Lets see some studio pics

[BONES]

What's that thing in the "More Machines" photo with the keyboard stuck on the right-hand end? Looks cool with that layout.

[Muff Wiggler]

looks like an Elektron Monomachine.....

[james0tucson]

Is that a pair of BX5/BX8's on thier sides?

ayup!


James - thanks for the comments

I have to confess, I'm a bad subgenii - the stencil dobbs head was a present from my old roomate, I'm pretty pink TBH

I always thought putting speakers on thier sides was bad? I think it even says that in the manual (I have the BX5's). I don't know tho hehe, I'm a relative newb, your setup looks like an aeroplane cockpit to me !

It's not "bad" if the monitors are designed to be on their sides, like NS10's with their offset tweeters. But most nearfields, if you put them on their sides, will have separate sweet spots for each driver, and there will be undesirable interactions between them, and these will be apparent when you move your head.
If I put my Event 2020's upside down (Woofers on top) the tweeters just happen to be in the perfect ear-level spot for my head above middle C on the keyboard. It's pretty much the ONLY desirable attribute of my music room -- everything else just SUCKS, it's too small, it's too square, the walls reflect, there's not enough power circuits, there's no place to put the PC, it has to double as an office, and so on, but at least it's mine.

[meeks]

I usually don't comment on these but....DAMN!

[endmusik]

yep - that's an elektron monomachine!

as for the speakers, I dunno, I have HORRIBLE acoustics in my room, I've learned to work with the speakers as they stand. I'm by no means an acoustic engineer, so as long as my stuff gets as far as I can get it after learning my room, that's what matters to me

[Muff Wiggler]

it's crazy

everytime there's a piece of hardware i'm checking out or getting interested in......it shows up in one of mike's studio pics

a couple years back, got all stoked on the sherman - pow! mr. weeks gets one

later i'm amazing at having found the metasonix website - oh look at the new endmusik studio pic, there's an agonizer right there!!

hmm found out Future-Retro has this new cool round synth - WOAH! endmusik has one in his new pic!!!

ahh lately i've been excited about the monomachine, having hit the Elektron website up for the first time in AGES, wondering if SID chips are still available. AND GUESS WHAT??? I see this thread in 'latest topics', so clicky-click, BONES wants to know what's that synth, hmm what could it be? anyone taking bets? MONOMACHINE

you better hope i don't get start reading up and getting stoked on poverty, loss and house fires there buddy

[james0tucson]

James - thanks for the comments

I commented before I even really started listening to your stuff. I really, really like the sound of your stuff. It's the kind of stuff that I'd like to do, if I could actually make myself do stuff.

As for the sound of your room, I'll bet mine is worse. I've got a small dungeon with plaster walls. On one hand, it's very easy to hear details, but on the other hand, I've got monstrous early reflections, it's too small a room to even consider turning up my guitar amp to "crunchy", and there's maybe room for 3 people to sit comfortably. But it's mine, I own it, and that counts for a lot in my case.

About the monitors on their sides, it's a subtle effect, and it probably does not even matter at all unless everything else is perfect and you're doing serious critical mastering. I expect a lot of visually sensitive folks will naturally put these things on their sides because of the golden ratio aesthetic. I don't really use my monitors properly as nearfields. I use them as a bad-ass stereo, which they are. For playing live and for outdoor parties, I've got a QSC power amp and Yamaha club speakers.

I'll post a pic to this thread one of these days, if I ever make it presentable.

[endmusik]

it's crazy

everytime there's a piece of hardware i'm checking out or getting interested in......it shows up in one of mike's studio pics

a couple years back, got all stoked on the sherman - pow! mr. weeks gets one

later i'm amazing at having found the metasonix website - oh look at the new endmusik studio pic, there's an agonizer right there!!

hmm found out Future-Retro has this new cool round synth - WOAH! endmusik has one in his new pic!!!

ahh lately i've been excited about the monomachine, having hit the Elektron website up for the first time in AGES, wondering if SID chips are still available. AND GUESS WHAT??? I see this thread in 'latest topics', so clicky-click, BONES wants to know what's that synth, hmm what could it be? anyone taking bets? MONOMACHINE

you better hope i don't get start reading up and getting stoked on poverty, loss and house fires there buddy

other recent additions to the arsenal that you should have already been looking into

EH Flanger Hoax (whoa! thats f'n cool!)

Kramer DMZ300 Aluminum neck guitar - love it love it love it

Ensoniq DP4 - wow this thing is a great multiFX unit!

As for poverty, got that handled. Job loss, taken care of (well, full time at least). Criminal lack of sex, count me in!

C'mon! Keep up!

