Rock is not just rock
As some of you may noticed i do not code all the time in my spare time. With André Wösten and Tobias Rath i finally got a small team to make some incredible music. Well, we think it is incredible.
In this post i want to show you some of our parts we use in our amateur studio which has been split to us three due my movement to Ebersberg from Munich. Some of the equipment is just for nothing, like our JL Cooper MCS-3800 which we primarily use for the record, play and start button. Thousands of dollars wasted? Gnah, just a hand full of euros. Anyway, waste of money.
Building up!
In munich, where we made the most of our tracks we had a room with awesome acoustic and the neighbors never got angry by the volume. The vocal cabin has been builded in 2010 by Andre Wöstén and me. We tried to build the cabin as cheapest as possible. With 350€ it should be. 98% are wood and the rest is the acoustic isolation “Isover SSP II“.
The microphone we use is a AKG whatever, which is enough for us. It has a pretty awesome spectrum and for myself i think its more then enough for a amateur music project like this.
Is not all about hardware!
At the beginning of the project i used my “BC Rich Platinum Warlock” guitar which was quite pretty awesome until i got my custom Lag guitar. I don’t have a photo of the new one but sometime i will upload one for you. The studio itself had a room size of nearly 15qm which was quite big, but not big enough for 3 people in front of the studio mac.
While we use a mac for production we decided to use Logic. A awesome DAW and every VST or RTAS we got, is still working with Logic. It is pretty awesome. In the middle of 2010 i bought the Superior Drummer from Toontrack which is the most awesome sample drum kit i know. You can hear it in our current tracks on the music page.
As preamp we have a Art Tube MP Project from Thomann which you can buy here.
Sounds is not just sound
The monitors are from André and he spend a brand new set of Fostex MK II active monitors which are so awesome linear. Mixing is so easy now and you know that you have enough bass, if there is just a bit bass. They are so linear that bass is no matter cause you simply don’t here bass which is for me the best sound to mix.
For myself i can say that i have tons of fun in creating music with my crowd and without. Hopefully some people can enjoy our music on this planet. We are not intended to create main stream music, but sometimes we are feel pretty alone while we get no feedback. I am sure that will change sometimes if we work harder and better to get a little crowd of audiophile people.
