A Long List of Compromises - new music space

[ManFromGlass]

Then after that you have to tame all gurgles and other rumbles, so no curry or beans the day before a session!

I like the look - almost like your own private holodeck Cap’n Jean Luc Drew!

[Drew Stephenson]

We have matching hairstyles!

[Drew Stephenson]

Quick trip to Gear4music and they swapped the runner over for me - the advantage of buying locally.
So this evening I set the desk up and that end of the room is looking a bit more like a studio and a bit less like a building site!

[ManFromGlass]

If that is your final or almost final setup then I see you are wrestling with the same issues I am. You need access to the mouse when playing the controller but also when the controller is tucked away and you are mostly using the computer keyboard.
For me the constant is the mouse but I constantly go between controllers and computer keyboard.
I have almost found a non-crippling (not too much reaching so I can keep good posture etc) setup but am always curious what others are doing.

[Martin Walker]

If that is your final or almost final setup then I see you are wrestling with the same issues I am. You need access to the mouse when playing the controller but also when the controller is tucked away and you are mostly using the computer keyboard.
For me the constant is the mouse but I constantly go between controllers and computer keyboard.
I have almost found a non-crippling (not too much reaching so I can keep good posture etc) setup but am always curious what others are doing.

My approach is to have my main controller keyboards down each side of the studio (5-octaves synth ones stacked on the left, and 88-key weighted piano-style on the right) , and in then front of me I have a 2-octave keyboard for basic editing and the odd solo, with my PC keyboard directly in front and the mouse alongside.

Martin

[ManFromGlass]

Shouldn’t the whiskey, I mean, inspiration glass be more front and centre?

[Music Wolf]

Look which side the mouse is on!!!! Or should that be Witch side the mouse is on?

[Sam Spoons]

I did notice that and thought, "ah, MW is of a 'sinister' persuasion"

[Drew Stephenson]

I may end up moving the music keyboard to the left hand side and dropping the computer keyboard to the tray. But I haven't got room for that at the moment so I'll play around with things and see how it works.

Anyway, today was quite productive.
Aluminium strips for a bit of reflection:

Lightly stuffed with old duvet:

Bit more duvet wedged into the front top and bottom and then finished with cara:


The rest of the afternoon was spent with a surform plane working on what will be the other diffusion boards.
I might take tomorrow off...

[Martin Walker]

I did notice that and thought, "ah, MW is of a 'sinister' persuasion"

I'm ambidextrous with a mouse, and that glass contains sparkling water to keep me hydrated during long sessions

Anyway, let's not stray too far from Drew's magnum opus (and I'm not talking about a choc-covered ice cream)

Martin

[Drew Stephenson]

Hmmm... ice cream...

Thinking of being ambidextrous with a mouse, i did find myself using two at once at work on Monday (one on the Mac, one on the pc).
Not for anything particularly demanding, but it did impress a passing colleague.

[Wonks]

Look which side the mouse is on!!!! Or should that be Witch side the mouse is on?

Banjo player burning, 16th Century style. They didn't mess about in those days.

[ManFromGlass]

Last group of photos showed a squeezebox and an unsolved Rubics cube.
Both torture devices in the wrong hands

[Drew Stephenson]

What do you think the padding on the wall is really for?

[ManFromGlass]

Only slightly related to torture -
Is this worse than actors miming be able to play guitar on tv? Two bagpipers on tv who have the mouth moves correct but couldn’t make their fingers mime Amazing Grace in time.
Sure, sure, blame the picture editor!

[MOF]

Only slightly related to torture -
Is this worse than actors miming be able to play guitar on tv? Two bagpipers on tv who have the mouth moves correct but couldn’t make their fingers mime Amazing Grace in time.
Sure, sure, blame the picture editor!

I wish that editors would re-synch archive footage used in music documentaries, which is usually out by about two frames for some reason.

[ManFromGlass]

and quite a number of old movies too. Hard to watch that stuff.

[Hugh Robjohns]

While it's sadly all too common to see out-of-sync material from the source, it's worth bearing in mind that sync errors can also be caused by the viewing equipment, particularly if you take audio from a TV to reproduce via a hifi system or external 'sound bar' as so many do.

Some systems -- either the sound system or the TV itself -- will include facilities to delay the audio to match the inherent delays of the visual display, but not all do, and even if they do, not everyone is aware of the feature or how to adjust it!

[Sam Spoons]

Does anybody know of an app/plug-in that can do the same with Youtube?

[Wonks]

I find some Amazon programs drift out of sync after a while. I have to exit the program and resume watching to get it in sync again. Never found that with Netflix.