JMJ Production idea stations

Howdy. thanks, that interview was a pleasure. I have stations that are separate in that they each have a discreet headphone mixer for personalized work. Then, once someone wants to participate or add something to an ongoing session, I can patch them in instantaneously because 95% of everything is pre-patched. From top left: 1) Guitar pedalboard into DI, into Kemper or amps in live room. 2) Bass pedalboard (with fun Nord Drum) into DI into amp rig in live room, which is currently a Sunn/Traynor scenario (seen in 2nd to last pic) 3) Dave Smith Pro 3 or Waldorf STVC vocoder/string machine 4) Waldorf Quantum, also serving as a controller for software instruments 5) Beats/drum machines/tape loops 5) EMS Synthi AKS, Mothers, Soma Lyra 8, Soma The Pipe, etc...very experimental zone 6) ASM Hydrasynth doubling as controller 7) Euro, Roland Synths, Prophet VS 8) Various Moog, Prophet, Solina 9) Coffee table jam station, always changing but currently Korg Minilogue XD and Roland CR-8000 10) Arp 2600 corner 11) bass amp as mentioned 12) Live room extra station currently with Matrixbrute - live room also has Pro Tools computer B-rig. Hope that clarifies some.
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Nice!

How are you finding the Janglebox? It seems to be a polarising pedal, lots of reviews say there’s no substitute if you want ‘that sound’, others say it’s a noisy POS. Does it take a lot of tweaking to get a usable sound?

Got your HOWA episode cued up now, looking forward to hearing it.

 

JMJ - looks great, let me know if you ever need a housesitter! I'll keep the dust offa everything, promise!
While my setup is a bit less impressive, having stations in different areas wired together was a game-changer for my mancave studio.

 

Jangle is amazing to me. It's frustratingly noisy and kind of poopy sounding, but I adore it. I can't get anything to sound like it.

 

Pleasure to help. Yeah, N22 is a deeply underrated phantom-powered ribbon that ends up giving a bit more bite and top than other known ribbons and has good low extension too. Hydrasynth is a real pleasure to work with.

 

Good to know Yeah the key is multing things out so you have personal monitoring for a specific zone, and easy/quick patchability when it's time to commit something.

 

Oh! The Audio Kitchen Big Trees! Do you use it on guitars or bass as DI or even Amp? Or just as a generic studio distortion?

Thanks!

 

All of the above!

 

Thanks for the reply, gear reviews are always worth 10 times as much when you’re familiar with the reviewer’s work and have a context to put the info in. Cheers!

And as for “noisy and kind of poopy sounding”, that’s the best definition of vintage vibe I’ve ever heard. No wonder you get so many hot production gigs!

 

1) No. I used to do it sort of like that, but more complex with a console involved. Nowadays, it's actually more simple: it isn't multing, it's either using direct outputs or summed outputs, coming off of a separate device which intervenes. I have a pair of Speck X-Sums, a custom discreet line mixer module with direct outs, SSL SiX's, and other smaller situations with headphone outs that act as either submixers (some with effects sends, pre's and EQ), or just straight line mixers, which then show up into patch bays and usually get normalled to certain outboard FX and/or straight into dedicated PT inputs. Highly recommend that SSL SiX for a cool, performative, sub mixer that has two fully stereo sends, lots of clever touches, and sounds quite good. I have tracked "serious" things with it on projects that you would have no idea were performed through a $1200 modern mixer full of I/C's. If it's time to track something that requires an extraordinarily hi-fi recording, I can bypass all of these "sub" systems and I have a pair of buffered long cable runs floating around that go into some of my cleaner pre's.

2) No, I use the final outputs and use all the Imperial "modules" in series.

3) At the moment it's a Drolo Stamme(n), but it changes often, depending on what I need to run through the X-Blender. Such as noisier stuff like a Clone Theory. Gamechanger Plus: not using send/return currently.

 

Yeah, SiX is amazing. Probably going to order yet another one. Verbzilla rules, I don't know if I find it a favorite for bass, but it's certainly great. Just happens to be what got put on a board recently. Cheap and splashy and kinda weird. If I had the money I'd buy another Empress reverb, Source Audio Ventris, or Meris Mercury 7. Hairball Lola: I opted for the most basic op amp option, whichever one that is. Love em so much.