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Everything is with LED strips inside diffuser strips which I routered in the wooden planks or hid under the self-welded shelves to shine on the shelf underneath. All cables will be hidden, everything is connected through patch bays (to connect effect pedals) to a hidden stagebox, so there will be one think cable protector consisting of power, CAT5 and multi jack cable for aux running to my mixer (cart on wheels).

Sadly, my monitor speakers are too high, due to a lack of space. I hope it won't matter much, otherwise I will change it to place them lower and have certain synths swappable instead of all connected.

The entire setup is modular, I placed the wall strips exactly 19" wide and made the racks the same size.

The sequencers are on laptop plates on gas loaded monitor arms.

The opposite wall isn't parallel to this one but angled, so I'm not worried about echoing with the straight wall setup as the sound would reflect angled into my kitchen (never had that issue with my previous setup). Also I can close curtains on both sides (I placed curtains in the middle of my house so I can close off the kitchen area for watching movies on my beamer in darkness, on the left top you see a bit of the screen I can pull down).

The cables will be stuck underneath the horizontal bars of the racks I welded with velcro tape, so invisible as long as a synth is on it.

The Deluge I use for the standalone synths, the Reliq for Eurorack. All connected through midi with hubs or midi thru.

All LED strips are synced and can be controlled with my phone or remote, to chance brightness, color or pattern.

Can't wait for this project to be finished.

Yes, I'm autistic haha

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[–] timmytbt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You will need to move the monitors.

Bass builds up in corners. Bad enough where the walls meet, but where the walls meet the ceiling as well will be even worse.

Probably too wide apart for a good centre image too.

Layout is important forfor ergonomics but if it sounds like ass you’re defeating the purpose.