Hobby Designs & 3D Work
Living Room – Bar Design
My living room is where I spend most of my life. It has my computer, my recording equipment, all my instruments, and my recording-booth in it. I have always wanted a bar in my house, but prices were too high. So I made my own. I designed this using Google SketchUp. I used wood to match the overall interior design of my living room.
A year later, I added the winery. (I mounted 4 parallel metal pipes under the bar.) Approximately 6 months after that, I added a small shot-glass shelf under the hanging wine glasses.
Guitar Design
A year ago, right before the Imagine Music Video, I wanted to change my guitar pickups for a better sound. When I disassembled my guitar, I wanted to change the way it looks too.
So I called my painter neighbor Yıldız Ersağdıç, who is a well-known painter in Turkey, and a teacher/researcher in my university. She kindly agreed to help, and painted the guitar.
After the painting process, I finished the guitar, and reassembled it. Later, we decided not to use the guitar in the Imagine Music Video, but in the Time Music Video.
Open Studio Design
Almost every stage musician I’ve met in my life, complains that it’s hard being in the studio. Whether it’s the small, closed room, or tracking individually, not playing with the band etc. So I decided to design an open studio with my current knowledge. Of course it has flaws, but I had time in my hands, and I wanted to design a studio, in which musicians can enjoy recording, and feel comfortable. I’ve tried my best to use glasses to maintain eye-contact between musicians while keeping the resonance in mind. I used SketchUp to design the studio, because I started this as a hobby project. Later I exported the model, and calculated the inner acoustics using ODEON. I have to admit the results were not satisfying, but after a few quick material changes, I started getting decent results. ITD was better than I expected, and the LeDe design worked pretty well without a control room glass. I used different layers of obstacles to stop the drums and guitars from leaking to the control room. So far my tests sound good in software, but real-life results always change. Here are some SketchUp rendered photos.
