Post your set up and your sexy cat...

furrybum · Post by **furrybum** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:11 pm

Bored at work so thought I'd post some studio pics. Moved around quite a bit so have had various setups and various combinations of equipment. My setup now is quite minimal but I find myself being more productive with my music time.

furrybum · Post by **furrybum** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:45 pm

V noice

Thank you Mr Rave. As I said, it's much more minimal these days. My band's rehearsal room has more stuff. Here's a list. Will get some photos done.

Korg EMX
Korg ESX
Micro Korg
Korg MS2000R
Korg MS2000B
Roland MC505
Pink Glittery Les Paul
Boss SP303
Novation Nova
Lexicon Something
Alesis MidiVerb
32 Channel Behringer desk

furrybum · Post by **furrybum** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:46 pm

Korg EMX
Korg ESX
Micro Korg
Korg MS2000R
Korg MS2000B

By the way, were not sponsored by korg although it does look that way!

jesso · Post by **jesso** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:09 pm

How much do you like your electribe? Im considering one second hand at the moment.
Heres a dilema for you....
Korg elctribe (same as your one) for cheap, or Machinedrum for more than I can really afford? Thats what im considering at the moment.
Is there any contest?

Warminstrel · Post by **Warminstrel** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:16 pm

furrybum wrote:Bored at work so thought I'd post some studio pics. Moved around quite a bit so have had various setups and various combinations of equipment. My setup now is quite minimal but I find myself being more productive with my music time.

I notice the Wesley Japser; How do you find it plays? Bought one myself recently in clear perspex. Very compact, nice and basic etc, but not happy with neck/body assembly - theres no plate, just 4 washers, neck tends to bend easily and looses its tune all the time. Considering modifying it somehow when i've got time.
Still good value for 70 quid i suppose.

Nice set up btw.

furrybum · Post by **furrybum** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:02 pm

I notice the Wesley Japser; How do you find it plays? Bought one myself recently in clear perspex. Very compact, nice and basic etc, but not happy with neck/body assembly - theres no plate, just 4 washers, neck tends to bend easily and looses its tune all the time. Considering modifying it somehow when i've got time.
Still good value for 70 quid i suppose.

Nice set up btw.

Thank you very much. To be honest I can't play the guitar. I bought it to have something to hit and run through effects for feedback and things. Cheap and cheerful though. The size makes it feel a bit wierd compared to normal guitars though.

How much do you like your electribe? Im considering one second hand at the moment.
Heres a dilema for you....
Korg elctribe (same as your one) for cheap, or Machinedrum for more than I can really afford? Thats what im considering at the moment.
Is there any contest?

To be honest as far as I can see they're 2 very different beasts. The EMX is wicked if you can live with limited drum sounds and limited editing of synth sounds. It's great for programming beats quickly but I tend to edit them later in live as you you can change the timings of individual hits a bit more. We use them live though and they're wicked. Sound huge running through a PA.

I personally would love a machine drum. If only I had the money. Never used one but have heard one. They're possibly a bit deeper and I believe offer more onboard editing of sounds and sequences.

Depends what you're looking for though. I do love my EMX but don't use it as much as I did.

djgroovy · Post by **djgroovy** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:12 pm

Hey furrybum, you call that a minimal setup?
You should see mine...

furrybum · Post by **furrybum** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:35 pm

Hey furrybum, you call that a minimal setup?

It is now compared to how it is in these photos[/quote]

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:38 am

Here's mine. Need to get a copy of photoshop for the face. = too big of a picture.
www.futurekill.org has some songs from two years ago done in Live, and older photos of me, and my old singer.

This set up is a tiered couple pieces of plywood on a regular X-stand.
I couldn't really work with the 1 1/2 foot jump and lack of laptop stability a two tier stand offers.

It gets even more obsessive, to have as much plugged into the macbook as I do IU had to make little angled stands for the PadKontrol and Kore.

This way too I can have external drives under the little stands.

I would love to get some welder to work with me on making a marketable version of this, I don't think I'm alone in this. The main advantage of all this is all you have to do to go from studio to stage is to raise the x-stand a few inches!

gaijin1717 · Post by **gaijin1717** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:03 am

After months of drooling over this string I've come to terms with the fact that it's all about what you have, and what you do with it (or don't do with it) doesn't really matter. That leaves me with this:

And my inner mug:

Tohtruck · Post by **Tohtruck** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:21 am

^^^ Nice. That's an interesting chair you got there with the swiss ball. How is that chair working out for you? I was thinking about getting one myself. Is it comfy to sit on for long hours?

fixed_up · Post by **fixed_up** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:23 pm

Yep that is a nice setup you have there gaijin1717, but its all about the chair. I want one.

jesso · Post by **jesso** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:56 pm

Nice setup.
Speakers are a bit strangely positioned though....
You'd be better off having them at the same level as each other.
Yeeeeeha!!

gaijin1717 · Post by **gaijin1717** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:49 pm

Tohtruck wrote:^^^ Nice. That's an interesting chair you got there with the swiss ball. How is that chair working out for you? I was thinking about getting one myself. Is it comfy to sit on for long hours?

The chair is...ok. It would probably be a lot better if I had leg room under the table tops, but as things are I do a lot of leaning forward. The back is a little jankity too.

I got the idea because sitting on exercise balls is the big thing at my office. The Office and Building Services department is even supplying them - just the balls, not the chair part.

Anyway, I got it on Amazon.

gaijin1717 · Post by **gaijin1717** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:55 pm

jesso wrote:Nice setup.
Speakers are a bit strangely positioned though....
You'd be better off having them at the same level as each other.
Yeeeeeha!!

I KNEW that was coming, and I agree. I don't think there's much to be done about it when my desk is a wooden door with some legs attached and a coffee table sitting atop too enormous antiquated speakers. I've been looking for a proper desk for awhile, particularly because I want an 88 key controller and I don't currently have the space. They're just so damn expensive, and don't make very interesting sounds.

I promise, though, jesso, that as soon as you buy me a desk I will rectify the monitoring issue. PM me with your bank account information for the wire transfer.
[winking emoticon]