don't you want a bit of ambiance ? I mean a totally dead room is just creepy.

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Originally posted by Mad for Brad don't you want a bit of ambiance ? I mean a totally dead room is just creepy.

I hear you but it's a luxury when your top priority to stop the noise from the busses outside coming in or the neighbors thumping on your wall.

Also in a control room (rather than in a rec room which I can;t stand without some feel or ambiance), I generally like it pretty dead.

the whole point is to prevent sound from coming in or out of the room.

If you're inside the room it won't sound "dead". if you "over-treat" the walls with wall treatments that will give it a "dead" feeling.
You need to have some reverb.
After I put the insulation up the room was completely dead, footsteps sound weird without a bit of echo, once the drywall went up it went back to normal.

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Yayy new pix of the studio. Just moved into a new place and finally set up all my gear. I think it's about right now. Looking forward to starting a new track later this week or maybe even tomorrow ... I have one that I've been working on for months but it's not going anywhere so I'm going to put it down for a while.





Something every studio should have ... a keg fridge. Serving all homebrewed beer -- there's a lager fermenting in there now.

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That's totally sweet, Alanzo.

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LOL at the home brew setup

Looks good though, nice one.

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Nice.

Hey, I noticed that you are using a MOTU 24IO for an audio interface. I have the same monitors as you do, and I you may want to consider upgrading your D/A conversion as soon as possible. With the amount of outboard you are using, it would be a worthy investment.

I had the 24IO for a while and upgraded to the 2408 mk3. It was a noticeable improvement at the time, but then I upgraded to Apogee converters and it made a massive difference, especially with the Focals. Your I/O requirements are much greater than mine are, but if you do get the opportunity, you may want to look into getting better D/A and A/D as well. I can tell you from experience, that you won't regret it.

I'm still using the 2408 for the digital inputs and PCI interface right now, but I'm doing all my conversion through the Apogee unit, and its a huge difference.

I'm fixing to ditch the 2408 altogether for an Apogee Symphony System, paired up with the Rosetta 200 and an AD-16X, which should satisfy my conversion needs well into the future and give me a lot more channels coming in. Eventually, I want to ditch the Rosetta for a DA-16X and run it into a Dangerous LT for some analog summing.

Anyway, just a thought for you.

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Originally posted by Eric J Nice. Hey, I noticed that you are using a MOTU 24IO for an audio interface. I have the same monitors as you do, and I you may want to consider upgrading your D/A conversion as soon as possible. With the amount of outboard you are using, it would be a worthy investment. I had the 24IO for a while and upgraded to the 2408 mk3. It was a noticeable improvement at the time, but then I upgraded to Apogee converters and it made a massive difference, especially with the Focals. Your I/O requirements are much greater than mine are, but if you do get the opportunity, you may want to look into getting better D/A and A/D as well. I can tell you from experience, that you won't regret it. I'm still using the 2408 for the digital inputs and PCI interface right now, but I'm doing all my conversion through the Apogee unit, and its a huge difference. I'm fixing to ditch the 2408 altogether for an Apogee Symphony System, paired up with the Rosetta 200 and an AD-16X, which should satisfy my conversion needs well into the future and give me a lot more channels coming in. Eventually, I want to ditch the Rosetta for a DA-16X and run it into a Dangerous LT for some analog summing. Anyway, just a thought for you.

I have both a 24IO and a 2408 both the mk3. I'm using the S/PDIF output from the 2408 into an Apogee Mini-DAC (in the middle of the desk). I don't use the MOTUs for Digital => Analog, just Analog => Digital from my outboard synths.

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Originally posted by alanzo I have both a 24IO and a 2408 both the mk3. I'm using the S/PDIF output from the 2408 into an Apogee Mini-DAC (in the middle of the desk). I don't use the MOTUs for Digital => Analog, just Analog => Digital from my outboard synths.

Ahh, I see. Didn't see the Mini-DAC.

here's mine!



planning on picking up a Lexicon Ionix U42S in the next couple of weeks as an interface.

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Originally posted by alanzo I don't use the MOTUs for Digital => Analog, just Analog => Digital from my outboard synths.

surely that makes it worse than the other way around... I've always thought good quality conversion on the actually disk was more important, because you can always come back and remix later if you get a better output path, but its harder to re record stuff thats already committed.

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Originally posted by kitphillips surely that makes it worse than the other way around... I've always thought good quality conversion on the actually disk was more important, because you can always come back and remix later if you get a better output path, but its harder to re record stuff thats already committed.

I suppose it is but a higher quality ADC for all my synth would cost A LOT of money.

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