Jim Daneker - Studio Tour 2020
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มี.ค. 2020
- Fresh off of a reorganization (March 2020), I thought I'd show you around my "Fortress of Synthetude" - also known as the "Temple of Boom." Whatever. This is the room I wanted when I was a teenager - it only took 35 years to achieve. Hang in there, kids.
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Total perfection Jim!! Loved the tour👍
Great! Thanks for the tour Jim!
Amazing studio , you are in heaven every day , man ! I wish you have good inspiration !
Thanks for the tour, outstanding rig
Wow! What a stunning set up! Amazing! 🎹☺👍
OMG I love that room
S L Jackson would say "what a mother fucker studio you have!". I'm completely delighted with your treasure!
Love this studio tour ! I can imagine those feelings when you reach your teenage dreams and goals, it is encouraging ! Currently start out with my laptop and a midi controller, and I'm looking forward to achieve the same dream as yours Jim !
Benny Damien Keep at it - you can do it! 👊🏻
MINDBLOWING!!!! 😮😅😅
Love the tour, thank you for the insight and information. I have a few things on my needs list now, in particular The Stream Deck! Thank you again, Cheers!!!
The Stream Deck is AWESOME!
I am in total awe at your knowledge of today's musical tech...then add your playing skills I've heard with MSW, you are The Man!
Thanks Scott!
Man you’ve got my dream studio! I’m in complete awe, subscribed and looking forward to more content!
Thanks! There's more in the works!
Impressive indeed. I'm a fan!
Awesome!
This was rad. I loved it. thanks!
Thank you!
Fantastic!
Thx Jim so fun
this is amazing
OMG Amazing ! 👍
Awesome!!
Fabulous ! 🙏
Thanks! It’s been a few years… I’m actually working on another one right now!
Sweet, my mouth is wide open, wish one of my best friends that played for Reba McIntyre was alive to see this, we would talk about this set up for days. Very nice Jim.
Thanks my friend!
Completely nerding out over here... and also praying against a wee bit of envy. Seriously dude... epic rig and room. #goals #myroland
Ha - thanks Jeff!
What a gorgeous workspace!!
Thanks Matt!
Dude your Studio is Insaneliciously Dope💯💯💯💯💯💯
This looks like a great place to hang out!
Funny, I thought Disneyland was closed!! Seriously, nice setup...🎶🏆
So much gadgets and rigs! Wow
Yes, the Yamaha TX-816. I went through 2 of those back in the day until they just stopped, lol. Great tour. Love the setup. We have many similar synths and gear in our setups.
Nothing like the sound of the TX816 when properly set up - it's massive! ;-)
This video should be XXX rated. too much beautiful stuff. I'm watching it again. Thanks for sharing.
HA!
You re amazing studio thanks for sharing
Amazing studio setup...Love the gears.
Awesome setup! The Model D and Neutron are fantastic bangs for the bucks. The pre-interface limiter is a good call. I definitely want to check out that reverb pedal, but would also recommend the Earthquaker Avalanche Run v2. Heavenly sounds!
You Have Super Studio Doc !!
That’s a mind blowing setup! Temple of Boom indeed!
Ha - thanks man! That was 3 years ago now - it's been updated a few times since!
@@JimDaneker yeah, both the Fantom and Jupiter X were new so, would have been late 2019
Damn 🏆🙌🏾👑🙌🏾🏆
7:37 I have never seen so much on a DESK! Holy Shit this guy is A MUSICIAN! I thought Deadmau5 was a man now THIS IS AMAZING!
Great tour.
Cheers.
Great video!
Great gear!
And the 10th time i watchd the vid haha!
Ha, thanks! Going to do an up-to-date one after Christmas ;-)
AMAZING STUDIO !!! Thanks 4 Sharing Cya Aaron
Thanks for the kind words!
Dang what a cool set up!
Thanks much!
Jim, Thanxs for the tour ! Loved it !
