The Octepus

10/08/2026

A freshly wired Woofer. It's crazy how loud this thing gets.

10/06/2026

Prepping for a new arrival!

09/29/2026

The end results of my AI assisted acoustics rearrangement. I fed Claude a large amount of data about the room and the materials, dimensions and location for each and every object inside the room. I then asked Claude to place my gobos, monitors and subwoofers, but I gave it placement limitations so it wouldn't wreck my ergo or flow. This was not a quick or easy process, but I wanted to eliminate data gaps that could limit the AIs math superpowers.

The top is before and the bottom is after. You want to look at the red line, that shows the raw in room response before correction is applied. My crossovers are set to 80hz.

There are additional tweaks that the Claude wanted me to implement to achieve perfection, but I didn't want to spend money until I had verified it was giving sound advice. The improvement isn't subtle, so I'm going to continue testing its suggestions.

09/24/2026

What could it be?

09/19/2026

Some new space saving stands for my lighting rig.

09/17/2026

Day 3 of going down the AI assisted acoustic treatment and speaker placement rabbit hole. It's suggesting massive changes to the layout of my 12" deep absorbers. It wants the front corners to each have 2 absorbers side by side to create a massive 4x4x4 air pocket in the corner. It eats a huge chunk of space but the space is behind the control desk. It's so tight now that my subs barely fit. The change should fix my remaining issues between 90-115 HZ, fingers crossed.

09/16/2026

I used Claude to analyze my monitor and acoustic treatment placement and the results are absolutely mind-blowing. I fed it every possible detail about the room and data from REW and GLM and then spent hours with lasers and tape measures trying to force everything into the spots it felt would fix problems.

09/13/2026

A bunch of Rupert Neve Designs gear torturing the Soulfeggio Scientific VST bundle with silk and aggressive levels. I approve, these VSTs do plucked textures and raw electronic aggression very well.

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09/12/2026