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Steph’s Studio Stockpile Today Steph uses a combo of audio hardware—a MOTU 1224 (for monitoring only), an Apogee Trak2 (with the optional FireWire and 2-in/8-out cards), a Mackie 1202 VLZ Pro mixer, Gibson Les Paul guitars, Epiphone and Fender bass guitars, two Line 6 Variax guitars (700 Hardtail and a 300 dissected for experimentation), Korg Kaoss Pad, Line 6 bass and guitar Pods, M-Audio Black Boxes, ART and PreSonus DigiTube tube preamps, an Audio Technica AE 3300 handheld condenser mic, Korg X5D (used as a controller only), Unitor 8, Genelec 1030, JBL LSR6325 series and NHT M-00 monitors and a Roland V-Pro drum kit. She also uses six Macs in her studio and on the road — a 1Ghz PowerBook, a 500ghz PowerBook, a dual-processor Power Mac connected to a 23” cinema display, two Power Mac G3s, a PowerBook G3, a Magma expansion chassis, two UAD-1 DSP cards so she can use all UA’s virtual vintage plugins, plus lots of different software for sound design, recording and mixing of MIDI and audio, and mastering, including Emagic’s Logic Audio Platinum, EXS24, ES1/ES2, EVP88 and EVOC20, IK Multimedia’s T-Racks, Ableton’s Live 4, AudioEase’s Altiverb 5 and Nautilus Bundle, Cycling 74’ Mode, Izotope Trash, Propellerhead’s Reason 2.5 and Recycle, Cycling 74’s Pluggo, the Waves bundle, GRM Tools, Phatmatik Pro, Spectrasonics Atmosphere Dream Synth, Trilogy Bass module and Stylus RMX Drum module, and Native Instruments’ Battery, FM7 and KONTAKT. Miscellaneous other pedals and rack effects are used at random. A Pro Tools MIX Cube is also onhand for extra DSP. On the road, Steph uses both a 1 Ghz Ti-book and a 500mhz Ti-book, with a Magma expansion chassis that holds her UAD-1 and/or Pro Tools MIX cards, plus media drives. She alternates between using her FireWire-connected Apogee Trak2, and the FireWire-connected device from her favorite twin audio geniuses, the Buchalter boys: Metric Halo’s Mobile I/O. For MIDI connectivity, Steph uses the M-Audio’s Oxgen 8 keyboard with an MT4 interface to enter and control MIDI data while composing/mixing/tweaking Shacklegrind tracks with virtual instruments in Logic. For more cool audio stuff, see Audiohead.net.
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