These are links to the complete studio buildout series, as well as some others highlights from our DIY category of posts. It’s by no means exhaustive – we post about DIY on a fairly regular basis – but these tend to be the topics asked about most often. Enjoy!

• Rooms and Sound
• Making Sound Baffles on the Cheap (video)
• Studio Buildout, Part 1: Picking the Right Room
• Studio Buildout, Part 2: Monitoring with Headphones and Reference Speakers
  See also: monitor speaker isolation pads
• Studio Buildout, Part 3: Playback Amps
• Studio Buildout, Part 4: Microphones
• Studio Buildout, Part 5: Sound Interfaces
• Studio Buildout, Part 6: Your Digital Audio Workstation
• Studio Buildout, Part 7: Jeff Bohnhoff on Room Conditioning (guest post)
• Fine-Tuning a Recording Space with Sound Baffles (with video)
• A New Pop Filter Design (with video)
• A DIY Remote-Controlled ON AIR sign
• A Smarter Speaker Switch

We also have posts on making other things, like instruments, pickups, and sound-effects boxes:

• A removable electric pickup and electric-accoustic onboard pickup minimixer for the Irish bouzouki
• A DIY floating-bridge instrument pickup, based on the Cortado circuit
• Pickup chambers used with piezo sensors – spectral analysis tests (excessively geeky)
• A Light, Snappy, Bodhran tipper (with video)
• The Trash-O-Matic 68000 Effects Box 1.0 (with video) | (Ver. 0.8 | Ver. 1.2 (w/new audio))
• A mic-stand-mounted adjustable keyboard and trackball shelf
• A downloadable legal-paper-sized comp sheet, in PDF format
• Hard, Hard Candy: a “focus knob” for instruments, particularly electric guitar

And there are the other DIY collections, too:

• The Microphone Build Collection (all the posts about building microphones and mic pre-amps)
• The Horrible, Terrible, Awful Stage Monitors that Made Good (seriously they were terrible)
• The Mandolin Travel Case Build-Out series (woodworking! mostly)