Studio Pics

  On 7/12/2017 at 4:17 AM, thawkins said:

Here's my attempt. I'm currently not happy at all with the feng shui of gear placement. Because it's an IKEA shelf, I've only got like 50cm of depth room and I can't figure out a nice way to place the things so they're both easy to use and not cramped/placed precariously all over the place.

I have the thinner Ivar shelves, and I use it to store anything I'm not using in my setup, pedals and stuff. It's perfect for that. Not the best desk, tho I thought of doing the same thing.

  On 7/12/2017 at 3:23 PM, acid1 said:

 

  On 7/12/2017 at 7:34 AM, modey said:

 

 

so nice! I really need to work on making my desk setup a bit more minimal. I have too much stuff cluttering the desk and it's hindering my productivity a little. I'm almost there with my current setup, but then I see stuff like this and think it'd be lovely to have that much space.. perhaps I need to put up some shelves or something..

It certainly helps. I like to keep some gear in my closet so I can focus on one piece at a time.I work from this desk so I need space to do "desky" things. Also it was a $60 ikea hack.

Do you use the OT as a centerpiece? If so, how?

  On 7/13/2017 at 2:25 AM, sheathe said:

 

  On 7/12/2017 at 4:17 AM, thawkins said:

Here's my attempt. I'm currently not happy at all with the feng shui of gear placement. Because it's an IKEA shelf, I've only got like 50cm of depth room and I can't figure out a nice way to place the things so they're both easy to use and not cramped/placed precariously all over the place.

I have the thinner Ivar shelves, and I use it to store anything I'm not using in my setup, pedals and stuff. It's perfect for that. Not the best desk, tho I thought of doing the same thing.

 

It's not actually that bad, the vertical beams only get in the way because my gear is sprawling like some out of control oil spill. I've seen a lot of inspiring minimal clutter setups here and I thought that restricting myself in this way would force me not to buy too much (bulky) gear and learn to use whatever I've got efficiently. In retrospect the microkey 61 might have been overkill. :)

Here's a table with some stuff on it (lots of recent joy using the A4, Moisturizer + modular together):

How is the cat working out for you? I've heard lots of people have had issues with them.

  On 7/13/2017 at 2:28 AM, sheathe said:

 

Do you use the OT as a centerpiece? If so, how?

 

Yes!

The OT is the master MIDI clock and my mixer has a feature so that when I mute something it goes out of outputs 3/4, which go directly into the Octatrack. My laptop acts as an instrument just like everything else.

This basically allows me to sample anything plugged into my mixer when I mute it and everything is in sync.

  On 7/13/2017 at 3:15 PM, Gocab said:

How is the cat working out for you? I've heard lots of people have had issues with them.

Very useful for randomising sequences you've spent hours perfecting.

Nice set up Brian. And nice art. And nice cat.

  On 7/13/2017 at 3:52 PM, auxien said:

Nice set up Brian. And nice art. And nice cat.

+1

I love me some moisturiser. Nearly bought one a few times.

  On 7/13/2017 at 3:52 PM, auxien said:

Nice set up Brian. And nice art. And nice cat.

Thanx. It's the same cat in the art and on the . Linky to artist.

  On 7/13/2017 at 4:17 PM, Chesney said:

I love me some moisturiser. Nearly bought one a few times.

Great piece of kit, highly recommend it.

  On 7/13/2017 at 3:06 PM, Brian Dance said:

Here's a table with some stuff on it (lots of recent joy using the A4, Moisturizer + modular together):

 

how's the lady that you sing to?

  On 7/13/2017 at 3:06 PM, Brian Dance said:

Here's a table with some stuff on it (lots of recent joy using the A4, Moisturizer + modular together):

 

I know black cats are super common but this guy reminds me of Salem from Sabrina The Teenage Witch. I imagine him saying snarky things while you jam?

"You call that a synth patch?

1989 called and it wants cliche era sounds back

How long have you spent EQ'ing those hi hats?"

^lol

  On 7/13/2017 at 3:15 PM, acid1 said:

 

  On 7/13/2017 at 2:28 AM, sheathe said:

Do you use the OT as a centerpiece? If so, how?

 

Yes!

 

The OT is the master MIDI clock and my mixer has a feature so that when I mute something it goes out of outputs 3/4, which go directly into the Octatrack. My laptop acts as an instrument just like everything else.

 

This basically allows me to sample anything plugged into my mixer when I mute it and everything is in sync.

Yeah I use my mixer and OT the same way. It's the only thing that makes sense as far as integrating it. Having some clock issues when using OT as slave. I guess ableton has a pretty terrible clock. The OT transport will act like it is tripping over itself when it's slaved to Abe.

Yup, I tried various iterations. I find that I get the most benefits from realtime resampling if everything follows the OT clock.

totally unkempt mess of shit but whatever:

Lookin' good doodz.  Keep churning out those IDM Vibez Of Legend~

Hopefully get a pic of the new studio in a months time. Concrete footings are going in today ha.

  On 7/18/2017 at 1:52 PM, Chesney said:

Hopefully get a pic of the new studio in a months time. Concrete footings are going in today ha.

Nice!  I started my move early and got a few things in yesterday, but the landlord hasn't changed the locks yet so I only moved stuff that nobody would be likely to take in the unlikely event that they walked in off the street (so far just wood, sweaters and a heavy drill press that takes two people to lift) Should be moved completely in 3-4 weeks and set up in another 1-2.

No concrete footings, but if all goes well in a few months I'm going to approach the landlord about letting me have access to the crawlspace above the apartment to set up a reverb chamber.

oh that sounds wicked man.

  On 7/13/2017 at 11:17 PM, joshuatx said:

I know black cats are super common but this guy reminds me of Salem from Sabrina The Teenage Witch. I imagine him saying snarky things while you jam?

Yes she does, yes.

  On 7/18/2017 at 9:47 PM, Chesney said:

oh that sounds wicked man.

I bet they'll go for it, they are great and are really music friendly (there has been at least one hip hop album produced in there and a few bands have practiced there over the years, as long as you aren't an ass about it and work with them and the neighbors then it's all good) but the guy I'm replacing was kind of a problem and they actually padlocked the access hatch to stop him going up there and messing with the wiring, so I'm going to give it some time for them to get to know me better before I bring it up, haha.  It's perfect though, there's a little hatch with a ladder about 15 feet from where my DAW will be set up, I'd just need to stick a half decent budget monitor speaker and a half decent cheap mic up there (good enough to sound OK but cheap enough that I wouldn't mind leaving it up there all the time in the elements and probably eventually ruining it) and run the cables down when I needed to.

EDIT: the downside is a lot of my heat will be going straight up that hatch, too.

  On 8/2/2017 at 6:14 PM, th555 said:

are you duracell?