Part 1: Why? — Back in the dark ages — before there was an internet you could even connect to — I worked in recording studios. They are magical places with racks full of cool audio gear, instruments and technology trying to capture the energy of a live performance to share with the world…

But for the first time in years | I step out of my box Can’t wait to see you again | Been out here in the boondocks I don’t know, I don’t know anymore how to walk into a bar. The COVID-19 Pandemic has been a real pain in the…

Song notes from the studio — Throughout the process of building my studio, designing and making a space where I could create was my focus. With the space finished (as much as any such space can be called “finished”) I shift from space creation to music creation. …

Increasing the frequency of the moments that drive software development The Moment How do you know if becoming a software engineer is the right career for you? Over the past 30 years of writing software, leading engineering teams and talking with people at all stages of their careers in the field, I’ve…

Building a Recording Studio — Part 6 Back in part 3 of this series, I performed 3 tests to get a baseline on how much sound escaped the garage before we did any sound proofing. Since then, I’ve done two updated versions of the tests as the studio has progressed and the results are impressive! …

Building a Recording Studio — Part 5 In Part 4, I talked about what will need to go into the studio. Given that I’ll have both live music and recording happening in the same space, I need to design for how the acoustic treatments will work to let the room work well for both things. As mentioned…

Part 4: A Place for my Stuff Now that we’ve figured out the shape of the studio, I need to figure out what will go where in the room. This decision has a lot of downstream impact since the position of speakers, furniture and instruments will impact where I need…

Part 3: Counting the Loud Construction has begun on the studio. Woo! The garage door has been removed replaced with a wall and the framing is now in place for the walls and the ceilings. …

Part 2: The Shape Of Things In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about why I am turning part of my garage into a recording studio. This time is about going from that blank canvas of a garage and figuring out how many walls and doors I need and…