Show us your studio!

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that looks like it'll sound all matalic and twangy, want

Hah it might look that way but it's really not .. I have a recording I'll grab a quick sample..



edit : from an iphone so not the best sound quality..

http://www.thequietplace.co.uk/piano.mp3

[kel]

it's the metallic blue reflections and the gold back plate thing that tricked my senses, looks very smart. My girlfriends sister's got an old crappy upright, i'll have to get some samples off it some day.

nice clip tho, i'll never understand how piano players can get all there fingers and hands working interdependently like that, top stuff

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Sobi streaming live from the UCan studios ...

[RiK]

Sobi streaming live from the UCan studios ...

What's UCan? Is this something you're involved with?

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Hey yeah that's UCan Studios.... UCanPlay's groovy community based facility in the heart of cheshire... available for bookings if anyone has a need...

There's an acoustic drum kit, the lovely piano previously pictured, PreSonus PA, loads of toys Roland, Korg, Moog etc. There's a couple of orange coloured things delivered recently I'm hoping to get some angular snaps of this week.. I wonder if you can guess..

UCan Play is the trading arm - regulars can feel free to drop me a PM for a preferential quote on any music gear..

edit: btw I thought Sobi was excellent!! Really enjoyed that peformance she's dead talented, and learned a lot watching the drummer, who is very economical.. something I need to practice at.. there's some nice zoom shots on the ghost snare hits in there.

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Settling down into a space for live jamming and just working on the computer.

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I don't know what that games cabinet is, but if involves planets wouldn't it be good to get some sounds into a compo track!

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I don't know what that games cabinet is

Get out.

No - don't stop to get your coat.

Out.

Now.

And read this before you come back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron:_2084

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Ack.. I was googling for '2004'..

Don't think I've seen a Robotron IRL...

I do remember the '2p flick trick' for the original Asteroids if that helps my 'veteran gamer' status.

[Chontler]

Why oh why is Robotron facing thataway anyway?? Almost as unforgivable as not knowing what it is.
Looks great otherwise. I'm still wondering what to do with my Beatstep Pro. It was an impulse buy and feels great but it doesn't get much love. Wondering whether to get some kind of drum synth to connect it to.

[Surfr]

My humble beginnings. Until now I'd mostly used a DAW but I want to separate music from the computer so I'm moving into the world of inexpensive hardware, and great fun it is too.

Studio by Dan Field, on Flickr

Now looking to replace the MPD18 with a Korg PadKontrol to gain 5 pin MIDI and backlit pads. Also looking to add another Volca. Possibly the FM or maybe the Bass and a mixer with onboard effects. That should keep me amused and able to work through headphones when the toddler is asleep in the next room but also record out to my little Zoom H1

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I like to take vacations from computers. Normally just play some live instruments but I've been hankering for ages to go back to hardware multiitracking so I picked this up portastudio earlier in the year a Boss BR600. I bought it used for the price of a couple of takeaways and it came in a cute little flightcase lol. Old as fuck but hilarious how much it can do compared to portastudios I used in the past. Built in mics, Hi Z guitar input, drum machine/sampler, input FX, virtual tracks, mastering FX, loop FX, autotune style pitch effects, and you can dump the results out as wavs via the USB which is USB1 I think as it takes like 40 years.

Look at all them lovely lights.



But yeah runs on batteries, so I'm just recording tracks from apps on the iphone.. only other things needed are lead and headphones. I'm having fun recording beats on different tracks, syncronising by hitting the 'go' button at the right time..

Can then mix down to a stereo pair... I might overdub guitars or found sounds with the mics.. it's a right laff...

This was the first of a procession of portastudios I used.. the Tascam 144 borrowed from high school around 1983/4...

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My first (and only) portastudio...

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OMG those controls...

Recorded a quick jam on the Boss. Any excuse to have a clatter about on the V drums! Sound quality seems pretty good considering the proprietry compression ("MT2"), and some aged, cheap electroncis.

https://soundcloud.com/two-gapper/porter-percussion-jam

[RiK]

Need to do an updated pic soon, going to have a re-arrange again as I've gained a couple of things, couple of bits out on loan at the mo too.

New additions:

Korg R3. Same synth engine as the radias, in a lovely 37key package. Impulse ebay bargain :-)
Mooer Reecho pro pedal

And I think in the not-too-distant future I'm going to get the little Roland JD-Xi, as I've got one spare Roland-specific USB input on my MX1 mixer so it would be rude not to use it.. LOL