u/DonMendelo

Hello everyone !

I have a pair of KH80 sitting on my desk (electric standing desk, which is an important thing here) and was considering wall mounting them.

My room is untreated and the acoustics are crap. I don’t know much science about it, but what I can say is that every low and mid C related frequency goes « WHOOOOOM ». For instance when playing a low tuned guitar, I usually wear headphones because it’s too messy otherwise.

The wall mounting idea comes from several reasons :

- decoupling speakers from the desk

- getting speakers closer to the wall

- overall tidiness and footprint

At this point I’m already seeking answer about the first 2 points. Is wall mounting going to actually improve anything ? Is it even a good practice ?

Now there’s the standing desk problem : I figured that to keep my current setup perks, monitors should be mounted in a way that the desk can still go up and not hit the speakers (I don’t really have the room to place my desk in any other way or use speaker stands instead), meaning my speakers would hang at roughly 110 cm, tilted down pointing at me. So when the desk is up I’d have to untilt them but I think that’s another issue.

Does wall mounting sounds like a good idea to you ? Am I going to improve anything besides tidiness and footprint ?

Hello everyone,

I’ve been DJing a few times as an opening act for noise, ambiant, shoegaze, or black gaze shows and was considering going hybrid.

What I’m actually thinking about is having Ableton on the side, and using it to enrich tracks with drums or bass lines, sending midi to a hardware synth and have a live part in sculpting the sound.

I’ve tried using Ableton link but it prevents from using key sync, which is an important tool for me considering the melodic aspects of what I’m playing. So I was thinking about a basic midi clock but there are still unanswered questions, and I would love to have feedback from anyone having tried the same. FYI I’m usually preparing my sets on my gaming windows pc and playing them on my laptop with a DDJ grv6 at the venue).

Here’s an exemple of the workflow I’m looking for :

- track 1 playing in deck 1

- I’m layering some drums played directly in Ableton

- at some point I’m cutting the bass in track 1

- I bring back the bass with a midi clip sent by Ableton to my synth

- I’m beatmatching track 2 on deck 2

- I stop track 1 to make room for track 2

- I’m cutting my bass clip and drum clip to let track 2 drop

This is kind of « thinking out loud » so it might lack sense in some aspects but I think the idea is there.

What I don’t know : using a midi clock, do all decks have to be permanently at the same BPM, is there such thing as passing over the master status from one deck to another ?

Is there anything I should know about considering setup complexity and stability ?