Personal technology today
2010
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Both computers (Pentium 3 GHz) in my studio are built into rackmount cases like this. running Windows XP Pro, Service Pack 3.
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19" Germany Export Rack heavy-duty AC power distribution strips, plugs modified to fit the Liebert UPS power outputs. |
Liebert UPS, probably the most expensive piece of equipment in the studio, supplies highly-regulated power to everything else. |
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Digidesign HD-3 DSP cards - the heart of Pro Tools I have an original HD-2 (PCI), plus a third,Accel card. |
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192 IO front and back. 16 inputs and outputs. Mine has an expansion card in the blank space to provide 8 more analog inputs, though I'm not using them now. |
Avid QuietDrive portable SCSI drive. Performance are first recorded to a pair of these. |
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192 Digital IO front and back. Each receives 16 ADAT optical channels from the ProFire Lightbridge. |
M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge front and back. 4 ADAT optical outputs, 8 channels each. Patched to two 192 Digital IO's. |
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RME Hammerfall 9632. 32 total IO channels; I use MIDI In, and 8 channels of ADAT optical out. Synced to Pro Tools word clock. |
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MIDI IO front and back. Ten MIDI busses, 160 total channels. Each computer has one. |
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Digidesign Command 8, the control center for Pro Tools: mixer with automated faders, transport controller, control room and headphone monitors. |
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M-Audio MicroTrak II used for remote recording. It records to a memory stick, up to 6 hours at 48kHz, 24 bits.
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I usually use the audio-technica AT822 stereo microphone with the MicroTrak.
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M-Audio Solaris large-diaphragm condensor mic, for vocals
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Line 6 POD Pro, a very nice guitar amplifier simulator. Digital output (AES-EBU) to Pro Tools. |
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M-Audio Pulsar matched pair condensor mics.
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Focusrite TrakMaster microphone/instrument preamplifier. Mono in/out.
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Roland M-GS64, an excellent General MIDI synth. I bought it in 1994. |
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Shure SM-57 for almost anything. I've hung it out a window to capture street noise, put it inside an engine... |
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Yamaha CP-33 stage piano, with 88-key weighted action, used both as a piano and to enter MIDI data. |
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Digidesign RM2 (made by PMC), my main monitor speakers. |
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M-Audio DSM-3, my secondary monitor speakers. |
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