DJ EarwormInterview
Music producer
Adapted from DJ Earworm's interview on Uses This, published 29 April 2020. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I use a MacBook Pro, but sometimes a PC laptop as well.
I use Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headphones, which seem to be a good compromise of quality, price and durability.
For speakers, I have some KRK Rokit 8 monitors, and I usually also listen to mixes in my car which has a Harman Kardon system of some sort.
my desk is an Ergrotron Workfit-C sit-stand workstation, which is pretty ugly TBH but has awesome functionality, and lets me work for long hours without hurting myself physically.
For DJ-ing I also use an RME Babyface Pro audio interface, which has given me years of reliability and great sound.
Media
I use Ableton Live for both production and DJ-ing.
My current go-to method for quick extractions is Spleeter.
Sometimes if those results are not satisfactory I use the pay-per-use service PhonicMind.
My older techniques include using Adobe Audition's Center Channel suppression/isolation functions, for audio where there is good stereo separation of the sources.
For video, I mainly use FCPX, which has plenty of functionality for the kind of editing I do.