Here my makshift set up, im living with a relative til i get my new flat so ive made best i can at the moment.



the headphones



the brain of the surround sound, custom set up to 3.2( added an extra sub in the amps second sub line out )



and the needles i adore!!!



The List:

2 x Numark TT200's
2 x Concorde Elektro's
1 x Gemini FX-7000 mixer
Reloop RH-3500 Pro limited edition white headphones
Cambridge Audio DTT3500 Digital 7.1 Surround Sound, custom setup to 3.2 for mixing(very good piece of kit i must say)
Creative Audigy ZS Platinum with external live drive, is a perfect set up with the surround sound and is manufactured with direct links for the surround sound system. Cost 500 for the pair brand new a few years back and ive never lost faith in it.

my pc is not hooked up at present due to space issues but its got nothing on it and will be used primarily for production and music stuff only.

its old skool compared to todays.

Amd athlon 3200 2.2g, 2 gig Ram, above sound set up, ati x1650 pro 512mb graphics and a few other little bits and pieces, runs like a dream and out performs all my mates newer dual core s**t heaps

as for software im still looking at what my best options will be once ive moved and got it set up and ready.

also got a proper DJ stand that set me back £300 but its still flat packed til i move.

Its the eginning of my journey so is pretty minimal at the moment compared to some ive seen on here

Hope you like it

Putting speakers in corners will help boost the sound
as well as having them close to walls

this isn't a theory, its how speakers are made, the way they sound best

stereo sound is designed and meant to be at speakers at 60 degree angles
also works best in a small room, 12 x 18 foot for example

anyways if you cared about performance verus price you wouldn't be using vinyls
or using vinyl for good sound quality at all

Looks great Ian

hmm thought this was common knowledge among producers, but you eventually learn your speakers no matter what type or position they are in, for stereo imaging, and for those of us with hearing loss of certain frequencies, there is always analyzers you can use to see sound levels




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maybe I'm just old, but I still love the character vinyl has, and prefer it over digital media for dance music

Yeah its true vinyl has a type of warm distortion that is pleasing to the ear, and also the sound is more loud then soft, which is more gratifying

but i'm the type of person who wants to listen to the music as what the musician originally intended

well that's why mastering on the vinyl is different from the digital release (or at least should be)

as you said..its the warmer sound being emphasized...so I guess it does depend on what sounds are in the track...

one song that I started to love after having the vinyl is Alex Bartlett & Andy Guess - Universe Inside (Talla 2XLC Remix)

armin ft nadia ali - who is watching...digital sounds better...until the guitar comes in

Emery* & Kirsch* - Lose Yourself....verse sections sound better on digital media

but we can't argue personal preference I just enjoy vinyl

analog (vinyl) still sounds warmer than digital...

something which will never change if you ask me



but that doesn't say anything about quality btw

i'm not arguing that its enjoyable

sorry, but its not possible for a vinyl to has the same dynamics as a CD

and you can't change the laws of physics, a vinyl can't do all the frequency extremes

for an LP to have all the bass, and treble from a CD, an LP would be 5 or 6 minutes long.

True they master then differently from a digital release, but 99% percent of the time its from a digital source.
So its like a copy of a copy.

And your right. I've heard some vinyls that some amazing, and the cd was horrible.

Sometimes its the fault of the record company, I known some that have the high frequencys cut off of them, and the music along with.
Or the way the CD is mastered.

Its become popular now to compress dance music, which adds lots of distortion, all the sounds sound the same, at same volume, It ruins the music, I believe this is the main reason many people prefer vinyl over cd

time to update my pic
i have a brand new set up i finally got a whole room for my studio so i am very happy
i finally have everything the way i always wanted
so here it is

Nice djfuzzion

Where did you get those tables?


they look like the perfect height.

Want to see something really cool?



This is my personal stash of tubes.

I rolled them from a 1950's tube organ.

I Use them for recording, and get that Deep Dark, atmosphereic sound, you can only get from a organ tube.

the best part is ,I got the organ for $90 and it had 52 tubes in thm, I sold most of them off for $20 a pair

awesome indeed





oh, expect new studio pics from me tomorrow

after some new equipment and moving my stuff it's time for a new pic

my neighbor gave them to me few years ago so got them free
they are perfect for sure cuz i can seat and speakers are adjust right at me
thanks

Here is a wee image of my little set up.

