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Cool edit, Acid Pro, Audiomulch, Granulab, E-mu 49 key USB midi, DSS1, several fractal composers, microphones, welders, lathes, Bridgeport mill, grinders, but my all time favorite butt kickin'est softsynth is Studiofactory, a very fine work in progress by a guy named Peter Wendrich at www.syntiac.com. Up to 250 modules per page, midi and joystick control. Reminds my of the Moog C I played in college, plus the Arp 2600, the Electrocomp 300 and 101, the VCS3 (a Putney, really), and my own MS20, all patched together... And Acid Pro work just like a huge multitrack deck, only I don't have to splice and keep all my tape strips in labeled comic book bags. Sweet!

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I just am asking for some basic info ect....

Recorders: Two Digital Audio Workstations running Nuendo 3, Delta 1010 soundcard, 16 tracks
of Adat, Sony Dat Recorder, Teac A7300 Half Track Mastering Deck on
1/4 Tape and JVC Dual cassette recorder.

Mixers: Yamaha 01V digital mixer with moving fader automation, Mackie 1604's x2 for remote video and foley recording.

Mics: Rode NTK, AT4033, AT3040 x2, PVR1, Beta 52, SM57 x4, MXL2001 x3, and
Audio Technica 835B Shotgun.

Outboard: TL Audio 5051 Valve Processor , ART Tube MP Mic Pre's x2,
Real Time Analyzer, Alesis 3630 Dual Compressor w/gate x2,
MDX440 quad compressor/limiter and gate, Midiverb III and Quadraverb 4 FX processors.

Monitors: Mackie HR624 Powered Monitors with NX200 self powered 200 watt subwoofer.

Yamaha 2100 keyboard, Tanglewood TW15NS guitar,
Hohner, Swan and Lee Oskar harmonicas.

Cakewalk Sonar 5 Studio (just arrived), Cool Edit Pro (love it!)

Sony MZ-N10 MD and ECM-MS907 stereo mic.
(Previously had a Sony MZ-R3 then a Sharp MT8

(Maybe I should submit some harmonica samples?)

Mike

xaven i'll sell you my sharp minidisc recorder model number 722 and a bunch of discs ...

when i make music

i use software (audiomulch, littleSoundDj, littlePigTracker)

i use hardware (gameboy, pc, x0xb0x, monomachine, yamaha keys)

i use girls (they're fun to work with and i like the sounds)

and i use FREESOUND

acclivity
(Maybe I should submit some harmonica samples?)

(yes!)

- bram

Renoise. Oh, and an M-Audio Radium49.

Computer: FL Studio Producer Edition, GoldWave, Audacity, tons of VST plugins (effects, instruments), Soundforge.

"Instruments": Circuit bend toys, field-recordings, Fender electric guitar with many effect pedals, electronic "toy" kits for making noise instruments (buzzing etc), my vocals (harsh man), drums, beer bottles.....etcetc......

More: http://www.roilnoise.com and http://www.soundclick.com/randominsults and http://www.soundclick.com/666BrawDestroyer and http://www.soundclick.com/dariuspr

These would be my label and my main projects - I have some more but they don't have anything available online.

-kai

My favorite tool is now a strangely tuned accoustic guitar with two slides in one hand and finger-piking in the other. I use a cheap used pair of auto--mechanics deep-sockets (5/8" aND 15mm but it doesn't matter too much) and flatwound strings with a cheap but low-noise Lawrence in hole pickup. It was $40 used and I'm happy enough with it.

I primarily use midi keyboard and a big mystery box full of noise commonly called a PC.

I wav edit with a magnifying glass tool in Wavestudio or Wavelablite that came with my M-audio/Creative audio PCI cards.

Any loop software such as Reason (from M-audio card) and CubaseLE or something like that from the Creative Audigy card purchase.

I like the Ableton Live I got with Maudio card but haven't used it much. It slow me down, no offense to many users of it; personal preference...

I use Garage Band and my voice for digital and guitar for analogic.
Only for private music, of course.

This weekend the weather is bad, sad and boring so I decided to amuse you with the inventory of the equipment that is living with me:

Mics:
- Shure SM57.
- Shure 16A.
- Sony ECM-F9 (cheap mic; less than 12 €).
- A plastic condenser mic ()of unknown mark that works when HE wants, good for takes with unexpected results. I don't know where is he now, probably is field-recording in nowhere land.

Hard & Software:
- A laptop PC with the serial soundcard.
- Korg D8. Digital multitrack recorder (8 tracks). It has good built-in effects and many times I use it as pre-amp before the signal inputs the PC.
- Cubase SX; Sound Forge 6.0; VST instruments ...

