Thursday, September 16, 2021
What’s in my music studio?
Cool Tools: Elliott Fienberg is an ambient and experimental musician in Toronto, Ontario. His credits include the video games The Bigs 1 & 2, Orphan Black: The Game, and more. Stay up to date on his work through his podcast, aptly named Elliott’s Podcast and his newsletter The Sunday Bagel where he writes about the creative process and his slow but steady path to finding consciousness as an artist.
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I really found this article very informative. As somebody who has the bare minimum knowledge about sound and sound equipment, I am the kind of person who truly would not know how to be in a sound studio without a guide kind of thing which would tell me what all is what and what the functions are. It also goes down to the part where one does not want to ruin or some piece of equipment because they used it wrong and then a lot of work needs to go into reverting it, or worse a lot of money into buying the thing again. I really also like that the article is a part of an issue series, making me hopeful that there are other sound related articles which I can find for reference if I was to be in a studio.
It’s always interesting to see what other sound designers and musicians consider to be the most important parts of their kit and set-up, because it always differs significantly from person to person. For example, Fienberg talks about how his studio also doubles as a work/writing space, which I think a lot of creatives resonate with. It’s hard enough to get one space to be creative in, and it’s much more costly to get 2. I say this because his favorite pieces of equipment are either his cornerstone pieces of audio gear, a necessary life tool, or organizers that all maximize efficiency of both his space and time usage. Having a larger well-insulated bottle makes means you have to make less runs to refill it and keep it cold with ice, the specific headphones he mentioned have very soft earpads and are open-back so that they can be worn for a long time, velcro cable ties so that cables can be put away and tied back quickly, and a smaller 8-channel mixer so that you have everything you need right in front of you on the board. Streamlining one’s creative process can be hard, but this gear showing shows that Fienberg’s got it.
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