what's up everyone i'm cracka lack welcome to crack house recording studio come on in
all right you guys here we are this is where the magic happens that's where everything goes down
right here we got the big logo the infamous you know the crack house logos out to b-unique for the
logo this is the wall of fame so i started with one board i believe it's maybe over here this is
everyone that's recorded here i always ask them to autograph the wall it makes it special it makes it
more of a memory and experience you know you've been to the studio signed the wall as the studio
got more popular more clients came to the studio i added a second board then eventually was the third
board and then now we had a whole entire wall i'm gonna continue to take these with me to the next
studio all right we got the two black couches as you see the vibe of this room is very black
it's got black ceilings black walls the dark gray flooring black couches black desk black table and
then we complemented it with white everything else so that we got the white panels these were diy me
and my girlfriend i have a great girlfriend she sat there with me and we ordered all these panels
which i believe are rock wool insulation panels i ordered multiple packs of them i think they come
in packs of four maybe packs of a and then we went to joann fabrics and got some white cloth fabric
wrapped them and this is a heat transfer i believe it was kind of iron on we got the logo branding
101 you got to crack house everything right we're back by the booth before we go in the booth again
we got the crack house business cards all over the wall it looks like a wallpaper type thing
this is the krakalak wall of fame just different studios that i've been to different celebrities or
industry people that i've worked with i have like the old portrait style pictures that i went and
got printed off at walmart and then we took the sharpie and wrote down the artist name and then
whatever city and state that i was in or the name of the studio and then the city and state here is
the booth it should feel and sound very dead in here it's really quiet so when we built the
booth there is this rockwool insulation inside the wall and then after the drywall and i believe it's
double drywall we also still did these panels i went with like the checkerboard you know half of
them dark gray half of them white the mic that i have is a neumann newman neumann however you
say tlm103 i've had this mic for about three years prior to this mic i had i think an audio technica
or akg like a 300 mic and that was solid that lasted me about five six seven years and then
when i remodeled my studio and i was looking to also upgrade not just the look of the room but
actually upgrade the the sound and the quality getting a new mic was the first thing that i did
this is very good i've seen this in a lot of other well-respected engineer friends and colleagues of
mine they use this same mic in their studios too so it's kind of like the icing on the cake
that okay i need to get one of those and also this brand is really popular and trusted in the whole
studio environment and space before we get to the desk and the computer and all that up here
you know studio vibes i always said smoking weed in a studio is like chips and salsa
at a mexican restaurant you know they just go together and with this studio being a suite
inside a building they don't allow smoking on the property at all whatsoever so i had to get
creative and find a way around it and i went to a growth store and i was saying hey if you're trying
to smoke weed in your apartment and it's not loud in there what would you do and so they got this
carbon filter air purifier system and pretty much it sucks the smoke up through the carbon filter
filters and cleans the air and then it spits the clean air outside so it gets all the smoke out of
here and it doesn't just blow the smoke outside where it's going to smell like it it's going
to be the clean air that goes outside it gets hot as hell in here this is a air conditioner
normally all the crackhouse merch we have you know like hoodies and t-shirts and stuff normally that
stuff goes here but it's a good thing that it's all sold out now the desk this is a custom built
desk i recently got this maybe about a month ago and it's got the crack house logo literally into
the wood right here i was looking to get like a pre-made studio workstation desk i couldn't decide
and i really just wanted something more simple and clean but i just wanted really big and a lot
of space to work and that's exactly what this is at a computer again all you really need is a solid
maybe like anything above like a thousand dollars this computer will get the job done yeah this is
a custom built computer we built this about four months ago i'll list the specs in the description
because i honestly have no idea i don't remember at the time put a lot of thought into it i want to
say it's 32 gigs of ram or so i'll list all that in the description i know one tip with computers
is ideally you want to have a separate hard drive like at least like a ssd drive or they even have
the m2 super fast ssd like it looks like a stick of ram and that's what i have in there a terabyte
of that and that's where you install windows all of your programs plug-ins and then you get
a second hard drive like a second ssd hard drive and then that's where you'll store all of your
files so like all of your beats your songs your sessions store those on a separate hard drive and
i have a one or two terabyte ssd drive in there and that's where i store sessions i store my beats
for my monitors i have yamaha hs8 i have the white one with the look of the studio you know you guys
see there's white everywhere crackalack cooking crack rap stuff the white was a must we got the
white chairs these are all from amazon i want to say about 115 to 160 a piece got three white
chairs in here got a black table for people to sit at eat enjoy whatever this was from ikea for about
two hundred dollars with these speakers these studio monitors prior to this i had some m audio
bx eights and those lasted me about 10 years and i was told that that's the average life of a set of
studio monitors and i've had these for maybe two to three years now i like the way that these sound
they're really clean they're really flat if you get speakers that are super bass heavy if you're
mixing down beats you might turn your bass down the speakers sound like there's so much space but
really there's not for my interface prior to this i had a focusrite a focusrite was solid sometimes
i would get some skipping glitching lagging one out of every like 20 times i hit record and so
with this interface uh universal audio great reputation very popular well respected company
i seen this right here in so many producers videos and in their home studios and their setups
it's about a thousand dollars good quality clean signal i highly recommend it again very common you
can see that in a lot of different studios so we have the mic runs into the apollo the interface
just look at this is like the sound brain of your computer everything kind of plugs into this
then right here is a mackie big knob we use this to control the speakers you can actually have
