Studio SOS: Tom Hennessey : July 2009
Studio SOS: Tom HennesseyArticle Preview :: Recording on a tight budgetPublished in SOS July 2009 Technique : Recording/Mixing We show Tom Hennessey that as long as you have good ideas and a good ear, you can put together decent recordings and mixes on the smallest of budgets.
Tom Hennessey is one of our younger readers, and he hopes to become one of the next generation of audio engineers when he’s completed his education. In the meantime, he’s managed to set up a basic but perfectly capable little recording system at one end of his bedroom, which is located in what was once the loft space of his parents’ Gloucestershire bungalow. He’s obviously a regular reader of this column, as he sent his mum out in search of chocolate Hob Nobs before we arrived — he was clearly worried as to the consequences of there not being any! First Impressions Tom’s room is roughly 2.5 x 4m, with sloping eves at either end, starting about half way up the walls. While we’d normally advocate firing the speakers down the length of the room, the positioning of the door and the access hatch to the rest of the loft storage space made this impractical. Fortunately, though, Tom’s little iSymphony monitors (which he had picked up on eBay for about £20$30) only have four-inch bass drivers and, in conjunction with the plasterboard drywall and storage-hatch acting as bass traps, we found that they held up remarkably well, still sounding quite punchy at the low end. These speakers are powered from a Sony music centre, and Tom initially had one of the original Sony speakers wired up above his bed in addition to his two monitors. While this may have been fine for listening to music in bed, it was confusing the stereo imaging when he was monitoring, so we suggested he either disconnect it or install a switch so that it could be disabled when working on his music. ...
Published in SOS July 2009 
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