Home Office or Home Studio?
It’s tough to get really real about having too much gear. To acknowledge that it’s a problem, and then actually do something about it.
But as I start to sell some of these things, I realize there is a lot of energy in them. Not that there’s literally energy inside these things, but I’ve connected a lot to them. And the mental aspect of keeping things I don’t use is heavy.
But as soon as they’re listed, it’s like mixing while having a friend/ audience in mind. You can think about what your friend would say if they heard it, and that gets you somewhere. It doesn’t get you all the way there. The friend actually has to hear it. But the pre-work is done.
I talked about this a couple days ago.
It’s the same with listing this gear. Once it’s listed, it’s basically out the door.
I’m actually going to start boxing stuff up as I prepare to sell it, so I don’t gip anybody on packing fees or get gypped myself. I’ll just have everything ready to go, and send it out the door that way.
You don’t realize what you’re essentially hiding from your friends, your family, your bandmates, your wife, and everybody else. And it’s not conscious, deviant hiding.
It’s just: do you really want this stuff to get out? How much you have? How much you paid for it?
I don’t think so.
But it’s all in an effort to identify what it is that I’m actually making music with. What makes better music. What gets in the way. And frankly, what makes bad music.
I’ve said before that I can make a lot of music on the OP-1, and quickly.
But is it good? Or is it lazy music?
Honestly, I don’t think it’s that great. And it never sounds like a finished product. But I can poop it out endlessly. Is that really good?
But, in basically the same time, could I also set up a template with an MPC and have it sound great? For sure.
All this doesn’t mean everything must go, though.
I’ve really gone deep with my Universal Audio 610-II, and I realize that’s an important part of my process.
So maybe after all of this, I truly will have a home office.
Interestingly, I don’t call it a home studio.
But maybe that’s because I was in denial about that too.