Show us your recording space, right NOW

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:49 am

Here's what my regular place (Old House) looks like right now:

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

CedarSound · Post by **CedarSound** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:22 pm

I could not get enough tilt to compensate, hence the inverted monitors. It actually works fine.

Hey, whatever works!

jnTracks · Post by **jnTracks** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:52 pm

i have been feeling pretty proud of my space since it's my own construction on very limited resources but now i'm trying very hard not to feel like an abject failure after seeing Chris'.

hahaha. beautiful though. is that a trident desk? i did a good part of my schoolin' on a trident.

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:39 pm

This studio was built by two guys who learned as they went along. It took them two years, but there was no silver spoon or money tree available to them. It's been refined over a twelve year period by three people who loved it, but there's nothing unobtainable about any of it.

The desk is an Amek Angela and I have suspicions that it was the last one ever made, although I don't know that for sure. You can read more about the console and the work it took to get it where it is now in this thread.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

mjau · Post by **mjau** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:41 pm

Man, Old House looks comfy. I like the hat on the binaural head.

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:42 pm

cgarges wrote:This studio was built by two guys who learned as they went along. It took them two years, but there was no silver spoon or money tree available to them. It's been refined over a twelve year period by three people who loved it, but there's nothing unobtainable about any of it.

The desk is an Amek Angela and I have suspicions that it was the last one ever made, although I don't know that for sure. You can read more about the console and the work it took to get it where it is now in this thread.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

I have fond memories of working on an Angela, back when I was first starting out. How do you like it?

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:48 pm

hey, can everybody lean on garges and convince him to sell me one of those sontecs in the rack there? no man needs TWO. i have repeatedly offered him tens of dollars for one but he steadfastly refuses.

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:54 pm

dwlb wrote:I have fond memories of working on an Angela, back when I was first starting out. How do you like it?

I LOVE it. I'm convinced that they are some of the finest consoles that were ever made in the below $100k price range. I've worked on maybe four or five different ones over the years and I've always dug 'em.

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:hey, can everybody lean on garges and convince him to sell me one of those sontecs in the rack there? no man needs TWO. i have repeatedly offered him tens of dollars for one but he steadfastly refuses.

I keep sending you ebay auctions when they come up!

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:58 pm

i don't want to buy one from some stranger.

i think my last offer was "i will send you 800 dollars RIGHT NOW...." haha!

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:04 pm

You actually owe ME a Sontec. Public record, right here:

http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopic.php?t=51781

Page two, about a third of the way down. You can use the $35 for shipping.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:06 pm

i think i actually owe you two. i owe my best friend 2 million dollars as well. i just can't win a bet.

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:11 pm

Cool. I'll let that slide if you just want to get me ONE of those ITI EQs instead.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:28 pm

no sweat.

*raises rate*

jnTracks · Post by **jnTracks** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:22 pm

ah, and i see the label now.

incidentally:
my girlfriend says "no fair, i only have two distressors in my rack!"

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:34 pm

iamthecosmos wrote:[This building used to be the TAC/AMEK factory incidentally, so some of your desks may have been assembled where we make noise-rock.

That's not the building in Salford that's haunted, is it?

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

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