[Muff Wiggler]

well you got the first one, as you know i'm a big EH guy, been excited about that since it came out....haven't got my hands on it yet, but i heard it's noisy noisy noisy (in a bad way, not a good way), say it ain't so!! also, does it do through-zero flanging? how modular is the routing?

any chance you've recently acquired an FS1r? been looking into that too. Also been buying Blacet and Wiard modules, but that involved actual transactions, so that probably doesn't count.

And apparently, the effect doesn't extend to sex. Sorry.

[endmusik]

James - thanks for the comments

I commented before I even really started listening to your stuff. I really, really like the sound of your stuff. It's the kind of stuff that I'd like to do, if I could actually make myself do stuff.

As for the sound of your room, I'll bet mine is worse. I've got a small dungeon with plaster walls. On one hand, it's very easy to hear details, but on the other hand, I've got monstrous early reflections, it's too small a room to even consider turning up my guitar amp to "crunchy", and there's maybe room for 3 people to sit comfortably. But it's mine, I own it, and that counts for a lot in my case.

About the monitors on their sides, it's a subtle effect, and it probably does not even matter at all unless everything else is perfect and you're doing serious critical mastering. I expect a lot of visually sensitive folks will naturally put these things on their sides because of the golden ratio aesthetic. I don't really use my monitors properly as nearfields. I use them as a bad-ass stereo, which they are. For playing live and for outdoor parties, I've got a QSC power amp and Yamaha club speakers.

I'll post a pic to this thread one of these days, if I ever make it presentable.

Thanks man Doing stuff is cool, I try to do alot of stuff, and sometimes my stuff ends up sounding like crappy stuff, but I try

My room is rediculously cluttered on the other 2 walls, with bass pits all over. My walls are all un-insulated wood panelling (thank god the landlord pays the heating oil bill!) and I know my hearing is shot, so the nuances of a perfectly tuned room would be lost on me. It's definitely more an aesthetic thing having the speakers on their sides, and a couple of guys I record with actually seemed to like the sound better on their sides when I installed that desk (before this desk, the speakers were upright)

One of these days I'll move out of the apartment I'm in and get a proper room setup with real treatment and proper monitoring - but for now I'll use this setup like you mentioned - as a kick ass stereo system

[endmusik]

well you got the first one, as you know i'm a big EH guy, been excited about that since it came out....haven't got my hands on it yet, but i heard it's noisy noisy noisy (in a bad way, not a good way), say it ain't so!! also, does it do through-zero flanging? how modular is the routing?

any chance you've recently acquired an FS1r? been looking into that too. Also been buying Blacet and Wiard modules, but that involved actual transactions, so that probably doesn't count.

And apparently, the effect doesn't extend to sex. Sorry.

I figured you'd have interest in the Hoax. So far, it's not too noisy for me, but I have a notoriously high tolerance for that sort of thing The routing isn't too modular - more just an "on-off" kind of deal for the various compartments. I haven't spent too much time with it as yet, so I havent inspected it's "thru zero" flanging.... truth be told I don't really know what that means I can try and do up some audio demos of my own at some point, but I'm heading out to NAMM on wed, so may be a bit.

I've had an FS1R for a year now - it's in the desk rackspace, may not be too visible in the pics. I love it, but it's underused as I'm not so fond of the menu diving. One of these days I'll have a few lost weekends with my glasses on and some seriously strong coffee

Modular wise, I've got a 44 space synthesizers.com system - I'll be adding a Blacet Miniwave oscillator to it in the next few weeks, as well as dropping in some metasonix modules into the enclosure. Some day I'll extend it to other manufacturers, but right now I'm keeping pretty close to an all dotcom system.

Oh, and as for the monomachine - I've had one for over 2 years, just got a second one

[Muff Wiggler]

there's a really cool mod for the miniwave that lets you add 8 extra wavetable ROMs, and add a CV jack to control switching between the ROMs with CV. (there's two ROM sockets on the 'stock' miniwave - it ships with one empty, but Blacet sells a second 'pocket rocket' ROM to fill it with). there's differnt ROMs available in different places too.

hey, you'll let me know if you are ever selling any of that lovely stuff, eh?

[birrbits]

Ensoniq DP4 - wow this thing is a great multiFX unit!

Just picked up a DP/2, man these boxes are sick!

This reminds me, now that I have rewired & before I move & tear it all down I should take some pics.

[megl]

Kramer DMZ300 Aluminum neck guitar - love it love it love it

Tell me all about that one! Can't find info anywhere!

/megl

[endmusik]

eek, screwed up, it's a 350G -

http://www.vintagekramer.com/alum.htm

the first run of guitars they did. This was when Kramer was mostly old employees of Travis Bean (including travis, from what I understand)

Beautiful guitar, Koa wood body, mini humbuckers, and the neck is fantastic to play!