Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]

I&#x27;ll be honest - he seems to be a prime example of someone focusing too much on the tools rather than the creative process.<p>All his best, legendary, stuff came way before he got this awesome setup, his recent stuff hasn&#x27;t been very well received. You don&#x27;t need a ton of expensive equipment to create excellent electronic music.

I&#x27;m pretty underwhelmed. It&#x27;s a lot of fun toys, but IMHO that&#x27;s borderline adolescent&#x2F;masturbatory. Not even sour grapes, I swear, but I bet that massive modular analog synthesizer setup gets zero use. Conspicuous consumption plain and simple. Yuck. But that&#x27;s me. I&#x27;m more impressed by some poor schlub in Echo Park with an old Roland sampler and a dozen crates of vinyl.<p>There must be a pithy term in German for what I&#x27;m trying to point at.

&quot;and <i>its</i> tech setup&quot; is the correct form

Cool to see that most of the toys are actually geared to supporting the visual element of his live show. The Lan party &#x2F; render farm in particular.

Can someone explain the analog to digital thing he&#x27;s talking about? Can digital software not reproduce any sounds his boards can make? If not doesn&#x27;t he just lose all those sounds when he converts the sounds to a digital format, making it a mostly pointless exercise?

Interesting to see a Microsoft Pixel screen in the wild. Those are pretty rare and expensive.

I&#x27;m surprised he doesn&#x27;t have bigger &#x2F; more monitors in his studio. Working on a laptop screen as your main display seems lacking—especially compared to everything else.

Cool setup. I&#x27;d really wonder what Aphex Twin would do with an analog wall like that.<p>Would be awesome if they ever worked together on something.

My McMansion detector just went wild.

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The studio is awesome, but that mac mansion though...