Pic of my tiny studio.

[kornmanz]

Latest original tune:
http://soundcloud.com/djz/dj-zero

This is my beat factory:



For anyone interested in what I use:

I use KRK Rockit 6's. Great monitors for the price. The axiom keyboard 25 is what I use to make all the melodies you hear in my tunes. I used to program the melodies (in the software) but now I do not do that anymore. I just play on the piano. The subwoofer is one from a logitech 2.1 system and for 75 bucks you cant go wrong. This thing hits club status in my room.


I use ableton suite 8 as my main workstation program. My virtual instrument list is as follows:

Massive
FM8
FM7
Massive
Reason 4
Albino3
Blue 101
Cameleon5000
Discovery V2
Firebird
Imposcar
korg legacy collection
sylenth1
nexus
plasticz
Superwave pro
superwave trance pro
Synplant
Vanguard
V Station
Absynth
Gladiator
Modular System
Poizone
Sawer
Superwave P8
and Toxic Biohazard

The instruments I use the most are Nexus ans Sylenth1. They are the best virtual instruments I've used.

Still no analog gear yet. I will hopefully in the spring or summer of next year be buying a lil phatty or voyager rack.

[MellowZ32]

nice set up, dude!

[poems2beats]

Sweeet! More dubstep please....

[Looneybomber]

That's an upscale version of my former "office". Nice.

[MinisterofDOOM]

I see a first-gen G15 under there. Superb keyboards. Typing on it after coming home from corporate-grade Dell keyboards feels akin to dipping your feet in a cool stream after a tough hike on a hot day.

[cjtimp]

Nice set up.......compact but functional......

[RCA]

Wow, I figured you would be using more than 1 monitor...

Sweet setup though!

[Dattebayo]

You should get that thing hard-wired asap.

Also, close up of that thing below the monitor pls?

[PoorManQ45]

I see a first-gen G15 under there. Superb keyboards. Typing on it after coming home from corporate-grade Dell keyboards feels akin to dipping your feet in a cool stream after a tough hike on a hot day.

Agreed! Lately Logitech has been having a lot of scratch and dent sales. IIRC, the latest generation G15 was like $35 shipped!!! I missed that deal

[kornmanz]

I see a first-gen G15 under there. Superb keyboards. Typing on it after coming home from corporate-grade Dell keyboards feels akin to dipping your feet in a cool stream after a tough hike on a hot day.

Right man? This keyboard is bomb. I cant stand other ones this one is just so smoothhhh

[kornmanz]

The thing below the monitor is this:


It is a Rowland Edirol 10 Channel Mixer (M-10MX)

It controls my monitors in full 24 bit, 96khz digital sound. So not only is my pc audio card full 24 bit digital but so is the device I use to power my speakers with signal.

[Dattebayo]

All that stuff could fit in an under-stairs nook. That's kind of cool when you think about it!

[AZ89two4Tsx]

I have that subwoofer and can attest that it hits VERY hard for its size. It makes my window shake, lol. Kinda wish it was sealed so it would hit the lows a little better, but still great none the less.

[Looneybomber]

I have that subwoofer and can attest that it hits VERY hard for its size. It makes my window shake, lol. Kinda wish it was sealed so it would hit the lows a little better, but still great none the less.

Sealed will only produce more output at roughly ½-1 octave below the F3 point of the ported equivalent. To combat the lack of low end, you can increase the volume of the enclosure and lower the tuning point. You can also try corner loading the sub to help reinforce the low end through boundary gain, but due to the Logitech’s high tuning point, it will likely boom even more without proper EQ’ing. This could be a good thing though.

For example, here's my sub in a large low tuned ported enclosure (yellow) vs. a sealed varient (red). In this case, the sealed enclosure never has the advantage in output until around 10hz...which is useless.


The downside is that ported enclosure is huge, more than twice the size of the sealed enclosure pictured.


People have the common misconception that sealed hits lower because most ported enclosures are not properly designed.

[kornmanz]

Nice sub man!

I really want a krk sub.

[AZ89two4Tsx]

Yeah, Looneybomber, I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to audio.

Maybe one day I'll slightly understand what you tell me.

[kornmanz]

Basically his sub hits all low frequencies better than most.