checked it! NICE!!...JP8000!!! SUPERSAW!!!
sooooothing synth tracks!
Figured out the attatchment thing
Yes, that is my ugly mug in the last pic.
Just tryin' to be louder than the monitors, ya know? .Lovin the shirt
A couple of friends of mine are just finishing up this pretty nice home studio space. In a stone soup kind of arrangement, I'll be contributing some gear and will be part of the engineer lineup there once everyone is through taking it through it's shakedown period over the next couple of weeks or so. So far some preliminary testing of the room acoustics and gear sound have been extremely positive.
I'll be writing a series of articles on it's design and construction on my web site after the shakedown is done and everything is nice and cleaned up in there for some better pics, and I can sit down with the owners to talk some detail, in a couple of weeks. But I figured I'd get these early shots up here for now.
Not shown yet are a Hammond B3 and Leslie combo, and a Rhodes Suitcase 73 will will be added to the live room as well. Also a small modicum of outboard rack gear is not yet shown. But there should be enough here to get the idea for now, anyway.
Board is a PreSonus Live 16.4.2 combo digital mixer/DAW controller. DAW hardware are dual Acer PCs, one running Nuendo, the other containing music sample libraries. Monitors are Event 20/20Ps on top, JBL 4411s on the bottom, powered by dual strapped BGH 250W amps (vintage pre-AT models).
Yes, that is my ugly mug in the last pic.
http://s646.photobucket.com/albums/uu181/SouthSIDE_Glen/P_Studio/
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One thing...*and maybe it's just how it appears in the pictures*...but the audio monitors seem to be spread real wide and tilted inward to compensate.
IOW...it doesn't look like the mix position is at the tip of an equilateral triangle...it looks as though the mix position is pushed in much closer than the distance between the monitors....???
What's the small mixer...or is that just a control surface?
Miro, I agree, I feel the audio monitors are way too wide; one has to push their chair back a couple of feet to get a proper stereo spread the way it is now. Not my decision there, unfortunately, though when I am piloting the desk, I'll probably at least push the computer monitors in towards the mixer and move the speakers* in accordingly as well. That'll put them a good foot closer together.So how do you like the StudioLive?
*BTW, I've come to hate the term "monitor" for studio loudspeakers. It was fine in the all analog days, but now it's just too confusing whether one is talking about loudspeakers or computer screens. I've sound myself just falling back on "loudspeaker" or "speaker" there, it's just so much more descriptive and efficient.
The board (a PreSonus Studio Live 16.4.2) is a digital mixer that serves both as a full A/D mixer and DAW controller. I haven't had much time on it yet - that night I took the pics (last Friday) was the first time I saw it unboxed - but it seems pretty straightforward in design and of decent construction. It's somewhat disappointing that for a DAW controller it doesn't include a transport control bank, but overall, it sure is an inexpensive way to get a full-on digital mixer with a bank of at least halfway decent pres. It's kind of hard to complain about what you don't get with a price tag of only $2G. I'd love a Tascam DM-4800 personally, but one of those with meter bridge (metering is surprisingly built into the PreSonus) would cost three times the price of the Presonus.
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I usually do . "Monitor" is the nun with the ruler that hangs out in the school hallway making sure you're not going to sneak a smoke in the bathroom . These days I really only try to use the term "monitor" for the loudspeakers with any regularity in places like this BBS where that's the terminology that's common and accepted.Or...you could call the computer monitors "screens".
Looking at the pics and thinking about it some more since the last post, I think maybe a nice compromise might be to have the screen bases raised just a couple of inches off the desk, just enough to allow the bottom of the screens themselves clear the top of the mixer. Then the bases could butt up to the mixer sides and the screens "float" just over the mixer top. This would get them significantly closer together without giving up so much window estate.You are right, a bridge in back of…would allow the monitors to come closer.
One of the things that can be done with the screens (if you need to look out into the studio)...is to have them sunk down more, with an angle, that way you look down at them somewhat rather than have them perpendicular to the desktop.
I can't speak to earlier versions of the StudioLive, but I can guarantee that this one does serve dual function as mixer and controller. It even comes with it's own DAW software if you want to use it.I could be wrong, but I don't think that the StudioLive is a DAW controller unless they added that with one of the firmware updates.
I usually do . I can't speak to earlier versions of the StudioLive, but I can guarantee that this one does serve dual function as mixer and controller. It even comes with it's own DAW software if you want to use it.
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