A mic? u gonna sing in your new track?
Nice set-up mate!

hahaha....not me mate!!!!!! It's on the off chance I get someone with a GOOD voice to sing for me

a good mic. is also important to create noises and little sounds with

yea a good mic is important, for more than just singing

Sampling instruments, DJing, etc

yep..thats the main thing i use my mic for...few vocals samples here and there...but i like recording random sounds and using um

AGHHH Where do you guys get all your money!!! Hahahaha.

(applies to pretty much everyone who's posted in this thread)

I'm stuck with a Gem Sound CDM-150 and a guitar and bass amp for monitors! DX

I guess you guys all have jobs...

Guitars and Bass amp for monitors ?

You can get a good pair of headphones, thats a a few times less as expensive as good monitors.

I've had some headphones before I bought for $50 that sounded really good

and here's my new workspace


Control Room:
This is the place i make my tracks


Hardware:
Pentium Q6600 2.4 Ghz
2x KRK RP 6
2x Terra 19" TFT
M-Audio Audiophile Firewire
M-Audio Oxygen 8
Philips SBC HP400

no other hardware but it's coming up


Software:
Cubase 4 Studio
FL Studio 8
Image Line Slicex
Linplug Albino 2
Z3TA+ 1.4
Revitar 2
Adventus DF
Tone 2: Gladiator
Tone 2: Warmverb
and several other (free) VST and VSTi plugins


Music Room
This is the place i play guitar and piano and where i usually compose my music. i'm not able to record them in HQ at the moment but that sure will come

My minimalistic setup got updated by 19inch lcd-display

Haha i see it just fits,, Monitor's standing close to the TFT's like me

yeah, i need the space beside my speakers so that's the only way out

btw, they aren't disturbing the magnetical field on the TFT's as you told me

I got the same keyboard and laptop... thats about it

I have the same camel (the bigger one) standing on my computer table.

I have an elephant (not shown) to make very deeeeeeep basses

Lucky charms to bring inspiration (failing mostly)

@ Music Room
This is the place i play guitar and piano and where i usually compose my music. i'm not able to record them in HQ at the moment but that sure will come biggrin.gif

Yeah for sure, I've got a Mid-Side Stereo Electret Condenser Microphone, I use to record other people's performances, with it, and they all said it sounded good.

For voice, I switch to 90o angle and just keep it 6 inches away to avoid popping,

Then for acoustic guitar, You can rotate to so somwhere near 120o angle to record the radial image of the strings, and depth, about 6-9 inches near the bridge, depending on how the tone you want

Of course i always run it through my tube preamplifier to get better stereo imaging, and soundstage.

Maybe i'm giving away too many secrets here.

I'll stop now

haha, i already know some of the tricks to record guitar....
piano is more difficult

do you know a good budget pre-amp



Btw, you make me wondering how's your own studio

A a good budget instrument preamp = A DJ MIXER
this should supply you with enough gain, the gain on the out of the mixer + soundcard, will provide enough gain to record an instrument without a lot of noise, and a moderate amount of distortion
To get lower distortion at high levels a good tube preamps start from $400 and up
I'd recommend the marantz 7 clone

Here's my CAT SL-1 mkII



Quite a character

Instead of taking 50 pics of my gear I'm just gonna show the few really cool things...

and here they are


It is a speaker

Will turn your room into an opera hall

a few tubes

No fancy s**t here, I'm just a DJ after all:







Spot the speakers!

All my stuff was bought brand new, except the mixer which I got second hand from eBay - best buy ever!

2 x Numark Axis-9 CD Players
1 x Pioneer DJM-300 Mixer
1 x Technics RP-DH1200 Headphones
1 x Acura AMP-70 Amplifier
2 x Sony SS-BX3 Speakers

Oh and the unit was custom made by my grandad who is a retired carpenter and an absolute legend, it's just at the right height too

F*ck me where u got that Godskitchen flag? Love it!

Godskitchen flag?

Yes that angel on the first pic of crevicekid's post. Dunno if it's called a flag or something else

My girlfriend got it at Global Gathering 2004, completes the look methinks

oh ya, didnt notice



R.I.P

2006-2007



You will be missed

what happened?

I turned it on once, then It shot sparks flying out and caught on fire, the tubes blew up.

Ok so here goes....

