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We're moving house soon and I'm getting my own room/studio. Inspire me!

Cheers,
Mikael

This is my live rig that I use to DJ dub on the radio. I'm currently making some changes but this is what I've been using.
The rack units are old Digitech RDS delays running in the loop of the DJ mixer.
I'm using the Edirol PCR-30A as the interface and secondary controller.

[quote="Airbase"]Thats like 20 times too much stuff. The more equipment you got, the less inspired you get. Thats my personal experience though. Do you actually use all that stuff, or are they just old relics once used and now just there because they look good?

Also, what are those two round thingys down left of the screens?[/quote]

Well, from a purely musicial standpoint I agree with you. But from a techie, gear lusting, studio nerd standpoint you can never have too much. The truth is, I love the technology equally as much as I love the music, which I think is an integral part of creating electronic music. I love to figure out how things get connected, routed, mounted, arranged, etc. Tinkering away building my spacecraft is a pure joy. The thing to remember is just to learn thing as you need them. There are a few pieces in there I have seldom touched, but perhaps I will be looking for something very specific and there it will be. So in answer to your question, I use about 5 or so machines usually in a song, no more than that. And I make sure that the "learning curve" doesn't get in the way of creativity. And as far as looking cool, I find being in that enviroment inspires me greatly, so it does serve an important function.

Oh and I think this was answered, but those are in fact Future Retro Revolutions.

Machinate wrote:airbase, there's no such thing as too much stuff - there's such a thing as "too much money spent on stuff" though And that depends on how well off you are. oh, and that would be the http://www.future-retro.com/REVOLUTION.html

Scott, are you getting good sound out of those ns-10s? The placement seems a bit "untraditional". Also, the SID seems a bit out of place in your relatively hi-fi setup - how do you incorporate it?

Best,
Andreas

Yes those are revolutions - Good eye!

My main monitors are Mackie HR824s on either side of the computer monitors. It's hard to see them in the shot. The NS-10s are there purely for other engineers who are used to hearing their mixes through them. Admittedly they are not in an ideal position, but I had only so much space to work with. Personally, I much prefer mixing with the HR824s and a sub, especially with electronic music. I think the NS-10s excel in rock, acoustic, etc. There's a huge boost in the mids and no bass, which is extremely fatiguing for me. But still some folks insist on them so for a commercial facility you've got to have 'em...

As far as the SID, it does have a very lo-fi crunchy sound, and I've been working on exactly how to incorporate it. The style I'm heavily into now is "minimal tech house" or something like that. I am leaning more and more towards quirky blipy analogue sounding stuff mixed in with the digital. To that end, I plan to use the SID a lot more alongside my Virus, 777, Revolution, AiRBase99, MicroQ, etc. Of course it's also good to have some "general" high quality sounds around, like what the Motif provides.

MarkH wrote:Considering he has about a dozen instruments or so, you think that's too much? Do you think Logic comes with too many instruments? Because it comes with more than a dozen but I don't see anyone complaining to Apple "please remove some of these plugins - it's too much".

Ahh, good point sir! I guess Reason is just madness too...

Again, it's all about limiting the technical stuff when you're in "creative mode" and just letting it flow. If you've got a new piece of gear that you don't know how to work yet, don't try to figure it out during a songwriting session. You've got to take out the "left brain" stuff when you're in "right brain" mode, something which Ableton strongly recognizes. For gear heads, let me suggest making scheduling specific left brain time to break out manuals and figure stuff out. Keeping it totally seperate has helped out not letting the gear take over...

Here's my setup...

dannyk wrote:Here's my setup...

OY GET OUT OF MY CHAIR BITCH!....lol

lol,

yea right, and i just had my space acoustically treated with 100 million twigs of particle board:

scottorlans wrote:Couldn't find a thread like this so... I'll start:

Hey, what tascam is that? at first I thought it was a fw1884 with several FE-8 expansions, but then I looked close and it looks different... I cant tell in the lighting, but hot-damn that looks sexy! Those babies cost so much (fe-8's,)- I can't seem to figure out why!!!???!??!?

lofa, that would be the Tascam US-2400

Thanks- I thought it had a name!

No one in there right mind would buy two FE-8's!

Scott, you need to post a close-up of your racks!

I think I see an old Akai S2000 in there... surely you're not still using that thing with the rest of the gear you have there!

Happy to oblidge... I figured I might as well do close ups of -all- the racks, so here you go. Yes I realize I'm crazy...

at least these are not cracks...