This Is My Entire Studio Setup (Bedroom Studio 2023)
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
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It's a long video today, so use the chapters below to get around! Today we're taking a tour of my completed bedroom studio setup. We're going to walk through basically all the gear that I use on a daily basis to create all my videos, tracks, and courses. This is a Sweetwater sponsored video, and there will be affiliate links to all the gear below.
Chapter Markers:
00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Studio 1.0 Update
01:53 - Studio Tour Intro
02:50 - Sweetwater Home Studio Setup Giveaway
04:52 - Amp Rack
10:11 - The Desk
11:25 - Computer Stuff
12:18 - SSD Drives and Workflow
13:39 - Software
16:02 - Recording Interfaces
17:46 - Behringer Powerplay 16
19:02 - Studio Monitors
20:06 - Adam Audio A77H Monitors
21:05 - The Room and Sound Treatment
22:22 - Outboard Gear
22:46 - Preamp Rack
26:02 - UA 4-710d Preamp
27:49 - Elk Bridge
28:24 - EQ and Compression Rack 1
31:06 - EQ and Compression Rack 2
31:21 - Patch Bay
35:15 - Patching a Mic
38:44 - Philip Conrad and the Shotgun Mic
41:33 - Cameras
43:35 - Lighting Setup
45:46 - Outro
Amp Gear:
Port City Grandville
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Ampete 88S Studio
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UA OX Box (affiliate link)
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Torpedo Captor X (affiliate link)
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Audio Equipment:
Gator Desk and Sidecar (affiliate link)
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Yamaha H7 Studio Monitors (affiliate link)
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ADAM Audio A77H Studio Monitor (affiliate link)
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Apollo X8p (affiliate link)
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Apollo X4 (affiliate link)
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Behringer Powerplay 16 (affiliate link)
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ELK Bridge
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Rack Gear:
UA 4-710d Transistor/Tube Preamp (affiliate link)
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Warm Audio EQP-WA Tube EQ (affiliate link)
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Warm Audo WA76 Compressor (affiliate link)
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Empirical Labs Distressor (affiliate link)
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Great River MP-500NV Preamp (affiliate link)
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Great River Harrison 32 EQ
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Great River PWM 501 Compressor
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Radial EXTC Reamp (affiliate link)
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Camera/Lighting:
Sony A7III (affiliate link)
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Sony A7SIII (affiliate link)
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Amaran 200x (affiliate link)
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Nanlite Forza 60B (affiliate link)
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Newer NL660 LED Panel (affiliate link)
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Computer Equipment:
Mac Studio
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G Drive 1tb
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Samsung 2Tb Drive
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Hey! Looks great! Hit us up via the website, maybe we can figure out how to work on it! Thanks so much for the shout out and for watching!!! -Bob
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@@GuitarBeard that GOT ME. I would buy that in a heartbeat.
Linus from LTT used to colab all the time with lots of people to help set up NAS stuff. Could be a cool colab that people wouldnt expect
YT channel Gamers nexus is based in North Carolina and is another resource. Steve just did a video on there NAS system.
Creators like Rhett most definitely need a NAS server for storing everything. That’s gonna be a collab I’d be hyped about.
Yeah but Linus will drop a guitar
+1 for gamer’s nexus
@@kurdtjohn Yes, that would work, but he needs to get it off site for backup. Cloud storage is cheap, efficient and highly reliable. A stand-alone raid NAS for daily backup, then send it up once a day. To stand up a proper server w/raid is $$$$! Then it also has to be managed. If Rhett doesn't want to, or can't do that he would have to hire someone. Getting into even more $$$$. --gary
I can't believe this is free content. Thank you for putting this together Rhett, you're a unique voice in this world of guitar. Excited for what will come out of this space for you (and us!)
The fact that you think this is free … shows how low your iq is… god society has failed….
