Music Production Studio

My pride and joy and the money maker is the music production studio that I put together. The studio equipment that I have has been with me for several years.

Of course I have some new equipment but the hot stuff is my vintage gear. I have been producing music since 1999 and I have collected some smoking pieces of hardware.

I also use software because computers have changed and are much more powerful.

The information you can hold now is absolutely nuts.

Take a look at what I had to use in 1999 with my Korg Triton.

With only 1.44 megabytes of space you could not hold much data.

Samples usually took about 7 of these disc. As you can see the red floppy is #1 of seven that I have to pull up sequences I produced.

As a producer your lab where your home music production is created is the heart of everything. All your studio software, digital recording equipment and production gear is there on call. It's how you make your money.

Keep What You Buy!

Technology is always changing. As a matter of fact it changes every 6 months. That means what you buy now will be vintage within a year PERIOD. That is not a bad thing though.

Vintage gear brings a different sound. You cannot get the sound of my Roland JV-2080 in the Fantom. My Proteus 2000 is the illest sound module on the planet. (Well it is when I use it...LOL)

To get vintage equipment for music production now you have to hit places like Ebay. Go to any professional recording studio and you will see hardware like ASR-10's from Ensoniq or Yamaha NS-10 monitors.

My point is they just are not making gear like this anymore and 10 years from now things like MPC-1000's or Roland Fantom's will be obsolete.

How do I know that? Well look at the history of Roland keyboards.