Loved the gear... I have a similar studio ... amongst the gear, a DX7 II FD with Grey Matter.... love it !
You have, a good assortment of goodies in the outboard gear department .
I run everything through my Allen Heath 636 into iMac / Logic
Would be great to bounce some questions and queries off of you.
Thanks again for the tour... !
Cheers
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Gunars Brants sure thing! I’m starting a live streaming show called “Tech Talk” tomorrow night at 8pm CST on my Facebook page (Jim Daneker) - you’re welcome to join!
Great tour! 👍
Thank you!!!
beautifll set up!
This synth shop is very cool :)
Wow !!! I found my role model !!!! wow
I plan to post this video to FB and tell them "I'm hoping you believe this is my studio"
Ha!
best setup in my opinion
Beautiful studio. 👌
Tony E thanks!
Awesome tour! My Roland D50 story - bought one from a GoodWill for $15! Of course not everything works so someday I need to fix it or find a synth doctor. Now I am constantly walking into ThriftStores every where hoping for another great find!
I've been in a lot of thrift stores, but never found a Roland D50 in one. However, I did find a shiny red Yamaha SHS-10 keytar for $1.50 that works perfectly! 🙂
Impressive studio great gear👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Thank you!
Great studio! I have a few of the same synths (Rev2, model d, and the Jupiter Xm which has a similar engine to the Jupiter X). I love the console and all of the flexibility you have with your controllers. Thanks for sharing. The Stream Deck is awesome too.
Jupiter Xm and Jupiter X has the exact same engine the difference is they may be sonically different and also....the knobs.
@@tuneunleashed They are 100% identical other than their size. Killer synths!
I don't know what they are.. but look so cool!!
Love the Fortress!! 🤘😜 I need more space to be able to pull out all my keys. My guitars are taking up all the space right now. LOL
Great video Jim. Love the tour. I subscribed right away. I understand the "This is the room I wanted when I was a teenager," comment as my set up is that for me. I think I'm a bit more earlier 80's late 70's where as you're more mid 80's with your choices. I love your set up though. Kudos.
Luke Kage thanks man! I was born in ‘73 so yeah, I started my synth journey in the early 80s... but I sure do love the late 70s era as well!
@@JimDaneker it's amazing how 5 years can make slight differences in the sounds that attract a person. I was born in 68 so my preferences in sonics actually reflects in the equipment that I choose and the equipment that you choose by 5 years (CS10, SK30 instead of the DX range) although there is also overlap (having a Hammond organ is a must).
Luke Kage indeed! And there’s no substitute for a real Hammond 😁
Awesome studio!
Thanks Raymond!
The thing I remember from the 80's is a keyboard synthenzier stack DX7 and D50 on stage.
Ala 1987 to 1989
Nice studio! I have the MatrixBrute, what a synth!
It certainly is an amazing synth!
Excelent! Congratulations! Hello from Brazil
Hello! I love Brazil 🇧🇷
Great tour. Good to see solutions like you're implementing. I am always looking for the best way to set up my work space. To create what I couldn't even imagine as a teenager. I hope to learn something from what you've got going on. I'm very interested in how you're integrating MainStage into your workflow.
I only use MainStage when on tour - in which case I use my custom solution called BackStage Pass - which is sampled from all these keyboards among others!
Jim thank you so much. Without your video I would not have known what the Behringer XTOUCH could do for my Spit fire audio DAW!! Both the Universal Control for only $399.00 and Control Surface for $599.99
Raymond Harrison sure thing!
The background music makes me want to follow my dreams or something.
GO FOR IT! That is my instrumental album "AD ALTA" - check it out on iTunes! ;-)
Wuao...impresionante todo lo que tienes en tu home studio! Me encantó y pensar que yo tengo un yamaha psre423, laptop Lenovo, interface scarlett 2i4, shure sm58, mpk mini 25 Akai y pensé que estaba en la cima del mundo (sentido figurado) 😂, y me dio pena jajaja, aun así me esfuerzo para crear mis propias secuencias. Te felicito está espectacular todos tus juguetes
Thanks for the tour... I was really disappointed to see you have hardly any DX7 engines available to you... :(
😂🤣😂
Ha - the struggle is real! ;-)
Nice Studio Jim!!! Kindred Spirits, I think!!!
