It’s Geeker Time

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Nov 042009
 

I have noticed a steep decline in my geekyness since moving out which is mostly due to the retail therapy which it brought. With having to spend gadget money on necessities rather than niceities it means that I can’t obsess over a new toy for a week then use it occasionally.

I did get myself an dSLR, I bought it off Chris as he’d upgraded to a Canon 5D Mk2. I got his old Olympus e-500, 2x Lenses, a Bag and a 16GB compact flash for a very good price indeed. I’ve got into that a bit and I’ve got aperture on my Macbook.

I still have the studio although I thought it looked like a grotty den so I’ve had this week to sort things out. First things first, I didn’t feel the need for the Mac Pro to be in there. There is now a Quad Core PC in there with 4GB of Ram. I used to bootcamp the Mac Pro anyway and the PC which has bigger hard disks seems to render tunes quicker and still lets me layer up as many synths as I want. (The tune me and Jo Deviant are currently working on has 74 patterns and about 24 different instruments, it handles this fine)

So the Mac Pro is back in the house and wired to the router so I can sync to my Apple TV again. The problem is the Mac Pro was bare, but my Apple TV is hacked and has SSH on so I SCP’d all of my Music and films off my Apple TV (in their 4 character file name format) and then imported them to my fresh iTunes library and synced them back. I’m going transfer the Photos from Aperture on my MacBook to Light Room on my Mac Pro and start using that for Photos.

So the studio, I’ve covered the nasty felt desk with Hardboard using Builders adhesive, screws and countersunk washers. I’ve then trimmed off the felt round the edges and build in some extra structure to the desk to make it more sturdy and give me more space.

I have also sealed all the gaps in my Garage with strips of Pipe Insulation.

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Wallmounted

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Sep 182008
 

My wallmount came this morning so I almost instantly started disconnecting all of my system and marking where to drill. My dad drilled the wall, secretly he probably enjoys it, or maybe he doesn’t trust me with a big drill going through his walls. :)

I took the opportunity to rip all the cables out and put them all back in using about 100 tie wraps some spiral wrap and the existing trunking I put in. I still need some trunking to hide the cables coming down the centre of the tv, at the moment they are spiral wrapped.

I have also taken the Alcama 3 Post speakers stands I bought for my Rokit 8s and used them for my Tannoys because the Rokits are now on a glass desk which doesn’t have the same annoying qualitys of wood and they have padding on the bottom to stop the desk shaking.

The 500W RMS of 15″ Woofer is now sneakily hidden behind my Sofa so I’ve now dubbed it “The Execution Sofa”

I closed the Windows, curtains and doors earlier when I’d finished. I put on a bit of music I got when I was in Ibiza in August, I sat in the Execution Sofa. Got my levels right at a low volume, once setup, cranked it up. I went to about -10 on the Marantz amp with my Power Amp set to about quarter Volume. It was quite enough, It was like standing right next to the speakers downstairs in Privilege (ear loud and internal organ loud)! Mission Accomplished.

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