I’m having pretty positive vibes regarding your live room and dream studio, I know you’ve done a lot work, experienced manny problems and stuff but finally I can see it being complete
Totally recommend Synology for NAS, since you asked. I got one for archive purposes and within a year, it's wormed its way into my workflows so much I couldn't continue without it. It's been utterly rock-solid, sits down in the basement so zero noise. It is The Thing.
Because you asked for suggestions: I would recommend building a cloud over your mix position, and some additional diffusion or absorption on that big ceiling! Glad that the studio is coming together!
Great video! I have been around music and music gear all my life, hardly seems like 62 years, it went by pretty quickly! I'm glad to see that all the old gear is still being used today, like patch bays, mic pre's, tube powered compressors, tube amps, etc... Good luck with the new studio build, I'm looking forward to seeing it completed, up and running.
This is such a killer video. Thank you Sir! As a person who's had a rather larger home studio setup, I really appreciate your commitment to expanding. Over the last decade you've grown your setup to make room for more. Meanwhile, I've simplified my setup from 48 channels down to 8. You seem to have a killer ability to manage more gear and channels. I need to reconsider my decisions. I've tried to reduce studio gear to make creating simple. And while it is helping a lot with workflow, maybe it's stagnating growth. All the details here were super necessary. I really appreciate you addressing everything. You're a legend 🙌 Cannot wait for new tracks!!
How fortunate are we today, to get interesting stuff like this to watch, that is also informative and educational atst. Thank you Rhett.
Indeed and better than TV.
Rhett, congratulations on your continued success! watching you grow has been really inspiring and the consistent hard work you've been putting in deserves all the success you have gotten! I'm not a professional musician, but as a hobbyist I love watching you because unlike some other creators, you always have a strong budget in mind, so your judgement of gear value is something I have come to really appreciate! Here's to another decade of success! Good luck!
Thank you for this! I’ve been a guitar player for years but I’m just starting to get into the home studio world and I’m in so far over my head I don’t know whether scratch my watch or wind my ass sometimes…this was so informative! Much appreciated!!!
Thank you for making this video, Rhett. Seeing other setups really help rationalize what gear is truly important and helps me limit myself to create even better music.
Thanks Rhett, super interesting and thorough! Looking forward to the studio update with the same stuff!
Thanks for the breakdown of your studio. I'm always learning something new from your videos.
I've been waiting for this video like you wouldn't believe. Great video Rhett.
Are you going to do a tour video when Rhett gets the basement finished? That would be an epic 🤝
Good on ya Rhett. I find re-wiring so cathartic.
Nice deep dive on your studio setup. As a many decades long home recording artist and gear head, I really enjoy seeing how other people use, configure and achieve their goals with the gear they have. Always something new to learn. Thanks ~
congrats on the progress looking forward to see it all come together
The new M2 Mac minis are great, too. I just got an M2 Pro mini and it's ridiculously powerful. And definitely yes about the T7 drives.
Thank you for showing your patch box and how you make connections. I've never seen how things like this works
Man I just gotta say I’ve been a subscriber for a while and watched your stuff but never really watched a whole lot all the time until I started watching the dipped in tone podcast recently. I have been listening to tone talk with Dave Friedman for a long time now anytime I work on anything at home or need something in the background and I put dipped in tone right up there with it. Awesome podcast for gear and tone geeks.
Your channel has been a pretty huge inspiration for a lot of the work I do on my own channel, so thanks for that and for the in-depth look behind the scenes today!
I’ve been a video editor/motion gfx artist for 20 years. I’ve been using Dropbox for the last 8-10 of those and it’s been amazing. I never worry about losing anything and it makes mobility a whole different thing. I can work literally anywhere. I don’t just use it for backup. I work from my Dropbox folder that is synched to my 4tb internal. I can choose what is available offline with a mouse click. I’ve never ever had a problem.
Wow, I just found your channel and with only a few minutes of listening the way you explain everything, right to the point and educational at the same time you got me subscribed to your channel. I connected with your ideas and way of thinking right away. I have not even checked the rest of your tutorials but this is more than enough to get me interested as a musician and home recording novice myself. My span of attention is very short, but You truly got my attention.
