Welcome to the Phone Box Studio
Towards the end of last year, I have been developing software to help me manage a radio station. The last update I posted was in December and it can be found here. I have since been developing the software further over the last couple of months and I now have it how I like it. It even allows me to host my radio station online with scheduled sets.
I set about repurposing old projects I have in the workshop and starting assembling a little recording studio, complete with sound proofing sponge tiles that recently fell off the roof from the cinema at the bottom of the garden. The studio booth, made from parts of an old wardrobe was rather narrow, so installing my BT payphone gave it a phone box feeling and this is the style I'll go for to give the live stream a bit of character. The payphone still works, so in theory I could take calls live on the air but I think I might use it as the microphone.
As with all my projects, this has been made on a shoestring budget - Even the mixing desk was free, rescued from a skip. The Realistic mixing desk from the 90s still works, it's the hardest piece of kit that I know.
I have also set up a few cameras and tested everything in Streamlabs to make sure the angles and configurations are all good. I really like the telephone box theme, it makes it rather quirky to watch when I've been practicing and playing back. If the live sets take off, wouldn't it be a great if actual telephone boxes out in the real world were turned into makeshift studios, inviting others to do live sets from telephone boxes. They could be linked up to my studio booth and live streamed. Now there's an idea!
This technically isn't really my own idea, I pinched it from a very old telephone box project - Pop up Pirate Radio which amazingly is still up. I reached out to them a while back but didn't get a response.
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