u/Bismuth88

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've been Stuck on 0 percent for twenty minutes.

If this isn't the way to go to make a club website that integrates well with the RIBI interface, I'd be very grateful if anyone can tell me how I can edit the clubs standard "webpage" that is generated on the main rotary site.

Hi all,

I have two tanks, an 80L which is stable as anything and zero algae problems, and a 60L which is just overrun with green hair algae which I cannot get rid of.

The tank was unstable from the first build and after a year I broke it down and started again. This time I went for aquasoil, being told it was full of nutrients and plants should grow no problems.

Ever since the tank cycled I have had issues with algae. Every time I go to the aquarium shop for advice I'm told different things. For example I've been told I have too many nutrients, too few nutrients, too many nutrients but none on the water column, too much light, not enough light, too many fish, not enough fish.

The stock:

10 spotted rasbora

10 green rasbora

Two ornamental snails

Two assassin snails

Some invader snails (hence the assassins)

Two dwarf sucking catfish

One Siamese algae eater (purchased to combat the algae)

7 Amano shrimp

Nitrates 0, phosphates 0 pH7, KH1, nitrites 0 ammonia 0

I've tried adding plants but they don't grow they just sit there or they get covered in algae and die. (The grass you see in the photo was added at the start and has never gotten bigger than that, it got thick but then covered in algae and I had to cut it with scissors)

I've added the pond weed as the aquarium shop suggested it to absorb nutrients, it's growing but nothing else does.

Lights are full spectrum 8 hours a day in two 4 hour sessions. Non adjustable intensity as they are beginner ones.

Filtration system is an Oase thermosmart 100.

Ive tried a 7day blackout, I've added more plants, I've tried an anti algae liquid treatment, I've tried liquid CO2. Each time I tried something I just changed that one thing for a couple of weeks to see if it helped. Nothing has helped.

Each weekend I am just pulling huge globs of algae out of the tank.

Please, what am I doing wrong? I want the fish to be happy and healthy and for the plants to grow and thrive.

Thank you.

Edit* I perform a water change every week of ten litres.