Whew, it's been a long time since I last posted pictures! A lot has happened - I'm now engaged to Erin, we've purchased and renovated a house together, and I've finally finished putting together my basement studio. The first pic is a view down the north wall of the studio, where all the synths reside... the crowd poster is for inspiration while I rehearse my live act. ;)
The second pic is a shot of the tabletop of the live rig, with the latest addition being the x0xb0x, which I built myself from the kit. Mine is #12 of the initial run of 100 - it sounds fantastic, but it sounds even better sequencing the SH-101. :) The rack on the floor holds a RackRider power conditioner, BBE Sonic Maximizer, the mighty Waldorf Pulse, and the Ensoniq DP/4+ effects rack.
The next shot is a pic of the closet - I had to cut another 8cm or so off the tubes to get the rack to fit into the ex-closet - it's a snug fit, but it works well. New addition: a Kenton Pro-DCB MIDI-DCB converter, finally! The closet isn't fully hooked up yet, only the Juno-60 is actually useful in this shot... I need to sort out a way to get audio from the Simmons boxes easily over to the computer for sampling. I'm thinking it may be time to invest in some patchbays and snake cable.
And lastly, a shot of my workstation - I tried to migrate over to using a mac, using Erin's old G4 PowerBook, but Ableton Live just *crawled* on it. I really, really wanted to have separate computers for work and studio, though, so when my office gave me a new ThinkPad, I jumped at the chance and moved my dual-purpose work/studio desktop computer into the studio for good, and removed all trace of work from it. The ugly wall of velvet is made from the ugly curtains that adorned the house when we first moved in; it prevents slapback sound reflections, which should help my mixing. They're hung about a foot from the back wall, with foam and moving blankets hung behind them to create a "dead end" to the studio. The leather couch was donated to the cause by Trent, and much thanks indeed.
