# The Linked Neurons This is my corner of the internet. Think of this as a working notebook I've opened up to the world. It's not a blog and it's not finished. It's a set of notes I keep for myself, on the things I keep coming back to: **music production**, **photography**, **video**, and **mechanical watches** — and the gear and rabbit holes that come with all of them. Some of what's here is polished; a lot of it is thinking out loud. Wander around. ## Recording Studio Notes from building and running my home studio — signal flow, monitoring, and the software that ties it together. Music is my OG passion and remains so to this day. I built my first "recording studio" in the corner of a condo in San Diego — literally a computer I put together myself to host a DAW (Cubase, back then) and a rack of VST plugins. Things have evolved a fair bit since then. - [[Studio Routing & Monitoring Setup]] — how the room is wired - [[Software & Plugin Strategy]] — the DAW and plugin decisions ## Photo & Video Cameras, glass, and the moving-image side of things. Music requires more preparation. Photography requires none. It's been my passion since about 2010 and I might finally be getting the hang of it. Somewhere along the way I got interested in video and color grading. - [[My Camera Collection]] — what I shoot with - [[Photography]] — My passion - [[Video]] — the film and video rabbit hole - [[Filming]] — how I actually shoot - [[Color Grading]] — making the footage look like something ## Watches My most recent rabbit hole. My own collection, the research I've done on brands and movements, and the running wish list. - [[My Watch Collection]] — what I actually wear - [[Watch Brand Landscape]] — how I think about the brands - [[Watch Movements]] — the mechanics, and why they matter - [[Microbrands]] — So many design-first microbrands out there - [[Haute Horlogerie]] - [[Mass-Market Luxury]] - [[Higher-End Mass Market]] ## Elsewhere - Personal site: [deepaksingh.net](https://deepaksingh.net) --- *This is a living document — notes get added, revised, and occasionally abandoned.