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dinkleburg

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Made some changes to the Dinklestudio
« on: March 03, 2018, 10:16:05 pm »
Over the last month or so, I have made a few additions/replacements in the Dinklestudio.

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A Soundcraft Signature 22 MTK mixer. It's supposed to be able to record 22 tracks simultaneously. The most I have tried to date is 7. Worked flawlessly. I've only had it for a couple of weeks, but so far, I likey.

I also added a four channel headphone amp. It's in the upper left of the pic.

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No more crappy floor monitors! Yay! On Thursday I picked up a couple Yamaha HS7's on the recommendation of a friend.

Should be kinda fun... :)

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Re: Made some changes to the Dinklestudio
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2018, 11:52:49 am »
Wow! Looks great Dan!
I checked out your mixer online and that looks like a hella good piece of gear with tons of features and the Soundcraft reputation to boot!
While not cheap, it looks to be quite a bargain! HNGD!

I've had a pair of Yamaha NS-10 tracking monitors for nearly 20 years and they sound just as good as ever. Good, quality tracking monitors that do not lie Brother. What you track is what it is. Very flat frequency response. I still keep a pair of floor monitors around because the NS-10's do lack bass...Which you want them to do really. The floor monitors give you a better representation of what your stuff will sound like in the real world...And the real world is full of shitty systems.. ;D

The studio looks smashing though my man...And I'm glad you got a jam thing going on with your old buddy...You have too much talent to keep locked up in that basement... ;)

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Re: Made some changes to the Dinklestudio
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2018, 11:58:56 am »

Ditto to what AJ said.  It looks really nice.

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Re: Made some changes to the Dinklestudio
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2018, 05:57:42 am »
that's a practical set-up
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Re: Made some changes to the Dinklestudio
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2018, 09:50:21 am »
Wow! Looks great Dan!
I checked out your mixer online and that looks like a hella good piece of gear with tons of features and the Soundcraft reputation to boot!
While not cheap, it looks to be quite a bargain! HNGD!

I've had a pair of Yamaha NS-10 tracking monitors for nearly 20 years and they sound just as good as ever. Good, quality tracking monitors that do not lie Brother. What you track is what it is. Very flat frequency response. I still keep a pair of floor monitors around because the NS-10's do lack bass...Which you want them to do really. The floor monitors give you a better representation of what your stuff will sound like in the real world...And the real world is full of shitty systems.. ;D

The studio looks smashing though my man...And I'm glad you got a jam thing going on with your old buddy...You have too much talent to keep locked up in that basement... ;)

Thanks, AJ. The mixer is way overkill for what I can do in my little basement music area, but the only other Soundcraft with multi track capabilities is only 12 channels. Experience has taught me that once you start hooking up keyboards in stereo, 12 channels isn't always enough. I hate plugging and unplugging stuff - I just want to sit down and play/record. Someday, I would like to take it to someone's gig and try and do a live recording just for **** and giggles. Could be kind of fun. Or a nightmare. One can never tell... ;D

We had Auratones in the studio I learned to record in, so I never got to use NS10's. I bought the HS7's on my buddy's recommendation after doing a little Googling on them, as well. I'm quietly resisting the urge to set up my floor wedges. I kind of like the extra room not having them affords, now that I need to fit more than one musician in my music space.


Ditto to what AJ said.  It looks really nice.

Thanks, Dave. :)

that's a practical set-up
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It seems to be working so far, bieke. I spent yesterday afternoon cleaning out and relocating a six foot book case out of my music area. I think I could dance there now, there's so much extra space. If I knew how to dance, that is.  ;)

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Re: Made some changes to the Dinklestudio
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2018, 04:07:08 pm »
thats an awful lot of knobs and buttons...