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yo guys John's near welcome to the perfect MacBook Pro setup this is the 5k ultra wide music edition to say get you must be contagious looks like there's no master speak so meet Jacob and Sita two of my favorite human beings but also two of my favorite artists I've used countless tracks there's my videos you guys can too if you want to check them out a music bed which I will link to down below but yeah Jacob is a super gifted mixer producer and Sita is this crazy talented songwriter with an amazing voice so the heart of this setup really comes down to two main elements one a 15-inch MacBook Pro this is the Vega update that happened late last year and then of course we have this giant but also beautiful 34 inch ultra wide 5k monitor from LG which is bananas so a huge reason I chose and wanted to highlight a macbook pro for this setup is the flexibility that it gives you not only can you create in a desktop like environment but essentially anywhere which is huge for jacob and his creative process a lot of times when i'm mixing or i'm producing a beat like i like to go to many different places like i feel like if i stay in one place all the time like i I start to not know what I'm hearing because I'm just you know seeing one thing over and over again so I like to take my laptop go upstairs and then go from there I'll go outside or go to a coffee shop or just go anywhere because I can take it anywhere I want to go so yeah it's perfect for the road or on the couch but I also wanted to complement that with the 5k ultra wide so you get the best of both worlds and that big immersive desktop experience this is packin a ridiculous resolution of 50-120 by 2160 and especially for music production when you have plugins and multiple windows that extra screen real estate is essential it's been great you know like when you get the white monitor you're just like you like looking really far like oh I didn't know I had those muscles it's beautiful like I love all of the hub like the hub on the back you can just put everything in there you can hide your wires like God knows like my desk just looks so terrible at the time but this makes it very easy and seamless rounded out to set up I added a wireless keyboard and mouse from Logitech this is my favorite pair and of course got to add a splash of Philips hue to really bring some cool vibe to the entire setup now in order to get music into the MacBook you need an interface and Jacobs weapon of choice for this setup is the app as you do it which is really awesome it's for those looking to step up their quality but don't necessarily really want to break the bank I just love how portable it is it doesn't require a power supply it sounds amazing like I've had the symphony I've used a symphony for a long time and I think it's it's comparable it's it's amazing how much they packed into such a small device that is then connected to these monster audio monitors the full count twin six bees which oh my goodness these things sound amazing I got these because trach mixes all of his records on them and I was fee sewed as good as Drake no I just I actually did consider that when buying these monitors but they're just very accurate they give you a very balanced mix coming out of the monitors so you know exactly what you're hearing you don't want the monitors to be too close to you and also not too close to the wall so you want them to be like equidistant from the wall and also equidistant from your two ears and the the two tweeters which are the little things at the top they should be hitting your ears like this when you're really trying to mix things right and of course like the most important thing aside from monitors is having a treated room so you want bass traps in the corners and the thing that I didn't do until I moved to Nashville was I have the cloud like straight up above my head and that's really important because you don't want the bass to be bouncing off right on top of your head and coming down and hyping the bass so you don't mix it properly now the secret sauce the Jacobin seats has tracks besides a ton of talent is the microphone preamp combo we use which consists of a fleecy 12 that is impaired with a DW from preamp which adds a ton of warmth and it just sounds beautiful it basically emulates like to the T like what a brand new like c12 Telefunken microphone would sound like from like the 1960s but it's much more reliable and with those old microphones they all sound different because there's a different wear and tear on the parts but this is like a brand new like old microphone and it just sounds incredible it's the build quality is fantastic flea microphones like hands down like I think they're the best microphone company opinion and then with that we use the the DW fern pari which is just like it's just butter it's like you just that with the mic and you just have a beautiful clear three-dimensional to be warm sound and it's it's not hyped and you can just go to town on your plugins and it just it sounds amazing so yeah that is some really pro level amazing gear but what I love about Jacob is his open-mindedness to create essentially with whatever you have which is really encouraging for anyone looking to get started you know I there's really no need for me to have like any outboard gear whatsoever because there's a plug-in for just about any piece of outboard gear that you can possibly imagine with companies like splice and noise like the possibilities are limitless like there are no boundaries for music you can create any sound that you hear and in the beginning what I would hear in my head I couldn't actually translate into a beat but now I feel like I can actually do that freely and because I had to wait for so long like I appreciate it so much more and I'm so happy for it so huge thumbs up to Jacob and Sita for being awesome humans for letting me hang and putting that TLD splash on there setup and also making awesome music which you guys can check out on Spotify and also even use in your own videos through music bed which I will link to down below hopefully enjoyed the video if you did you want to see more like this make sure you guys smash that like button this is Jonathan and I will catch you guys later