Joseph X. BurkeInterview
Designer, Musician (Obfusc)
Adapted from Joseph X. Burke's interview on Uses This, published 15 August 2021. 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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Specs-wise, it's an Intel i9-9900K (8-Core/3.6GHz), 32GB RAM, about 12TB of storage (split between NVME SSDs and mechanical disks for data with everything backed-up nightly, naturally), all housed in an ATX mid-tower case.
Naturally, I'm typing this condemnation of mobility on a 2019 MacBook Pro 15" (it's not mine), which is handily the worst computer I've ever used.
As far as instruments go, my primary go-to is a Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar (mahogany).
I was introduced to multitrack recording as a teenager on the Tascam Portastudio 424 cassette recorder, so naturally I still own (and occasionally use) that, too.
When mixing or recording, I am 99% of the time wearing a pair of Sony MDR-7506 reference headphones.
In the last few years, I do more 'polished' (please note the quotes) mixes through a pair of KVR ROKIT 8" monitors (3rd generation), but still love working primarily with headphones.
Notes
Security
Coding & Development
Design
The Output Platform (in birch, with keyboard tray) has been really awesome.
Media
For audio, my time is almost exclusively spent in Logic Pro X, which handles everything I've ever personally needed from a DAW.
Storage
Other
I built my lil personal site with Kirby CMS.
It runs on a DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplet.