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Author: dach on September 13 2008 Viewed 1152 times. 11 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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I know I blogged about my new studio last week, but I've taken a few more pictures and would like to talk through the setup a little bit.
The sofa got moved slightly. I can now sit on the sofa and be in the sweet spot of the monitors while listening to music, DJing and using some electronic gear. When I sit at the drumkit, I can rotate the speakers so I am still sitting in the middle, although a little too near them. It works pretty well 
In the second picture, I have the mixer and fishtank. The fish seem to be hiding in this photo. They seem to be doing OK with the noise (it's not too loud). The mixer is on a table thing with wheels, cos I find myself wanting it in different places depending on what I'm doing.
The guitar gear belongs to a friend of mine. He has built those two tube amps himself (and recently completed an AC30 clone).
The last pic is my DJing/beats setup. On front of the laptop is a Hercules RMX console. It's a MIDI controller, and a dual stereo channel soundcard. It controls Traktor, and also can accept input from my ESX and the Kaoss pad.
I like netlabel music, so I download lots of it and usually listen/DJ with traktor. When I find some tracks that fit well together in nice loops I sample the mix with the esx for chopping and mashing. I then jam on the esx and record tracks into traktor. These tracks are not complete songs, but arranged in a custom way. They are usually quite short, with development of a major sound, and small touches of other stuff. DJ tools, basically. I add cue points and loops around all the interesting bits in the track. I have the Hercules midi controller set up so I can jump to specific cuepoints by hitting buttons, so I can beat juggle and jump to different parts of the track instantly. I then DJ these tracks, until I find new loops again and repeat the process.
I'm enjoying this style of work much more than cutting and arranging clips in ableton. It's really helpful for developing a loop into a full song with transitions and breakdowns and changes. It's very pleasant to render bits and pieces and just jump around through them and layer and loop them in different ways.
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09/13/08
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tylth
missing some guinea pigs in the shots
09/13/08
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adcBicycle
looks heavenly.
what did your girl say when she got home?
09/13/08
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Fant00m
wow a fish tank!
09/14/08
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bb01
thats exactly how i like studios to look.
Im no fan of the battleship controlpost look for a music spot.
I try to make my musicspot look more like the living room, you did the reverse.
09/14/08
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dach
adcBicycle: she's very cool about the whole thing. our main living room feels much bigger without all the gear, and she never liked the wires and gear lying around. At the moment there is no chair facing directly into the fishtank for her to sit on and space out, so I might have to move the mixer a little bit (it is her aquarium after all)
tylth: the piggie photos come in november :P
09/14/08
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dach
the Hello Kitty balloon has lost some of its helium, and is now looking kinda creepy
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Psyingo
are you usign two old pc's as speaker isolation, or mounts or whatever its called? thats rad.
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breakscience
lol, fill those pc with sand and you are set!
09/14/08
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dach
The PCs are only there to lift the speakers up a little bit so they are level with my head. They don't resonate much, but are ugly, so I will soon build a little platform with legs instead. I could fill them with sand, but they would probably stop working.
09/14/08
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breakscience
Hey dude, what kind of table is your mixer on? It looks like a meal table from a hospital, but with a tilt.
11/05/08
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dach
Thats pretty much what it is, yeah
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