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outershpongolia wrote:you play in the sun a lot?

my duo Sgrow has actually played more outdoor gigs than indoor. hehe. It's 'cos we have played at so many festivals. Looking forward to doing some indoor gigs though. Next up is Punkt

Can't go wrong when you are actually playing IN a pool full of water

As an electronic musician, I could see A LOT of things going wrong when playing in a pool of water

Tarekith wrote:As an electronic musician, I could see A LOT of things going wrong when playing in a pool of water

When I was carrying my trolley with most of the gear out on the stage i was like: fuck, if this sipper doesn't do it's job now I'm superfucked.

But zipper did it's job and gig went great.

The lovely heavyweight is called Peewee

your cat is winking in the second pic

dave999z wrote:

Nice,
Do you prefer your genelecs or your NS-10 ?

The Carpet Cleaner wrote: Do you prefer your genelecs or your NS-10 ?

I use them for completely different purposes. The genelecs for essentially all mixing tasks. Their detail and stereo image is superb. Pretty flat and accurate too - usually translates well. And I don't find them fatiguing.

The craptastic NS-10s are simply for checking mixes to see what they'll sound like through 90% of systems out there that sound like ass. I really just use them to check the EQ of a mix, and sometimes when designing sounds (they are ridiculously fast speakers, so helpful when designing sounds with strong attacks). They're not flat. Have no low end (just mud). They're fatiguing. They suck, frankly. But in a useful way. I know some engineers know these in and out and use them as primary speakers for mixing, and for mastering. I don't use them that much at all. They used to be my only monitors, and I did use them for everything. But it was fatiguing and hard to dial in really detailed parts of a mix, like de-essing, or hi hats. It's true though that if you can make something sound good through these, EQ-wise, it'll probably sound better on any other system you play it through.

I'm out of money for gear for this year. But next on my list next year is some room treatment (badly needed).

dave999z wrote:

The Carpet Cleaner wrote: Do you prefer your genelecs or your NS-10 ?

I use them for completely different purposes. The genelecs for essentially all mixing tasks. Their detail and stereo image is superb. Pretty flat and accurate too - usually translates well. And I don't find them fatiguing.

The craptastic NS-10s are simply for checking mixes to see what they'll sound like through 90% of systems out there that sound like ass. I really just use them to check the EQ of a mix, and sometimes when designing sounds (they are ridiculously fast speakers, so helpful when designing sounds with strong attacks). They're not flat. Have no low end (just mud). They're fatiguing. They suck, frankly. But in a useful way. I know some engineers know these in and out and use them as primary speakers for mixing, and for mastering. I don't use them that much at all. They used to be my only monitors, and I did use them for everything. But it was fatiguing and hard to dial in really detailed parts of a mix, like de-essing, or hi hats. It's true though that if you can make something sound good through these, EQ-wise, it'll probably sound better on any other system you play it through.

I'm out of money for gear for this year. But next on my list next year is some room treatment (badly needed).

Thanks Dave for all of this

Nice setup! What stand do you use for your screen?

dave999z wrote:

The Carpet Cleaner wrote:But next on my list next year is some room treatment (badly needed).

Seriously, you have the Metric Halo and Genelecs, but no room treatment?

MPGK wrote:

dave999z wrote:

The Carpet Cleaner wrote:But next on my list next year is some room treatment (badly needed).

Seriously, you have the Metric Halo and Genelecs, but no room treatment?

Why did I know this question/criticism was coming? You buy stuff in the order you want. I'll buy stuff in the order I want. I used to be in a different space (that was pretty good without treatment - was carpeted and smaller). Came to this space not too long ago. I'll treat it when I can afford it. You can sit in your treated room with no monitors if you prefer that to listening to good monitors in an untreated room. I take the long view on building up my studio components, so I was not interested in buying shitty monitors and shitty room treatment in the short term. I A/B with headphones a lot for now. And this room isn't that bad for tracking vocals and guitar - I'm not getting bad comb filtering. Thus, the metric halo is serving me plenty well, not to mention when I use it mobile.

If this really bothers you, feel free to PM me a gift certificate to GIK.

Gab wrote:Nice setup! What stand do you use for your screen?

http://www.ergotron.com/Products/tabid/ ... fault.aspx

Got it cheap on Amazon I think, or I found it via pricegrabber.com. Love it! Lets me put my screen just above my keyboard, which would be impossible with the Apple stand. Deciding to get one of these arms was the key to getting my desk layout exactly how I wanted it.

Thanks for the answer!

dave999z wrote:

How do you find the feel of the keys, pads, sliders, knobs, and modualation and pitch wheels? I'm interested in buying an Akai MPK49. I'm planning to do a fair bit of drum work and I am also a pianist who usually plays acoustic pianos.

Thanks!