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Post subject: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 7:44 pm
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I'm almost done painting a room in my house which is about to become my music room! My Mom is finally fed up with tripping over my Teles and stumbling over my Stratocasters. The solution, kick my Dad out of his home office (since he's not self employed anymore) and convert it to a music room!

I'm trying to figure out how to store my instruments, cables, pedals, straps, amps, etc. The room isn't very big, so I'd be really interested to hear any creative solutions to save space that you've come up with. If you have a home music room, please post some pictures so that I can take your ideas and use them! :D

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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 8:07 pm
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Oh Lordy. My bedroom is tiny, and doubles as my recording studio. I just put up wall hangars, and have tons of storage space available. I had to scale back, at one point I had a drumset, 9 guitars, a bass, a full stack, and my brother sharing my tiny room. That did not work.


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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 6:46 am
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I will let you know how I do it in about a year and 1/2 when my son finishes tech school and moves out..... :D


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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 7:02 am
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Hi Rebecca. What are the dimensions of the room? What equipment do you intend on having there? Depending on how you will be using the space and what it will contain - i.e. furniture, books, keyboard, DAW - will determine your options.

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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 7:05 am
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texasguitarslinger wrote:
I'd be really interested to hear any creative solutions to save space that you've come up with.

Hi TGS. Hahaha - in short, no: I have no helpful suggestions to offer.

I have a music/work room that fills the top floor of the house. It is completely crammed with guitars, amps, a drumkit, recording gear, luthiery projects, CDs - as well as work stuff, computer, chairs, tables, thousands of books, plan chests... etc etc. There is no spare inch of wall space for hanging guitars so they have to sit on stands or just lean against the furniture, which is less than ideal.

The one advantage of a room of your own is that at least it's only you who stumbles and trips over instruments, so no horrible arguments can ensue - merely painful self-blame, when you knock something over. :?

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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 7:47 am
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My music room is also my computer room, and it's a little messy. The best thing I've done so far is put away the stuff I don't use all the time. I found storage elsewhere in my house for the seldom used pedals and guitars.

The other major improvement was getting an amp stand, because it frees up some room under the amp where you can store pedals, gadgets, harmonicas, etc.

Good to hear you're putting a music room together, enjoy it! :D

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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 9:18 am
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All of my gear is in my room, lol. Pic's when your music room is up and running please. :D

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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 10:07 am
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Hi TGS...
I am using a corner of my basement for my music and computer room. I have but 4 amps, 3 guitars and a bass guitar plus microphones, pedals and recording equipment and to keep things reasonably tidy and compact, have three of the amps on tables (kids tables from Ikea...not as high and nice and colourful!) and I store pedals and unused amps beneath the tables. Another table holds my laptop and extra monitor and yet another table holds the recording equipment. I have a couple of mike stands with microphones which are mostly off to one side, out of the way.
Two guitars (could hang more) hang on the walls from Hercules wall mounts and I have a 4 slot guitar rack for the other 2 guitars that I use most often. I have an old 4 drawer chest that I keep cables, microphones not in use, pedals and tools in. The total space I'm using in the basement is about 12 feet by 9...but of course there are no doors to complicate arranging things. I need a good single guitar stand to hang a guitar from so that I can put down an electric guitar and leave it plugged in while I mix tracks (probably a Hercules stand...what would you recommend?)
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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 11:19 am
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Oh how we all wish we had more space for a music room, yours truly in particular. :mrgreen:


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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 3:41 pm
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One solution for cables and straps is to have a string or wire that goes along a wall between two screws or nails, you'd probably want it at about shoulder height. You can then fold cables loosly if they are long and just tuck one end behind the wire or string, this way you can see at a glance exactly which cable it is you need rather than rummaging through a draw or box full of cables. Having different colour patch cables can be usefull too, after a short while you'll remember that you want that short green one or that blue one with ther right angle jacks etc.

You could also consider a portable pedalboard, easy to move around and I'm sure can also be hung on a simple hook or hanger on the wall when not in use (or if you're feeling really creative just leave it on the wall :D ).

I suppose the most practical advice is "keep it tidy", if you know where everything is all the time you'll find you can do a lot with a well organised small space.

There was quite a lengthy thread somewhere a year or so ago where loads of people posted photos of their music rooms so it may be worth doing a quick search on the forums.

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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 4:27 pm
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I would love to have a room devoted to music. I have a little condo by the beach which I bought for the location (and never hit the sand anymore) and not size.

Was offered a job that would require relocation. I thought I could buy a small house and build a home studio. Alas, I turned the job down. Many second thoughts and regrets.


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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 7:37 pm
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I'm in the process of doing the same thing. We had a thread running not to long ago dealing with "man cave's'. You might want to search that thread and see what some of the 'mens' have done with their gear. Mine will look more like an office than a music room because it has to serve as 'guest cave' when the grandchildren visit. But I've been there and done that before. Hopefully Miami Mike will get a shot at showing you some of what he's done and he does a great deal of computer composition. As for Ceri, what he isn't telling you is what 'the house' really means. It's that his space occupies the entire upper floor of the Royal Albert Hall and only HE knows how many holes it takes to fill it. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 4:13 pm
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TGS...One of the best things you can do is getting guitars up off the floor. Mounting them on the wall keeps em handy for practice and I find I "Rotate" them a little more. Here is a pic of my mounting system.
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I also like to keep my amps stacked directly below my guitars, keeps the equipment all on one wall (or two if you need it) and leaves practice space and as you can see in the picture also some room for your pool table :lol:
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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 7:59 pm
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T2Stratman wrote:
TGS...One of the best things you can do is getting guitars up off the floor. Mounting them on the wall keeps em handy for practice and I find I "Rotate" them a little more. Here is a pic of my mounting system.
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I also like to keep my amps stacked directly below my guitars, keeps the equipment all on one wall (or two if you need it) and leaves practice space and as you can see in the picture also some room for your pool table :lol:
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Post subject: Re: Home Music Rooms
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 8:16 pm
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At least you have a music room!

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