This started as a labour of love and it’s leaning towards opening a business

First photo is a slightly different setup, with a different laptop that I didn't actually use for music, and the monitor connected to something else as well. Second photo is older but shows everything I had on the side. I moved out and my setup now is my laptop and sampler on my bed. Everything else is in the garage or leaned up against something I have to try really hard not to bump into. I'll get it all going again someday.

Ive been a bedroom musician for like 15 years but I never had the tools and resources to build acoustic treatment. The panels were a long time coming for me; the bass traps are 6" of owens corning 703 and the broadband panels are about 4" of mineral wool. Covered with mulin clothe and framed with random wood I had around the house lol. Hung with electrical wires.

Sunglasses required at all times

I've just bought a Patchbay, and with the patchbay I'm going to use my old Mackie 1402 VLZ mixer in the cleaning up of my cable hoard. I've been disabled for 20 years, and can't easily get behind my desk or my two FX racks, so I'm getting my grandson over here to do the grunt work. I'm not looking forward to this, because I've never had a Patchbay before. Anyone have any idea on a good place on the internet to learn more about hooking it up with my studio? I'd appreciate any helpful ideas.

Hey guys !

I just moved to my new house. It's the first time I have a spot that is MINE. It's next to my daughter's play space, but I've been able to make my own spot. It's a work in progress, but so far I like it.

I mainly make metal music, and I try to go for a moody feeling when I write music.

Just stumbled across this page, seein sone cool stuff, figured I'd chime in. Ive got an ambient synth jam/weekly livestream starting in a couple of weeks.

This is my second change. Now I think I want to convert it to a podcast studio

MacBook M4 Pro (Caldigit TS4 docking station and Focusrite Solo)
Push 3
Arturia KeyLab 61 mk3
Digitone 2
Minilogue XD
Hydrasynth
Rode NT4 mic

Uplift standing desk (highly recommend)
Yamaha HS8 with sub

Getting back into music after 12+ years off due to carreer and family. Feeling pretty good about this rig. Should keep me busy for quite some time.

This is my home studio in south Philly.

The album is called Ellipses and I released it a week ago. I'd describe it as ambient/experimental electronic. It took me about 5 years to finish.

If you're interested in hearing it, check out my bandcamp: https://ratangajunction.bandcamp.com/album/ellipses-2

There are some cassette tapes available for purchase there, and it's also streaming everywhere else

Grateful my wife lets me take over the table like this once and a while.

Battlestation Update for 2026.

First off the clutter is a work in progress. A LOT of it used to be my mom's and it's difficult to go through.

My wife and I are both multi instrumentals, and we finally decided to commit one room to just having all instruments set up and ready to play at a moments notice. We are excited to be able to have jams on whatever, whenever.

All our gear except for her violin (not pictured) and my main guitar, are second-hand finds. We love finding odd or old instruments and giving them new life.

It is an interesting sound mix. Been making some chillwave with it, in between working on a finalizing melodic Synthwave Album. The roland sound expansion is a rompler but OMG you recognize every song that it was used in... sooooo many. Polymax my go to plugin.

This is my focused setup with an MPC in the center, small but good monitors on the desk and headphones ready. I work without a DAW when arranging, only to open the computer after stemming out for final mixing. It is clean and easy to approach without taking up too much space. What do you think?

Still need to buy monitor stands