Beau SorensonInterview
Recording engineer, musician
Adapted from Beau Sorenson's interview on Uses This, published 25 December 2014. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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For reverberation, I have a pair of vintage AKG spring reverbs that I love - these are Austrian-made spring reverbs intended to compete with the best plate reverbs of their era.
For years, I programmed drum beats with an Akai MPC2000XL; recently I've dusted it off and started writing with it again.
The newest addition is a Teenage Engineering OP-1 - a nifty little portable synthesizer / sampler / drum machine / recorder that goes everywhere.
I use Metric Halo audio interfaces to get sound in and out of the computer; these were recommended by my friend Don Gunn.
My home studio is based around a pair of vintage Studer 169 consoles; these are Swiss-made consoles from the mid-1970s, originally designed for location and broadcast use.
I listen on Focal monitors with a Focal subwoofer, a pair of vintage JBL 4311 studio monitors, a pair of Spendor hi-fi speakers and a couple other pairs of weird old speakers.
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Storage
I use Dropbox to exchange files.