What I work with at the moment
Soundcards
Pulsar1
Scope SRB
Powersampler1
I may take out the Powersampler, as I have resently had some annoying "No More STDM connections" messages.
Outboard gear
A16 Autobahn
cheap 48key MIDI-keyboard
NAD 3240pe (old integrated HiFi-amplifier)
Epos es11 (Nice small HiFi-speakers, but not realy studio monitors)
DBX mini-pre
AKG 535eb
Senheiser MD431 (I think - a glittery looking song michrophone)
Philips 600 DAT (very old with new mechanics - used for transfering my DAT-recordings thru SPDIF)
Sony 8 portable DAT with some shitty - but overpriced - Sony stereo mic
Instruments
whatever is at hand and can make a noise
K.Yairi Classic guitar
Washburn e36 - Electric guitar with 36 frets
Bond - Electric guitar with metal fretboard and plastic body - with a display for pick-up selection, volume, bas and treble (broken
)
Musima - old East German classic guitar My first real guitar - the cheapest in the shop. It is also my first guitar: 20%broken, 77%modified, 82%tuneable = my favorite instrument.
Software
SFP 3.1c
Samplitude Classic 7.11
Computer
CPU -> Celeron Tualatin 1000@1333 boxed
RAM -> 512MB PC133
Mouse -> Logitech MX300
Display -> Eizo L365
Keyboard -> Logitech Desktop Pro
Hard drives -> Seagate Baracuda IV 40+80GB
Motherboard -> Asus TUSL2-c (latest BIOS I think)
System capacity
Recording 31-32 Stereotracks 32bit floating to Samplitude and monitoring them from Samplitude at the same time. ASIO 32float drivers 7ms latency.
Currently most used effects and synths
Adern KickME
Sonic Timeworks Mastering Compressor
Creamware DC-remover (very needed, when recording with my Sony DAT)
Room
My bedroom/kitchen/living room (one room many functions) with a noisy refrigirator and some realy bad echoey delays on specific frequensies.
What I use the equipment for
Not much, but it is a nice hoby to have. I record most of my lessons at the university on DAT and transfer them to my PC, where I remove DC-offset, cut some low frequensies and take away some noise with Samplitude before compressing them with FLAC (take care, it can in some settings destroy the audio). I tend to not create so much music when working with the PC - still so many presets to test and knobs to turn. One project for this summer is to create a couple of fully produced songs. So far I only have a bunch of rough sketches, and I want to break that - look out for beginners odd music comming soon in the music category (I've got to start somewhere).
