MY TINY STUDIO

My equipment shelf (top to bottom):

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• Sherwood RD 6106 Surround Sound receiver (monitor amp)
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• Carved box containing small supplies
• Radio Shack 15-1172 A/V distribution amp (behind carved box)
• Mastered CDs
• Supplies
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• Seiko SQ44 metronome
• Holmes humidity monitor
• QWiK TUNE chromatic guitar tuner (gold object next to humidity monitor)
• Radio Shack 15-1978 A/V Selector (behind humidity monitor)
• Sylvania SSV6001 VCR
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• Supplies
• Tevion MD 7794 DVD/CD/CDR player
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• Supplies
• Philips CDR-200 dual tray CDR/CDRW Burner
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• CDR Supplies
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• Sony Trinitron triple studio video monitor (below edge of photo)
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Part of my Radio Shack 32-1200B monitor mixer is visible to the right on the typing table.

The typing table rollaround multitrack/rack, and the mastering rack. Details photos are below.

• TASCAM 246 is the centerpiece of this studio.
• Notice that there are now two racks. The mastering rack is on the left, and the recording rack is on the right. A snake interconnects the two racks.
• The wastebasket is still the most important component. Sour notes and bad takes go in there. It is to the right of the photo.
• The boxes on the floor contain patchcords for the patchbays.

Equipment on top of the typing table (left to right):

• Radio Shack 32-1200B DJ mixer (back - for monitor mixing)
• Zoom RFX-300 Effects generator (left front)
• Radio Shack 15-1956 A/V Selector (monitor source)
• Tools
• Radio Shack 270-054 Ground Loop Isolator (not visible)
• TASCAM 246 Portastudio
• Supplies, including GB Instruments GDT-11 meter, Radio Shack Pro-35 headphones, and a Bookman electronic Bible are off the picture to the right.

The typing table recording rack (top to bottom):

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• A tiny fluorescent light is mounted above the rack, behind the edge of the table top.
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• Peavey DeltaFex Twin reverb/delay/effects
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• Empty space for access to patchbay switches
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• Behringer UltraPatch Pro patchbay
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• UniQuad Phlazex surround sound matrix encoder (left half)
• Input Patch Panel and Attenuators (right half)
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• Samson PL-2404 stereo line mixer
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Notice the color-coded patchbay and mixer legend at the top, with matching colored tape strips on the patchbay itself, and on a strip below the mixer. This makes finding the patches and mixer channel strips easier.

On the right of the rack (not in photo) are:

• A headphone adaptor box with the Bauer speaker simulator circuit
• Anatek PocketSync MIDI synchronizer and its cables.

The inserts and mastering rack:

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• The master power switch and power distributor.
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• Behringer MDX1400 AutoCom Pro unit 1 (for inserts)
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• MXR Stereo 15-Band Equalizer (for inserts)
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• Empty space for access to patchbay switches
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• Behringer UltraPatch Pro patchbay
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• Behringer MDX1400 AutoCom Pro unit 2 (master chain)
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• Empty space for future EQ unit (master chain)
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• Aphex 104 Aural Exciter with Big Bottom (master chain)
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• Behringer MDX1600 AutoCom Pro-XL (master chain)
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• Empty space
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Notice the color-coded patchbay legend at the top, with matching colored tape strips on the patchbay itself. This makes finding the patch easier.

The yellow object is a stopwatch used to time tracks.

A close-up of the rack-mount UniQuad Phlazex surround sound matrix encoder. There are two of them in the rack panel. Each one has the two knobs and the switch between them.

Click here to find out more about the UniQuad Phlazex encoder.

The 4 cables coming in from the right come from the keyboards into the input attenuators.

Here are my keyboards.

Top: Radio Shack MD-1210 (Casio CTK-651AD with Radio Shack logo)

Bottom: Roland EM-10

I have had people ask me what that object on top of the books is. I had moved the object between the time I took the picture and the time I first put it on the web, so it took me a while to figure out what it was. It's a mic breath screen, still in the plastic blister pack. The vertical bars of light are reflections of the room lights off of wavy convolutions in the blister pack.

UPDATE

My equipment shelf modified for quadraphonics
(top to bottom):

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• Archer Video Sound Processor
• Delay control extension for Archer VSP (left)
• Back level control (left)
• UniQuad SSC-10 Surround Sound Controller
• Metrotec SQ/EV Decoder (right)
• Dynaco PAT-4 Preamp (used to impedance match)
• Archer STA 20 Receiver (amp for Wing speakers)
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• Space for future Peavey DeltaFex reverb for surround sound
• Phase control switchbox for front, wing, back, and vertical speakers
• Sherwood RD 6106 Surround Sound receiver (monitor amp)
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• Carved box containing small supplies
• Radio Shack 15-1172 A/V distribution amp (behind carved box)
• Power strip
• Archer SA-10 amp for Zenith and Nadir speakers
• Archer SA-10 amp for Front and Back Center speakers (right)
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