Ive decided im gonna stay put for a while where im living and the relatives have allowed me to set up properly.

this is how i had it set up but after a couple of days between work ive had a little play around with my set up.



I decided to sell the Deck stand i bought as i didnt have the room to have it in my room. My king bed takes up 3/4 of it lol.

Anyway, with the money i bought a new processor for my comp and am just about to order these little babies...

http://www.htfr.com/more-info/MR194597.


Heres what i got up to at 8am this morning much to my neighbours displeasure i imagine

I work nights so morning is my evening and what better than a few



to get the evening underway

Moved things about to try get a fit that suits in the minimal space i had to work with, this is best i came up with.



I cut some kitchen top board to fit and raise the decks another 2 inches to a more comfortable height.

Then i needed to find somewhere to put my pc.......

My mum has gone away to iceland for a couple of weeks and had this sitting in her front room douing nothing so i decided to borrow it



Tested it but it was way too high for my liking, hurting my neck when sitting down looking at the screen



There were some Cd racks in the bottom but being a vinyl man, i found these offensive and removed them, freeing up enough room for about 18 extra vinyl in all, very happy with this as vinyl are way more important than Cd's



Then i got to work with the jigsaw and a few nails



Then got all of it together and tidied up a little bit. and this is how it is now.....







Im very happy with the layout now and am now concentrating on setting the PC up for production purposes.

Heres an updated spec list from my last post

2 x Numark TT200's
2 x Concorde Elektro's
1 x Gemini FX-7000 mixer
Reloop RH-3500 Pro limited edition white headphones
Cambridge Audio DTT3500 Digital 7.1 Surround Sound, custom setup to 3.2 for mixing(very good piece of kit i must say)
Creative Audigy ZS Platinum with external live drive, is a perfect set up with the surround sound and is manufactured with direct links for the surround sound system.

And the PC

Amd athlon 3700 2.4g < my new toy
2gb Kingston Ram
above sound set up
ati x1650 pro 512mb graphics

and a few other little bits and pieces, runs like a dream and out performs all my mates newer dual core s**t heaps


and finally just because they are ace and i love this pic i took(except the horrid border on the wall which is coming off in a minute)



Hope this aint too boring or too much posting for something little but ive had fun and am glad i can now start to get on with things a bit more.

Like those KRK's mate, I was going to buy them, but went for the Yamaha's instead, however, the Yamaha's are quite responsive on the high end, but not so much in the low. Do you get a good bass responce from the KRK's??

Here is our other set up. This is Power Of 3's set up. The 3 of us share this studio and we master here too.

Wowwww awesome set-up Davy
U def need post some new samples of your music mate!

"Like those KRK's mate, I was going to buy them, but went for the Yamaha's instead, however, the Yamaha's are quite responsive on the high end, but not so much in the low. Do you get a good bass responce from the KRK's??"

Here's a tip: You'll never get the sound of a 12 or 15 inch drum from a 7" woofer, Physics doesn't work that way, the cheapest 15 in subwoofer will sound better than the most expesnive 7 "

And another , those woofers won't have thet sound of it, the conic s' rigidty doesnt react to produce enouvh of the right frequency

i was recommended these from a friend and im not looking for large low end, these are for monitoring like it says on the tin.

im looking at buyin a seperate system for all out perfomance and need to look at whats best for my needs but these will do for now as i havent got the space for a larger set up and i dont think the relatives will be to impressed lol

"I used to freak out when my amp caught fire. Now I kinda dig the tone." - Guitar Hero III

XD

tip 3: A subwoofer is very important for monitoring. For ex: Your monitors alone don't have all the bass response, so you've got too much bass in your mix, On a reference system the bass will muddy up the rest of the sound, even listening on a boombox, there will be too much bass, and It won't sound clear. Think of it this way.


this my sub, the SVS powered cylinder.

I had 2 10" inch subwoofers, but I was only getting half the bass from those.

Tip 4: As for the relatives thing, You just need to make some DIY acoustic treatments. In a small room like that, You can get enough for about $200 or $300, From materials you can get at your local hardware store.
You don't have to spends $1000s on acoustic treatments, You can build them yourself in a couple hours, the same thing for a couple hundred dollars.

THis is most improtant tip, you will learn its most important thing in any studio.

Will change the sound dramatically, more so than upgrading your speakers or amp