Post your set up and your sexy cat...

fatrabbit · Post by **fatrabbit** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:12 pm

Nice... I like the green.

Timur · Post by **Timur** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:50 pm

I'm still working on my room, especially on proper lighting, cable straps and acoustic treatment. Here's a nice fake atmosphere picture.

Ugly face:

chinney4321 · Post by **chinney4321** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:56 pm

Timur wrote:I'm still working on my room, especially on proper lighting, cable straps and acoustic treatment. Here's a nice fake atmosphere picture.

Ugly face:

Nice !
what are them yamaha hs80ms like ? any good ?

4.33 · Post by **4.33** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:58 pm

Timur wrote:I'm still working on my room, especially on proper lighting, cable straps and acoustic treatment. Here's a nice fake atmosphere picture.

Ugly face:

hmm.. what kind of mixer is that right underneath your lcd?

Timur · Post by **Timur** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:36 pm

A Behringer MX2004A which I had been using in rehearsal rooms for years. Now I use it for routing my different soundcards through to the speakers, mainly the Fireface (pro audio) and X-Fi (gaming and watching videos via route to TV). I did some measurements with different testtones and the RMAA tool and there doesn't seem to be any loss of signal or distortion in the frequency realm, no idea about transients though (I can always connect the speaker directly to the Fireface anyway). Maybe I will buy some better mixer once, but at the moment I don't really need it for anything else than routing and connecting headphones once in a while. I'd never trust digital volume control for headphone, one driver/app-crash and puff go your ears.

Worst drawback is that I had to find some perfect setting of Master faders vs AUX knobs that would not lead to extreme stereo-crosstalk. For some strange reason these and the Control Room functions are interlinked in that only specific settings lead to minimal crosstalk while others would raise crosstalk upto -60 dB on one channel while lowering it on the other and vice versa. Crosstalk on individual input-channels ain't stellar neither, which is why the Fireface goes right through the TAPE-INs without touching its volume and the rest of my audio-interfaces go through tracks with volume set per track (so that it wont mess with Master crosstalk).

My main problem at the moment is my room though, I do have some very audible comb-filtering going on (better to not move my head) and some really bad room resonance at 75 (one speaker) and 118 Hz (both speakers). That's the reason why I took pictures of my room, to start some thread on other forums asking for help with acoustic treatment and getting rid of the resonances.

Timur · Post by **Timur** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:31 pm

Forgot one piece:

Timur · Post by **Timur** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:01 am

chinney4321 wrote:Nice !
what are them yamaha hs80ms like ? any good ?

Yes, in their price-range I liked them best when comparing different speakers in the shop (they had a wall of speakers). Plenty of options on the back, according to my ears and measuring mic quite linear frequency response (just a Behringer ECM8000) aka not Hifi, and very classic looks. Only drawback is the location of both the power-button and the volume-knob on the back instead of the front. I'm also not conviced that placing the bass-reflex vent on the back (towards the backside walls) was a functional design decision rather than an fashionable one.

Timur · Post by **Timur** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:45 am

Here's a less faked picture of my room showing the breakthrough we pushed through the wall to the adjacent living-room. If anyone around here feels like an expert in room acoustics and resonance, just let me know.

The following pic shows what's special about my table, it's build in form of a quarter circle (45°). Originally it's sold as a gastronomy table for around 110 Euro at Metro. I added the wooden feet to raise it higher and a retractable board for keyboard and mouse. The board can be pushed all the way beneath the table to that I can better reach for faders, plugs and other stuff at the back of the table. Another benefit is that not only that I can reach easily to the sides of the table (where the Kore and the Padkontrol reside), but I can also easily go behind the speakers and have them standing further away from the wall without pulling the whole table into the room.

The display is mount to an Ergotron monitor arm that is freely adjustable into all directions including distance. That way I can pull the TFT towards me when recording stuff like vocals and guitars that have me standing in front of the table (or when I need to read Live's tiny fonts). And I can push it backwards when I need to reach for mixer faders or want to get it out of the way of my speakers (so that no reflections/damping happen on the rear of the display). The thing to the right is a table-lamp, not the monitor arm.

aburgener · Post by **aburgener** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:54 am

Nice Timur! I really dig it... cool place

Timur · Post by **Timur** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:17 am

Ha, thanks, lately I don't often read many friendly words (if any words at all) adressing me on this forum.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:28 am

Timur wrote:Ha, thanks, lately I don't often read many friendly words (if any words at all) adressing me on this forum.

to be great is to be misunderstood.

nice setup, you might want to try some foam under your speakers so they don't wobble on the stand but instead float in free space, you'll probably find it makes the low end more defined and clear. my $0.02.

nice amp, what's the axe and things on the amp?

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:31 am

Timur wrote:I'm still working on my room, especially on proper lighting, cable straps and acoustic treatment. Here's a nice fake atmosphere picture.

Nice colour & textures! I like the mottled red & all the wood. Nice lighting too.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:58 am

very cool rig, Timur. I really dig the desk, so hard to get that bit right! I'm a bit surprised to see you only use one screen, though?

Sibanger · Post by **Sibanger** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:34 am

The quarter circle (45°) desk is way cool Timur.

Not only does it look great, but I love the practicabilities.

Round is so much better.

Looking at the corners on my desk, I feel like such a .... square.

Nice space.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:12 am

Sibanger wrote: Round is so much better.

Looking at the corners on my desk, I feel like such a .... square.

This is more or less what I am using right now:
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S99807560

that quarter circle in the middle is the sweet spot.