Goodbye Room 101 Studios
Things have been awfully quiet on the home front lately. We took the holidays off and work and lifestyles took a toll on our output as well.
I have been very discouraged about a number of issues regarding musical progress throughout (as in there had been none). We decided to try to abandon recording for the moment and focus on playing as a band again. When we started it was humbling to say the least. A very sad sound was coming out of our speakers and we simply weren’t playing at the mimimun level that we knew we should be.
We stopped and worked on a new set list and cranked that out for the next few weeks. Things were starting to work again when I decided to sit down and try to write this last week.
Nothing came out.
Well, that’s not entirely true. When came out was one re-hash after another. Continually treading water in the same musical place that I had already been. Very disillusioning.
So with the economy being what it is we decided to shut down our recording studio on California St. Room 101 is currently dismantled and a lot of the equipment is back in my home studio. We are going to keep recording but now all of the equipment is going back into our respective home studios. Since June 2008 we had stopped using Room 101 for all recording except for vocals and that was only because we kept the Avalon 737 and the tube condenser microphones in that studio. Everything else was being done at my place (Room 102, or Studio B). Room 101 didn’t have the room for a full drum kit either. In fact that was the main motivator to work on a studio at my place because I had room that a kit would fit in.
So now Studio B needs a new name and more room to house all of the equipment that has been moved in there. So far it’s not bad, but we have alot of sound blankets that are stacked in the room and taking up a stupid amount of space.
It’s a good thing I cleaned and reorganized the room shortly before we pulled the plug on the main studio.