three different sets of speakers hooked up to it two headphones also what's key that we were
missing for a long time was the talk back button before this investment if someone's in the booth
and remember it's pretty well sound proof and the door's shut i'm just turning around and screaming
do it again a second time now it's you just press the button talk love it you can control
your headphones so a lot of artists in the booth they want their headphones loud as [ __ ] blowing
their ear drums out so if you don't want your headphones to be the same file you can turn yours
down turn theirs up programs that i like to use for beats it's always been fl studio i've been on
fruity loops since like fruity loops for footy loops three maybe so i've been making bees for
about 17 almost 18 years all i've ever used is ff studio i love fl studios so if you guys want some
fl studio tips or tutorials let me know in the comments so i know what tutorials to make for
recording vocals i use nuendo it's basically like cubase similar to fl studio i use those because
when i bought my first ever interface when i was 15 it came with a free version of cubase
so i learned how to use cubase i got familiar with the layout of it where everything's at and so as i
like continued to grow i continued to use cubase and i bought a different version of cubase and
the window is basically the same thing as cubase you can open up cubase projects in the window in
the window projects in cubase they're made by the same company which is steinberg this right here
is a midi controller so when i'm making beats nfl studio you know you you load up a vst like a piano
or whatever sound you want and right here is where you just control the way it sounds probably one of
my favorite pieces in this whole studio is this rug right here about three years ago the end of
2018 i completely remodeled the studio with the crack house branded everywhere it had this open
floor space and i was thinking man one of those custom rugs would be dope and so i just went to
google and searched custom printed rug and i found a website that was i believe custom doormats.com
something like that and i got this rug right here pricey though almost 400 dollars for this rug but
having a custom rug with your logo in your studio it's worth it man it's still in good condition
too after three years to get the studio via if there's not one of these in the studio it's hard
to create that vibe man this is just those rgb led strips that you can get on amazon for like 15
when you just do one row it's only so bright well if you do one row and then you turn it and
go back and now it's double it's you know twice as bright so we have two rows going along the
entire edge of the ceiling and they all just keep plugging into one another and the beautiful thing
is you can change the color to whatever you want red blue green any color i like the teal and um
so that's the the cool studio lights it's just a bunch of those 15 amazon rgb led light strips
and there might be 20 boxes of them in this room also over here when you look at the desk and you
see it glowing along the back of the desk i have about four rows of the led lights going
across and also behind the tv it's got the the lights my favorite sign the only sign in here
shut the [ __ ] up by mixing how many times have you ran into you got some people in your studio
everyone's talking the music's up so you turn the music up more so you can hear it and everyone just
starts getting louder now you can't even hear what you're doing and uh when you have people in here
paying hourly to get their songs to sound good you have to hear it i've talked about getting a sign
like this for over 10 years and now i got one all right you guys so that was about it for the tour
if i left anything out just ask me in the comments and i'll get back to you guys but i wanted to
kind of bring you guys up to speed so i'm 32 years old this is not my first studio my first studio
was in my bedroom like i'm sure a lot of you and i used to have cup holders all over my wall when
i was about 15 a movie came out that was called hustle and flow whoop that trick and the shot of
their studio there's cupholders on the wall so i thought oh okay cup holders are sound proofing or
acoustic treatment whatever and i had a friend that worked at mcdonald's and
we used to go through the drive-through every single night for about a week and we'd collect
10 one night maybe 15 the next and eventually i had about 100 and they're all over my wall
they didn't do an absolute thing to the sound or make it sound better at all speaking of that
these panels hanging on the ceiling they really do make a difference when we first remodeled the
studio i was in here just making beats it sounded like i was in a club and i knew like i got to do
something with the you know the soundproofing of the acoustic treatment because it doesn't sound
good it sounds like you know again like i'm inside an empty club out of all the different panels in
this room the ones that make the most difference that you can hear is above and i also have these
rlx foam pads that the speakers sit on i got panels on the back wall that also
made a difference yeah my first ever studio was again cup holders on the wall we used to have a
10 computer mic didn't know how to use any type of daw and we used to have a cd player playing
instrumental loud and the speaker would just be close to the mic and then the person would just
have to come up and rap while the beats playing in the background there was no recording mixing
none of that was just one take if someone messed up you had to redo the whole song
that was the first ever studio then it moved to a better studio i remember my second studio
in the booth i had mattress topper like the two inch thick memory foam mattress topper inside my
booth that did make a difference before there was the booth was very reverb sounded which is drywall
and the mattress topper helped i've had maybe a handful of other home studios before this and this
is my first ever in a public building not non-home studio so right now if you're in a position where
you're thinking man i've had the home studio for this long i'm thinking about actually renting a
place let me talk to you about my thoughts so when i had a home studio my rent for a studio was zero
dollars when i was first approached about moving my studio to a place like this like a public place
and then pay rent my thoughts like why on earth would i ever do that i already have a studio i
already have customers coming to my house and i didn't see a problem in it eventually i decided
that this was the move to make and i remember my first week into it having people show up and
use this public hallway bathroom and i remember after just one week of being here i i said to
myself i'll never in my life have a studio open to the public like in my home just being out of
your house in an environment like this it's just i think it's respected more it's more professional
you don't have a bunch of random people like in your house all right you guys so that's about
it crack leg this is crack house recording studio as of 2021 this is my studio tour
i have a feeling that i'm gonna be seeing you guys again real soon here to do another one of these
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