Great Studio tour, especially all the nerdy YT stuff! Love my Sennheiser MKH50. Best piece of gear I bought in the last few years!
Love seeing you break down how your set up is put together. I’d get overwhelmed ! Simplicity lets me make something more quickly. Using just a focusrite 2 input pre and a few effects in the daw if needed.
Great Video 🎉
Wow, great studio, Rhett. I love how well organized and thought through everything is laid out.
When it comes to backing up or archiving your work, please consider using cloud storage. Renting storage isn't that expensive, and having your data decentralized can be worth its weight in gold. A flood, a tornado, a house fire and all your work is gone. You can insure the house and all the hardware you have, even the hard drives you back up or archive your work on, but once the locally kept back up medias are damaged, the work itself is irretrievably lost. When using cloud services to back up your work, the provider is responsible for all the emergency recovery of storage and computer hardware and in the most cases your data are stored on storage on different locations. It's a pretty good and safe solution.
Hi Rhett! I have the same Gator desk, on "trick" you can do is position the top rack about 5 or 10 cm deeper so that the edge of the rack slightly hangs over the edge of the table below. I secured it with a couple extra brackets and works great. Jusg if you want to gain a bit of workspace
it’s really incredible how far Rhett has taken this channel. Congrats, Rhett and incredible work. I’ve been with ya since the basement broom closet. I’ve been a huge fan ever since the original Skylark video. Oh, by the way… small amps are the shit; always have been 🤘🏻
love ya
To be fair, the design of the amp rack is pretty simple. All anybody would need to know is;
- The overall height, width and depth
- The thickness of the timber used
- The width timber shelf.
- The height of a timber side section.
- The width and thickness of a metal brace.
Love the videos buddy. Keep them coming!
For the bass issues, use Owens Corning 703, 6" thick (three 2" thick pieces) wrapped in acoustic fabric covering the corners. That's what I use and it completely brought my room into line.
Ang angas boss! Bilang newbie, lahat naintindihan ko kahit dapat basic setup lang pinapanood ko. Pero eto kahit komplikado naging madali sa pagunawa ko. Maraming salamat sa lahat ng effort, really appreciated
It’s great to see how much you have grown! I have been enjoying your channel for years :)
Rhett thank you so very much for the wonderful content that you provide for us all! You are a blessing!
Great walk through .. and thank you for starting by defining the gear, and the problem it solves for you.
So informative, relaxing, fun to watch! So much gear to understand to one day improve my humble home studio and music.
I appreciate the behind the scenes peek and tour, as well as the explanation of each piece.
Glad to hear you have the live room in progress, even if it's temporary.
Looking forward to hearing more in the future
Thank you, Rhett and Sweetwater for doing another giveaway. It looks as if your studio is coming along nicely.
Btw, I have owned several pairs of Sennheiser headphones of various quality over the years; over the ear with open as well as closed sides and earbuds as well. They have changed the way I listen to recorded music. Just thought I would mention it.
Keep it up, Rhett.
Very informative video Rhett. Excellent work. More studio equipment, set-up and operation videos please.
Great to see you are making progress. It will all be worth it for the future. Best of luck 🥰
Nice, great to see a new setup video.
One of the things I've liked since the move to the new house is that your studio is lit by ambient light. I like Rick's videos, but I've always felt like he's coming in from his studio cave. Having natural ambient light in your video makes them look a lot warmer. When your studio is done you might consider continuing to do you videos in the upstairs room.
Your videos are incredible; from the display of your vast knowledge and experience, to the production value of the videos themselves. But after watching this video, I feel soooo small! Right when I was starting to feel like hot shit because I’m setup with a Katana 50 MK II for my “main rig” and a Scarlett Solo plugged into my MacBook for my “auxiliary rig”. Seriously though, congrats on the awesome “mini studio”. Can’t wait to see the subterranean super-studio in action!
Great out, Rhett! Thanks for this one. I've been waiting for this for a long time. In just less than 2 months, I'm going to be moving which means my whole bedroom studio is getting torn down and rebuilt. It's gonna be a big job but it'll be worth it when it's done.
