Your Setups (Part 2)

so pwetty

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You work quicker on wicker.

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Rearranged with some new acquisitions ~ enjoying the vibes :slight_smile:

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Damn, I love an inverted keyboard!

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I like the Volvo amp! And please don’t ever alter the wood paneling.

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The Volvo is one of the newest additions! Needed a good pots cleaning but now it rips
Wood paneling isn’t going anywhere :wink: on the contrary, I don’t know if I’ll ever forgive whoever painted over it in the bedroom. (it’s an old single-wide I’m renting)

Crumar mojo! It was a bit trippy the first week but now it doesn’t affect my playing at all. Maybe gets me in the ā€œorgan mindsetā€? I don’t know, but it is sweet :slight_smile:

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I’ve been eyeing one of those Crumars for a few years. Nice to see one in someone’s kit.

I’ve got GIK panels in my studio as well. They’re ace. In retrospect I wish I’d gone for a slightly different shade (they’re black - lol) but the sound in this room is as dead as a door nail, which is just how I like it.

Can’t beat that feeling of having your own space you can retreat into & create worlds of sound.

I’m getting The Band ā€œThe Bandā€ vibes from just about all of that.

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Yeah it’s such a game changer being able to hear stuff cleanly and accurately. It’s like having a fog lifted. Now I’m weighing up adding more traps and panels on the back wall but the price sure adds up

I’ve got a couple of panels on the wooden stands so I can move them out of the way and tbh I rarely use them. They do make a bit of difference but not that much.

You’ve got a wooden floor & I’ve got carpet though, so they might make more of a difference for you.

I’m more chasing a smooth bass response than I am a dead room with no flutter. I’ve got a rug though.

You’ll be the judge, ofc, but I reckon you don’t need extra trapping with everything you’ve got there now. The only minor improvement you might make might be to get some tri-traps for the corners (I’m presuming the panels in the corner are flat panels that you’ve angled).

I’ve got the monster traps and although they do help a fair bit with bass response they are absolutely massive, and probably complete overkill.

Arrrrghhhh sooo clean! I like it this way :sweat_smile:

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The ones in the corners are tri-traps. I’m gonna stick with this setup for a while. It’s def good enough. But I do reckon a couple of soffits in the rear corners would help even out the bass response even further.

Whenever I get carried away with thoughts about sound traps I get this mental image of a sound engineer sat in a tiny Apollo-capsule-sized space in the middle of a massive room filled with sound trapping saying ā€œHmm. I still think the bass response could be smootherā€.

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He really understands the value of a big knob!

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How’s the Neo Trinity? @moving_particles

How are you liking having the Hydra rack mounted? Do you still feel like you’re getting use out of it?

I have a big live gig next week and then when I get home I’m reorganizing my studio. I’ve been thinking about a rack for my Hydra and my Virus.

Yes - with the caveat that I spent most of the week working through little QoL details about how I have MIDI and audio routing configured with this MPC setup. I’m not at the point yet where I’m lying on the floor devising new patches on the Hydrasynth. But since I’ve eaten up most of the available desktop space with everything else and had 9U of rack space sitting empty, it’s better to have the Hydra in the low rack than not have it available at all.

I previously had the Hydra rack mounted at the top of a 5.5’ tall synth tower case and that was very convenient - overall, I prefer it racked to sitting on a desk.

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