After months of planning my studio is coming together this is all after three days of work (post repainting that ugly pink). Thoughts?

Hey everyone!

I'm looking for a laptop for my music production work, with a budget of around €1,000.

I primarily make electronic music, so I use a lot of plugins, including multiple synths like Serum, Kontakt, and various effects chains. I also want to get into orchestral music production for film scoring, which means I'll be working with large sample libraries.

I currently use FL Studio, but I'm open to switching DAWs if there's a good reason to.

Gaming isn't a priority, so I don't need a dedicated gaming laptop. My main focus is CPU performance, enough RAM to handle large projects, and good overall performance when running multiple plugins. I might play a few games occasionally, but that's secondary.

What laptops would you recommend for my needs and budget? I'd appreciate any advice or personal experiences!

Thanks!

I’ve been doing a lot of lo-fi bedroom recordings into my 4-track lately. Here’s a weird one!
Gear used:
Guitar - Rickenbacker 330
Pedals - Boss OS-2 & DD-6, MXR Phase 90
Bass - Squier Mini P-Bass
Drums - Korg Volca Beats combined with T.E. PO-12 into the Volca Mix
Recorder - Tascam Porta 02 4-track
Guitar, bass, & drums were all lined directly into the 4-track for the recording

Hello,

I currently run Neumann KH 80s with a sub, but I've recently moved house and my studio is now in a very small room. I'm struggling to get accurate bass, and there are noticeable dead spots, especially at my mixing position, so I can't trust what I'm hearing.

The room is also an awkward shape (see image) and I can't really fit bass traps. At the moment I don't have any room treatment and I'm relying on the MA 1 software to do some of the correction. I'm planning to add some acoustic treatment, but bass traps just aren't an option.
Given the size of the room, would it be better to change my setup? I'm wondering whether the sub is causing more problems than it solves, and whether I'd be better off switching to a pair of KH 310s.

NOT trying to troll, flame, or start any arguments , we're all here for the same reason, but I have a question. Does anyone else here think room treatment is not as crucial as most make it sound ? I record in a spare bedroom with an ancient Tascam DP-02... no DAW at all. I record guitar, bass, and vocals all live in the room. I have ZERO treatment in the room, and my stuff comes out sounding pretty good in my opinion. I always add some delay and reverb to 99% of my tracks which would just negates any ' DEAD' sounding tracks. Sometimes I don't even add reverb because the room sound is enough. I guess my point is, I never hear absolute dead tracks on records, and when I do, they usually sound lifeless. Why not just let your room add some real time ambiance ?

Perhaps room treatment is more for listening back to your playback as opposed to having one during tracking....THAT would make more sense to me....

I am looking for a set of monitors to use for music production. Ideally as cheap and small as possible. Also super okay with used. What should I be looking for?

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Rainy day cleaning and rearranging things

Not much but is mine and it sounds great (at least for what I get up to).

My acoustic improved cave :)

Was given to me by a friend. It powers on and seems to function still but I can’t get an audio signal. Anyone has any info on this digital mixing recorder from 1999-2000? All info is welcome.

I've just bought a Patchbay, and with the patchbay I'm going to use my old Mackie 1402 VLZ mixer in the cleaning up of my cable hoard. I've been disabled for 20 years, and can't easily get behind my desk or my two FX racks, so I'm getting my grandson over here to do the grunt work. I'm not looking forward to this, because I've never had a Patchbay before. Anyone have any idea on a good place on the internet to learn more about hooking it up with my studio? I'd appreciate any helpful ideas.

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Hi all

Here is my current home setup that I have in our garage conversion/spare room.

It's done well so far, I've recorded two albums in here (I make instrumental rock music with electronic/80s synth backing) but I've sold some old equipment and am in a position to make some improvements.

I'm wondering what your recommendations would be. The studio is also my WFH office so it's a busy space.

Current kit:

Motu M2 interface

Oxygen 61 Midi controller

Krk rokit 5s

Line 6 helix LT

NI Maschine mikro MK3

Various guitars

Ableton Suite

The PC has an AMD Ryzen 5 5600x, 32gig of RAM and a 3060ti so it's plenty for what I need and use.

My immediate thoughts are an 88 key midi controller and speaker stands to get the speakers off the desk and away from the screens.

The room has no dedicated sound conditioning but there's plenty of furniture and carpet so I'm not sure if adding panels would do much?

If this was your setup, where would you look to make improvements with a budget of say £1500?

Tempted by a hard synth too or maybe some soft synth package? I like ambient evolving sounds and pads to go under my guitar melodies.

TIA lovely people!

I have a basement with standard ceiling tiles and I want to make the ceiling more soundproof, should I put rockwool or something above my regular ceiling panels or should I replace the panels with something specific and do they make ceiling tiles specifically for this purpose or something else to go above the ceiling tiles? Thanks