Synology stuff is great for NAS storage IMO. Great video. I love all the gear you've collected over the years.
Love the studio. Just ordered the same desk setup. By the way, I would recommend turning off phantom power in the preamps whenever you plug a mic into it or unplug it. The dc voltage could damage the gear. Also if you accidentally patch a ribbon mic into a preamp with phantom power turned on it could fry the ribbon. The chance of damaging gear with tt or trs cables is even greater than with xlrs.
It amazing to see all the money spent on audio gear that only adds small percentage of quality, but not spend a $1000 for a decent 4 bay Nas (or cloud storage) to backup all their valuable work. Thanks for the studio walkthrough. Appreciate the videos!
This is such a useful and interesting video Rhett! Thank you for going into so much detail and answering so many questions a lot of people (myself included) would have! 🙌🏻
Rhett, I'm a commercial photographer. 40 years of experience, 50 as a guitar player. You are right on the money with the photo and video gear. I have the a1. Incredible for stills and video. Te gear you have is perfect for what you do. Your knowledge of white balance really enhances your videos.
I was being interview last year and the podcaster did not know how to get the yellow tint out of the videos during test shots. 10 year old Canon, I scrolled through the menu and adjusted the white balance. Viola!
Everything matters. Especially if you are very discerning. Never play out of tune. Always get the white balance right.
It's quite the fascination to get the BTS on how the magic works. That transparency is always appreciated. Hope the studio production is, indeed, going well.
Totally the video I didn't know I needed to see! Thanks!
The Masco Amp is cool. There's a lot you can do with them. I had mine gone through my Skip Simmons fifteen years ago. Set it up for one bright and dark channel, and you can just mix them put turning the volumes up and down. Octal preamp tubes. Mine came with the original Masco branded RCA tubes and they all still work. Octal's are their own thing. Think a cross between Gibson EH 150 and a Tweed Bassman.
Great set-up! In my experiance recording vocals, plate reverbs seem to be the most useful and sound best although I do love those old Fenter tanks for many different tasks!
Very exciting stuff man!!
That was an awesome video, thanks Rhett!
Another great job. Although a lot of your videos may not pertain anything I'm currently working on , I find them very entertaining, hold my attention and I'm always learning something that I may benefit from in the future. Continue to keep up the good work. Very nice studio set up and gear. That stuff is fun
I'm going to be watching this video a lot as a reference! So much great information! Thank you!
Very cool and thorough..Good luck with the new studio downstairs!
PSY Acoustic panels are really good for treatment. Their ceiling panels should be able to help with the bass buildup. Though since the ceiling is slanted you may need to consult them about some custom wires that the panels would hang from. I imagine that since bass buildup is usually from lower ceilings (anything less than 11 feet or so from what I understand) you would only need cloud panels for maybe the first half of the slanted ceiling. Their wall panels are also very good at absorbing low end. Need to opt for their 4" options to get the most out of reducing the low-end buildup.
I now finally understand patch bays because of this video. Thank you Rhett!
First thought, WOW I can really hear the difference between the rooms.
And of course I’m full of ideas for acoustic fixes.
SWEET....water. nice way to combine what you love, helping your assistant, give Sweetwater advert., and keep subscribers happy. I think that's a win-win win-win technically
Yes! I have been waiting for this!
@13:00 - For a NAS as backup/network storage, I'd recommend a Synology model with 4+ drive bays. It's the most user friendly of the consumer NAS options (although more than suitable for business too) - I've set up a few different brands, and they may be a slight premium, but the reliability and ease of use is excellent.
I say to buy one at least 4 bays to allow some redundancy (where even if a drive fails you don't lose data), but it also makes sense to keep to a manageable setup too when setting out rather than a giant server. For example, 4x 8tb drives, set up with a single disk of redundancy (called RAID 5) which would give 24tb or so of storage.
