lol
but also, sure
but a room full of games would be better for inspiring music and then just a nice soundcard and a pc for music
Where is this MKS ? I’m pretty sure I’d just be overwhelmed in a place with this much gear !
Too polished and neat too,
how to make a cool studio:
- horrible cable management
- empty / half full cans everywhere
- smells like stale smoke
- ground loops, not exactly too much to be a problem, but not enough to warrant trying to get rid of it
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Floating Point’s studio is about as tidy as you wanna go.
https://ra.co/images/features/2015/floating-points-vinyl-lathe-1.jpg
But ideally aim for Ricardo Villalobos’s studio
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two great examples
different q but why do nice studios always have hardwood floors? you’d think carpet is better because it absorbs more of the reflections but maybe it creates some kind of asymmetry vs the walls
edit: okay its cause hard surfaces reflect more evenly, carpet only absorbs >500hz and basically acts as a low pass filter for the room. no wonder my mixes are garbage
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sound rant 
i swear a pretty good/interesting mix, with some reservations, is emphasizing the sound of your room.
you want to bring the space you are in - during the creation, into other peoples rooms.
because even if you want something to sound pretty identical on most systems, speakers, homes, cars, clubs - - the most important thing will always be this personal twist:
if you look at recorded history, at least with progressive music - the most outstanding records are the ones recorded/made somewhere where the place/space/room/setting had a clear influence on what the outcome sounded like 
overall in the digital realm rn and in popular music, the biggest problem is sterility/sameyness/conformity 
the reason most shit bangs is usually because the guy that made it did something wrong or the producer had to compensate for some technical thing and just came up with a solution 
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room treatment is leaving a bunch of cans infront of the expensive adams, that reverberate at different levels cuz theres ashbuds dropped into multiple liquids
a dog that bit a cord
or a monghighway close by that fucked up your levels
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This is a definite fact when it comes to recording live instruments that are mic:ed up in a recording space. It has been done for decades in guitar based music, but usually it’s not the standard when it comes to electronic music, since most of it is lined in / programmed in the box, so there’s no real space to record.
you listen to what you make with the mistakes your room might introduce and it has a psychological/genuine effect on the mix
not to mention the vibe a studio has on the producers
like hangin around at this guy or that guys house, using his old desk, recording his old records etc
people do record a lot of instruments/hardware on dance records aswell
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Absolutely.
I’m not saying they’re not, but how much of it is mic:ed up and how much is clean line in signals?
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i remember hearing that they never cleaned the floors in the vocal rooms at Air Lyndhurst, not sure how much a dusty floor can absorb/diffuse but i guess every little helps
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yeah ofc it does depend
some cool old gear is best recorded
but im talking mostly abstractly about how ‘clean, sterile, easy and accesible’ becomes fetiscised and becomes a part of modern production, even with people that pay a lot of money to get machines with little imperfections as part of their appeal
its easy to pinpoint something like the loudness war, and the ‘producing for a system’ -thing, as an issue - but this stuff gets in the way of ‘goods’ too
Adding more cables to my studio now to get more ground loop hum. Also some new mic pre’s with some pretty dirty saturation and compression capabilities
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the best reason to have hardwood floors is because having to move a wheeled rack or desk full of gear on a rug really sucks.
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these pres sound so dutty when pushed hard
recorded directly out from the eurorack (mono)
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Ohhhhhh fuck.
Eargasm.
Can i have a copy pretty please?
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just enabled downloads on the SC link 
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i added a 40gb thunderbolt 3 hub and the UAD this week and got an unwanted electrical thing to solve somehow. I had to turn off quite a bit of stuff before it would stop screeching. shouldn’t make sense. ;/