the classic "take a photo of your setup" thread

[nowaysj]

Dude, I was demoing this guys 4k, the pads were literally like erect nipples, like you wanted to touch them just cause they felt good. They were stiff and spongy, totally responsive. I ended up not buying it because some of the pads were double triggering. But in hind sight, in retrospect, smh.

A long line of stupid decisions characterizes my existence on this planet.

[SunkLo]

Dude if I can get these to sit the way I want them and not deteriorate over time they'll be perfect. The pads themselves are nice and thick, and the pads that were working yesterday were exactly what I wanted. I think the combo of trimming the shit around the ovals and cleaning the sensor will get them to perfection levels. You know how much of a perfectionist I am too. I'm shooting for an ultra feather touch, like tapping a touch screen amount of pressure.

Then again I've never played an MPC so maybe I don't know what I'm missing. As long it picks up my ghost notes though, I'm happy.

I was considering selling my mpk and getting one of the new editions when they come out but if I can get this one how I want, I'll be completely satisfied. The backlit pads are kinda cool but so are baby blue fatpads. I just gotta go surgeon mode with this xacto knife to make sure everything's trimmed perfectly so I don't run into stuck pads.

[hubb]

Ok, I get it now.
I had an mpc back in the olden times and had not noticed a difference though tbf.
¨
Nowaysj
I have an mpk waiting for you covered in dust next time you're in europe


ps: sp404s are dirt cheap btw but they are probably the same quality pads as mpk.

[nowaysj]

Ok, I get it now.
I had an mpc back in the olden times and had not noticed a difference though tbf.
¨
Nowaysj
I have an mpk waiting for you covered in dust next time you're in europe


ps: sp404s are dirt cheap btw but they are probably the same quality pads as mpk.

For how much longer will there be a Europe, hubb?

[hubb]

We'll just drop a bomb somewhere in Greenland and boat the whole deal down and hook up with some chavs in Gibraltar and hit up Morocco in the weekends

[nowaysj]

These guys jumped me last time I was there.



You bring a blanket, I'll bring a bat, we can straighten these fuckers out.

[Siderealdb]

Noways is still a skinhead.

[deadly_habit]

Dude, I was demoing this guys 4k, the pads were literally like erect nipples, like you wanted to touch them just cause they felt good. They were stiff and spongy, totally responsive. I ended up not buying it because some of the pads were double triggering. But in hind sight, in retrospect, smh.

A long line of stupid decisions characterizes my existence on this planet.

You have to be careful how you hit and where you hit the pads or you do get double triggering. Like a single finger hit in the same are of the pad will sometimes double trigger vs the 2 finger method. I'm having a blast with mine though, whipped up that beat in my sig on it it a couple hours from sampling the record to chopping to trimming it and assigning the regions.

[Siderealdb]

Hello Deadly!!! Been a while bro.

[Still Young]

bedroom producer 2014

about to build fiberglass panels & basstraps need more wood for frames
i'll update pics with progress after i finish it

[didi]

wow ur bedroom's tidy

[rockonin]

What monitor's are those?

[hubb]

This is probably not advice for everyone, but monitors has to have a bit of room behind them to not accumilate all the subs freqs and double them up or cancel them out.

Like the third of the distance from your face to the speakers away from a wall.

I will do it now lol.

[Still Young]

What monitor's are those?

just some old sony speakers.. no point in monitors before acoustics right? since room is gonna color the sound anyway
i thought about gettin serious headphones.. but im not much of an headphone guy so i'll probably save up till i have enough for serious monitors.. taxes are crazy here shits costs almost twice

[hubb]

tbh acoustic treatment and bass traps and such is a looooong game

just get the smallest possible speakers that still kick a bit of boom

[Turnipish_Thoughts]

What monitor's are those?

just some old sony speakers.. no point in monitors before acoustics right? since room is gonna color the sound anyway
i thought about gettin serious headphones.. but im not much of an headphone guy so i'll probably save up till i have enough for serious monitors.. taxes are crazy here shits costs almost twice

I really wouldn't worry too much about acoustic treatment unless you're thinking of becoming a professional mixing engineer. Just worry about making good music, which you can do with what you've got already.

[Phigure]

What monitor's are those?

just some old sony speakers.. no point in monitors before acoustics right? since room is gonna color the sound anyway
i thought about gettin serious headphones.. but im not much of an headphone guy so i'll probably save up till i have enough for serious monitors.. taxes are crazy here shits costs almost twice

I really wouldn't worry too much about acoustic treatment unless you're thinking of becoming a professional mixing engineer. Just worry about making good music, which you can do with what you've got already.

you do want to worry about it, but not to the point where you refuse to get monitors before room treatment. your mixdowns will probably be 75% okay as long as the monitors arent set up horribly wrong (e.g, next to or facing a wall). room treatment is for the last 25% or whatever

[nowaysj]

I don't know about that dude... I've got like no trust in my monitors anymore. I can get a mix sounding right and pretty good on my monitors, throw on some headphones... and the track sounds unmixed. Fucking crushing dude, especially for someone that doesn't like mixing.

[Phigure]

what makes you trust your headphones any more than your monitors though?

[nowaysj]

what makes you trust your headphones any more than your monitors though?

I don't per se. But I actually do, because mixes done on my headphones translate better to other systems.