Setup of the day thread?

[MaxMaps]

Darcy!

Totally in love with music corner! The mixing desk with the pedals underneath is freaking sick.

I also love your gear collection ( and could probably read 20 more ..... because GAS)

[cosmicevan]

Looks like a good time if I ever saw one!!!

It was indeed. Bonus setup: recording session for a new electroacoustic duo last night:



Sound sources included Electro-Faustus Blackfly, monotron, Søvnløs. Plus I brought a Pauline Oliveros-inspired piece for accordion.

Dayimn!!!! Don't threaten me with a good time. That looks insanely fun. Hope the session went well. Your stuff really speaks to me...I always love where your head is at.

[cosmicevan]

I wish there was a way for us all to play "wife swap" with our setups. Would be a blast to plug into any of these insane setups.

[moozz]

Final setup tweaks and rehearsal for tomorrow's noise gig.

[Eivind August]

Excellent setup!

[moozz]

Unfortunately the PA was weak and there wasn't much low end rumble. Next time with more kick I hope!

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Got a last-minute offer to fill in at a pleasant little park gig today (with unseasonably warm shirtsleeve weather!) so I put together a very minimalist (by my standards) rig:

[friendship]

I got really bored yesterday and set up the Minibrute to run MIDI through the D-05 and to the Minitaur, and the audio outputs of all three are running into a submixer. 8 oscillators, 8 LFOs, 8 envelopes, pretty massive sound.

[Dowi]

I got really bored yesterday and set up the Minibrute to run MIDI through the D-05 and to the Minitaur, and the audio outputs of all three are running into a submixer. 8 oscillators, 8 LFOs, 8 envelopes, pretty massive sound.

Minibrute+minitaur sounds like a huuuge amount of nasty bass. How do you use the drumbrute? One thing I love about it is to route different effect(s) on each individual out and make it a standalone noise rhythm beast.

[friendship]

I got really bored yesterday and set up the Minibrute to run MIDI through the D-05 and to the Minitaur, and the audio outputs of all three are running into a submixer. 8 oscillators, 8 LFOs, 8 envelopes, pretty massive sound.

Minibrute+minitaur sounds like a huuuge amount of nasty bass. How do you use the drumbrute? One thing I love about it is to route different effect(s) on each individual out and make it a standalone noise rhythm beast.

Yeah it's a little overkill haha. In the In this DAWless setup, I'm using the main output and setting up simple grooves with carefully applied randomization so I can "jam" with the drums on guitar. When I use a DAW, all the individual outs get their own input, and I record the MIDI output in tandem. This way, I have discrete analog tracks to play with, and I can also use the MIDI track to replace or layer with samples. I can't get over my love my for acoustic drum sounds, and I have a couple good virtual kits, so this is very handy.

[Dowi]

Yeah it's a little overkill haha. In the In this DAWless setup, I'm using the main output and setting up simple grooves with carefully applied randomization so I can "jam" with the drums on guitar. When I use a DAW, all the individual outs get their own input, and I record the MIDI output in tandem. This way, I have discrete analog tracks to play with, and I can also use the MIDI track to replace or layer with samples. I can't get over my love my for acoustic drum sounds, and I have a couple good virtual kits, so this is very handy.

That's a smart move, and avoids writing drums on midi, which most of the time is just a PITA. The randomization on this one, when used cautiously, is super enjoyable too.
Totally get the love for acoustic drum sounds, but I just love the simplicity of the Impact. Everything is handy and easily tweakable on the fly, so adding a couple extra pedals to spice things up is not a big deal.

[friendship]

Yeah it's a little overkill haha. In the In this DAWless setup, I'm using the main output and setting up simple grooves with carefully applied randomization so I can "jam" with the drums on guitar. When I use a DAW, all the individual outs get their own input, and I record the MIDI output in tandem. This way, I have discrete analog tracks to play with, and I can also use the MIDI track to replace or layer with samples. I can't get over my love my for acoustic drum sounds, and I have a couple good virtual kits, so this is very handy.

That's a smart move, and avoids writing drums on midi, which most of the time is just a PITA. The randomization on this one, when used cautiously, is super enjoyable too.
Totally get the love for acoustic drum sounds, but I just love the simplicity of the Impact. Everything is handy and easily tweakable on the fly, so adding a couple extra pedals to spice things up is not a big deal.

Yeah the randomization is great! I like to keep it between 0-3 on the whole kit and then crank it up super high when I want a drum fill for a measure or two. I also love the distortion circuit, it's perfectly voiced for the saturation and compression I like on drum machines, and I love that it's post-fader so the drum level knobs effect how much juice you're getting on each drum. It's a bummer it's not routed for the individual outs, but like you said, adding effects to those is easy and fun. I have a couple other quibbles (would kill for a tuning knob on the snare, even a shared tuning knob for the two! and I wish the tom decay were longer--it goes from extremely short to very short) but all in all it's a really powerful machine, sounds great, and is fun to play! It feels like an instrument.

[John]

These belong to a good friend who is recording an album, and these are the pedals in regular rotation. My mission is to make order from chaos. My reward will be weed.

[Chankgeez]

OK, just ballparkin' it:

'69 > Queen Bee > Soul-Bender > Tone Press > is that a wah? > Equalizer > Supa-Trem2 > RC Booster > Astro Tone > Prunes & Custard > La Grange > Carbon Copy > Centaur

(not sure where to place the tuner or the noise gate)

That's maybe how I'd try it.

[Dowi]

I have a couple other quibbles (would kill for a tuning knob on the snare, even a shared tuning knob for the two! and I wish the tom decay were longer--it goes from extremely short to very short) but all in all it's a really powerful machine, sounds great, and is fun to play! It feels like an instrument.

Tuning knob is a big missing element, agreed, as for the rest is really super fun to play with and along with.