TWISTED HELICES studio
Retired/obsolete equipment is given as a separate list at the
end. I've included this information for posterity's sake.
Recording and mixing devices
- Yamaha Clavinova CVP 305 digital piano/sequencer (2007-)
- Any computer with a good sequencer and audio recording software
(1993-). Curently and historically:
- Dell Studio 15 with builtin soundcard running Ubuntu Linux 9.10 (2010-)
- PC with 1 GHz Pentium III x 2 with 1 GB RAM, 120 GB hard disk, Soundblaster Live! Platinum soundcard running Red Hat Linux 7.3 (2001-2009)
- 400 MHz Celeron with 256 MB RAM, 32 GB hard disk with Soundblaster Live! soundcard running Windows 98 (1997-2001)
- 486 DX2 80 processor with 8 MB RAM, 840 MB hard disk, and Gravis Ultrasound MAX soundcard running Windows 3.1 (1993-1997)
- Sony TCD-DC7 DAT player and recorder (1993-)
- Tascam 464 Portastudio four track recorder/12x2 mixer (1993-)
- Signal Flex Mike Mixer MM40 (1993-)
- Radio Shack Karaoke Mate (1993-)
- Cambridge Soundworks speakers (1993-)
- JVC digital ready headphones HA-D810 (1993-)
Guitars, keyboards, microphones, and other (sometimes exotic) instruments
- Steinberger Spirit electric guitar (1995-)
- Ovation Collector's Series 2000 (#30) acoustic/electric guitar (1994-)
- Ephiphone Explorer EXP1 electric guitar (1993-)
- Fender Stratocaster (1999-)
- Reynolds acoustic guitar (from India - 2000-)
- Star Sun acoustic guitar (from Tibet - 2000-)
- Yamaha Clavinova CVP 305 digital piano/sequencer (2007-)
- Electrovoice ND357 microphone (1993-)
- V-Tech VT1030 microphone (1993-)
- Soodh Sarang (from Nepal - 2000-)
- Handmade Damnye (from Tibet - 2000-)
- Harmonium (from India - 2000-)
- Tabla set (from India - 2000-)
Effects processors
- Digitech RP10 Guitar Signal Processor/Foot Controller and Preamp with S-DISC processing (1993-)
- Digitech Studio S100 (1994-)
- Digitech ... (1998-)
- Digitech ... (2007-)
Miscellaneous
- Park G10 amplifier (1993-)
- ... amplifier (2007-)
- Korg GT3 guitar tuner (1993-)
- ??? guitar tuner (2007-)
- Ernie Ball strings
- Fender medium picks
- Hewlett Packard DDS tapes
- Maxell XL II high bias 60 minute tapes
- Microphone and guitar stands
- and lots of plugs, sockets, adapters, and cables!
Multimedia
- ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon PCI 32 MB SDR video card
- Pinnacle DV500+ Dual Stream video capture card
- JVC Digital Video Camera and Digital Still Camera GR-DVM70
Software
- Rosegarden (sequencer + multitrack recorder)
- Audacity (multitrack recorder)
- Digital Orchestrator Pro (sequencer + multitrack recorder)
- Powerchords Pro (object oriented sequencer)
- SonicFoundry ACID (loop based multitrack record)
- Sound eXchange - sox (music conversion)
- Adobe Premier (video creation)
- JVC Multimedia Navigator (video creation)
- MainActor (video creation)
Obsolete
- Pinnacle Systems Studio 400 (1993-1997)
- 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 video card (1993-1997)
- AVerMedia TV98 TV/video Capture Card (1993-1998)
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