Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]

I'm pretty underwhelmed. It's a lot of fun toys, but IMHO that's borderline adolescent/masturbatory. Not even sour grapes, I swear, but I bet that massive modular analog synthesizer setup gets zero use. Conspicuous consumption plain and simple. Yuck. But that's me. I'm more impressed by some poor schlub in Echo Park with an old Roland sampler and a dozen crates of vinyl.

There must be a pithy term in German for what I'm trying to point at.

Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]

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Post by kristofferR » Fri, Jul 07, 2017, 5:15 PM UTC

I'll be honest - he seems to be a prime example of someone focusing too much on the tools rather than the creative process.

All his best, legendary, stuff came way before he got this awesome setup, his recent stuff hasn't been very well received. You don't need a ton of expensive equipment to create excellent electronic music.

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Post by bcheung » Fri, Jul 07, 2017, 5:25 PM UTC

I'm surprised he doesn't have bigger / more monitors in his studio. Working on a laptop screen as your main display seems lacking—especially compared to everything else.

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Post by noonespecial » Fri, Jul 07, 2017, 5:38 PM UTC

kleer001 wrote: post #5

I'm pretty underwhelmed. It's a lot of fun toys, but IMHO that's borderline adolescent/masturbatory. Not even sour grapes, I swear, but I bet that massive modular analog synthesizer setup gets zero use. Conspicuous consumption plain and simple. Yuck. But that's me. I'm more impressed by some poor schlub in Echo Park with an old Roland sampler and a dozen crates of vinyl. There must be a pithy term in German for what…

It's almost as if the first creative acts that get artists like this their fame are acts of desperation, undertaken against impossible odds.

Later when fame and money comes, the artist buys more and more tools in a fruitless chase to recapture the previous glory but he can't because the fame and money prevent him from ever again having the one thing that made his first works awesome... desperation.

Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]

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Post by JohnJamesRambo » Fri, Jul 07, 2017, 5:39 PM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #6

I'll be honest - he seems to be a prime example of someone focusing too much on the tools rather than the creative process. All his best, legendary, stuff came way before he got this awesome setup, his recent stuff hasn't been very well received. You don't need a ton of expensive equipment to create excellent electronic music.

George Lucased.

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Post by AndrewKemendo » Fri, Jul 07, 2017, 5:40 PM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #6

I'll be honest - he seems to be a prime example of someone focusing too much on the tools rather than the creative process. All his best, legendary, stuff came way before he got this awesome setup, his recent stuff hasn't been very well received. You don't need a ton of expensive equipment to create excellent electronic music.

As a former amateur audio engineer I really liked seeing all the analog modulators, and putting them all in one area is crazy.

I see it as the equivalent of a shoe closet for sneakerheads. He can finally afford all the cool super tech audio engineering stuff he's always wanted but makes little impact on the output and popular success.