People who have no clue, usually go ”Oh, you make music, cool” and those who have some clue go in a passive-aggressive way ”You made this with only that?”
Better, I suppose, than “you only made that with all this?”
Classic !
They usually react astounded and then don’t bother to ask me about it. Mostly because they know that I’d start rambling for minutes, about a topic they’re not familiar with.
At least I hope that’s what they think 
But a couple of weeks ago I actually had a visitor that was really interested in my setup:
Yeah I trust that, sorry my vocabulary in english is quite limited but I was underlying the idea that for X € you get less and less quality upgrade as much as the price rise (more difference between a 100 bucks interface and a 1000€ one than between a 1000 bucks interface and a 10000€ one). But hopefully the economy is still not broken : I still wanna trust that the 1000bucks one is more qualitative than the 100€ one, and that’s good you’ve confirmed that.
Love how you’ve got one trapped in the stepladder. Captive audience eh
People think I’ve got a spaceship in my room lol one friend calls it the Starship Enterprise
Couldn’t you do this all on the computer?
Once you notice that electronic gear is used in sci-fi movies- everything changes
Alien is a great example. Bypass the remastered soundtrack and go back to the original.
What I often do when I have someone in the Studio :
- I play a Sequence routed in a Reverb
- I give him/her a pair of Headphones
- I put him/her in front of a not too complex device (like the 4 knobs Moog MF Drive)
- I say : « Close your eyes and turn the knobs slowly »
After a few minutes they look at me with a smile and I can see in their eyes that they now understand my Passion/Obsession.
They react like this
j/k
I was waving my op1 along a platform recording the trains and three engine drivers passed by.
I joked “don’t worry its not a bomb” the the youngest replied seriously “I know… it’s a dj set”.
groan
Life goals:
- Learn to beatmatch on vinyl and own at least two records of the same genre and BPM so I can plausibly call myself a DJ
- Acquire a building
- Convert it into a studio
Critically:
- move to Japan
Don’t forget the big Moog - critical ingredient for impressing people so much stars float out of their heads
Big Moog has already been done. My plan is to buy up all the unwanted SE-02s, stick on cat ears and sell Kawaii Moogs (not to be confused with Kawai Moogs, which also aren’t a thing).
Just remembered they put in a lesson right here
