UPDATE: Congrats to our winner Chris Burke!
I’ve compiled the finalists from all the entries submitted for the Home Studio Contest. It was pretty easy because I just took every submission and put them here for a vote….ummm yeahhhh all 4 of you. So one of these lucky people gets the Amazon Gift Certificate for $21.84 and mad props for the home studio setup.
So please browse through the submissions below and at the end of the post you’ll see a place to vote for each contestant. After a week I’ll announce the winner. Feel free to pass along and tell your friends to vote for yourself, bribe people, do whatever is needed. As long as you encourage them to subscribe to the site
1. Alistair McDonald

Alistair gets points for humility and keepin it real. This is what my desk usually looks like. So I appreciate this. Here’s the details:
- Mackie 1202-VLZ Pro Mixer
- M-Audio Audiophile Firewire Interface
- Behringer MS40 Monitors
- Pod XT Live (under desk)
- Ibanez Roadstar II Series RS2000
- Line 6 Variax 100
- Freshman 12-string cutaway acoustic
- Custom guitar made for me from daughter (on top of left monitor)
- Huge pile of “todo” paperwork
2. Derek Necessary
Certainly the coolest name in the group, not to be confused with Derek Smalls. I have absolute sinful mac lust over his studio.

- iMac 24″ 4GB ram 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo
- M-Audio Studiophile BX8a
- M-Audio Firewire 410
- M-Audio Axiom 25
- Reason 4 + Refills
- Abelton Live 7
- 15″ Macbook Pro
- 13″ Macbook
- Westone Es3X in-ear monitors
- Acoustic panels (Owens Corning 703)
- External HD for loops
3. Chris Burke

The Jesus bobblehead has to count for something.
- 13″ Macbook 1.83 Ghz
- 19″ Dell monitor
- M-Audio Studio Pro 3 monitors
- Line 6 Toneport UX 8 audio interface
- 250gb external HD
- LG DVD burner (2 of them)
- 2 portable external HDs
- Blue Snowball USB mic
- M-Audio Keystation 88es Keyboard
- Rocketfish Bluetooth Mouse
- Bobble Head Jesus
4. Mark Collins

Mark has to take it for home decor, digging the art and furniture. Everyone has something to offer.
- 13″ Macbook Pro
- Mac Pro
- 24″ LCD for Mac Pro
- tablet
- sound board
- Samson R5A Monitors
- AKG k601 Headphones
- Not pictured: drums, guitars, 61 key keyboard, vocal booth in the walk in closet (nice!), line 6 pod 2.0)
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fun fact: the art and furniture is all original stuff that i created and built.
not pictured in mine but certainly very important to the studio.. the recording room.. (its the next room over) a snake runs from my ux8 through the wall to the next room.. where we have a vocal booth using a shure KSM 44 for vox) a guitar station, using a Line 6 X3 Live for amp modeling, and a drum station which uses the shure pgdmk6 drum micing kit
I think Chris gets a few extra points for the Starbucks. lol.
unfortunately I cannot take points for starbucks, as it only looks like starbucks.. its actually from "Amazing Coffee".. a place just down the road from my office… great fair trade coffee (much better than starbucks) but, way cheaper! if only they had fancy drinks like starbucks… then I would never leave that place..
boo ya! I win!! this is perfect, because there is something on Amazon that I need for the church tech team, that you cant get ANYWHERE else!
Congrats Chris! Well done sir, well done. I will email you your Amazon Gift Certificate today.
What are the "mad props for home studio set up" that you also won??? Cheers…
Chris's Daddy in PEI!!!