Jonathan MannInterview
Musician (2000 Songs In 2000 Days)
Adapted from Jonathan Mann's interview on Uses This, published 5 August 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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It's brand is "Lauren" (which I find hilarious for some reason).
I have Kala Mahogany Travel Tenor Ukulele that I got from my grandmother, who lived in Hawaii for the last 10 years of her life.
It's like this Godin LGX (though slightly different).
I hadn't had an acoustic guitar in ages, so I asked them to get me this Martin Golden Era guitar.
I have a Hohner 5-string open backed banjo that I think I got on eBay.
I have a set of Hohner harmonicas.
There's the M-Audio Keystation 49 for playing sounds into my computer.
Right now my audio interface is this Focusrite Scarlett 2i2.
I have these Sony MDR-7506 headphones.
Many short, acoustic daily songs are shot on my iPhone 5s, then downloaded to my MacBook and just uploaded, as is.
I've found that the built in microphone is actually pretty damn great, much better than the one on my Panasonic GH4 camera, which I use to do more heavy duty filming.
I have a first gen iPad that I only use to read comics (it's SO SLOW).
I have a Mac Mini that I got for Christmas this year.
Now that it's gotten to be sweltering hot in Brooklyn where I live, I've had to cannibalize the AC unit, but, somewhat fortuitously, I backed a Kickstarter back in April for a cardboard standing desk from Chairagami!
Productivity
I use a Google Docs spreadsheet to keep the master log of all my songs.
Coding & Development
I use TextEdit to write all my lyrics.
Design
Media
Recently, like in the past year or so, I've made the switch to using Logic.
I upload all my songs to Bandcamp.
Other
I upload all my videos to YouTube.