Thanks Martin!
Damn dude you got a sweet setup!!!
Thanks much!
Loved the tour. My studio (if one can call it that) is a far more humble setup. I would love to know what kind of music you make, and which equipment do you see as absolutely essential to doing your job. Do you find yourself gravitating towards certain items more than others?
Thanks my friend! I do all kinds of stuff, but it tends to be very cinematic, synth-heavy pop overall. I did an epic instrumental album called AD ALTA you can check out on iTunes - and also recently a new epic pop single called '32' - you can find videos on my channel or music on iTunes.
As for gear, the hardware synths are great to have but you could do tons of great stuff with just a laptop and some great plugins like Omnisphere or Nexus. It's a never ending wish list, but that doesn't mean it's necessary! ;-)
Hi, Jim ! Thanks a lot for the studio tour. What are the little keyboard under the montage and the keyboard right above the Prophet ? Thanks for your answer. Olivier from France.
Sure, thanks for asking! The little one under the Montage was my first synth - a Yamaha PSR-460 from 1986. It's essentially a baby DX7 with a handful of presets, and a really cool feature - 6 sliders that let you edit sounds in realtime. I keep meaning to sample it! The one above the Prophet is an Arturia Keylab 49 controller - I use it on the road for programming. Cheers!
The only things missing are the Moog One and their modular synths and Oberheims, however, your tour is simply incredible! Greatness X 10!
Thanks much! Still no Moog One, but I have made some changes since I did this a year ago. I’ll have to do an update!
I had a DX7, then added the TX7 module. Sold those an bought a DX5. Sorry i sold it. It was fantastic.
dope
Jim- Thanks for the Videos and App sounds great. I noticed that you were able to get your keys to stack tight and with great angles.. What stands are you using? Thanks
J Harris thanks much! Standtastic 103KS. I love them for the studio!
Hi Jim, how did you create the percussion click track on ‘Deep in love with You’ performed at Lakewood Church back in 2010? Thanks!
Samuel Arba you mean on the “New Hallelujah” record? If I remember right I built that from a Spectrasonics Metamorphosis loop that I modified.
JimDaneker yes, that’s what I meant. Thank you so much!
You might want to check out Gig Performer. It walks all over Mains Stage.
We've been touring with it for over a year and it's never failed. VERY powerful.
Nice to see some of the old favourites, D50, TX816 etc, plus modern versions of JP8, MiniMoog, Prophet etc.
What Leslie FX do you use for your Hammond?
tryptychUK Thanks! Gig Performer has some great features and is lighter on CPU with some 3rd party instruments, but sadly it can’t use the Logic/MS EXS sampler or plugins, which are more efficient than anything I’ve ever seen or tested. Plus I‘ve created a MASSIVE amount of custom content for it, and it allows a degree of custom control you can’t find anywhere else. Both great for different things, for sure! As for Leslie, when I can’t use my real 147, I have a custom MainStage channel strip that uses their Leslie plugin and a custom impulse response to put it in a virtual room... best virtual Leslie I’ve ever heard. There’s a demo of it on my channel if you’d like to hear it ;-)
@@JimDaneker Hi Jim, thanks for the response. I can understand why you would not wish to switch when you have invested so much into a operational system. As for samplers, I use NI Kontakt which works perfectly, even with massive libraries. GP's biggest problem is slow load times, but this is outweighed by the fact it will not glitch or hang MIDI notes between patches. It also demands BIG slabs of RAM if you use a lot of patches. As for Hammond, I use the Arturia B3 alongside the IK Amplitube Leslie emulation as I find it superior, and it also allows me to add other distortion effects into the chain, such as a Big Muff. The JP-X looks interesting as I used to own a Jupiter-8 - Is this just a hardware version of Roland's VST's, or is it closer to the original? I found their virtual emulations to be somewhat lacking that "balls" against the originals, notably the D50, (I have a D550).