Also, I'd stress that redundancy isn't a complete backup - just maximises availability locally - so keep additional copies of really important data elsewhere, such as using cloud storage. A service like Backblaze can be good value if you need to keep a lot of data, but if its a more reasonable amount then consumer cloud storage is more than fine!
Your content is always so inspiring! Hoping one day I have a studio like this. So many creative ideas flow every time I walk into a room full of instruments and equipment :)
Great studio overview. Just picked up a UA Volt 476 and an SM 57 to capture guitar,
Piano and drums. Still trying to get the hang of the DAW. Can’t recommend the QNAP NAS enough. Simple WebUI, built in media and backup options. You can get them with or with out disks, helpful if you have existing drives you want to reuse.
Wow, I stayed up way past my bedtime watching this, lol! You did a great job explaining the details of stuff I have never seen but now have a decent understanding of. Similar to your videos explaining the tones of certain gear and how it's unique sound is created. Those are my favorite videos on your channel.
Awesome video. I would love to see this become a short series were every now and then you drop a long video and go through all your guitars, amps, pedals, etc. I would click those in a heartbeat!!
Suggestion for the upstairs room: You may have explored this, but adding some staggered baffling in front of the railing facing back down may work to break up reflected waves. You could stagger them at something like 40 and 60 degrees. It may soak up vibrations on the front and block reverberation from behind.
Also, maybe some more soundproofing in the top corner of the loft.
It is a good idea to use the new studio live room ‘as is’. Nothing is ever perfect in life. Your ability and live energy matter more than waiting for the perfect setup. Good on you. Great video.
I learned so much watching this. Thanks!
very cool.I appreciate the walk through of everything!
Thanks for the tour Rhett, excellent!
I love your studio set up. But Im glad you mentioned multiple times that people dont need all this gear to make music. Personally I have a daw, audio interface, midi board, sm57, monitor headphones, pedal board, a jazzmaster, and a tube amp. I record a lot of electronic and rock music. My gear is essential to what I do. Everyone should work towards getting gear that's essential to what they do. I have a lot of synth vsts and effects plugins, but my next goal is an analog synth and a real mic preamp. Start with what is essential to what you want to do and then expand towards things that will supplement that. Dont go crazy spending money and financing on things that are outside of your budget because your favorite youtubers have it or an an ad tells you that you need to have it. Some of my favorite records were recorded with the most minimal gear. Gear goes as far as you can take it! Thanks Rhett!
NAS Storage suggestion
Synology 720+
its a super reliable system and easy to set up for someone like myself that works in photography and isn't an IT pro.
it is expandable too so you can get just about as lazy as you want with file retention if you need to. It has pretty quick transfer and you can upgrade if you need to to keep things fast enough to keep up with your workflow. I use the same SSD T7 drives for projects and the combo is great. It pretty much solved the same problem you're having for me with just a sunday afternoon of setup.
Thanks so much for sharing Rhett!👍🏼🙏🏼
awesome information right here. cannot wait for the results of the first live recordings from the black room :)
Love the fact u use p16d and p16’s
I use a behringer x32 producer with p16’s
For live
Works great!!! Love the pre-amps in the x32😊
Masco ftw!!! Nice! It's a PA head. Not a projector amp, but basically the same thing. Yes, early tweed style circuit. 🎉
Dope studio! Super stoked to see the new space come together. Also awesome to see you mention the Elk Bridge. Some friends and I each picked one up. It's been unreal being able to jam with a friend who lives across town or in another state on demand.
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Hey Rhett. Thanks for the video, great content ! For your network storage, I would say go with the best (fastest and biggest) Synology NAS you can afford. There are a lot of alternatives to Synology, many are cheaper, but the software that runs on the Synology is second to none. You can use it to record and view security cameras, manage, view and share your photos and videos, as well as automatically back up pretty much anything. Give them a shot, you'll never go back.
Oh man I loved this one. Thanks for sharing Rhett!
Very good information ! Your explanation is very good ! I am amatuer and trying to learn to setup a home music studio mostly to record my own music ...i found lot of good info from this video !
