This photo was taken in October 2005 and shows the studio in the "pretty much software only" mode. From left to right: the Fatar has a dust cover on it which, frankly, never comes off. The guitar is a cheap Charvel/Jackson "strat" copy, but it has a Floyd Rose bridge so it stays in tune even if the strings are old and crusty. I have resurrected my trusty and beloved old Roland VS-1680 recorder as essentially a mic preamp, and on the floor if you peer carefully you will be shocked to spot a Wal Mart (!) 10 watt guitar amp.
On the Omnirax Force 12 you can barely see my DigiTech RP100 guitar FX box, some rack synths I don't use any more (but I can't bear to part with due to sentimental reasons), my cool new 19" flat panel display, an Oxygen 8 controller and a Kenton Control Freak.
The center rack has a home made patch bay and a Behringer RX-1602 line mixer. Under the Omnirax deck is the (now unused) Mackie LM-3204, a Cambridge Bass Cube 12 sub, and my cobbled together Pentium 4 that runs all the music software.
Monitor speakers
I wrote about this elsewhere in the site, but here it is again: Several years ago after reading some positive things I spent a whopping US$100 for a set of Cambridge Soundworks speakers with subwoofer. I have been amazed at how neutral and clean these have sounded; I can listen to them all day without fatigue. They are not the loudest things, nor do they have the lowest bass extension, but they really served me well. Wanting a bit more oomph I tried a few things and currently have a couple of beat up JBL LSR25 monitors which I got cheap at Guitar Center (now RIP). They were being repaired at the time of this picture and I was using my little tiny Cambridge SoundWorks monitors which you can see next to my shiny new 19" flat panel. The JBLs were almost perfect but rolled off a bit in the lowest bass, so I'm using them with a Cambridge Soundworks Bass Cube 12 subwoofer.
