Jeremy Leaird-KochInterview
Musician, video editor
Adapted from Jeremy Leaird-Koch's interview on Uses This, published 19 May 2020. 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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It's an Intel i9 Skylake-X 10 Core at 3.3 GHz.
I have a GTX 970 for graphics, and the whole thing is watercooled with a closed-loop system.
I have a MOTU Midi Express XT that I fire up if I need to hook a bunch of MIDI devices up at the same time.
Audio runs out of the Clarrett into a PreSonus Monitor Station v2, which handles headphone mixes and sends to my main monitors.
For the last almost 10 years I've been using a pair of Dynaudio BM6a MKII monitors as my mains.
Recently I added a pair of Avantone MixCubes for "lofi" speaker testing, and I'm borrowing a pair of ADAM S2Vs I really like and will probably try to grab once the pandemic stuff is done.
When I need to run recordings out of the computer, or record from my hardware "jam station", I have a MixPre-10 digital audio recorder that works flawlessly.
This has gone through a few iterations, but currently it's a Thinkpad and Arturia Audiofuse Studio.
I'm probably best known for my videos using the Teenage Engineering OP-1.
The next most-used piece of gear I have is the Synthstrom Deluge.
Speaking of screenless, I also have gelled with and use regularly the Teenage Engineering OP-Z.
Design
Media
I record ProRes LT into the Atomos which gives me a decent compression ratio at 4k without the CPU burden of trying to edit the Sony AVCHD, which is notoriously hard on Premiere.
Other
It's running 32 GB of RAM, a Samsung 970 M.2 for its system drive (Windows 10), 3 Samsung SSDs for project drives, and a bunch of spinning disks for less important content and temporary backups.