Throughout the 20 years I have been making music I am constantly making changes and updating the configurations of the studio to make the perfect workspace for my needs. 

There are many challenges when trying to design the perfect configuration in terms of connections, routing and usability.

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Integrating hardware into the setup is actually a fairly new addition to my setup.

The first tunes I made were all created on hardware because that was the only option available at the time as I came into the production game just as logic and plugins started to become available to producers. 

As soon as I could I went in the box and most of my biggest tunes are all in the box, I have to remind myself of this every now and then.

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Currently I have a hybrid setup with every piece of gear attached to its own channel on the Antelope 32 channel sound card allowing me to use hardware gear as if it was a plugin in my daw. All the gear is in a 42 unit server rack. Having the ability to switch off the whole hardware side to the studio and just work in the box again really has brought me the ability to focus on making tunes instead of getting distracted by hardware, but also gives me the option to chuck in some hardware when needed in the workflow. 

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The previous setup to this one was centred around a Midas Venice 24 mixing desk and a Midas Venice 32 Mixing desk all built into a custom desk but I have abandoned this for the hybrid approach mainly for space saving, productivity and ergonomic reasons. Even though the mixer sounded great with the 24 channels of summing and all the hardware going into the 32 channels on the second desk it was not getting as much use as I thought it would and was taking up way too much space. I ended up swapping the 32 channel desk for a bunch of incredible acoustic treatment and keeping the 24 channel desk in storage for the future. 

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