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.

2 comments:

  1. do you know if they have anything like a guitar rental? i want to do some recording, but i don't really feel like buying a guitar just for that. i can't record in my place and don't have drums, etc. any suggestions?

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  2. My friends have rented out cellos from instrument shops, and it was only like 40,000 a month, so I'm assuming that it'd be possible to find someone who rents out guitars as well. I'd say call Red House Studio and ask them. It seems there's definitely someone there who speaks English, and I'm sure they'd be happy to help you with that.

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