The Tiny Studio Corner Thread

[Byzero]

Ah! Of course, my mistake. It was custom made by someone on eBay. I’ve just had a look but they don’t seem to list them anymore unfortunately.

There are similar ones available in the internet but they’re more expensive and don’t look quite as good

[bjarlstedt]

My new tiny studio corner.
I had to move my stuff up to the second floor so the piano got pushed back into the garage. My Future goal is to build a little isolated music room in that garage, but until then this will do just fine.

[Gregg]

[Namonzy]

Dang, fair enough! Also, 20 characters

[Gregg]

I keep seeing this 20 characters thing mentioned here, what does it mean?

[DoS]

The forum’s Discourse software sets a minimum length of 20 characters for any post, to encourage responses longer than a simple ‘yes’ or ‘me too’. It’s become a Lines thing…

[Gregg]

Thanks. How come I could post a post with zero characters then? Do photos count as 20 or something?

[bjarlstedt]

Well, ”A picture is worth a thousand words”.
Right?

[LLK]

I think photos create an url/link plus maybe some html handles for visualisation that is necessarily above 20 characters that’s all.

[tapehead]

You don’t see many Carillon PCs anymore! I used to build these PC when they were still at Turnkey, and were IMHO very good machines. If it’s the right era, I may have even built your machine!

[Gregg]

Cool, I bought this one in 2011 and it is still going strong. Only thing I have upgraded over the years is the graphics card, although am thinking of replacing all the HDDs with SSDs soon (system drive has always been an SSD but my audio drive is HDD and it’s really slow now that more people are submitting stuff at 96kHz for mastering, especially when rendering files, or doing little edits in RX7 Advanced, updating the spectrogram for editing etc).

My PCs always last me at least a decade. I’d go with Carillon again, a bit pricey but it’s been rock solid and paid for itself many times over. Never owned a laptop, probably never will.

[tapehead]

Ah - Original Carillon and Turnkey closed in 2008. I was there until the bitter end. I believe a few music tech companies have traded the Carillon name since, and purchassed the Racks (which were the best PC chassis I have worked with).

I’m glad those who took the brand on have evidently maintained the quality of the build and lived up to it’s reputation. It was a lovely bit of nostagia for me to see one say in a rack again too! Thank you for sharing the picture. It made my day!

[Gregg]

No worries! It is a monster case, weighs a tonne, built like a tank etc.

I have thought about trying to do an upgrade myself (new motherboard, RAM, and SSDs) and fitting it into the same lovely Carillon rack case, to save money, but have never done anything like that before and not sure I have the time to research it all.

[NoraCodes]

I just now finished my 16n, basically completing my expression hardware for now - 16n and BSP are both doing CV, and I have a GPD MicroPC for MIDI routing and ORCA.

[josker]

@tapehead

Turnkey closed in 2008

Wow, Turnkey… I bought my first hardware synthesizer (A Waldorf Micro Q) from there in 2001 during a trip to the UK. :’) Felt surreal to own something that cool, and of course, the synth went right over my head back then. Remember seeing a JP8080 in the store, was blown away by that one, way over my budget Just reminiscing, hadn’t heard the name for a long while.

[Gregg]

I used to work at Music Village, Cambridge from 1998-1999, Turnkey were our rivals!

[smutek]

My setup, which is in the corner of the room.

My setup is based around a 2015 MBP and a Maschine/Komplete system with Reaper as my main DAW. I went all in on the NI stuff and have the S49 keyboard, Maschine Jam and Maschine studio. My workflow is normally to lay my songs out in Maschine and then to do a final mix down in Reaper.

My hardware instruments all run into a 32 point patch bay which is situated below my Doepfer case. I’ve got an Expert Sleepers setup (ES3, ES5, ES6 & FH-1) in the Deopfer case with the ES3 connected to the Motu Track 16 on my desk. A snake cable connects the patch bay to the mixer, a Behringer Xenyx 1002B, and the mixer main output runs into the Track 16.

I’ve got a super cheap mic, a Neewer NW-800 which I’ll probably upgrade one day when I have income and when mics are more important for me. For now, I bought the best crappy mic I could find. I saw this one on one of Andrew Huang’s videos and have been happy with it. $20 for the mic, pop filter, shock mount and mounting arm.

Connected to the Motu interface, I’ve got a Technics 1200 turntable for sampling & recording vinyl and a mono one-track RadioShack tape recorder for messing about with recording to and from cassette tapes.

The Expert Sleepers stuff gives me 6 inputs and 8 outputs to the Motu Track 16 which I can use for audio, clocks and/or control voltage. For example, I can multitrack sounds from the modular directly into the Motu while sending my hardware synths thorough the mixer into the DAW, and my soft synths from the DAW out to the modular system - along with clocks and gates and CV’s from Silent Way, or Reaktor, or whatever. It’s really flexible.

For Midi, my MBP is hardwired to ethernet via an OWC Thunderbolt Dock, and I have an iConnect Midi 4 which is also connected via ethernet, and this is normally what I use for midi sync between my DAW and my hardware instruments. My instruments connect to the iConnect box, and my DAW connects to the iConnect box via network midi session. I run this across my normal home network and the latency is low and connection is stable because everything is hardwired with ethernet cable.

For me, having a clear desk is super important, and I like that I can slide my Maschine Jam under the monitors when it’s not in use.

I think that’s everything. I’m pretty happy with the setup as everything is connected and in reach, but also able to be patched around. I dunno, after tearing stuff down and moving things around a million times, I finally have something that works.

[mrsoundboyking]

Glad you found something that works. This set-up definitely constitutes an Achievement. Nice one.

[smutek]

Thank you for your kind words!

[jacopo]

Love and hate for those Germanium Compressors!