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I can't figure out if all the equipment is in a rack, or just stacked on each other?



– Alex

I just like that 3D stereogram in the background.

Garry Knight wrote:I just like that 3D stereogram in the background.

That's a Jackson Pollock painting

I’m pretty sure that rectangular thing in front of the MacBook Pro is a Push MIDI controller made by Ableton.

From the Ableton twitter feed:

Thank you @ZoNoPhoto for the Live 9.2 photos and https://twitter.com/innrvsns for the studio space!

I think under the desk is possibly an 88 key “keyboard”, something old timers used back in the day to compose music and part of a larger group known as “musical instruments”, a completely unnecessary relic of music’s antiquated past.

Thermionic Culture Vulture - tube distortion/saturation
Manley Vari Mu - tube compressor/limiter

The thing on the right with the green knob is a cranesong avocet.


High end shit.

and the thing to the right of the Cranesong looks like a Koma Elektronik pedal of some sort. Top of pile on left is a Knas Moisturizer.

beats me wrote:I think under the desk is possibly an 88 key “keyboard”, something old timers used back in the day to compose music and part of a larger group known as “musical instruments”, a completely unnecessary relic of music’s antiquated past.

Haha, I'm a jazz pianist, so I got the keyboard thing down Was mainly wondering about the outboard gear.

What about that little black box in front of the rack gear?

– Alex

alexdecker wrote:What about that little black box in front of the rack gear?

SND ACME-4 Advanced Clock Management Engine....

Man, you guys sure know your equipment. That spring reverb is really interesting Does Live offer any spring reverb simulation I don't know anything about?

– Alex

alexdecker wrote:Man, you guys sure know your equipment. That spring reverb is really interesting Does Live offer any spring reverb simulation I don't know anything about?

– Alex

try a PingPong delay unsynced with very short time settings (between 5 and 50ms) and feedback set to about 45-49%. Works especially well on bass/kick sounds and not so well in the higher registers.

You can tune it with varying the time settings.

(and you probably want to use a Utility after this to make your bass/kick mono again)

TomViolenz wrote:

alexdecker wrote:Man, you guys sure know your equipment. That spring reverb is really interesting Does Live offer any spring reverb simulation I don't know anything about?

– Alex

try a PingPong delay unsynced with very short time settings (between 5 and 50ms) and feedback set to about 45-49%. Works especially well on bass/kick sounds and not so well in the higher registers.

You can tune it with varying the time settings.

(and you probably want to use a Utility after this to make your bass/kick mono again)

Great, thanks! Will try that later today

I found the original expanded studio image on Twitter. A little more equipment on this one. Can anyone recognise something?



– Alex

That's some serious gear porn

But what I find the most astonishing is how clutter free he has it all set up.
It's either arranged for the photo or he is a huge neat freak.

And I guess he prefers to sit uncomfortably while he works...

TomViolenz wrote:But what I find the most astonishing is how clutter free he has it all set up.
It's either arranged for the photo or he is a huge neat freak.

I find this statement sexist and offensive.