@@TryptychUK Yes indeed - if I were using all my 3rd party stuff (especially Kontakt libraries), then Gig Performer would be ideal. When I'm at home in the studio, I don't have any need for MainStage - it's a whole different deal. When I'm working on bigger scoring projects, then it's almost exclusively big Kontakt libraries, some East West Play, Omnisphere, etc.
As for the Jupiter X, it's really like an anthology of their big hits - Jupiter 8, Juno 106, SH101, XV5080, vintage drum machines, etc. And they all sound utterly stunning. There are several youtube videos of it being A/B'd against the originals, and it's ridiculous how close they sound. My "itch" for those pieces has been scratched! If you just wanted a Jupiter 8/Juno 106, then their System 8 is a killer option too - the models in that one might even be a hair closer to the originals as the modeling tech goes even deeper!
@@JimDaneker I was referring to using Gig Performer in a live situation. I find using virtual synths far easier than having to lug a bunch of keyboards and racks on stage like I did for many years, (particularly things like Hammonds, Mellotrons and Fairlights!) As for orchestral samples, you should check out Spitfire Audio, truly the best around, particularly Albion.
The thought was the JP-X might have the same but more, and frankly I don't really need yet another TR808, I have a million.
I guess if I was that desperate for the sound, I would buy another original JP8, but there would be many others I would probably buy first (Oberheim OBX for instance.)
@@TryptychUK Yep, agreed!
Buying a StreamDeck ASAP. Brilliant.
Bro. They are GAME CHANGERS!
Hi Jim, saw you have some Eris monitors there, can you share your thoughts on them as far as quality and how they reproduce music generally....thanks.
kruzin100 They’re pretty decent, but I’m not sure I’d use them as main monitors. I actually do like the low end on the Eris 8’s, and they’re pretty “warm” sounding - but they’re very dark monitors overall, and the sweet spot is really small. That said, I have a pair at each of my side synth stations and I like them for that!
Great stuff, nice place, what kind of stand do you use for sintetizers?
Standtastic 103KS. I love them - and you can add more tiers if you want!
Hi I now this is a stupid question. But what type are keyboard stand are you using?? Backstage is really good thanks for the piano preset is my favorite
Standtastic 103 KS with extra tier kits where necessary. They are awesome!
Well that was a 1st! I somewhat randomly found my self here. I watched the entire video, but literally had no idea what you were saying. LOL. clearly Im not a practitioner, but rather a listener and appreciator.
Ohh I will say that stream deck keypad thingy ma jig....I will look into that, to see if they make one on a lower tier AKA: bonehead capable.
Lastly, I am operable to very much appreciate your craft/art/creative. BRAVO!!!
Ha - well thank you for the kind words!
What are your thoughts on the Yamaha Montage, is it comparable in sounds to the new Fantom? Thanks!
They are very comparable. Both are absolutely top-notch, and cover a ridiculously wide range of sounds. The Fantom is more of a workstation though, where the Montage is more of a live performance synth. The Montage is a bit more complicated to program, but the rewards are worth it... it can do some types of sounds that the Fantom can’t: motion-oriented sequences patches with multiple layers, etc. It also has a legit DX engine in it. They’re both killer machines!
Great Set-up ... i`ve always got time for a fellow FM synthesis fan !! ...quick question what lighting are you using underneath the synths to light up the synth below ? Led strips ? ..it`s a constant pain of mine not being able to see parameter buttons in my dimly lit loft studio ... cheers Steve (u.k.)
Hey Steve! Yes, just LED strips!
@@JimDaneker Cheers Jim ! ....seriously if you ever found the time you should develop that idea further with a view to marketing them !! they`d work great in both the studio and on stage !
