Almost all set w/ the new toys, getting used to them and pondering...

A second 2 channels DBX compressor won on Facebook - I have no clue what I'll use it for, I never track more than one instrument at a time and I only use it as a safety limiter before my audio interface when tracking vocals or to give a bit of bite to DI guitars. I guess I could sell it on eBay, but it's not worth the hassle. It's not like it's a great compressor. 
 
A Steinberg remote control, also won on FB - which, sadly, only works w/ Cubase, which I rarely use. I guess I could sell it on eBay, but it's not worth the hassle.

The relatively new Mackie MR-5s, which I'm still getting used to and dig quite a bit.

An old Alice Cooper poster for a 1971 show, a gift from my lovely lady - because she totally gets me. :P

Now I need to find a spot for the old M-Audio monitors (on the little desk under Alice) which I intended to use a secondary pair of monitors to check out mixes because, well, they suck, but I'm used to listening to music on them. Problem being that I don't really have any room left besides placing them pretty much against the wall.

The little Alesis I used on the road were re-affected - the USB connexion makes them perfect for watching movies and stuff w/ the laptop in the bedroom.

The white wall w/ the poster on it is actually the side of a closet, which I intend to use to track vocals - should be large enough so that we don't suffocate in there.

That leaves me w/ a bit of room treatment to do, mainly to deaden the wall behind the desk and the corners a bit - though I don't want to do anything too radical since we'll be moving into our new house sometime next year. So I'm hoping to find something that I can easily remove and use in another room.

Heard that one often too - however, 99% of our books (as pretty much all the rest of our stuff) are stored at the in-laws' place because, well, we moved by plane. :s

We only brought what we needed to survive, so I dedicated a little suitcase to the works of Nietzsche I can't do without. Not enough to seriously absorb or diffuse anything.

Make sure the screen is facing the wall, the back may absorb something. 

digi2ns


HA   Love the little Betty Boop Devil  

Actually, it's my wife as a plush - one of the caracters she plays in the show, one of those toys Cirque is selling. I had to have a couple of them in the studio to keep me company. ;)

Rain,  despite their low cost, I actually get great results (I think) on my Mackie MR5's...and they are the older ones.  I am getting good translation to the outside world with them after getting used to them.  Good luck with yours!

You saying my M-Audio BX5s are crap?



HA! Yeah, they are. :D

He's got a plushie of his wife.  How cool is that???

He's got a real wife!  How cool is that???

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Crg


The book case thing works.

I would have thought so. 


Actually, I had a fairly decent room to work in in Montreal, and I didn't have to do a thing when I moved in, besides moving a few things around a bit. There were a few massive bookshelves, which helped I think. My wife also has a humongous collection of stage clothes which was covering an entire wall, from floor to ceiling.


There were cushions everywhere and a couple of heavy curtains hanging here and there - you almost had to imagine that there were actually walls or straight surface beneath all that stuff. I also had a couple of japanese shoji screens on top of which I could throw comforter to further deaden things when recording voice overs and vocals.

It was like making music in a middle-east Lady Gaga's walk-in.


My favorite thing though was the collection of foam heads and hats, staring down at me while I was working. Inspiring place. I regret not having taken more pics while we were there. I think the only ones I have are the ones my wife took of me that day. :( A few of the foam-head folks in the back.