I’ve been using software for +30 years, starting with an Amiga500.
First synth was my trusty Roland MC505 Groovebox in '99 but it took
another 22 years before I started expanding my gear after being kind
of bored with the software only side of things, and the luck that I had
a spare room that, although not on the big side, would be great for
a MIDI studio.
Oh, man! That’s a cool space… seems like a place to get in the flow and just forget about the world.
I’m currently between homes, and my music stuff is spread between 4 houses in 3 states. I’m now staying at a golf club to quarantine because I have COVID — not fun. I brought some of my stuff with me, but it’s a complete mess:
Above you can see how I recorded a video of my jam today: I had my phone on the glass table, facing down, and I played the Korg NTS-1 on a trash bin under the table.
I always love these threads. I vary my time between my studio, and living room. Sometimes I move a bunch of gear in the LR because it’s just more comfortable.
It’s a bit messy right now but my setup is split between two corners of my office. In one corner we’ve got a mac mini m1 and a tascam us-16x08 audio interface. When I’m not playing the v-drums, the arturia drumbrute chugs along in all its analog glory. Both the drumbrute and the moog grandmother are synced to the boss rc-300 loop station’s midi clock since I usually record guitar or bass first.
Guitar tones mostly come from the zoom g3n pedal and occasionally the electro-harmonics POG2. My mic goes through an old tc-helicon voicelive play which I use for vocal looping and live vocal effects. And everything goes through my peavy keyboard amp or a 1970s Peavy PA when I want stereo sound.
Got a bunch of studio guitars and a few that I’ll bring in from other rooms, depending on the sound I’m going for. The only bass I have is a 5-string Cort that I got for a steal at a thrift store!
I totally dig this “get up and running” style setup. Reminds me of a lot of the practice spaces I’ve been in where you have to move all your stuff to the side for when other bands come in to play
I almost feel ashamed for my playground studio compared to all those neatly tight studios I see over here!
For me personally my creative rooms always had to be filled with things I like/inspired me one way or another. From games to movies and every kind of media in between.
Please do tell me you call cleaned up before taking these lovely pictures!
I may have tidied a bit. There’d be more cables and notebooks and random crap on whatever flat spaces I have. I also left out the desk & keyboard stand outside of my nook which are a huge mess of cables and random gear.
I wonder what it would cost to install 1/4" jack panels into my walls… would make things so much simpler.
@beto if you are referring to mine, that is an old Ikea desk with the adjustable legs (can be standing height), and the rackmount I built out myself. For years I’d see things like it and drool, then one day I thought that it wouldn’t be hard to build something like it for this desk. It only attaches in the back with two right-angle brackets so if I want to move it, it’s fairly easy. The top piece is one of the sides from an old CD holder tower and the angled uprights I cut from another Ikea shelf, and then I added the rack brackets. I need to get that desktop mounted underneath the desk cause it vibrates too loudly.
I haven’t made any songs with the Woovebox yet, but I’m planning to tackle it next. For now I’m just jamming with the OP-Z and the Kaosspad, my favorite combo (I use the Kaosspad for effects and also for recording into the micro SD card).
