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bigtom
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We want buttons and lights!!
We want buttons and lights!!
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ZionBound
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What a thread!!!!!!!! I would have to say the best thread . . . .Ever??!!!
WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
I am filling the racks right now. In fact, I typed this post at my new desk, instead of that makeshift board that you see on the left in the pics. I'll post a pic or two before I go to sleep (though you've probably already drifted off to la la land).
WhiteStrat
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Here you go: the filled desk. All buttons, no lights. Nothing's connected!
It'll take me a couple days to hook everything up and bring all the rest of the gear into the studio, but for now, I can look at the desk and feel some completion!
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nate_dennis
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Whitestrat, that really is beautiful!!! I really dig it. I notice you have no mixing board. Do you do all of your mixing ITB or have you just not gotten it put in yet?
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bigtom
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That looks amazing!! You have done an awesome job!! Now all we need is a pic with the lights down low and all the gear turned on.
Oh.........and your address so we can stop by and drool in person.
noisewreck
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WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
Nope, as much as I love buttons and lights, I'm all in the box for mixing. I'd love to have a console about a quarter mile long, but as it is I've got 32 in, 32 out (though I only use 8 out), and a really good workflow. So I'm happy!
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DrewPeterson7
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Admittedly, I've always been more about matte/oil finished wood, but that IS pretty cool looking. 
This could be a generational thing, but I think I'd prefer in the box to damned near anything else. It's just what I'm used to, and I'd rather be able to quickly sketch in an envelope or two rather than have to ride the faders. It's sort of a control thing - maybe less initially efficient, but way more accurate.
This could be a generational thing, but I think I'd prefer in the box to damned near anything else. It's just what I'm used to, and I'd rather be able to quickly sketch in an envelope or two rather than have to ride the faders. It's sort of a control thing - maybe less initially efficient, but way more accurate.
WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
Admittedly, I've always been more about matte/oil finished wood, but that IS pretty cool looking.
This could be a generational thing, but I think I'd prefer in the box to damned near anything else. It's just what I'm used to, and I'd rather be able to quickly sketch in an envelope or two rather than have to ride the faders. It's sort of a control thing - maybe less initially efficient, but way more accurate.
I get it on the matte/oil finished thing. I prefer that at times as well. But I just couldn't resist the bling factor! Besides, I used something called Spar Helmsman--it's actually for outdoors furniture and the like. It's durable and indestructible. Obviously waterproof too. So if ever spill, my gear will be nuked, but the desk will be fine!
And on the ITB thing--I might be straddling the generational line (not that I ever had a studio when I was younger). But I do enough live stuff to know that I really groove on dialing in a mix with a ton of real faders. But you're dead on about the editing stuff. I do way too much--and with such ease--in the box. Stuff that I never even learned to do out of the box. So as much as the gear aspect of a big ol' console appeals to me--I'll stay in the box.
nate_dennis
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And that's really all that matters. As long as you dig on your set up and enjoy the creation process.
It may be generational, but I don't know. I'm "young" (though I don't feel it) and my first recording experiences were with computers. But as I get more and more into recording (if only as thought exercises right now because of my life) the more I fall for old gear, old techniques, and the pros and cons that come with that style of doing things. It's not about "Better" or "worse" just oppinion.
Theres a joking thread in the analog forum about why "computers make bad music" and it's a good laugh, but part of it is true. Too many "young kids" don't even know how to play through their own songs to record them. So in order to avoid that . . . I've gone way the other way. But this is teetering on thread hi-jacking and with a desk that sexy and a build that bad-ass this thread is the top candidate for hi-jacking protection!!!!
Great room and build White. I hope it serves you well.
DrewPeterson7
Sage of the Order
Funny, I normally avoid that forum like the plague (I just have nothing to contribute), but I saw that (and replied) today.
It's true, sort of, but for better or for worse technology has really changed the way we make music. In some ways that's a good thing (I'm in the process of making a record that more likely than not will sound better than the only "studio" recording I've ever done, and it's a record that would not have been made if I was paying someone $30 an hour for studio time), but in others it's detrimental. Anyway, I agree - let's go back to talking about how awesome this studio is!
WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
Funny, I normally avoid that forum like the plague (I just have nothing to contribute), but I saw that (and replied) today.
Anyway, I agree - let's go back to talking about how awesome this studio is!
No--the diversion is valid. For a lot of us--me included--we wouldn't be doing this if not for computer based recording. It's made it accessible. That's both good and bad. Because it's so accessible, every hack is now a producer. But I'll take the bad if I have to. I don't have to listen to the hacks. (Hell, to some people, I'm probably a hack!).
Bottom line is this, as much gear as I now have, I could have afforded decent analog gear a few times over--but I'd have never gotten hooked on recording without my first copy of Cubase.
Now I are a producer!
WhiteStrat
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Oh yeah...and a rock star!
nate_dennis
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I think maybe I came off like I was bashing digital. I'm not. A lot of good music has been done that way. I think I just like the idea of the old way better. Maybe it's because I'm not good with computers. Maybe it's because the music I'm into is deeply rooted in older music. I don't know. But I'm just not a big ITB guy. But you clearly know what you're doing and as you so elloquently put it . . . .
so rock on man!!!
WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
Okay...so I know I promised the coveted "room lights down/all gear lit up" pic. And I was getting there, but...I grabbed a box that I thought had all the power supplies and cords from the rack gear (yes, I was just gonna power it up for the sake of the pic, without patching it all together). But it turns out the box was full of pedals and footswitches that came out before construction began. So I dealt with it. They were dirty--my old dungeon was a dust magnet--so I cleaned 'em up and got 'em out of the way.
Black cat approves with an aloof disinterest.
Black cat approves with an aloof disinterest.
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WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
Oh crap!
Turns out I didn't segregate power cables from audio cables when I tore it all down. Everything went into a bunch of plastic tubs.
So yeah, I'll probably pull out power cables and fire everything up first. But since I've got to go through it all, I might as well dig in an patch it all together.
This is all the cabling that came from behind my rig before I tore it all down. My beat up shoes give you a sense of the scale.
It's gonna be a long night.
Turns out I didn't segregate power cables from audio cables when I tore it all down. Everything went into a bunch of plastic tubs.
So yeah, I'll probably pull out power cables and fire everything up first. But since I've got to go through it all, I might as well dig in an patch it all together.
This is all the cabling that came from behind my rig before I tore it all down. My beat up shoes give you a sense of the scale.
It's gonna be a long night.
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TRevMFB
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oh wow, that looks like my extra cable tubs right there.
WhiteStrat
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TRevMFB
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Painful isn't it? At least I'm not alone.
my friends are too a.d.d. to know what to do with cables... especially when it comes to proper wrapping.