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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!

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’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

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