the classic "take a photo of your setup" thread

[JTMMusicuk]

Alien?

[deadly_habit]

welp my 2nd monitor and new trackball just came in, now just need to run to store and get a dvi to vga adapter since this fucker didn't come with one


gotta tidy up and run some more cables too, but muhahaha dual monitor master race

[nowaysj]

The single giant monitor is the wave of the future, truss. This double monitor shit is the shit though.

Am going to take a photo of my midi controllers today, shit is tiiight. Looks like Caeraphym's old pic in his sig. Proper beat rock science.

[Huts]

dual monitors are for true ballers. i feel like your setup is so high up from where your head would be at, unless you're like 7' or the camera angle just makes it look funky

[nowaysj]

Not a problem for him:

[deadly_habit]

dual monitors are for true ballers. i feel like your setup is so high up from where your head would be at, unless you're like 7' or the camera angle just makes it look funky

the speakers are high, but yeah i shot that from a bit up
the monitors are pretty much eye level

[nowaysj]

[Huts]

thats a nice setup. keeping the knife near by just incase you get robbed while in the zone and won't leave your equipment behind? haha

[nowaysj]

Gotta stay hard.



In my design studio, I used to keep a bat next to my desk, told people it was for softball. Then one night this guy on PCP who I'd previously chased off with a .44 mag comes back, corners my wife and me, that bat came in proper handy.

[deadly_habit]

ah see my compass, knife and flashlight weren't in the usual spot while i was moving the new monitor in place
who doesn't have shit like that ready to go?
btw nice vla mk2, tempted to snag one, but wanna compare it to my mk1 first

[Huts]

I'm gonna need to robbery proof my little studio set up. btw how often do you integrate your maschine into your workflow? my dads got one laying around he might pass to me but I don't see myself really using it. I've got drum pads on my axiom but never use them for drums, and usually dink around on the keyboard if i'm triggering chopped samples. I feel like for some hip-hop stuff it'd be a nice thing to use, but idk how it routes and what not so im kinda curious

[nowaysj]

Never heard the mkI so can't say. My impression with Art, is that they're progressively getting better as the standards of manufacturing in China improve, and as they gain market share. Never minding the sound, these units are solid, really firm nice indented knobs (though on the pre, I swear left and right are off by one half indent, annoying). Mpa II gets very nasty once you cross into serious slamming. I'd like to put better tubes in there, just never gotten around to it. The vla II I've never really pushed, have used it mostly transparently for tracking, and in that regard, imo, it sounds pretty incredible, just chill invisible compression, to my aged ears and cheapy rokit 5's that is.

[nowaysj]

When I first got maschine, I was head over heals for the standalone app. Loved it. After the honeymoon, I really realized that my mixes coming out of there were kinda fucked up. I've always had a problem getting levels right with NI stuff for some reason, like with battery, I can never get my levels right. Like in battery the gain knob moves in 1.6 db increments, not cool NI. Anyways, I realized my mixes were sounding pretty shit, despite the beats themselves being pretty tight. I really think it would be best to either use maschine inside of your daw, or to stem out your beats into your daw.

But I change shit up in my studio all the time, I'm like some uneasy meth head or something, so the maschine found a place to hide under my patchbay and chilled there for a few months, as I was back into full on daw production. But recently have been setting up an ableton live live beat performance setup, and pulled out maschine as a controller for live. The apc 40 next to maschine as controllers is fuuuking awesome. Maschine is the best midi controller I've ever worked with in terms of configurability. Live's midi mapping is pretty basic and limited, so it really helps having a controller that can send very specific types of information to fit into live's narrow mapping scheme. Honestly was thinking about selling maschine, but I think I'll hold on to the little fucker. The pads are pretty firm too, too firm for my taste, but whatever, they're better than akai pads by a long shot, so I'm cool.

The padkontrol over there on the left is where I play samples from, that thing has much better touch than any other non actual mpc pads.

[deadly_habit]

Never heard the mkI so can't say. My impression with Art, is that they're progressively getting better as the standards of manufacturing in China improve, and as they gain market share. Never minding the sound, these units are solid, really firm nice indented knobs (though on the pre, I swear left and right are off by one half indent, annoying). Mpa II gets very nasty once you cross into serious slamming. I'd like to put better tubes in there, just never gotten around to it. The vla II I've never really pushed, have used it mostly transparently for tracking, and in that regard, imo, it sounds pretty incredible, just chill invisible compression, to my aged ears and cheapy rokit 5's that is.

they're actually a local rochester company bro

[nowaysj]

That may be, but they're manufactured in china

[deadly_habit]

a lot of the components are, but they used to hand assemble them here, me and some of the guys tried to get a tour to no avail back in the guitar center days

[Trichome]

welp my 2nd monitor and new trackball just came in, now just need to run to store and get a dvi to vga adapter since this fucker didn't come with one


gotta tidy up and run some more cables too, but muhahaha dual monitor master race

so when are you sending me your old trackball?

[bassbum]

Do you know what I love about this thread, there are people with all the gear in the world making ok tunes and then there people with laptops and headphones tearing it up. Not naming any names......

[Sonika]

Hey deadly do you use that mic to sing into or whatever and then sample yourself?

[deadly_habit]

that's an empty stand bro, just a pop filter and shock mount, but yes, yes and also spoken word stuff and other recording
you know mic shit