Instruments:
- MIJ Fender Stratocaster (1987).
- Epiphone acoustic guitar (1981).
- Spanish guitar.
- Peavey Electric Bass.
- Cheap electric guitar with MIDI pick up. A friend lent me the guitar for a weekend 25 years ago. I've tried to return it but ... :roll:

Guitar Amp:
- Mesa Boogie Subway Rocket (wooonderful).

Stuff to donate to a museum in the future:
- Tascam Portaestudio. 4 track analog recorder. Uses standard cassette.
- Roland SC-7 sound module (GM).

Wow, I didn't realize how rudimentary I was!

Software wise, I use Cacophony for editing waveform files. I used to use Audacity, but it's not been so happy on my computer for some reason; lots of crashes. Ableton Live for sequencing, playing around with effects, loops, etc. I've recently started using Pd (PureData) for sound manipulation - wish I could afford Reaktor!

Hardware wise, I use a PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8 and a Behringer BCR2000. I'm investing in a Korg padKONTROL next. I have some Harmon-Kardon SoundSticks, or when my girlfriend is studying, Sony MDR-7506 headphones. I have a no-name electric guitar that I use for playing around with riffs and chord changes if I'm feeling less electro and more rock. I wish I was sophisticated enough to tell the difference between shitty and nice guitars.

reason 3.0.4 enough said?

pro tools7, soundforge, bla bla bla, yackety schmackety..

all software in the world exists only to make things for import into Reason

mic: rode nt4 stereo
card: currently maudio delta1010lt

My sound production is the ye olde makeshift method that was used for lots of sound effects in the sixties - get a household object and record something you do to it, (optional) electronically process it, show it to the world.

I also use my SoundBlaster Sound Card's builtin synth. I use NoteWorthy Composer, with is a nice sequencer that you don't need a degree in user interface design to understand. I use a trial version (shock-horror! TRIAL VERSION!) of GoldWave to process and record my sounds.

I use only sound files - found, recorded or created (try Coagula or Audiopaint) - no instruments what so ever, real or virtual - witch I edit - stretching, filtering, echoing, reverbing, compressing, limiting... - and mix together in Audition, accompanied with some plug-in effects – honourable mention Ambience and Izotope Ozone 3.

Hardware:

Old AMD 2100+ w/ 1gig of ram
M-Audio Delta 44
Behringer eurorack ub802
Samson resolv 50a monitors
presonus tubepe
AKG C3000
Korg microKONTROL

Software:

Ableton Live
Ableton Operator (my FM synth)
Sony Soundforge
Bome's Midi translator
misc. vsts

Instruments:

MusicMan Stingray 4-string
homemade fretless 4-string bass
Ventura Accoustic electric guitar

Software:
- Acid Express - for hacking loops
- Tuareg and Tunafish (http://brambos.com) - fun for experimenting
- Max/MSP - this is the real thing

Hardware:
- monome 40h (my latest toy. Beautful! http://monome.org)

Big up the Max crew!

AMD 3000+XP , 1GB RAM
Delta 44
Max/MSP 4.5
Sound Forge 8.0
Pro-Tools 7.0
Logic 5.5
Reaktor 4 for home-made soft synths
Waves, GRM tools and Izotope plug-ins
Yamaha MG 12/4 mixer
Marshal MXL1006 condenser mic
Samson S2 mic
Boss DR-770
Ibanez Jem555
Maverick Species-1
Some other guitars and basses
Peavey 5150
Zoom 505
Circuit-bent kid's toys
My voice, body parts, furniture
...and some more stuff I can't think of at the mo.

Electric guitar, a 1942 archtop Jazz guitar, and a 12-string,
Valve-driven distort. pedal,
Alesis midiverb
The frame and strings of an old piano (reverb and cool FX)
Clockaudio Boundary layer microphone C009E
Electrix warpfactory vocoder
An old taperecorder
An old telephone switchboard operator's headset and mic,

Vaio computer + usb soundcard:
Audacity and my beloved Audiomulch with a couple of custom-built VSTs

finally: FREESOUND!

In no particular order of usage:

reason 2.5
audiomulch
Live 4.0
Kristal Audio Engine(a multi tracker)
A tape 4 track
A tape 8 track(both tascam)
A cheap dictaphone like tape recorder
Boss ME-50 multi fx
Epiphone Dot
FruityLoops 3
Karaoke Machine(for the overdub saturation)
Yamaha Analog Delay Box
Cheap acoustic guitar
Yamaha guitorgan
Peavey Rage 158
Jambient

There is a massive collection of freeware VST's on my computer...I mainly just use Orange Vocoder, Synth1, or Field.