My Big Dumb Little Studio Update:
After finishing up Vol. 4 of my Dumb Beats collection, I thought I would be eager to reorganize the studio from the ground up. In the past, this is exactly what I’ve done after finishing nearly every project (and sometimes right in the middle of one too). If you want to see what the studio started out like, check out this CRINGY vlog from 2018. While I haven’t kept a perfect log of every itteration the studio went through since 2018, if you follow the order my Youtube videos were published, you can get a decent idea of how things used to be.
Fortunatly, this time around, after taking some time away from music completely, I was more in the mood to fine tune the setup I already have, rather than tear everything out and start from bare deskspace. The last real complete teardown I did was this past spring. I welded up some desks from some really strong storage shelves and narrowed down all my gear to just what I needed by giving some stuff I wasn’t using to friends who might find it helpful.
There is, of course, a list of things I’d like to add to the studio, as well as some tidying up that can always be done (especially come cable management). But overall, I’ve felt very focused and creative in my little space, and having a dedicated spot to work on or just listen to music has been extremely helpful in keeping me inspired and creating.
Thanks so much for checking out this peek at my home studio. I hope you enjoyed it! If you’re looking for more information about the beat in this post, you can check it out on Youtube. All photos in this post were shot with a Canon T1i + the Canon EF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6. The camera shown in the photos is my Olympus OM-D E-M1 MKII with the Panasonic LUMIX G 25mm, F1.7 + a Neewer UWA 0.61x Wide Angle Converter.
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See you soon.—Forrest
