Red Lamp Studio

I have recorded the music of Homeless Balloon in Red Lamp Studio, a studio I have moved and upgraded since late in the 80's. The last couple of years, I decided to shrink the studio and got rid of (!) old stuff I didn't need anymore. Even if I love analogue audio equipment and synthesizers, today's digital equipment is so much easier to use and maintain. Now, I even don't need a mixer! I record my acoustic and electric instrument straight into my Digidesign 003 Rack AD Interface, or into my Fireface 400 box. Both sound great when I record in 24 bit resolution. - Below are the tools and instruments I have been using when creating music during the years. I still own and use many of them. It's also a love affair, right? My Alembic electric bass, Fender Strat (with a great Fender tube amp!) and my beautiful sounding Matsuoka acoustic guitars will never be replaced!

acoustic and electric instruments Alembic electric bass guitar Martin acoustic steel string guitar Ryoji Matsuoka acoustic guitar Ibanez acoustic steel string guitar Djembe Fender Stratocaster (U.S. model) electric guitar Gibson ES-175 electric jazz-guitar Mandolin (early 1960's model) Mountain Dulcimer (hand built by Jerry Rockwell, USA) Recorders and wooden flutes Mouth harp (hand built in Norway) Rhodes Mark I Stage Piano Seventy Three Santoor (90 strings Indian instrument) Seagull 12 string guitar Slingerland Snare Drum (Jazz) Ukulele Violin Electric violin Zither

hardware synthesizers, samplers and fx boxes

• Access VIRUS analogue modeling synthesizer
• Akai APC40 MIDI controller for Ableton Live
• Digidesign SampleCell II sampler (with TDM)
• E-bow guitar fx tool
• EMU Proteus 1/XR synthesizerl
• Jimi Hendrix wah-wah pedal
• KAT dk10 drumpad
• Korg M3R sound module
• Korg TR-Rack Trinity Module
• Korg Wavestation SR
• Korg Z-1 virtual analogue keyboard synthesizer
• Kurzweil K2000R synthesizer module
• Kurzweil PC3 Performance keyboard and synthesizer
• MiniMoog analogue synthesizer (the original vintage version)
• MiniMoog Voyager Anniversary Edition synthesizer
• MiniMoog Voyager Electric Blue
• MiniMoog Voyager Select Series Solar
• Novation Launcpad MIDI-controller for Ableton Live
• Novation nocturn 25 MIDI-keyboard and controller
• Oberheim Matrix 1000 analog synthesizer module
• Rockman X-100 analogue guitar fx box by Tom Scholtz
• Roland D-110 synthesizer module
• Roland D-50 and D-550 keyboard synthesizer
• Roland JX-8P analogue keyboard synthesizer with PG-800
• Roland Juno-G with Sampling and SRX-12 Classic EP's sound card
• Roland MKS-50 analogue synthesizer with PG-500
• Roland XV-3080 synthesizer with four sound cards
  
• Yamaha CX-01 monophonic analogue synthesizer
  
• Yamaha DX-200 Desktop Control Synthesizer
• Yamaha TX-81Z Synthesizer module
• Yamaha TX-816 Synthesizer module
• Waldorf Blofeld keyboard synthesizer

• Ableton Live 8.0 improvisation sequencer
• Access Indigo soft synth (TDM for ProTools)
• Amp Farm TDM Virtual guitar amplifiers
• AmpliTube guitar fx simulator
• Apple Logic Studio (LogicPro 9)
• Arturia ARP2600 V virtual synthesizer
• Digidesign ProToolsHD and LE 8
• Digidesign SoftSampleCell
• Digital Structure Sampler Workstation
• Metasynth 4 Pro, MetaTrack and Xx (see special page!)
• Korg Legacy and Digital Collection (MS-20, Wavestation, M1)
• MOTU MachFIVE soft sampler
• Opcode Vision and Studio Vision Pro 4.2
• Orange VST Vocoder
• Reason 2.5 softsynth
• SampleTank2XL softsampler
• SFX-Machine effect plug-in for VST and AudioUnits
• SoundToys TDM collection
• TC Electronic MD3 Stereo Mastering TDM-plugin
• TC electronic TC-Tools Megareverb, Chorus, EQ
• TC electronic SparkXL sound editor
• TC electronic Spark Modular software synthesizer
• Waves Platinum Bundle plug-ins
• Yamaha CS80 softsynth

• Apple MacPro 2x2,8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 6 Gbyte RAM, three int. 500 G harddrives and 23" Cinema Display
• (my earlier Mac desktop models include the Macintosh SE, Macintosh cx upgraded to Macintosh ci, PowerMac G3/400, Powerbook G3, PowerMac G4/867 and PowerMac G4 MDD 2x1G (the wind tunnel model which Apple finally admitted was a bad model and let me return, PowerMac G4 MDD 2x1,42 GHz with SuperDrive and 22" Cinema Display, Apple G5 2x2,5 GHz with SuperDrive and 23" Cinema Display
• Apple MacBookPro 2,33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• Apple MacBook 2GHz Intel Core Duo with 1 Gbyte RAMApple G4 1 GHz 17" Powerbook (was stolen at Termini Train Station in Rome in July 2005)
• Digidesign Mbox2Pro (my current system when using ProToolsLE 7.3 for editing and mastering in stereo)
• Digidesign ProTools HD2 Accel (my previous versions of ProTools include SoundTools, ProTools, ProTools III, ProTools PCI and ProTools24|MixPlus)
• Tascam DA-P1 Digital Audio Recorder (DAT)
• Mackie 1402-VLZ analogue mixer
• Millennia M-2b Transformerless Vacuum Tube Stereo Microphone Preamplifier
• Neumann KM-84 condenser microphones (two of them in a French stereo setup)
• RME Fireface 400 (my current setup when using LogicPro7.3 for composing and 5.1 surround mixing)
• Røde Classic condenser microphone
• Shure SM-58 dynamic microphone
• Beyerdynamic MCE82 stereo microphone