I did too, eventually moving just to acoustic. The electric accoutrement is vast and a rabbit hole. I get into things like that too much and I felt it was taking away from actually playing guitar.
My thought would be to keep the accessories minimal and keep the tones on the simple side until you have a comfortable grasp of actually playing the instrument. Then go wild!
A minimal setup with an electric guitar, and a small amp like the Yamaha THR10ii or the Boss Katana Air is all you need to scratch that itch, and is a nice, pretty straightforward to use, set up which is well suited for a small space.
With the THR10ii you’ll need a cable too, or get the G10T transmitter. The Katana Air has the wireless included.
Here are a couple of pics of my music area. This was our family room that we now use pretty much exclusively for music. We have a backdrop up right now for filming video, but that comes up or down depending on what we are doing. It’s a bit of organized chaos and there are a lot of cords/cables around, but it works for us!
Hi Nicole @NicoleKKB!
Mine is roughly similar age as yours but it has a typical 6 point tremolo bridge which I have setup as fixed bridge.
I have an old thread about it, here: Old Guitar Day!
Here’s my setup, parts of which people would have seen from my videos. Just not the desk bit.
I’m a bit of a tech nut if anyone hadn’t figured that out by now. The amp is a Fender GTX50, it’s hooked up to a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (via XLR), as is the mic. I can play with headphones or without, record silently, etc, without mucking around with changing cabling. Everything is hooked up all the time. Aside from the acoustic of course. I have another acoustic but that’s for the kids to muck around with.
What you don’t see is the other side of the room - that’s full of my kid’s toys and whatever mess they’ve created.
Like it, looks organised and efficient with space to move around how’s that table top mic stand working out for you? I’m looking at buying one myself to record acoustic/vocals while sitting down, could be a valuable space saver
You nailed it, I have it so it takes up less space vs a floor one - they seem to have a large footprint.
It’s a Rode PSA1. I’m happy with it. It’s on a boom arm, and condenser mics stay put, my dynamic mic is a lot lighter and won’t stay in every position… but it works for me.
The essentials…There is also a desk, computers, Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 audio interface that I need to start putting to use, speakers etc. All too messy to show at the moment, but all in all a comfortable place to practice.
Nah it’s only me and my Mrs and no neighbour on any of the surrounding walls in this room as for the acoustics of the room its so tiny it barely generates any echo