First Single Out This Week!

The Oompah Roundabout !

Hi to all my friends! Hope your all well, safe, and happy. With great excitement im pleased to announce the release of our very first single on itunes spotify  ext this week! It should be up by friday! Its called The Wibble Wobble ! and we are called The Oompah Roundabout ! Recorded here at Gap Central Recording Studio West Australia (my garage) and mix and mastered at the waveshop USA!!!! its Indie Pop/Rock at its best! guitar, bass, and my friend and great drummer Mr Windy Craigmile on drums! Work has begun on our first album, and our follow up single chosen. more info and pics will be posted here soon! Your support and love is welcomed!                                                               sincerely    http://www.theoompahroundabout.com/                                                              

         Hormone Howe!  me :)          

My Control Room At Gap Central Studio! (The Wind Room)

Hey there everyone! This is a few pics of my home studio control room (The Wind Room) Named after me mate Windy! It's a very small room but very functional! http://www.theoompahroundabout.com/

 Me desk complete with me old Band Poster from the 80s The EFFEX!

 Pic of an EMI REDD.51 mixing desk used at Abbey Rd and all EMI studio's through the 50s and 60s!

 MOJO mag framed with Mr George Harrison on the cover!

 Me most exo imac! nice and stable for studio work! And me Mackie onyx 1640 desk! Also exo!

 This shows you looking through 2 double laminated glassed windows into my live room!

 My wind Room sign i had made in Bali wiv The Beatles Hey Jude Apple single underneath!

 To the right of me imac! Cables,leads,and buddha! A person needs just three things to be truly happy in the world! Someone to love, Something to do, And something to hope for! Nice words! But i think maybe a few more than just three! :) 

Monitor speakers! Behringer truths! Budget but sound nice! Yamaha next!

 Mackie onyx 1640 mixing desk

 Effects rack!

 Hatch way through to the live room!

 

 Sheet music.

 Corner bass trap and my fingers!!!

 Mags look great framed! And 3 very naughty gnomes!Giving it all that! 

A Must Have Book!!!!!!!!

RECORDING THE BEATLES by Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan is a book about exactly that! It tells and shows the reader the studio equipment and techniques used to create their classic albums, from please please me through to abbey road. From the early 2 mic drum set up to the 1967 6 mic drum set up! Mic types and where they were used. Amps and guitars that were used on what songs! Recording processes! the incredibly short amount of time taken to record each album. Techniques that were created that are still widely used in today's recording industry. Full of great pictures and diagrams and some great history on abbey road recording studios and also other studios they used! This is a Must Have Book for Recording enthusiast and Beatles fans alike! Published by curvebender publishing. I find myself constantly flicking through this brilliant book!

 STUDIO 2 control room

 Run through pics

 1967 Drum mic setup

 STUDIO 2 control room layout 1962

 The Beatles studio layout 1965

 1962 control room pic

 The EMI designed and built REDD.51. mixing desk

 The EMI The TG12345 mark 1 mixing desk used around the ABBEY ROAD aldum. Also EMI Designed and built!

 Echo chamber 2, Abbey Road

 Both ends of studio 2 Abbey Rd

 Diagram of Abbey Rd studio

 Abbey Rd studio's

 Book Front Cover

 Slide out box book comes in!

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More Pics Of My Studio ! ( Gap Central Recording Studio ! )

All these pics are of my live room. It is a small room but still very functional! At 4.400m long by 2.750m wide by 2.200m high! I've had 3 people jamming in there being Guitar, Bass and Drums! I think at a squeeze i could fit in another Guitar player and a skinny key's player! haha. The Drum Booth Sound Panel's  cut the volume to the Drums nicely for others in the room. They are movable and if needed, can be removed all together! The product on the walls is called accoustisorb and is made here in West Australia! It makes the room too dead so I'm in the middle of rectifying that. cutting the noise too the outside world  was the most important thing too start with. I'll be going in to more detail with what i actually used in the walls and on them in my forth coming video Doco I'm planing for my u-tube channel. At the moment iv'e been working on getting my mic drum sound together with success! Getting a cracker of a Kick sound!! And cool overall drum sound.                                      

 ...Main Entrance To The Live Room...

 ...From Entrance looking Across Back R/Hand Corner! Fender Bass Amp,And Bass Trap In Corner...

 ...Opposite Corner, My Two Vox Amps! Proper Bass Trap In Corner Still Too Be Made!...

 ...Looking Back Standing In Front Of Control Room Hatch Way!...

... My Beautiful Rickenbacker Guitar! Great Action And Sounds Exo On Both Clear And Gutsy Settings!...

... Standing In Front Of My Two Vox'es Looking At Drum Booth! Control Room Hatch Is The Dark Bit In The Corner...

 ...Drum Booth With Double Laminated Glass Window Too The Rear!...

Gretsch Catalina Club Drums

Hi to everyone!!!! A few pics of my Gretsch Catalina club drum kit! It's a nice sounding kit. My studio live room is small so this small kit is a perfect choice. in front of the bass drum and to each side i have 3 movable acoustic panel's. If recording other instruments at the same time as the drums this keeps spill onto the drum mics nice and low. In fact i was shocked at how successful this is!!! it's also great for rehearsing as it helps keep the drum volume down! I made all my panel's by framing with pine (wood) insulation Bat's. I then covered the whole lot with old sheets. For legs i used bookcase brackets. I'll show pics of the panel's latter. As you can see the kit sits on a carpet rug (Ikea) and that's on top of a small drum riser! The riser does 2 jobs! It helps cut down any low end vibration from the drums and also gave me somewhere to run the mic cables and mic snake from the control room! I also covered insulation Bat's in material and screwed them too the ceiling! This creates a cool little drum booth! more pics and a video to come. :)  http://www.theoompahroundabout.com/

Me In My Little Home Studio !

Hi there to all my blog readers new, old, and young! ha This is a pic of me in my home studio! I'll be posting more pics of my studio and equipment and also doing a short video series soonish. It's a small studio in my garage consisting of a live room and small control room. Sound separation between the two rooms is surprisingly good! Although the studio isn't 100% sound proofed when outside, it's good enough that i can smash me drums or and play me guitar too the early hours of the morning if the need be. Outside noise isn't noticeable. I did all the work myself so i could concentrate my extremely small budget of $3000 aussie on materials. I also hope to have some music out soonish as well. Soonish is my new fave word! It means when i get off my lazy bot bot haha!! :) So  if your interested in recording and what can be achieved in a small budget home studio, stay tuned, At this stage im not wanting to use loops. Just old school recording but it will be digital. Old school, New school! ha :))