Here's the home of SONAR Mods and Duckbar. It's my 110 m2 rock / pop / metal oriented recording studio near Helsinki centrum in Finland. 
 

This is a bit aged photo but layout is still the same. VC-64 plugin rocks! Monitors are Genelec 8040A and Dynaudio BM6's.



Drums & guitars in the tracking room.
 

Toilet: Pink towel for the bassist, green for musicians.
 
 

Microphones: Pearlman TM-1, AKG C414B-ULS (2), Sennheiser MD421 (5) and MD441 (2), Neumann KM84 stereo pair and two dozens other mics from SM57 to rarities...

My Telefunken and Studer tape machines is not as compact as the ProChannel plug-in but sound is superb. :)
 
 
 

>> Toilet: Pink towel for the bassist, green for musicians.
 
Haha!
Bassist decides to learn a REAL instrument, goes to a music store and looks around.
 
Salesman: "Can I help you?"
Bassist: "Yes, I'll take that big accordeon there and the red trumpet behind the door."
Salesman: "Well, I can do a deal on the fire extinguisher, but I'm afraid the heating radiator is screwed to the wall!"
 
Edit: Beautiful lefty bass there next to the drumkit.

Looks suspiciously like a Yamaha An1X there Panu - I'm still using mine!

panup,
Do you use the Sennheiser MD421s on the drums?  What do you use for the overheads?  The AKGs or the Neumanns?  Both are out of my price range
 

patm300e
panup,
Do you use the Sennheiser MD421s on the drums?  What do you use for the overheads?  The AKGs or the Neumanns?  Both are out of my price range
 

Here's my standard initial settings setup for full miking of a drumkit: 

• Kick - AKG D112 or Shure Beta52 from hole, some ribbon or condenser 1 m away
• Snare top: Shure SM57 and MD421
• Snare side: Shure SM57 (MD421 takes too much hi-hat bleed)
• Snare bottom: Shure SM7 (maybe a bit unusual but works for me and my mixing style)
• Rack toms: MD421
• Floor tom: MD421 or MD441
• Hi-hat: AKG C451
• Overheads: KM84
• Room (1.2 - 3.5 meters from kick drum): AKG C414 pair (wide A-B or Blumlein)
• Far ambience (6-10 meters): Neumann TLM103 (collects very much room sound)
• Lo-fi far ambience (5 meters): Shure Unidyne III 545 or Electro-Voice RE11 (cut low and high end, put thru dirty compressor like 1176 in nuke mode or even Boss SD-1 guitar pedal, add gate, sidechain from snare => my secret snare reverb)

 
Of course I don't need all the channels for all recordings but if I record them all in case it's not fully clear how the song is going to be mixed.
 

Unfortunately, my room is TINY and almost square.  I had a bear of a time getting it tuned and keeping some "life" in the room.  Alas, I have a huge hole at 80hz (which I expected based on the math but have learned how to "hear" it and work around it.)

Since 99.9% of what I actually "record" is vocals or voice overs the most important thing to me is #1, an accurate room to mix in, and #2 a quiet and neutral place to capture said vocals.  I do have a quiet enough control room to do acoustic guitars and I can mic a bass cab or EG amp but I rarely do that anymore.  Most of my work is either for long time clients doing vocals, mixing those vocals in with the individual instrument tracks they recorded elsewhere or my own projects which are either all acapella or use all electronic instrumentation.

As for the computer, I use a (fairly old now) Dell server with a Xeon processor.  Rock solid.  I have never been one to mix "in the box" so I always mix down via the board.  I really like the hybrid approach and the options is gives.

She ain't much to look at, but I get pretty good results.


 
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Low quality cellphone pic but here you go:
 

 
My stuff lives on the desk, the audio gear lives in the rack next to it, the computer lives out in a closer outside of the room to keep noise and heat down.
 
The cat lives on the orange blankee :D
 

Sycraft
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The cat lives on the orange blankee :D
 

A high tech cat for a high tech music room. The cat even has LED eys...
 
Walt

Let's try this again!....New room with the basic building blocks in place.  Working on a few more pieces of outboard gear to sweeten things up a bit.  I love this room......it's my creative escape!




I really enjoyed seeing all of your rooms and rigs.....gives me some good ideas for the future!
 
Dave

Dave - that last photo is nuthin'!

You should see the guitar display case at the EMP in Seattle sometime. That would give you some ideas.