There was a time when I could spend most of my life in a little recording studio lost in the woods. The studio was not pro built. but I had some nice microphones there ( a couple of Brauners, a stereo modded Oktavas MK012 and a nice Sony PCM D100 handy recorder) + a couple of nice 500 series Neve preamps and an UA Apollo interface. The studio in the woods was perfect for recording with friends and spend large amounts of time doing sound design while isolated from the noises and rhtyms of the city.