Studio Pics

[thawkins]

1 hour ago, user said:

Haha. Very funny.

If you'd know that the chair slightly pokes your back, there's a psu making a weird whining noise and there's a funny smell sometimes you'd realize what an absolutely ridiculous proposition you're making. Also I'm not wearing the right shoes right now, so...

How do you solve the problem that once you successfully finish cleaning your gear from dust, the pieces of gear you started the cleaning from are already dusty again?

I know, I know, CPU fabrication cleanroom solutions probably exist for the average prosumer...

[ignatius]

9 minutes ago, thawkins said:

How do you solve the problem that once you successfully finish cleaning your gear from dust, the pieces of gear you started the cleaning from are already dusty again?

you think about squarepusher's studio lacking ergonomics of any kind while being covered in dust and remember that it doesn't fucking matter

Edited December 15, 2021 by ignatius

[thawkins]

2 minutes ago, ignatius said:

you think about squarepusher's studio lacking ergonomics of any kind while being covered in dust and remember that it doesn't fucking matter

I know it doesn't fucking matter. The procrastination demon that runs my brain does not care!

[ignatius]

6 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:

I have the same Nord, did you find an expansion card? I let a card slip away on eBay years ago unfortunately. But I got all the Wizoo Guides and even the CD-ROM.

oh missed this post.. the nord i have is the NL3.. no expansion card needed/possible. 

Just now, thawkins said:

I know it doesn't fucking matter. The procrastination demon that runs my brain does not care!

have similar demons but i try to think around them since time is only so available. have rewired the studio many times over the years.. "rearrangement servant" for ergonimics of whatever i wanted to be close to at the time. so it goes. 

[pizza]

cs-80 decksaver

[sheatheman]

Scrap wood live rig for my show tonight. I somehow managed to make this mixer sound pretty decent. I don’t think the perfect small live mixer actually exists, but this is certainly so cheap (and 10 years old) that it’s the best solution.

Edited December 22, 2021 by sheatheman

[thawkins]

1 hour ago, sheatheman said:

Scrap wood live rig for my show tonight. I somehow managed to make this mixer sound pretty decent. I don’t think the perfect small live mixer actually exists, but this is certainly so cheap (and 10 years old) that it’s the best solution.

That modular on top left side is new to me? Sound any good?

[chronical]

28 minutes ago, thawkins said:

That modular on top left side is new to me? Sound any good?

the power supply unit?

[thawkins]

2 hours ago, chronical said:

the power supply unit?

[YEK]

3 hours ago, thawkins said:

That modular on top left side is new to me? Sound any good?

It has a touch sensitive interface. It works best if you lick your finger first. 

[sheatheman]

This is a top of the line Commercial Electric power strip with 15ft heavy gauge cord. Please give respect where respect is due.

[thawkins]

10 hours ago, yekker said:

It has a touch sensitive interface. It works best if you lick your finger first. 

Is it one of those where - depending on whether you are in east or west Japan - the LFO is set at 50-60Hz?

[TubularCorporation]

Still need a few cheap 6' snakes to hook up the 1u rack case that has most of the synths in it and the interface, but progress is being made.  Hopefully some day I'll upgrade to a Roland M-480 or a Mackie LM3204 and swap in the M160 for the Rolls RM203 I'm using as a keyboard mixer, but I just cant' afford it right now and 16 mixer channels is almost enough to hok all the rack gear up (I've got 17 channels of stuff if I limit it to main outputs only). I've got to say, nobody seems to like the Roland M160 but for what they seem to sell for (not counting the people on Reverb asking more than twice what this one cost on eBay, of course) I don't think you could do much better.  I think I was wrong about the effects sends being stereo but that seemed too good to be true anyway.  Inputs distort in the good way when you push them, it seems pretty clean when you don't push it too hard, it's only 4u and it has 4 sends with dedicated returns.  You could get two or three of them for the cost of one M480, too.

 

Just a few dozen more cables and I'll be able to make the ultimate late 90s commercial jingle or porn soundtrack.

 

EDIT: also need a second power conditioner, but as long as you ignore the way power conditioners ae marketed for audio you can get a really nice Ametek new-old-stock for under $100 easily, there are tons of them and they're comparable or better than stuff that's in the high hundreds when it's being sold as audio equipment.

