Friday, April 24, 2009

Brown Sound (브라운사운드) - Sangsu/Hongdae Stations (상수역, line 6/홍대입구역, line 2)

Brown Sound (브라운사운드) is a practice space that's located between Sangsu Station and Hongdae Station in Hongdae. It's incredibly clean and has some of the best equipment you'll find at a practice space in Seoul. There are 4 rooms you can choose from: rooms H, O, Z, and N. The bigger rooms, H and O, cost 18,000 won per hour, and the smaller rooms, Z and N, cost 16,000 won per hour.

Here's a breakdown of their equipment:

Guitar amp: Marshall JCM 2000 + Marshall 1960v cabinet
Bass amp: Ashdown EVO II 500 + Ashdown 810 cabinet
Drums: Pacific drums by DW FX series + UFIP cymbal
PA: Soundcraft GIGRAC 600 mixer + Peavey PV115 speakers
Keyboards: Kurzweil PC1X + Korg TR
Mic: Shure SM58s Microphone
Optional guitar amps: Fender Twin Reverb + Marshall Bluesbreaker + 89 Soldano SLO-100 amp

You can also store your instruments here if you need to, if, say, you have a huge 25-kg keyboard that you don't want to be lugging around town with you all the time, like me. And if you practice quite often, they'll work out a deal with you where you can decide on a price per month.

Here's what Room H (one of the bigger rooms) looks like:










Check out their Web site at http://cafe.naver.com/brownsoundstudio. You can call them at 02-337-4289.