the classic "take a photo of your setup" thread

[jrisreal]

This is mine, using logic

IDK why, but the way you have the keyboard on top of your MIDI controller is funny to me.

just bc i use the pc for tv as well as producing, also when producing i rarley use the transport controls just they keys and dials so its easier to have the keyboard there

haha I'm not judging bro

[wub]

Am home for Christmas visiting my parents, so the cut down temporary setup I have arranged for myself is;




Kit

• My tower unit (which I bought home for a check up)
• Numark headphones (which are terrible but all I could find round the house)
• Monitor/mouse/keyboard (all spares)
• JVC cassette tape deck I found lying about.

Have spent the day sampling off of cassette directly into Audacity and messing with the results. Got so far a disjointed beat driven track with some heavily distorted crickets layered underneath (intro from an old Carlos Santana tape album I found), and just been messing around with holding down the PLAY and FAST FORWARD buttons at the same time to give a sort of Wwwhhheeeeerrrrryyyy sound to things, again all whilst being recorded into Audacity.

Tomorrow am going to see if I can scavenge an old C90 from around the place and record some drums out directly onto tape (the cassette deck has variable record levels for the left/right channels and a load of other buttons I have no idea what they do), and then recording back in off of the tape to see what levels of noise/deterioration get applied to the sounds.

[skimpi]

This is mine, using logic

IDK why, but the way you have the keyboard on top of your MIDI controller is funny to me.

i have my midi keyboard on top of my lap haha

[droskidubz]

Korg padKontrol, Traktor Kontrol X1 & a Denon MC6000 w/ Traktor Pro 2
The headphones are Sennheiser HD 25-1 II's

Picked up the MC6000 a while back, really love! 4 deck control, digital/analog mixer, built like a tank. The only downside is it doesn't pass timecode (definitely not a deal-breaker) but I'm about to get a NI Audio 10 here in a month or so.

[hudson]

That is a very nice looking setup.

[drake89]

so is the thing that looks like a 2 channel mixer minus the "mixer" fader on the bottom, usb midi?

[droskidubz]

so is the thing that looks like a 2 channel mixer minus the "mixer" fader on the bottom, usb midi?

If you're talking about this (Kontrol X1) then yes, it's usb / midi... "Bi-directional communication with TRAKTOR via Native Instruments’ high resolution protocol gives the hardware a smoother and more precise feel compared to regular MIDI controllers."

Product Info:
http://www.native-instruments.com/en/pr ... ontrol-x1/

[symmetricalsounds]

Am home for Christmas visiting my parents, so the cut down temporary setup I have arranged for myself is;




Kit

• My tower unit (which I bought home for a check up)
• Numark headphones (which are terrible but all I could find round the house)
• Monitor/mouse/keyboard (all spares)
• JVC cassette tape deck I found lying about.

Have spent the day sampling off of cassette directly into Audacity and messing with the results. Got so far a disjointed beat driven track with some heavily distorted crickets layered underneath (intro from an old Carlos Santana tape album I found), and just been messing around with holding down the PLAY and FAST FORWARD buttons at the same time to give a sort of Wwwhhheeeeerrrrryyyy sound to things, again all whilst being recorded into Audacity.

Tomorrow am going to see if I can scavenge an old C90 from around the place and record some drums out directly onto tape (the cassette deck has variable record levels for the left/right channels and a load of other buttons I have no idea what they do), and then recording back in off of the tape to see what levels of noise/deterioration get applied to the sounds.

got a fair few blanks still shrink wrapped if you want them, guessing between 15-30.

[wub]

If they're going spare mate, that's be great

Drop us a PM and I'll send some postage costs over to you.

[B-Frank]

[*]Numark headphones (which are terrible but all I could find round the house)

I have a pair of them lying around the house someone... I feel your pain, those are horrendous.

[wub]

[*]Numark headphones (which are terrible but all I could find round the house)

I have a pair of them lying around the house someone... I feel your pain, those are horrendous.

They're serving a purpose for now. And tbh, the lo-fi tracks I've been making this week (one a day so far, ha!) are actually suiting the shitty monitoring I can do.

[Kochari]

^ I couldn't for the life of me work out how to ground my monitors for about 3 weeks, so they distorted everything and introduced a shitload of hiss

Hence my recent turn into a lo fi direction...

[hudson]

They're serving a purpose for now. And tbh, the lo-fi tracks I've been making this week (one a day so far, ha!) are actually suiting the shitty monitoring I can do.

Yeah I stopped trying to get a real polished sound after I realized I have cheap (but surprisingly good) monitors in the shittiest room on the planet It's working very well so far.
Also, I found a tape deck like that in my basement too! I haven't hooked it up yet, but am planning to in the next few weeks. Pretty much to do the same things you're doing with yours.

[didi]

I'm embarrassed to post the image of my setup.

I'm buying a pair of sony mdr 7506's which should add a hint of professionalism.

I really am just that poor. *Student*




ps...not normally that messy.

[RmoniK]

Not normally that messy? Man, compared to my room, you could of the floor of yours.

[Huts]

just got the rokit 6's. unfortunately they won't fit in my tiny room back at school so they'll have to sit pretty until summer, giving me enough time to turn my computer into a hackintosh (so i can run logic) and bring my keyboard back.

[collective]

Setup 1: The Outlook




Setup 2: The Cave (live room)

just snagged another rhodes (this time a teacher model early 73...

[Mehlovich]

What Adams are those? And how do you like them?

[wub]

They're serving a purpose for now. And tbh, the lo-fi tracks I've been making this week (one a day so far, ha!) are actually suiting the shitty monitoring I can do.

Yeah I stopped trying to get a real polished sound after I realized I have cheap (but surprisingly good) monitors in the shittiest room on the planet It's working very well so far.
Also, I found a tape deck like that in my basement too! I haven't hooked it up yet, but am planning to in the next few weeks. Pretty much to do the same things you're doing with yours.

I'm anxious to get back home now so I can rig up the Chimera synth I bought the other week to the tape deck and see what signal degradation adds to the output of that

[collective]

What Adams are those? And how do you like them?

A5s and A7s , after having gone through quite a few sets of monitors (genelecs and dynaudios specifically) I settled on the adams as I like there response. They are a truly honest speaker, I actually prefer the 5s for doing recordings and working with that sort of music and the 7s for electronic. After working in fantasy studios and a couple others I noticed they used mostly 5inch dynaudios to monitor out of... I became kind of use to 5inch speakers for real instrumentation. A lot of people might say the low end response is not high enough on the 7s let alone the 5s, yet after having sat through a few pink noise sweeps at fantasy I can say thats pure rubbish.