Awesome setup! Definitely jealous!! Just out of curiosity, what keyboard stands do you use to hold many tiers? Those are exactly what I’m looking for in my studio!
Thanks! Standtastic 103 KS. You can add additional tiers too ;-)
Cool Studio - I was wondering how do you connect the Unitor 8 to your computer as I've just bought one and my Mac doesn't seem to see it - Any Tips? Thanks
I actually worked it out - Got it working on Ableton Live 10 with Mac OS Catalina.
Glad you got it sorted out. I just connect them via USB to one of my Anker hubs.
Wow I thought I had a nice synth and hardware collection but I'm defo suffering gear envy watching this lol
I have got the Dave Smith holy trinity though with the Prophets 6&12 & Pro3 but would really like one of them Prophet X's to cap it off hahaha
AMAZING Studio!!! Hey random question, what brand of camera are you using? It also looks amazing!
Thanks Darryl! I usually use a Panasonic LUMIX GH4 with good lenses, but this studio tour was just a simple iPhone video! iPhone 11 Pro at 60fps.
Awesome setup! Wow... Also, have you ever had issues with Logic and large score projects? I’m not looking to start a DAW debate with other followers. I’m genuinely just curious about your opinion/experience.
Thanks Steven. I've used Logic since 1993 (27 years?!?) and definitely have done my share of scoring projects with it. And while no DAW is perfect, it is perfect for the way I like to work. It's also the most efficient I've seen when it comes to virtual instruments! At the end of the day though, most of it comes down to personal preference and what you're used to ;-)
Beautiful Rig bro. What stand do you use to stack your keyboards?
Standtastic 103 KS with extra tier kits where needed. Best stands out there!
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Very nice! Thank you for the tour. Now I have to go and check out some of your music. I"m looking forward to it. Just curious though. No Korg gear? I myself am a huge fan of Korg products. My favorite being my old Kronos. But that just me. To each his own as we say. Stay healthy and thanks again!
Thanks! And yeah, I'm a big Korg fan! I have a Wavestate and Minilogue XD coming - can't wait! And I grew up in the Korg heyday of the 80s and 90s so I've definitely had my share!
Lol the Temple of boom 🎹🛸
It’s a Game of Tones 😂
@@JimDaneker 😭😭😭✊🏿🛸🎹
Just curious what is above the rev2. Thanks for sharing!
Arturia Keylab 49 Essential. I take that on the road for mobile work. That space will be filled by incoming gear ;-)
Magnifique. France félicitations
Hey Jim, I'm definitely interested in how you use Backstage Pass..!
Check out some of the BSP videos on my channel! It's a game changer for many! And feel free to email me with any questions!
Nice! This has now inspired me to do a 2020 update of my studio. :)
Nice
Hi jim. Who makes the keyboard racks you use? Thanks
Hi John, they are Standtastic 103KS. I absolutely love them - really great stands!
Just as I ended up never getting a Roland JX series synth as I couldn't choose between JX3P, MKS30 or MKS70 for different reasons, I'm now struggling to choose between the Integra 7 rack & the system 8, or the JDXA or even the mono but semi modular system 1. Money plus both rack and keyboard real estate in my small but crowded studio are all considerations. Have you any thought of recommendations on this multi dimensional dilemma?
DAVID SIMONS System 8. ALL DAY LONG. It is SO good!
I think you enjoy struggling. Not being able to choose is in itself...a choice. Personality thing. I am the same way . Face yourself.
Loved seeing your setup! Very cool 😎. Would love to gear what software instruments are your go too. God Bless!
Oh man, that's a long list! As a synth nut, my top favorites are Nexus, Spire, Dune, and Omnisphere.
maybe an updated studio tour for 2023 and how your use of the collection has evolved since 2020?
I just did a huge update video late last year, and that's gonna be it for a while - too busy building Arcade Orchestra now 😁
@@JimDaneker thanks i'll check it out 🙂