Coldfuzion's Mecca
Coldfuzion's Mecca Posted on: 11.01.2012 by Carlee Pickard As most of you know my journey as a DJ / Producer began here on DJTT a little over a year ago (October of 2010). Here's a timeline of all the gear I have acquired since then. My first piece of gear ever was the S4 (got it a few days before it's official release through Guitar Center and felt super cool about that ). A about a month after that it was Black Friday and I decided to pick up a few more goodies to add to my S4. The Maschine, and a 2TB external hard drive. After that I was believeing about slowing down on spending money on this insanely expensive hobby and just when I thought I didn't need / want to spend more money someone on here posted that Guitar Center was having this killer deal on monitors - the KRKs - so I picked those up as well at $89 a pop. Then after that I added a few tid bids here and there such as a Midifighter (sold it - but you can see a picture of it in my "DT Studios" picture at the bottom), MidiFighter Pro, (White) Kontrol X1, Novation SL49 MK II, RODE NT2-A, Komplete Audio 6, HDJ 2000s, AKG K702, iPad 2 and Ableton Suite. About 9 months ago I joined up with an old friend to produce music with him, as well as one of his other friends who raps. We work on music almost all the time whenever we have free time, and it's something we all would kill to do as a career. We came together and formed a small label / group that we dubbed "DT Records" A.K.A. Dream Team records. After working non-stop for a few months (literally 7+ hours a evening since we all have jobs / go to school) we released our first mix tape (which you guys can check out here www.djkunal.com/dtrecords). My Dad listened to a few of our tracks and was happy with the work I (we) had done, and surprised me by picking up Ableton Suite 8 for me. Here's a picture of DT Records studio where I spend a lot of my time as well, it's in my friends garage. That window you see in the picture is looking into the vocal booth. It is a proper booth we made in his garage. It's literally a room we created in one corner. It's fully equipped on the inside with everything from multiple headsets, to foam (sound absorbing), to multiple microphones as well as a monitor so who ever is inside can see lyrics either on the 23" screen we have in there, or put it on a music stand inside. You can also see my old MidiFighter on the left underneath the laptop. | |
Carlee Pickard 02.11.2013 | Moved everything into the garage. Still have a lot of cleaning up to do, and painting so I figured i'd just throw up a few pics I took with my iPhone. There are a few toys that aren't shown in these pics, but once I get around to taking nicer pics with my DSLR i'll post pics of everything in full swing . photo 1-2.jpg photo 2-1.jpg |
Carlee Pickard 14.01.2013 | Still have to finish cleaning out the new place's garage for my studio, but here's a quick picture of some of my updated gear . Pretty much got rid of the S4 and got CDJ's & DJM 850 K's. 542132_371755259588203_704371620_n.jpg |
Carlee Pickard 05.12.2012 |
Originally Posted by RockingClub
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Carlee Pickard 22.11.2012 | New pictures to come up soon, studio's (yeah BOTH studios!) have COMPLETELY changed . I'll be uploading pictures probably - hopefully by the end of the month, since I still have quite a bit of cleaning up left to do!
Originally Posted by Tommi Bass
http://soundcloud.com/djkunals/celebrations |
Carlee Pickard 21.07.2012 | Moved into a new place and it's taking time to setup my entire studio but I just got a MF3D and am stoked! MIDIFIGHTERS.jpg |
Carlee Pickard 10.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by RockingClub
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Carlee Pickard 02.11.2013 | Moved everything into the garage. Still have a lot of cleaning up to do, and painting so I figured i'd just throw up a few pics I took with my iPhone. There are a few toys that aren't shown in these pics, but once I get around to taking nicer pics with my DSLR i'll post pics of everything in full swing . photo 1-2.jpg photo 2-1.jpg |
Carlee Pickard 14.01.2013 | Still have to finish cleaning out the new place's garage for my studio, but here's a quick picture of some of my updated gear . Pretty much got rid of the S4 and got CDJ's & DJM 850 K's. 542132_371755259588203_704371620_n.jpg |
Carlee Pickard 05.12.2012 |
Originally Posted by RockingClub
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Sylvia Greener 30.11.2012 | Overall I believe this is a nice piece of music as a first track. Your special chips and gun sounds made me laugh as I really felt entertained by them, very nice idea! To give you some little advise how to make it even better here's what I would suggest: - In my personal opinion the riser FX at 1:48 is by far too loud (and with headphones the panning is driving me crazy ) - The kick/bomb sound at 4:07 is clipping (at least sounds like that) Btw: It was a pleasure to read about your cooperation with your mate and it really sounds like you have the right passion to make music! |
Carlee Pickard 22.11.2012 | New pictures to come up soon, studio's (yeah BOTH studios!) have COMPLETELY changed . I'll be uploading pictures probably - hopefully by the end of the month, since I still have quite a bit of cleaning up left to do!
