subtlearts
OK why not? It's kind of a blurry phone pic, but I guess that's par for the course these days...

Sonar Platinum on a pair of monitors, computer is a desktop dinosaur (Q6600 I think) that still runs surprisingly well, running Windows 10 now and I actually rather like it... There's an Alphatrack and 1st gen Kore unit there, both of which I still actually use. And a Contour Shuttle to make things even more confusing. E-Mu 1616m interface, a couple of other things tucked in there too. Monitors are Dynaudio BX-5's, headphones are Beyer 990s. Keyboard is something nondescript and fairly crappy but modded with big brightly coloured paper 'lights' by my son when he was 4 or so which is frankly the best thing about it. My better controllers are onstage at my regular gig - a Nord Stage (1st gen) and a Studiologic SL900 Pro. Also not shown are various other instruments I play at various levels from half-decent to pretty limited, including guitar, bass, flute, french horn, trumpet accordion and miscellaneous percussive devices. Piano I studied and play professionally, so I suppose I have to stand behind that more or less... 
 
 

Is that a DMP3 I see tucked away there ?

Richard Cranium

subtlearts
OK why not? It's kind of a blurry phone pic, but I guess that's par for the course these days...

 

Is that a DMP3 I see tucked away there ?

You have sharp eyes... yeah, I don't use it so much these days but it's nice to have in the back pocket - a remarkably clean and sweet little preamp, especially for the money! There's also an Echo Mona beneath that, but it's just a pretty-looking monitor stand at this point. The SM-Pro M-Patch 2 is still alive and kicking however. 

Yes I have a couple of DMP3's still in use, and 2 packed away still in their boxes, and apart from a quick test to make sure they work, haven't felt the warm flow of electricity sine they left the factory. I like them a lot, as you say clean, and grabbed a couple of spares when they were being discontinued. But the old ones just keep going, I should move on to something better and newer, but I like them.

Hey Shawn, enjoying following this 
Just wondering if you always monitor with the Sony bassboxes on..
Caus I guess it needs to be checked if the sound is ok (survives) on 2 regular speakers (without the subs).
 
Writing this as I went wrong by always working on (a little sub heavy) Senheiser 280 headphones, when then hearing it back on simple speakers it was really crap, totally fell apart.
Have 8inch monitors now, but they are damm loud so 5 or 3 inch would be better maybe for a small/midsize room.
 
good luck & thanks for the nice thread.
 
 
 
 

Basically no matter what your main monitoring rig is, it's very important to cross-reference to a variety of systems and environments - studio monitors and headphones, quality earbuds, crappy earbuds, consumer computer speakers, laptop speakers, home stereo rigs, car stereos, phones and tablets, bluetooth speakers... obviously it makes no sense to do this with every mix decision, but as you get close to something you want to get behind, that should start. There are ways to fake it - plugins that mimic different speaker response and so on - but it's really no substitute for the real thing... and of course, the bonus is that as you do this you start to learn how your main rig translates to other systems, and you get better at predicting and accounting for that, and your mixes get faster and better. Well, that's the theory anyway!

Thanks for sharing. You have some cool studios!

I agree with subtlearts, I bounce between my headphones and the speakers with subs, probably a good idea though to turn off the subs every once in awhile! - S
 

Wouter Schijns
Hey Shawn, enjoying following this 
Just wondering if you always monitor with the Sony bassboxes on..
Caus I guess it needs to be checked if the sound is ok (survives) on 2 regular speakers (without the subs).
 
Writing this as I went wrong by always working on (a little sub heavy) Senheiser 280 headphones, when then hearing it back on simple speakers it was really crap, totally fell apart.
Have 8inch monitors now, but they are damm loud so 5 or 3 inch would be better maybe for a small/midsize room.
 
good luck & thanks for the nice thread.
 
 
 
 

Well, I will do a good cleaning first then post picture...The room my studio is in is a MESS compared to everyone else!
 
 

I didn't show you the other end of my room

Great to see everyone's creative spaces 
 
Here's my home creation station.
(Guitars, unused outboard/synths, didgeridoo and various other noise making devices are out of shot, in a heap)
 
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