciting for me too. Keep up the good work and fingers crossed that all goes well. What will be your monitor solution (picturewise) as I assume you will be still working to picture a lot of times? Cheers

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Monitor on a riser behind the desk so it stays hidden until used!

[@samshrimpton407]

Wow! ...I’ll swap my Struder A800 plugin for your Struder A800? Thats going to be one hell of a set up Paul!

[@superlunar8647]

This is amazing and wonderful, thanks for sharing. I'm curious as to why you'd sit the desk in the middle of the room? Wouldn't the standing waves be worse there? I thought there was a 1/3rd rule for desk placement?

[@petermjbaumann]

Fascinating to see the progress. Was there any particular reasoning behind the decision to set up the studio's orientation this way (short and wide rather than long and thin)? Was it a choice of aesthetics or acoustic? When I was setting my space up, it seemed that the general recommendation was to configure the room in its narrow orientation, rather than wide, although I was working with an existing space so maybe it's a bit different in your case. I suppose one of the advantages of a build from the ground up is that you have a bit more control over the acoustic properties of the room, so maybe the orientation is a bit less relevant when starting from scratch. Come to think of it, quite a few studios seem to be set up width-ways (eg. air studios control room). Would be interested to know your thoughts behind desk placement within your room. Thanks for the video!

[@highpeakrecordings]

This IS the dream! Wonderful stuff and so many thanks for sharing with us. If that lottery win comes in I will be coming back to these videos ... ;-)

[@stereosaturated]

Hi @paulthomson! Really inspiring and informative video series. Thank you for sharing all of this. Would you be willing to upload and share the pdf (or whatever file type) you are showing with all the patching setup? I made a few screenshots to study it but it's a bit of a mess. Also, I am curious about how you got all of the synths and guitar pedals onto the patch bay? And what exactly are the Boss Synth and FX Inputs? Thanks in advance!

[@jessemcinturff1268]

I’d love to know why you decided to switch from apogee to UA interfaces? Everything else looks amazing!

[@MoonhareStudio]

Awe inspiring project. Is this studio for simply for personal use or will the Spitfire team now want trips out from "The Smoke" to record?

[@davidsolar2119]

Hi Paul, thank You for this great insight. What about 5.1? You will be stereo only? And you won't have a big TV - screen in front of you (except computer display), used in the most media - composers cribs ? Or is it hidden in the ceiling?

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Stereo only at this stage! I'm planning a big TV on a riser that will hide behind the desk until needed!

[@KMuse]

So I mean IF that launch box is not gonna have a home I would be happy to take really good care of it haha 😍😍🤤🤤😱😱 loving you videos Paul!

[@PaulThomsonMusic]

Its going to a new home in the production department!

[@KMuse]

Hehehe that's great!!

[@droidesfera1275]

when are you going to upload part 4??

[@chriscarr1791]

Would you be willing to share you patchbay excel file ? Or a template ? It is incredibly organized! Would love to use it as a starting point for my own much smaller build.

[@officialsimonharris]

serious project!

[@TaffmanGuyo]

Are you trying to make us cry! ;-)

[@dafingaz]

🙌🏾