Originally Posted by Tommi Bass
http://soundcloud.com/djkunals/celebrations |
Germaine Bernadin 10.08.2012 | You got the gear.. now release some tracks. All the best with that! |
Tomas Guerreo 10.08.2012 | Nice Job.. |
Ciara Cuttill 08.08.2012 | ... time to add some extra isolation pads ... LOL, i still got them kunal |
Carlee Pickard 08.08.2012 | Thank you guys, I'm actually selling some of my gear anyone is interested: http://community .djranking s.com/showthread.php?t=56138 |
Kandi Odom 26.07.2012 | Amazing setup!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!!! |
Latoria Kavulich 23.07.2012 | nice artistic photo mate |
Carlee Pickard 21.07.2012 | Moved into a new place and it's taking time to setup my entire studio but I just got a MF3D and am stoked! MIDIFIGHTERS.jpg |
Carlee Pickard 18.07.2012 | Honestly I am a super slow learner so at first I didn't use it much. However i've been learning a lot about it recently, and to be honest ... it's hands down my favorite piece of gear (both software & hardware) that I own! It's amazing. Everythings amazing about it. What I end up doing now is creating everything in Maschine itself, and then dragging & dropping the midi or audio samples from Maschine and re-arranging it all in Ableton cause I feel like Ableton is way better during the mixing & mastering stages. It's well worth it, if my studio got stolen the first piece of hardware i'd get after replacing my computer would be Maschine. |
Hyo Burkowski 15.07.2012 | Awesome setup.. I've been believeing the Maschine might be my next addition. It looks so at home in those pics. |
Carlee Pickard 15.07.2012 | Yessirs! It definitely is a skin! However it's white instead of Silver like Rocking posted. The skin was actually given to JesC by 12 inch skins as a gift I believe, then he applied it onto his X1 which I later purchased from him. |
Sylvia Greener 10.07.2012 | It's this one from 12inchskinz: http://www.12inchskinz.com/products/...2d-Silver.html |
Geri Jarra 11.07.2012 | It looks like a skin. I dont believe they made white ones like they did the F1 |
Lillia Herston 10.07.2012 | is that a white Kontrol X1 that I see in a couple of those pics? I've never seen any color other than black... |
Carlee Pickard 10.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by RockingClub
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Sylvia Greener 18.03.2012 | You already got what my dreams are made of! Nice production tools! |
Carlee Pickard 17.03.2012 | Thank you sirs! |
Cody Mcnall 12.03.2012 | god damd I said god damn....nice set up! |
Dori Specht 11.03.2012 | Dig the setup man! Going to be very similar to my own! |
Tatum Ansaldo 10.03.2012 |
Originally Posted by Coldfuzion
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Carlee Pickard 10.03.2012 |
Originally Posted by RobotNinja
And yeah, I don't know how addicted I am to buying gear, but i'm hooked on headphones. |
Carlee Pickard 10.03.2012 | Pics of my cans . From left to right -> HDJ 2000, Beats Pro, AKG K702s, and TMA AIAIAI's. Checkin out the new uploader from DJTT! Pretty cool idea, but I couldn't upload the HQ pics cause they're too big . Anyone have any idea where I could upload the HQ pics for free hosting? |
Larraine Hannum 09.03.2012 | Love the setups, we have very similar situations. For the most part I keep my DJ gear
in my bedroom, but I live with roommates and we turned our garage into a (ghetto) studio. We actually want to build a soundbooth in the garage as well just like the one you got going. Except my roomates play mostly Metal (Lead/Rythm Guitar) and their drummer keeps his massive kit down there as well. You are officially addicted to gear. Don't try to fight it. |
Carlee Pickard 08.03.2012 |
Originally Posted by JulianVeloso
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Daine Ziadeh 08.03.2012 | I like how you guys pretty much put away 'useless' gear that you dont use anymore, that i myself, would give whatever to have. |
Carlee Pickard 15.01.2012 |
Originally Posted by Deejaesnafu
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Ada Matzkin 13.01.2012 | awesome stuff.. the link to your tape isnt working tho.. best of luck and keep up the good work! |
Carlee Pickard 13.01.2012 |
Originally Posted by jsa83
Originally Posted by padi_04
Originally Posted by JesC
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Cristian Carmona 11.01.2012 | gear slut |
Nedra Fresneda 11.01.2012 |
Originally Posted by Coldfuzion
Nice setup mate |
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