studio rearranging...

SayersWeb · Joined: Apr 07, 2003 Posts: 62 Location: Sugar Land, Texas

Mosc was the first to see my new studio setup (although the Ion was not here yet) when he was here a few weeks ago. This is after months of planning and work to get both the room and equipment sorted out.

Here is a preview:
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More pictures can be found here:
http://www.sayersweb.com/studio/html/pictures_current_studio.html

The studio is in an "unfinished" area of my basement. It has no proper wall panels, ceiling panels, or flooring. The walls are cement with insulation attached, so no wood framing to attach proper walls to.

Recent changes include addition of insulation to the ceiling, cloth to cover the ceiling and walls, carpeting, new lighting, new electrical supply panel, a new window.... An unexpected benefit of this is a very soundproof room with no sound echo problems.

While I was doing all of this stuff Mary Beth decided I needed new furniture to get better organized. Off to Ikea we went and now have several new cabinets and shelves.

The 5 old bookcases are now in the storage area located behind the "sun curtain" that you can see in the bottom picture of the "Current Studio Pictures" page. This is where all of the ugly stuff goes. The new shelves and cabinets are mostly empty, allowing plenty of room to grow.

The new lighting (also from Ikea) hangs between two wires that are parallel to the ceiling. The individual lights can be aimed in any direction which makes it great to light up the work surfaces in the room (including the mixers and synth panels). There are two sets of them and they are on a dimmer. You can get an idea what they look like from the pictures.

You can also see the new Andromeda and Ion synths in the pictures. There is much less gear in the studio these days, but I find what is there to be much more useful. Cool

LoKi

SayersWeb · Joined: Apr 07, 2003 Posts: 62 Location: Sugar Land, Texas

envisioned.fallacy · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject:

im new to these parts as well... haha

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some of your studios look nuts...

right now im using a pc, a yamaha synth, creative audigy platinum ex, and a korg ea-1...

my pc is a athlonXP2200+ ( overclocked to 1.9 ghrz), 512mb, creative audigy LIVE!, 44gig hdd, +6 gig hdd (used for projects), cdrw , dvdROM, also some neons \m/

yeah an amp in there.. woot!

in the summer me and a friend are setting up a studio though.. korg triton le, nova II, Boss SP505, another comp, audigy 2, plus other gear soon to be accumulated...

mosc · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:09 pm Post subject:

Great kit you have there, envisioned.fallacy

welcome

envisioned.fallacy · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject:

heheh thanks alot mosc

its somewhat measley though.. Sad

i guess i have lots of time to accumulate more gear..

i'd show you what i can do with it, but i have no idea where to host my songs... ive tried some free hosting sites, but they always restrict file size...

zynthetix · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:49 pm Post subject:

jkn · Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 469 Location: La Porte, IN, USA

Definitely... I love talking about gear and seeing how people arrange their studio's - how they hook stuff up and use it. I've learned a ton of different ways to use things in this forum and others like it. But, it's all about what someone does with the gear, whether it's a laptop only studio or a fantastic setup with 30 synths... Smile

Speaking of new gear - in January I swapped out my Mackie 1402 mixer for a 1604. Wow - what a lovely thing that is. I love the additional aux sends which was my primary reason for wanting it.

I've also rearranged significantly - and finally used my old 80's era IBM server cabinet to store my rack gear and mixer in. Pictures soon!

LoKi · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:01 am Post subject:

dmosc · Joined: Jun 23, 2003 Posts: 298

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:55 am Post subject:

is there something wrong with that case? It looks weird? Blueish light?

jkn · Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 469 Location: La Porte, IN, USA

Looks like a black light... I love some of the bizarre case mods that have been done. Sort of like the tricked out ridiculous looking (whoops - did I say that) cars that people have built. Of course - I'm sure they'd make fun of (and mutually respect) my hobbies just as much.

dmosc · Joined: Jun 23, 2003 Posts: 298

well actually it's a pretty mainstream and conservative new case from antec but it it taunted as the best case money can buy by a lot of folks.

http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=81600

or a nice review:

http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040607/miditower-02.html#antec_p160_lightweight_at_13_pounds

*EDIT* LOL, it occurs to me that I probably wasn't supposed to be drooling over computer cases in these studio shots but over keyboards and synths, right?

jkn · Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 469 Location: La Porte, IN, USA

You can drool over anything you want!

mosc · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject:

Yes, drooling is the one common denominator here... Laughing

envisioned.fallacy · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject:

yeah the strange blue light are the stock LEDs plus i have
green and pulsating blue neons... the case is truly amazing i love it...

im actually getting a mechwarrior cartoon window in the side of it, a friend owns a CAD machine.

its definetly worth the money, i picked mine up for 150$ at:

Shop RBC

jksuperstar · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:06 am Post subject:

Well, I finally pulled out the camera today. Here's my personal space, which I lovingly call the "grotto", since it's sub-terrainian with no windows. The desk is cheap clearance office furnature, that I modified to accept a better keyboard than it was meant for Smile

The walls are all coated, double-doored entry, and double-pane glass to the rest of the basement/studio. On the desk are a few projects I'm working on...midi hand drums, a modified Peavey StudioMix controller, and my own "virtual" granular synth.

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seraph · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:56 am Post subject:

I see Jack "Shining" Nicholson behind the door Shocked

scary

nice studio. this thread is very nice Exclamation

mosc · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:17 am Post subject:

Cool pictures, JK. Looks like a nice place to be. Grotto is a pleasant term...

winston84 · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:59 pm Post subject:

I saw this thread and had to post

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dewdrop_world · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject:

All righty, you guys tempted me.

I'm not posting hardware shots because I made the decision some years ago to reduce my hardware to the bare minimum and do everything in (custom) software in SuperCollider. So you get a screenshot of my working/performing environment. Clockwise from top left:

- post window (shows command output)
- GUI with parameters for a simple chorus (someone else did the code for this gui)
- tucked in overlapping the chorus panel is a code window with some tests for a new piece
- the main control panel: storage for MIDI note data, compositional processes mapped to MIDI keys (green means it's playing), synthesis status panel, an object browser, and control bays for MIDI-mappable parameters
- bottom left: drag-and-drop mixing board (MIDI controlled)
- EQ editor
- scratch code window

It took me a good 3 years to get my workflow sorted out to this point. I'm quite proud of it.

Not much is loaded into the windows here because I'm starting on a new piece. In a performance the mini keyboard with process names is pretty much full.

Wish you could hear what it was doing at the time... a granular wash of live-recorded flute sounds Twisted Evil

James

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seraph · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:11 am Post subject:

bachus · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:52 am Post subject:

Here's my setup:

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The two front video monitors are dedicated to the SONAR DAW, the third is KVM'd to the DAW and two computers used for soft synths. That's not worked out completely satisfactorily and if I had room I add another ASCI keyboard and take the DAW off the KVM

seraph · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:57 am Post subject:

bachus
I see you own Symphonic Instrument by MOTU. how do you like that Question