I'm Adam Mettus and I'm Peter Martin, and you are listening to the You'll Hear It podcast.

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Brought to you by Open Studio. And today we are fielding a question from an email that we got. You can go and send Open Studio an email, especially if you're an Open Studio member. I like it. Old school. Did I tell about my friend who a few years ago stopped me if I've said the story, or we could just edit it out if I've already said.

I had a good friend who just a few years ago said, was still holding out on not getting an email address because he thought it was just a fad.

He's like, finally, he's like, I'm going to get an email because it seems like it's here to stay.

He thought it was like another, like, MySpace or something.

I'm not getting an email address?

No, he didn't use.

I mean, now, when I say a few years, this might have been eight years ago. But it was not 20 years ago. If you want to send us a physical letter, I think down at the bottom of our website of openstuio.com is our address. Man, that would be awesome. Or like some gifts. Send us some stuff to like open on the show. Like Casey Nice that, you know, people always sending them stuff.

Oh yeah, he's always sending, yeah, send us.

No anthrax, no anthrax.

Yeah. Are we okay using her full name? I think so. You're such a trusting guy, Adam. Yeah, you know. Yeah. All right, good. So what does she say? She says, I have heard you reference how important it is to really get your setup in your practice room so that you can pull up recordings, transcribe, watch open studio courses, smiley face, etc. maybe you could do a podcast episode on what you consider the essentials. I am getting ready to make an investment based on hearing Adam talk about how important it is

and would love to get some advice. Right now, I'm just using my MacBook Pro and a Bose mini speaker.

I plan on getting a monitor to view the videos in larger format, but would like to hear your

opinion on speakers, what you use as backing tracks, IREL pro, question mark, et cetera.

Thank you for your professionalism in all you do best, April. Well, April, as a professional,

I must say that my professional opinion is to, no, we do have diplomas on the wall here.

Yeah, I don't know if like there's one way to do anything like this, but I can kind of tell

you, you know, I'm sure we can talk about our setup. I'm sure it's different for everybody.

It's really whatever works for you. Yeah, why don't we just, before we get into our setup

and maybe some possible setups,

just kind of outline what sort of the goals would be for the setup,

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