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Mad EP wrote:- metal grill bins x 2 = £15 (needed something strong enough to hold my 10" woofered beasts)
- 1" thick heavy-duty carpet-rug pad = free (was used to pad an order from eBay)
- a few plants to disguise/camo the bins = £10

total= £25

Is there a picture of these somewhere in this thread? Between this comment and the home made desk on the last page, I'm starting to rethink my Ikea-tastic setup...

wub wrote:

Mad EP wrote:- metal grill bins x 2 = £15 (needed something strong enough to hold my 10" woofered beasts)
- 1" thick heavy-duty carpet-rug pad = free (was used to pad an order from eBay)
- a few plants to disguise/camo the bins = £10

total= £25

Is there a picture of these somewhere in this thread? Between this comment and the home made desk on the last page, I'm starting to rethink my Ikea-tastic setup...

I haven't posted a pic in this thread yet - keep meaning to, but my studio is totally trashed and being re-organized right now...
..but here is a pic of my makeshift stands:

Camo'ed by plants:



Revealed:

Just borrowed this from a friend!

Gonna be recording some acoustic tunes and maybe bouncing some of my tracks/samples to tape

hudson wrote:Just borrowed this from a friend!

Gonna be recording some acoustic tunes and maybe bouncing some of my tracks/samples to tape

nice eye ya creep!

lol jk but that looks fun ^_^ you can make some gangstar above the clouds type shit with that. iv always loved the old school pops, cracks, noise, etc in samples (although that might be vinyl, not tape...idk)

Oh, that is a score. Thread never fails to inspire envy.

Haha, my proper humble little space:



No comments about the dust, there's way worse examples of my slobbiness out of shot don't you worry

Piano stool is a nice nostalgic remnant of GCSEs...

hudson wrote:Just borrowed this from a friend!

Gonna be recording some acoustic tunes and maybe bouncing some of my tracks/samples to tape

You bounce to tape and then what? Also, how much are they/what make model is it?

charliefoy wrote:

hudson wrote:Just borrowed this from a friend!

Gonna be recording some acoustic tunes and maybe bouncing some of my tracks/samples to tape

You bounce to tape and then what? Also, how much are they/what make model is it?

Record them back onto my computer...
It's a Tascam Portastudio 414. No idea how much, like I said, borrowing it from a friend.

hudson wrote:

charliefoy wrote:

hudson wrote:Just borrowed this from a friend!

Gonna be recording some acoustic tunes and maybe bouncing some of my tracks/samples to tape

You bounce to tape and then what? Also, how much are they/what make model is it?

Record them back onto my computer...
It's a Tascam Portastudio 414. No idea how much, like I said, borrowing it from a friend.

Thats sick! So it gives it a warmer kind of sound to the track? Do you bounce to tape then go from the output of that machine back into your computer?

charliefoy wrote: Thats sick! So it gives it a warmer kind of sound to the track? Do you bounce to tape then go from the output of that machine back into your computer?

Yeah exactly. Tapes have a nice warm, kinda lo-fi sound that is tough to replicate digitally.

hudson wrote:

charliefoy wrote: Thats sick! So it gives it a warmer kind of sound to the track? Do you bounce to tape then go from the output of that machine back into your computer?

Yeah exactly. Tapes have a nice warm, kinda lo-fi sound that is tough to replicate digitally.

I have three portastudios, including the first two original ones with the nice pres and vu meters. All of them cost under 25 bucks used, but don't expect much out of a newer 414 like that. Certainly don't bother bouncing full tracks to tape for warmth, you won't get what you want out of that narrow a bandwidth. But you can record other stuff to it to attain some noise and grit. Really won't come out that much warmer and even maybe more brittle due to the small frequency window.

Still loads of fun if you are using a lot of instruments and what not or for running the odd sample out to and back into your daw. You could use it to add noise to a delay chain or feedback network.

Amazing A wrote:Might as well post here since I just pulled out all the gear, haha.

Production area aka kitchen table:


The decks:

What laptop is that? Looks stealth

looks like one of the old black macbooks

sephek wrote:looks like one of the old black macbooks

I want one!

yeah i wish they still made a black macbook. they were cool. im waiting for the new pros to come out and imma get myself a 15" quad core i7 beast

Yea the black macbooks are awesome. IMO they look better than the 2011 macbooks. Too bad their specs are just bad.

^^ Like that. Proper mad scientist vibes.

Sir I am jelly.