#737

My experiences have taught me there are people with very different workflows. Some prefer a clean slate most of the time, some prefer it less frequently, some prefer a bit of a mess and some a hefty amount of chaos. I’m part of the first group and I greatly enjoy being able to start fresh most of the time, unless I’m preparing for something that needs long exposure.

Anecdotal, I know, but most of the people I know who work professionally with music or sound design, prefer a tidy workbench. A kitchen also doesn’t necessarily look unused If it’s clean.

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#738

:cowboy_hat_face:

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#739

There are different kinds of tidy and messy.

My space really isn’t photogenic. It’s “lived-in” and mismatched. My desk also serves as my usual hangout when I’m “at home” as well as my work-from-home space, and the place where I often wind up eating meals (because the dining room table is often devoted to my spouse’s projects :grinning:). There’s some cable tangle toward the back corner of my desk, surrounded in dust and dog hair that only gets occasional cleaning. I’ve got a couple of bills to pay sitting on top of my Lyra-8

Zoom out a bit and there’s stuff kind of piled around or tossed haphazardly on shelves or boxes, a pile of scarves and hats and gloves I never got around to putting away at the end of winter, the messenger bag I usually take to the office which hasn’t been touched since April, etc.

But my patch cables are always hanging neatly, sorted by lengths, and I chose them particularly because they hang straight without kinks. I always know where my accessories and tools are, and I don’t like my immediate environs to be cluttered, physically or even psychologically, when I’m in creative mode.

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#740

Thanks! How did you fix the pedals, just velcro? I don’t like the zip ties they (holeyboard) use in their videos.

#741

Yes i totally agree! My comment was more of a humorous observation on many of the photos in this discussion which look a bit unreal. I also like to keep my studio tidy but it’s looks obviously used with cables everywhere.

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#742

My studio is definitely unused a lot of the time lately.
When I do use it it gets quite messy, but I like to clean it up when I’m done with a project/session/whatever, because it distracts me to have a messy corner, when I work. The music desk is just a part of my design studio.

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#743

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Working on Orca6502, from a Raspberry Pi 3B+, running Plan9, writing assembly in Acme, with a planck keyboard(a gift of @corpusjonsey). Everything is connect to 2x12v car batteries and a 80w solar panel.

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#744

I truly might need a planck for my Teletype and orca pi at some point.

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#745

Had a book clearout and made a tiny bit more space in my tiny corner xD

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#746

Went away for a few days with these and had some fun setting up pads on the iPad, drums on one norns and something like awake or rebound on the other all synced up with link.

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#747

@tomw
What kind of mixer are you using?

#748

Its just a DIY passive summing mixer thing I put together in a stomp box case - 4 stereo ins to 1 stereo out. It doesn’t sound very good and I wouldn’t use it for recording but its useful for that kind of setup.

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#749

Ah ok. That’s what I thought.
Thinking of building a simple stereo mixer but not quite sure about the design.
Yes my experience is that passive mixer sound not so good
Or at least the ones I did…

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It’s a mess but i think I’m finally happy with my current setup. Everything is within reach and can do pretty much everything I want in terms of sound-design

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#751

Finally feel like my studio is worth sharing :slight_smile: A couple of months ago I started downsizing my studio or rather part way with part of the studio space to make room for the very-soon-to-come kid. I’ve been optimizing and rethinking my setup to fill my needs and at same time I walled of most of the room as a kid’s room.

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All in all it feels like an improvement o.O which I guess is mostly due to everything being built around how I mostly work. Also I used the spare wood from the wall to build a hacked-together diffuser which is a much better improvement of sound quality than I expected!

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#752

The diffuser looks great! Does it mostly reduce the reflection of certain frequencies? I guess it doesn’t do much for bass? I’ve been looking to improve the reflections in my tiny studio for a while but once you start looking it’s kind of overwhelming and I’ve probably only got half the space I can see there. Did you glue the blocks directly to the wall?

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#753

love the diffuser!!!

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#754

It does nothing for bass or even low-mids… :face_with_hand_over_mouth: But I knew that before I started.
Everything above 1kHz sort of clears up. Like the highs have more depth and clarity. It should scatter the reflections but it can be hard to hear specific reflections in such a small room.
The blocks are glued together in strips and then mounted like pictures on the wall :slight_smile:

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#755

This looks like such a good space! The exact right size and proportions. And a welcome distraction just next door, whenever you need it :slight_smile:

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Here’s my corner for today — and a second view:

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My partner is at her first day at the new job, so I’m on dog duty. Missing her, but I’m happy to make music underneath her paintings and sculptures. Maybe me and the dog will have a nap under her new quilt?

Spending the day getting familiar with my new Blue Lantern Synthx while watching over a test stream of my new twenty-four hour ambient album. (For those interested, you can tune in here ).

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