The Tiny Studio Corner Thread

[nkozi]

It’s an old power conditioner from the 90’s! Really robust- has been through maybe 2 dozen moves in its lifetime and hasn’t failed once.

[bw4j]

cable management level: 0

[ludvista29]

My humble, & not so tidy corner studio.

[yota]

ca. 2015

[nkozi]

I feel like I’d call this tidy & not so humble

[pavlovsfrog]

meager but growing! this doubles as my work from home station as well but shifts between duties pretty nicely.

[Martebar]

Just bought a stand for my screen where I can put my laptop and my soundcard. Feels a lot cleaner and gives me a lot more space to setup synths as I feel.
Also, discovering the joy of stackables and the mad scientist feeling they bring to patching. I still can’t figure out why I passed on them for so long.

[yota]

I like the vertical octatrack! quite space saving

[kirklandish]

I finally got around to getting the modular system and A4 more integrated with both audio and cv I/O, processing the modular with the A4 and vice-versa. Now I just need to experiment with the CV inputs of the A4.

[Martebar]

Experimenting with gravitational sequencing at the moment.
Although it was not the focus of this picture, I get how it can be the main … pull.

[12eightyseven]

Left: November 2019 Right: June 2020.

Always looking for ways that placement will help maximize use of instruments! Since I got the Matriarch, it’s been a fun puzzle to keep the instruments that I most want to use as accessible as possible. My ideal configuration is somewhere between these two - having the digitone keys underneath the Matriarch (right, covered by a scarf and a handkerchief) was a great idea in theory but I never ended up turning it on when it was in that configuration.

This week all instruments were moved to boxes for a pending cross country trip. Matriarch and Digitone Keys are in the hands of UPS and Make Noise system and Octatrack are coming with me in the car. :,( Moving is tough. But! In the future hopefully I’ll be be able to expand from the corner.

[ThurberMingus]

Wow, I think we have the exact same taste in gear! Do you have any recordings we could listen to?

[12eightyseven]

https://johntylermartin.bandcamp.com/track/squeakers

https://johntylermartin.bandcamp.com/track/learning-from-loss

Usually I’m more of a ‘guitar, bass, drum machine add a synth here and there’ recordist but these two are pretty representative of the pictured setup. What about you? What kinds of tracks do you make with the gear?

[ThurberMingus]

Parliament Lite

I don’t have any proper releases yet, but I’ve been putting my various sketches and noodles up on my SC and YT channels.

[hightowersdeepwells]

Mine has evolved somewhat since I last posted in this thread (living in a different place and have taken quite a deep-dive into the monome ecosystem in the intervening time).

[casualdecay]

Did a studio re-org last weekend. Still feeling a bit like I’m in a transitional phase but I think the way I rearranged everything will help shake out what goes and what stays. The TR8S is somewhat on the chopping block because I really haven’t been making “drum machine music” for basically all of 2020. Partially because there’s no live shows and dance music is most rewarding to me in a live environment, and partially just because I’m jumping further down the full ambient modular rabbit hole

Other big change: a microphone! I’ve never used my vocals in my music before because I can’t really sing on pitch at all. Decided to finally snag a microphone because of the Meris Hedra pitch shifter / harmonizer I picked up a few months ago. That hasn’t found a home yet and may also be on its way out but I’ve been having a BLAST with vocals for the last week! Boy I really can’t sing, so I’ve been keeping the Hedra at full wet with the autotune mode set pretty high. The tones I’m getting out of it are like instant Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith though, and that’s pretty fun. I’ve lost hours just singing various ooohs and ahhhs (and whistling!) into the mic and sending that into the modular gear. Nothing I’d want to record yet, but it’s certainly been a lot of fun and a nice therapeutic practice.

[zuliani]

After about a month of trying out a sitting-on-the-floor home studio setup (inspired by @pelang’s absolutely gorgeous mobile desks), and finding it not quite working for me, I’ve made myself an easel (not Easel) style workstation that has so far been exactly what I want.

It’s still a work in progress — I’ve yet to add a small desk space below the lowest rack — but it’s already feeling inspiring in a new way.

I love how self-contained everything is; it makes the entire easel feel like an instrument in its own right. Also loving the NASA-technician-meets-switchboard-operator ergonomics of patching at this angle!

Here’s a picture of it empty in case anyone wants to try something similar.

[Hovercraft]

Nice work–simple and beautiful. I like how you have a custom row for the 16n fader bank, and I also love anything on wheels. Would love to see an update when you have the desk added.

[josker]

This reminds me… I saw this ‘My Workflow’ kind of YouTube video featuring a hotshot rap producer, a white dude, no more a young buck (Not Mike Dean if memory serves) who had this fantastic cart with rotating wheels that had – I think – his mixer on it… Would love to find that video again.

[karst]

reminds me of http://www.minigorille.com/#music_easel.html

I really like this approach for combining stuff (and the frame is nicely built).