It’s been a busy couple of days. My wife and I have been restructuring our room/home studio. We’re both extremely happy with the results so far, and after almost three days of moving stuff around and all over the place, throwing out trash, cleaning up, and everything in between, it’s finally starting to look like we’re getting to the end of it. We’re definitely excited, since the new way the room is set up provides a lot more versatility when it comes to different activities we can do in different parts of the room. All the synthesizers are a lot more accessible now for me to tweak their parameters when producing or jamming, thanks to the new desk we bought. It wasn’t too expensive at all, actually, about a hundred fifty bucks on Amazon. The desk has a higher level all along the side, and I finally have somewhere to put my wireless typing keyboard for using the computer, while still keeping my midi keyboard in front of me, since this new desk has a little pull-out keyboard tray which is super convenient. What I’m most excited about is probably that, since we moved the bunk bed to a different corner of the room, we’ve opened up some space to use an extra table we have against the wall, where I can put a second screen, but which we can also leave available space on for things like drawing or painting. My wife could also be using that table, for example, to do whatever she wants, while I’m using the other desk, the one with all the synths and grooveboxes, or vice versa. I had been wanting a new, proper, studio desk for a while before this, because I was just using a cheap, plastic Wal-Mart table to put all my synths on, and they always seemed to wobble to one side or another because the table just wasn’t completely flat. I always managed by putting a couple of sticky notes under the synth or stand to stop the wobbling, so it wasn’t a huge deal. What made me finally decide to pull the trigger on the new desk was that I finally got a mic arm, a Rode PSA1+ boom arm, for my Rode NT1A microphone. Before that I had the microphone up on a regular mic stand, and that was great for recording music, since I usually stand up to rap. The thing is that, recently I have been feeling more and more pulled towards finally making some beat-making videos and tutorials for my YouTube channel, in which I would be sitting in my chair while making a beat either on my Dawless setup, on the MPC, or in FL Studio, and to actually start taking it seriously. I got the boom arm so I could move the mic to wherever I would be sitting at any given time, above all my machines. The problem was that, when I clamped it onto the side of the plastic table I had been using until then, and extended it all the way, the weight of the mic would pull the whole mic arm to one side, and the table was also bending whenever the arm clamp moved, since the table wasn’t perfectly straight, as I previously mentioned. With this in mind, I thought a new, more professional look for my videos wouldn’t hurt either, so I went ahead with it. Wondering how to set up the new desk led into moving one thing, then another, and before we knew it, we were re-arranging our whole room, and it really turned out a whole lot better than it was. Thank God, we won’t have to move anything back. It really would have been a huge hassle if the new setup hadn’t worked out!
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