r/MusicBattlestations

Currently using a zoom ms-70 cdr+ and don’t love it. Also, do I need a DI box?

All my shit is second hand and we sound like shit but I’ve never had so much fun. I play drums

Turned my basement into a home studio with my guitars, synths and drum kit. Plus my DIY mixing desk

Here's my homemade stand. Took a day to build and a day to Danish oil. Because its wood, its easy to add hooks or various cable management things . I've use waste pipe brackets to run audio cables separately from power cables. It's on castors so can be pulled out easy for plugging and unplugging. If you have the time it saves you money and you get exactly what you need. I literally screwed it together, no glue so I can modify as needed. Top tip is to heat the screw with a lighter before screwing into the end of ply so the ply layers don't split apart!

Before anyone asks, this is my work office. That's why the ceiling and lights look like an office building. I'm doing IT work in here most of the time, but I like to practice making and mixing music on my lunch break and in this case, while I'm in the office working on stuff on a Sunday. At home I had one large room that fit my computers and home theater, but it's a kids playroom now, so a lot of my doodads have made their way into my office because I'm stuck with a single 5 ft sit stand desk in the corner at home now.

Next is some more cable management and slight adjustments so I can raise and lower the desk again without being nervous about some wires.

my happy place.

Allen & Heath GL2400 24ch with 2x 16ch custom soldered multicore snakes going into a 19” rack containing an 18x18 interface, DSP and Mac Mini M4. I also built a custom patch panel for easy access and quick multicore connections.

3D printing combined with building racks and cables is actually the perfect combination.
Custom strain reliefs, chassis connections, super durable numbered rings for XLR and jack cables, endless little solutions that make everything cleaner and more reliable.

The whole setup is heavily inspired by Simon Posford’s (Shpongle) live workflow, using multitrack stems instead of just playing finished tracks.

Traktor handles decks and clock while MainStage works as an internal routing and FX environment between all the hardware and software. Everything gets sent back into the analog desk for live mixing, aux FX sends and eq. The GL2400 basically becomes one giant performance instrument.

Then with one click I open Logic and the whole thing turns into a recording studio. I freaking love mixing on analog gear.

Ableton is mainly used for loops and live elements, while Traktor handles everything that isn’t multitracked.

It’s ridiculously fun to play on.

I got some Focal Evo’s (first ever monitors) and already producing way more.

Here we have my little corner battlestation in my spare room. Fairly simple setup, nothing crazy.

We have a Arturia Keylab 49 MK3 and Yamaha HS5's (set of KRK G5 8's in the closet I picked up used and honestly haven't even tried yet as I don't like change), going into a Scarlett 16i16 interface with a JDS Labs Atom Amp 2. Beyerdynamic 990 pro 250 ohm headphones are my everyday favourites. The current mic setup is a Rode Podmic with a cloudlifter on it, its taking the place of my usual AKG C414 XLII right now for a specific project and is way better than I expected for music! I might not sell it after all.

What you cant see behind me is a Roland FP90x piano. I currently do not have any hardware synthesizers, strictly using Pigments 7, Serum 2 and Massive with a little Arturia Analog Lab.

But I cant lie im tempted to get involved with a Novation Peak as my next big purchase. But it's a want not a need. I try and stay fairly minimal on purpose. I'll more than likely add some acoustic treatments next as the most logical progression of my space.

Sorry for the multiple posts my images were not posting. Hopefully this works. I'm old and a Reddit noob.

I'm a drummer that got bit by the MIDI beast. Lots of VCV Rack and sequenced shenanigans.

Heres my way too expensive studio setup as a full time uni student. Have been fortunate enough to work part time simoultaneously and full time during uni holidays. Everything bought second hand, with making the desk and the table for the matriarch myself from wood cut from my parents backyard :D

Thought id post this setup before making some changes over the summer. Im planning on selling the minilogue and maybe getting a drum machine. Also need more i/o to the interface as now im plugging in the synths one at a time. Been considering the arturia audiofuse x8 in, or an interface with a lot of inputs right away, like the arturia audiofuse 16 rig. Any recommendations?

Heres some songs I made with the minilogue before i sell it: https://m.youtube.com/@maplehillrecords

Also looking forward releasing more music after graduating as now i mainly just share songs with my friends.

I want one more rackmount synth/rompler (thinking a Motif), I want to get new audio cables for everything, and finish my "Reaper Box" (image #6) with a 10" display and mini keyboard. Other than that, I'm happy with it all as it is.

Needed a place to store my reeds, mouthpieces etc. So I put up the floating shelf

Added 65-inch TV as a display monitor

Last 4 months have been gathering equipment with a vision how I wanted my setup to be and I’m 90% there.
Just need to add my acoustic panel I am having built and some ambient lighting as you can see from the photo the standard light is a bit much.