Home Studio Registry: Mike Beeman

Future plans/projects

Record first full-length CD; upgrade console to 24 + channels and multitracking capabilities as an adjunct to the production company we're forming.

Guitars

Les Paul

Keyboards

Roland XP-50; Kurzweil PC88mx; Alesis Quadrasynth

Sound modules

Emu ESi-32

Percussion

Alesis DM5 + XP-50 percussion sounds; sampled percussion

Effects

Use primarily software-based processing (Waves plug-ins, Sound Forge, CFX) with Alesis Midiverb 4, M-EQ 230 and 3630 compressor.

Microphones

Rode NT2; Shure; Electrovoice

Mixing

Mackie 1202VLZ

Tape decks

Hard disk only

Monitoring

Alesis Monitor Ones w/RA-100; AKG K-400 headphones

Computer

Gateway2000 P5 166MMX w/4G (audio) and 2.1G hard drives; 80 MB memory; Zip; and Ricoh Rewritable CD Recorder; DAL Card D+

Music software

Cakewalk Pro Audio; Sound Forge; Waves Native Power Pack

Additional notes

This is too much fun to be a hobby anymore.

Primary use Secondary use
Demos Composition
Recording level MIDI level
Average Above average
Commonly work (with) Completed songs/demos/jingles
Co-writer