Recently redid my home office

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Most the "streaming" gear is actually there as music gear. The focus rite dac accepts my microphone (AT 2035) and instrument input

I can give specs on pedals if anyone cares

The guitar is a Les Paul artisan

Ack. The image blurred. Here's a better one. I gotta get these inlays fixed though

More of the pedal collection x3

Would be super cool to find a way to mix homelab stuff with music a bit more. But at that point I'd rather get into amateur pedal building

And drivers seem to generally be the barrier

Not that the windows drivers are any better. Games that implement their own game chat have been causing kernel panics in windows with my focusrite. And it seems to just be a known issue

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On the top from left to right: agaric dual LFO phaser, EQD hizumatas fuzz, JSH pack rat, third man records plasma coil, fuzzlord effects FET120

On the middle shelf that's a third man triplegraph polyphonic octave up and down effect with a kill switch and switchable latching and momentary modes

I like the focusrite. But it doesn't have enough dynamic range for me. Or the preamp isn't what I want

Usually you'd plug into a DAC and enable an instrument level switch. That's basically engaging the preamp. But I hard clip this dac with the output straight from my pedal board. Usually you'd at least have a cab sim, but the gain is too much to have any kind of preamp between the pedal board and dac

My board clips the power amp. And a dac very much does not like receiving input with line level capacitance that's pushing a higher line level than what it can pass through

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I like the stack of hard drives on the couch next to the rack

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I'm trying to be less of a data hoarder! Or at least more organized about it 😂