photos of my gear

Finally I took a bunch of pictures and re-sized them for you, I guess this would be my first official gear-porn post. It's a humble beginning but this is basically my main set up and it's out in the living room because there's a bit more space to stretch out. my studio shares that room with my wife's sewing space consequently neither of us uses that room much. Please ignore the laundry I didn't straighten up before taking these and don't feel like taking new ones, this is a music blog not better homes and gardens.

and while you browse might I suggest listening to this song by 23 Skidoo.



Here's my studio: in front of you is my very first keyboard, the one I got in trade for a David Icke book. It's got my midi interface resting on it, I'm not really sure if this works any more, it was out in my mom's garage for a while and I havn't tested it out yet the yamaha is great, once I get the tools I'm going to try my hand at bending it:


Now here you have pictures of my MS 20 and SQ 10, I got them for my birthday last year thus kicking off an obsession with analogue synthesis and synthesizers.

Above you can see my Nova and my X Station I really like the X Station as a polysynth it's got some very nice presets and as far as a combination between a midi keyboard and synth it's well worth the money, and cheap too only about 300 new. I still havn't really pushed the Nova so I'm undecided on wether I like it as much as I had thought I would. it's for sale if you are interested.

The little guy below the MS 20 is a Cassio SK1 that I got from Craigslist. The dude who sold it to me got it from some asshole named Jesse Mesa Savage, I guess he's a famous circuit bender but he treats his patrons like shit, good keyboard though, the bends in it are great.

Here's my livingroom set up. The black in the corner is hiding undergarments.

That guitar is my baby it's been with me since I was 12 and the only place it hasn't visited with me is Ecuador.

I got two of these three channel mixers for two dollars at a thrift store, they are really useful for attenuating and mixing tape loops and as an extra set of inputs on the modular I have a second one I'm not presently using, they are indispensable.

I got this at a thrift store in preparation for Halloween I wanted to go about shouting "Merry Christmas" and pelting stuff with other things but it's also really handy as a cheap-o amplifier, it does some nifty feedback and distorted echoing on it's high settings and it's got two inputs, the mike it comes with makes sound effects too and I mean it's called the "Sing n' Jam" it doesn't get much better. One day maybe I'll see what kinds of bends I can get from the mic.

And here's the baby of my instrument family, the Vostok of my dreams. This is so freaking great to have and together with the Evolver it's one bad ass synth.

So there it is folks... photos of my synthesizers. Presently my favourite configuration is to have the Vostok's VCA output running through the Evolver and also sepratley through the little mixer I have there and then both going into my amp.

Lots of fun... more when I've got it.