Hey, just a heads up if you’re planning to run backups using Apple Time Machine: my experience has been that time machine does NOT like network accessible storage. Backups would absolutely crawl, they sometimes took an hour, sometimes they never got out of the “preparing backup” part of the process. When I finally gave up and switched to regular external drives hooked directly to the computer all the problems went away. Backups run quickly with no problems. Yes you need a drive for each computer but it’s worth it.
13:15 WD MyClouds are always a solid choice, at least for having a lot of storage space for local backups for your data. For me, Networking on a Mac has been tricky, you have to know a few tricks but it is doable. If you are looking to have a storage solution, I would definitely go for a machine that you spec out that just acts as a storage server. For your external drives, you could use internal NVMe drive which can go up to 2TB for like $150. You can then buy a external case for the NVMe that makes it able to plug in via USB. That will cost us about $20 to 30 right there
You really know how to give me a GAS flare up. My sales engineer thanks you. I can’t believe it’s been 2 years since you’ve been in that room.
I've never bothered with a subwoofer. I actually find I mix better with very little low end information. If you get the midrange right, your mixes generally sound good anyway. This is the reason NS-10s are so popular.
Extremely informative, good job Rhett
Looking great Rhett, good luck with it all...
Great setup: I used to work for a recording studio with SoundCraft back in the '70s. If I had to use such gear nowadays, I would probably spend more time in tweaking rather than playing music... So, I use mainly an iPad with DAWs and plugins that are more than sufficient for my personal use. It has also the advantage to be light and mobile... Cheers Rhett !
Hey Rhett, as usual, killer content!
Concerning your storage needs, a NAS is great for making files available from several computers, and storing more files than could fit in your computer, but not very good for very long-term archival. The reason is that any hard drive will fail after a bit, and ssd too, especially if you don't use them regularly. For the stuff that you have finished working with and just want to "store and forget", I would suggest setting up a Amazon Web Services S3 storage and then you can download and upload simply from their website, and the pricing can go from 2$/month/TB (if you can wait a few hours to retrieve your files -- 5$/month/TB if you want instant retrieval). Sure, costs more than an SSD over the long run, but for long-term storage it's safer.
If it seems like it could be interesting for you and you have any questions, or need help setting up, let me know -- I'd be happy to repay for everything that I learned with you
So great to see the Great River pre's! Dan Kennedy, the guy behind Great River is a friend of ours. Most brilliant electronic guy I know.
Can’t wait to see that Masco Amp video! Love that little thing.
This is an awesome video - thank you!!!
Have a look into AWS Glacier for archiving, especially if you want to be able to access the data from the internet - solves the headache with setting up the NAS system. Happy to help with getting that all sorted!
Fantastic video. Excellent insight & high quality gear.
This is amazing Thank you for making this video. I have a tip for the bass problem, having some home theater knowledge: you may want to reposition your subwoofer. Usually a corner works best.
Watching Bob & Rhett work together would be the next step in expanding the YT cinematic universe.
I've just acquired a couple of PSI AVAA's for bass control in my room. I'm currently working out of my home apartment, so I can't really do much to treat the room acoustically, which means that the bass response in particular SUCKS. And it's not only the response, but also the reverberation time.
My solution for this is a pretty expensive one, but if it works out then it'll be worth it. I'm demoing a Neumann KH 750 DSP sub, which is paired with my Amphion One18's at the moment. Neumann's correction is working absolute wonders on the bass response and the phase, but it can't do much for reverberation time. This is where the AVAA's come in, and boy, with just turning them on in the first position I stuck them in, I got almost a 200ms reduction of my first room mode at 42Hz. It's actually pretty incredible to see the difference when measuring. I'll be experimenting with other placement to find the optimal spots for them.
So yeah, pretty hefty on the wallet (2.5k€ a piece), but definitely doing good things.
The sonnet Mac Mini rack having 2 Mac mini slots is super useful for live applications, where you need dedicated computers for different applications. (ProPresenter, lighting computer, stuff like that.) Love the video btw!