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Equipment List at the Fern Forest Project

Athlon 2.4 GHz 256Meg RAM - Windows XP with Cubase SX 3
Halion software sampler - this is great, as it saves itself with the cubase files. I am very lazy - I like things easy to use
Sound Forge 6.0 - sound editor - I like this, does work well, and the latest upgrade made it work incredibly fast somehow
Numerous VST and Direct X plugins including Autotune, Vintage Warmer, GRM tools 1&2, Renaissance Compressor, Vaz +
TC powercore with  - very pleased with this. The flashy compressors and mutliband mastering X3 have made a real difference to my mixes
M-audio firewire audiophile
Event 20/20 BAS monitor speakers - seem to do the job well

Roland RD-170 - 7 octave weighted keyboard & piano
Kord MS 2000 analogue modelling synthesiser - my favourite
Sequential Circuits Pro One - old and squawky, unfortunately the LFO has just stopped working

Boss VF1 - small but fancy effects unit with  great selection of amps, distortion, phasers and flangers
Beyer Dynamics DT250 monitor headphones
Rode NT2 microphone - brilliant mic
Shure SM57 microphone.
S1000 microphone.
TLA Ivory VP - 5051 Valve processor - preamp, compression & eq for vocals - ideal preamp for the Rode to computer
Vestax PDX 2000 turntables x2 - beautiful and strong
Vestax PCV-180 DJ mixer - really enjoying this new mixer, routing the effects to a Chaos 2
Korg Chaos 2 effects pad
Stanton Final Scratch - can control mp3 files on a lap-top from real vinyl on the decks completely - works well on now on XP
Sony DJ headphones - silver and nice swivelly bits on
Roland SPD20, 8 pad electronic pad - My little kids love it
Fender Stratocaster 1972 - not the best vintage I'm told but I love it
Takamine acoustic - very fond of this, quite small and light with great pickup, suits me well

I've got it all set up in a strange way now, so that my main mixer is the DJ mixer, with going into it the two decks, the two channels from Final Scratch, the computer main stereo, then the keyboards from a behringer sub-mixer. So I can mix beats off vinyl with live keyboards or even Cubase tracks all from the same mixer

Stuff not used much now
Recycle 2.0 - everyone is meant to love it, but I just didn't use it that much, and the security on the updates was a menace
Roland XV2020 - sound module - sound set of sounds for live use - lent to church
Yamaha TX7
Roland U-110 - PCM Sound Module - leant to Dez
Korg Wavestation - advance vector synthesis Wave sequencing - ambient and wild - lent to church
GS1 Mixer Allen & Heath mixer - lent to church mixer