 

That AD02 probably needs to go somewhere else, too, since all the i/o is on the front panel.

 

EDIT 2: already reorganized it pretty aggressively.  8 more patch cables and I should be set on the audio side, then I get all the MIDI hooked back up and start using it all again.

 

Also about 40% of the stuff in that rack was free, which is part of how I can justify keeping it all. The actual rack was free, too.

Edited January 16, 2022 by TubularCorporation

[Hautlle]

This has been my setup for the past ~1 year. Recently looking into power conditioners as I'm pretty sure it would reduce my noise floor a bit.  I've been very content exploring and recording lately.  No GAS to speak of (for now)

 

 

Edited February 3, 2022 by Hautlle
Fixed the pic

[YEK]

3 hours ago, Hautlle said:

This has been my setup for the past ~1 year. Recently looking into power conditioners as I'm pretty sure it would reduce my noise floor a bit.  I've been very content exploring and recording lately.  No GAS to speak of (for now)

 

No pic

[xox]

4 hours ago, Hautlle said:

This has been my setup for the past ~1 year. Recently looking into power conditioners as I'm pretty sure it would reduce my noise floor a bit.  I've been very content exploring and recording lately.  No GAS to speak of (for now)

 

That monitor placement tho

[Hautlle]

6 hours ago, xox said:

That monitor placement tho

Yeah, with my tiny room it's either make the modular the "center" of the studio and have the monitors on different walls @ 90° angles to each other, or make the laptop the "center" and put both monitors at a good angle for using that. I figure mixing in the DAW is more important than patching and noodling in that regard.

Edited February 3, 2022 by Hautlle

[cern]

Shit you guys have a studio? 

I have a Commodore 64 and a Machinedrum only. 
 

 

[psn]

Hooked up via MSSIAH? 

[cern]

32 minutes ago, psn said:

Hooked up via MSSIAH? 

No, MSSIAH is cool way too limited hehe 
This is a home made midi device that runs with the powerful but difficult tracker called defMON. 

I use to jam with my gf Peace.. Just for fun! We like doing music with Trackers. 

Im seriously looking up to you guys here on WATMM. Having all that studio equipment takes lot of time consumption and space but it looks so cool really!! 

[xox]

1 hour ago, cern said:

Shit you guys have a studio? 

I have a Commodore 64 and a Machinedrum only. 
 

 

I suppose you can’t afford to buy more gear bc you spent the rest of your money on watmm donations 

[thawkins]

On 2/3/2022 at 3:02 AM, Hautlle said:

This has been my setup for the past ~1 year. Recently looking into power conditioners as I'm pretty sure it would reduce my noise floor a bit.  I've been very content exploring and recording lately.  No GAS to speak of (for now)

 

 

That's a nice setup. I am curious how you use the Kastle. Mine is mostly used for filling space in my shame drawer.

[Hautlle]

4 hours ago, thawkins said:

That's a nice setup. I am curious how you use the Kastle. Mine is mostly used for filling space in my shame drawer.

Lol, yeah it doesn't get used a ton.  I do like to use it as an input into rings for nice textured strings/drones. You can get rhythmic things going on by patching the kastle and using a stereo input y adapter to patch it with an adsr or clock from the system.   

 

I also will use it as an osc source for percussion sounds from time to time.  Now that I'm thinking about it,  sampling it into the the Arbhar might be interesting....

Edited February 5, 2022 by Hautlle

[TubularCorporation]

I don't have a Kastle but I bet it would be cool as the carrier signal for a vocoder.

[thawkins]

19 hours ago, Hautlle said:

Lol, yeah it doesn't get used a ton.  I do like to use it as an input into rings for nice textured strings/drones. You can get rhythmic things going on by patching the kastle and using a stereo input y adapter to patch it with an adsr or clock from the system.   

 

I also will use it as an osc source for percussion sounds from time to time.  Now that I'm thinking about it,  sampling it into the the Arbhar might be interesting....

 

12 hours ago, TubularCorporation said:

I don't have a Kastle but I bet it would be cool as the carrier signal for a vocoder.

Thanks, great tips.

I am sure I tried both feeding some clock signal into the Kastle and also some vocoder experiments. I must have been using it wrong because the results definitely did not impress me back then. I used it mostly as a noise source that I could mess around with using Live's autofilter and its own knobs.

Maybe I will give it a shot again one day.