Newly designed and built in 2006, the studio is warm and inviting. Great sound, excellent isolation, natural light, and of course, the right gear. Beautiful walnut floors, birch doors, and alder trim compliment the cool blues of the walls. ProTools HD3 Accel and Logic Studio 8 on a Dual 2.0 Mac G5, Mogami digital cabling throughout, Focal Twin6 BEs, Millennia preamps, and Neumann, ADK, and AudioTechnica vocal mics. There are tie lines into the house to the beautiful 1948 Steinway ‘M’. The studio has a comfortable in-wall queen-size Murphy Bed, flat-screen TV with cable and DVD player, and it’s own stylish bathroom with a shower to make a trip to work at The Stickhouse comfortable and cost-effective.
the stickhouse studio
control room
control room during the day
toward at the tracking room
control room at night
back of the control room
bed folded out... comfy!
the tracking room at night
tracking room, day
the steinway
sink
oh yes, there’s a shower
Ok, yeah, the pictures aren’t so great... and yes, those are Christmas decorations in the pictures. When things slow down, I’ll have a pro come and shoot the studio for real. Actually, it’s almost Christmas again! I guess we should keep the decorations!
Want some help designing yours? I spent a lot of time and energy figuring out what would work in the limited space I had to use. The best resource I found was here. And here’s the thread where I documented my process. It’s an overwhelming amount of information, so if you don’t have time or inclination I might be able to help you out. I’m no architect or trained designer, but I designed and helped my contractor build this place from the ground up, and it works well and sounds great.