Belfast house producer Jordan shows us around his studio. Contains synths and cats.
Mackie HR824 Monitors
For monitoring, the Mackie HR824 give a ridiculously clean sound as well as a hefty bass reproduction, albeit renowned for being a touch lacking in the midrange. It might be worth mentioning that this room has no acoustic treatment, so can’t be treated as the ideal space to be monitoring music, however that’s where my Beyerdynamic DT770s come in, to cross-reference.
Mackie DXB Desk
I’d be lying if I said I knew the slightest thing about this bad boy, but when I was initially setting up my gear in this room, I had a little Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 sound card that was giving me endless trouble, probably due to being carted around and battered so much. Dave offered me a lend of one of his many desks as a temporary solution. From what I do know from my very basic usage of it, it’s a thing of beauty, with a touch-screen interface, optical faders and on-board VSTs. I have basically just been using the built-in compression on it and recording back to Cubase.
Babybel
This stuff is like crack. I can’t stop eating them whilst listening to music, it’s that simple.
Roland TR-8 + Cat
Here’s an old throwback photo of when I bought the TR-8 and was trying it out in my apartment. See my cat attached, looking like some form of futuristic MIDI controller.
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