the classic "take a photo of your setup" thread

[eldoogle]

Billy, those krk's seem pretty close to each other, making your equilateral pretty small, no?

Its funny you mention the placement of the monitors, iv got a weird OCD thing where I'm constantly changing the angle and height of them.

You'v got me paranoid now

I just measured, its 92cm cone to cone,

Too close ?

I have QUITE the OCD with my monitor placement as well - it's like I'm insane.

[drake89]

Here's all my shit set-up for a live show, was just just practicing in my room when I took this but it didn't look any different in the venue haha
Sorry it's all instagramy.

You running audio through that USB hub at all? Does it work if so?

[hudson]

You running audio through that USB hub at all? Does it work if so?

Yeah, I always run my midi gear through a usb hub, haven't noticed any latency.

[MrAural]

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FL Studio 10

Edirol Orchestral

NI Massive

Samsung R730 Laptop

Philips SHL-4000 headphones

Cheap but near decent setup, buying myself an external soundcard some time soon.

[safeandsound]

I recently installed a lovely new vari mu compressor in the rack an HCL VariS..so a new rack shot.......



and my beloveds:



SafeandSound Mastering
Online cd mastering

[Sonika]

what monitors are those? ^

[Eat Bass]

I recently installed a lovely new vari mu compressor in the rack an HCL VariS..so a new rack shot.......

do you happen to own a car audio shop called safe and sound?

[safeandsound]

LOL... no car shops, I dare say the name is not unique.

Speaker on left is PMC IB1S and the smaller one is a Dynaudio Acoustics BM6P, I have used the BM6P for a lot of my engineering career
lots of recording and mixing work so know them very well indeed and I still think they offer useful information so they stay.
Not suitable for mastering on their own though. IB1S are great, very serious monitors, large scale and very accurate and immense low end output
capability. Seriously, at 85dB SPL they are so clean they don't even sound loud until 100dB SPL +.

cheers

SafeandSound Mastering
Mastering Dubstep

[Eat Bass]

^ haha ok just checking.

but nice setup anyway.

[spire]

I was gonna ask if PMC use Dynaudio drivers for a sec, but you explained.

[Sonika]

LOL... no car shops, I dare say the name is not unique.

Speaker on left is PMC IB1S and the smaller one is a Dynaudio Acoustics BM6P, I have used the BM6P for a lot of my engineering career
lots of recording and mixing work so know them very well indeed and I still think they offer useful information so they stay.
Not suitable for mastering on their own though. IB1S are great, very serious monitors, large scale and very accurate and immense low end output
capability. Seriously, at 85dB SPL they are so clean they don't even sound loud until 100dB SPL +.

cheers

SafeandSound Mastering
Mastering Dubstep

I'm sorry, I have no idea how monitors work - are the big ones nearfield? And why don't you just use the IB1S for everything?

[safeandsound]

Hi, well there is no such thing as a really perfect loudspeaker, (though the PMC IB1S approaches it IMO) it's good to grasp this as then you are starting from the basis that you still need to understand a speakers strengths and weaknesses in your exact environment/acoustic. Now you might think that I would stand up and say the PMC IB1S are the ultimate blah.. blah.. but the fact is all loudspeakers have reproduction problems inherent which is largely down to the design constraints of multiple drivers, crossovers, baffle width, amplification ambiguities, dispersion (including the room), stereo image, enclosure/bracing, bass reflex, sealed box, transmission line, room positioning etc. It's just that some speakers have less problems. That happens to be those that have had a fair few 10's of thousands of $$$ thrown at the initial design stage and component selection, so the good ones tend to cost. Once you are hitting £4,000.00-£5,000.00 most problems are ironed out. Don't get me wrong the PMC IB1S is an excellent mastering speaker *using a custom 10 inch fibre glass woofer of PMC's own design, a dome mid range by Vifa (and a tweeter by Scanspeak/Vifa I think).

I could work solely with the IB1S as they present scale, useable accuracy, extended bottom end to 25Hz and detail. Scale is an important but fairly infrequently mentioned factor which I cottoned onto after about a week of owning them. But I could not work solely on Dynaudio BM6P ( a great near field in it's own right) however they do offer a perspective into lower mids that believe the IB1S don't, so for this area they serve as useful addition to the studio.

The IB1S could be termed a mid field where the BM6P is a near field speaker.

In mastering the less guess work the better.

cheers

SafeandSound Mastering
mastering dance music

[magnetron_sputtering]

Here's all my shit set-up for a live show, was just just practicing in my room when I took this but it didn't look any different in the venue haha
Sorry it's all instagramy.

Hudson,
Had to listen to your stuff after seeing that. Your bandcamp is fantastic. Can you explain a bit about what's going on in your setup? Looks like you've got a 4-track and a DJ controller in there!!

[hudson]

Here's all my shit set-up for a live show, was just just practicing in my room when I took this but it didn't look any different in the venue haha
Sorry it's all instagramy.

Hudson,
Had to listen to your stuff after seeing that. Your bandcamp is fantastic. Can you explain a bit about what's going on in your setup? Looks like you've got a 4-track and a DJ controller in there!!

Thanks man! I'm really glad you enjoy it.
For that show I had everything running through Ableton, which was set up with two audio input tracks, a midi track, and four more audio tracks just for clips. The main thing I use is the MDP32, who's pads are all mapped to launch clips, and the knobs and buttons are mapped to track volumes, sends, effects, etc. The MIDI keyboard is just used on one song so far, so I just have it going into that one MIDI track, same with the guitar, it just goes into the audio track with an amp modeling vst on it. That is indeed a Tascam Portastudio I picked it up at my buddie's jam space and he said I could have it for a while if I taught him how to use it. I have it running into the remaining audio track, and those three pedals above it are in it's effect loop. I have some samples on there that i recorded from the radio, and on the other side of the tape, there's an acoustic guitar track that I recorded when I first got it, but since the tape is in backwards, it plays backwards. I hit play fuck around with effects and the pitch knob and stuff, just as a cool little improvised into at the beginning of my set. I also have a Korg Monotron running through it. Oh, and I just use the Mixtrack for some extra knobs and buttons. My set-up is always changing though, so I have no idea if some of this stuff will stick around.

[mitchAUS]

Parents let me move my studio out of the corner in my tiny room into a room of it's own.

Workstation


Decks

My newest toys

Practice... best part is the laptop looks like its not even on, serious poser

[Today]

You running audio through that USB hub at all? Does it work if so?

Yeah, I always run my midi gear through a usb hub, haven't noticed any latency.

i think maybe drake89 meant i/o ?

[hudson]

You running audio through that USB hub at all? Does it work if so?

Yeah, I always run my midi gear through a usb hub, haven't noticed any latency.

i think maybe drake89 meant i/o ?

Ah, that makes sense. Same answer though.

[wayfarer__]

Mistabishi

[massimoz]

I managed to modify my Roland keyboard into a fully-functioning production workstation if anyone is interested in buy superglue for £1 instead of spending £500-1000 on a desk!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/massimozep ... 586408194/

[noctuidae]

I like recording in dark areas. HAHA not because its depressing, but because in my opinion you hear better in dimly lit places.