For discussion about setting up your studio and advice on the gear and equipment within it.
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By Tapuno Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:27 am
again, Scola, you got all that fancy high priced gear, and the beats you choose to play in the background SUCK!

It just makes me wonder, what is this dude doin wit his money?
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By dabmeister Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:52 am
Tapuno wrote:what is this dude doin wit his money?


Buying fancy high priced gear. But TBH, I can't hate on the way another person chooses to spend their money. Mufuccas will always think they have some sort of rights to your a$$ thus dictating what meets their requirements and not yours. I say this because I still have a friend or two that just won't let go of the competitiveness. I get something, they've gotta match it or do better.

And to Tapuno, this isn't anything against you, it's more of me venting because I can def relate.

You never know who's watching you from a distance, especially with the wrong intentions.
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By Ocular Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:39 am
bennisixx wrote:yeah but all 2 inch foam is going to do for you is throw off the balance in your room. It will only remove the highest reflections in the room leaving mids and lows, making it even worse.
do it right the first time.

True, an over treated room will filter out the highs and decrease the presence of the music, making it sound weak. However, my room isn't over treated and the music coming out of the monitors still retains its presence and clarity.

bennisixx wrote:and just for the sake of it, thick ass panels don't trap bass, and none of these actually absorb.

While true bass trapping is very difficult in a home project studio, I have managed to reduce the bass resonance within the room. But my main goal here was to eliminate the flutter echo in the listening area and by applying the acoustic foam I have succeeded in that. So there is some absorption happening.
Now if my aim was to soundproof then yeah foam is useless. But for sound control, fire-rated acoustic foam is one of a few useful methods that shouldn't be overlooked.
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By Tapuno Fri Jul 23, 2010 2:42 am
dabmeister wrote:
Tapuno wrote:what is this dude doin wit his money?


Buying fancy high priced gear. But TBH, I can't hate on the way another person chooses to spend their money. Mufuccas will always think they have some sort of rights to your a$$ thus dictating what meets their requirements and not yours. I say this because I still have a friend or two that just won't let go of the competitiveness. I get something, they've gotta match it or do better.

And to Tapuno, this isn't anything against you, it's more of me venting because I can def relate.

You never know who's watching you from a distance, especially with the wrong intentions.

I just don't understand it, I mean dont get me wrong, I just about spent close to 7 thousand on a complete studio revamp, but I carefully chose what I felt I needed and nothing more.
When you buy close to 30 damn keyboards, its just more gear-lust than practicality. Nobody should ever need more than one Openlabs product, IMO, and if you got all that gear, at least do something more constructive than booty noise. Like I said, I don't understand it. I did splurge on a high dollar mixer, but it suited my needs(16 channels of direct recording, onboard compressor/limiter, and 3 band parametric EQ) which saved me loads of money on other pieces of gear. And yes, Tech 12's and an ASR-88 do seem impractical, but my Stantons gave out, and I prefer weighted keys over plastic. Like I said, my needs. But theres no reason you should NEED 2 Neko's, a Yamaha ES6, a Roland Phantom x7 and an MPC 5000, plus dude got a mic locker that could support an extended family in Mexico for a couple years. It just seems impractical with the quality I hear of dudes work. No offense, LU, but maybe you could save some money and just stick to a DAW and a Axiom.
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By krush777 Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:49 am
LU just has the GearLust and the money to feed it! But just like the rest of us, when he gets ready to make some serious music, he will figure out what gear suits him best!
By Renaissance31 Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:55 am
Tapuno wrote:And yes, Tech 12's and an ASR-88 do seem impractical, but my Stantons gave out, and I prefer weighted keys over plastic.


Impractical is the last word I'd use to describe 1200's!
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By Tapuno Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:06 am
Renaissance31 wrote:
Tapuno wrote:And yes, Tech 12's and an ASR-88 do seem impractical, but my Stantons gave out, and I prefer weighted keys over plastic.


Impractical is the last word I'd use to describe 1200's!

naw man, comin from a wrold when Vestax Handytrax are used constantly and make dope music, 1200's are indeed impracticle.
By BGBEATS Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:29 pm
Lu Scola wrote:Check out my new youtube video of my studio. Just got 2 Open Labs Miko's added to my setup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXxV1Vm0Ppc



Lu, you should buy a tripod or get somebody else to hold camera for you the and record a video of you actually using ALL the gear to kinda show why each piece is needed and how YOU use everything and play music that uses as much of your gear as possible.


The dudes trippin on ya are because the beats you are chossing to use as background in the videos do not sound like the gear being shown was used on them and then they are thinking you can't possibly even have time to use even half of the gear. That's why your getting the more negative comments. make a video using the gear and with music utilizing all the high end pre amps etc and shut em down :idea:
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By Kno1ills Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:32 pm
Is Lu taking requests? I'd like to see an old prophet 5.
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By mjames4208 Fri Jul 23, 2010 2:32 pm
Lu Scola wrote:Check out my new youtube video of my studio. Just got 2 Open Labs Miko's added to my setup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXxV1Vm0Ppc



your studio is sweet. never mind the critics.
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By i need a mpc Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:53 pm
Lu Scola wrote:Check out my new youtube video of my studio. Just got 2 Open Labs Miko's added to my setup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXxV1Vm0Ppc


Oh $hit on top of all that gear was that a nuemann u87?? Yo man, I know this is going to sound like hate because I don't have 1/8th of your gear, but why does that beat sound like ass?? I can make that with a compact laptop and fruity loops. No diss man, just with all that gear you should be making better $hit. Congrats on all that gear though man, I hope to one day own a U87 as well haha
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By Kno1ills Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:27 pm
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Got the UBK Clariphonic the other day. This thing is amazing. The tech behind it is cool too. It works like a parallel comp setup, but with an eq. Good shtt!
By Renaissance31 Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:29 pm
Tapuno wrote:naw man, comin from a wrold when Vestax Handytrax are used constantly and make dope music, 1200's are indeed impracticle.


Try scratching on a Vestax Handytrax and see how dope it sounds.

But yeah, if you have no interest in DJing at all then you wasted your money on 1200s and you really can't say anything to the dude you were trying to talk down to, as you're doing the exact same thing he is. Whether you think your beats are better or not, that's called gear lust.