My home studio corner

My small home studio corner is where all my writing and demoing for Eternal Tears of Sorrow and other bands takes place.

Latest update: October 2008 - Some new hardware...

Hardware:

Computers:
- Intel DG35EC motherboard, Intel Core 2 Duo E5200 2.50GHz with 4GB memory, 320+250+160 GB hard disk space.
- ASUS F3T notebook, AMD Turion 64 TL-52, nVidia GeForce Go 7600, 160 GB hard disk space.
- ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard, AMD Athlon XP 2800+ processor, the old computer.
- Asus EEE PC 4G (701) notebook with Easy Peasy 1.0, 4+16 GB disk space.
Audio:
- Auduo/MIDI interfaces: Echo Audiofire 4, M-Audio Audiophile 2496. Total: 6 analog mono inputs/outputs, 2 digital stereo inputs/outputs.
- Monitors: ESI nEar05 Classic
- Headphones: AKG K-240 Studio, Vic Firth SIH1 and Koss Porta Pro
Equipment in active home studio use:
- Mixer: Alto AMX-140
- Amps: Tech 21 Sansamp PSA-1.1, Tech 21 Trademark 60
- Effects: Rocktron Xpression
- DI Box:Begringer Ultra-G GI100
- Guitars: Ibanez SZ520QM TKS, RG420FA
- Keyboard: M-Audio Oxygen 8 v2
- Tuners: Korg DT-10, Yamaha YT-250
Equipment in active rehearsal / live use:
- Laney LV300H head with Hughes&Kettner Warp Factor pedal (rehearsal).
- Tech 21 Power Engine 300 amp with Tech 21 TM-60 (live).
Equipment used every now and then:
- Behringer V-Amp Pro for random guitars and effects.
- Laney Klipp 100W & Marshall Valvestate 10 amps
- Zoom GFX-707
Equipment owned partly by me, used rarely:

Software:

Windows XP Pro SP2, Ubuntu EEE
Steinberg: Studio Case II, WaveLab 5.0 + several VST plugins etc.

To buy later:

VHT Two/Fifty/Two Poweramp

What? When? How?

I started my home studio from the scratch in the early 2000s with a freeware sequencer, my (then) brand new Behringer V-Amp 2 and my SoundBlaster AWE32 sound card.As EToS was having a break, I wanted to consentrate on something totally different: keyboard and sequencer things. I came up with a bunch of ideas, even though many of them still remain unused and untouched by any of my bands or projects.

Since then, I've slowly updated my equipment and software, and at the moment I'm quite satisfied with everything. One of the biggest things during the past couple of years was doing the preproduction (i.e. recording a lot of demos and different song versions) for the EToS' fifth album, Before the Bleeding Sun. And I don't see things changing in the future.

Photoz:

Control board, November 2006...

Home studio, July 2006...

Some of my equipment at the rehearsal place...

The studio during a demo session in July 2005...

My studio in August 2004...

A quick view to the first version of my musical corner, summer 2003...

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