My first dilemma....

So as expected the room I'll be working in really isn't that big, but I'll try and make the best of it. It won't be easy - there's an issue w/ 3 corners out of 4, either a door or a window, but I'll figure it out.

I am ordering a couple of packs of these (thanks again Bit) to build a few bass traps for starters and will work the rest from there on.

Now the one thing I'm trying to figure out before I go any further is - what am I going to do w/ this guy? (not a pic of the actual room, but strangely similar in fact).





If the house wasn't rented, I might have considered just putting that thing down, but that isn't an option. And I could do w/ some room for storage for gear I don't use and such.

The way I intended to place things, this will be behind my desk (which will be straight in the middle of the room). 

What do I do w/ it? 

One of the things I thought was to buy a carpet and hang it a few inches in front of it - I know that that's far from ideal, but a carpet can't be worst than a mirror, and I have to work w/ the house as is.

Yeh Take 'em down

Then get ya a curtian rod and a nice heavy rug to hang from it on sliders to suck up what will hit it

Hmm, removing them and sending them in the garage (wow, I can do that now!) and using a rug and a curtain rod to close the closet, now that sounds like something I can do. I just didn't want to have that open closet staring at me....

Is that an effervescing elephant?

Guess we'll be spending plenty of time at Lowes...

The one thing in your post that really made me tick is the curtain rod - that was the big missing part of the puzzle and so far my only idea was to use hooks in the ceiling, and w/ the weight of the rug, that would have meant a couple of them and all...

Thanks again!

http://www.lowes.com/pd_4...2Brings&facetInfo=    Clip Rings

http://www.lowes.com/pd_7...%2Bpipe&facetInfo=   1" EMT Pipe


http://www.thehardwarehut...UCFYk7MgodX3IAmg    Closet Rod Mounting Flange


The reason I say go with EMT is to get a heavy duty rod set up it will be high dollar compared to this that will do the same thing if not better.

The rod mounts are not exactly what I was talking about but I couldnt find them on Lowes site-I know they have them though

  Your wife ROCKS  LOL

Good luck man.  Hope ya get it figured out

Yeah, if I had nice racks of gears, it'd look cool.

But a little preamp, an audio interface and a couple of cheap DBX compressor is nothing too impressive. Plus, there are things I just don't want to see anymore, like my old mixer.

I'm going for something totally Feng Shui here. You guys have seen my current totally minimalist set up, and I'm trying to get rid of some stuff. The only thing I am adding in the room/on my desk is the screen and maybe a control surface. 

Some stuff will just vanish. The (eventual) tower will go directly in the closet (with proper ventilation of course) so the empty closet comes handy.

Ahhhhhhh...

Well, mine's pretty unimpressive. Traveling means keeping only the essential and 3 guitars won't fill a closet. ;)