Margaret KilljoyInterview
Sci-fi author, podcaster, musician
Adapted from Margaret Killjoy's interview on Uses This, published 21 June 2022. 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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The core of all of my projects is my 2020 MacBook Pro.
The mic goes into a Behringer UMC202HD audio input and then my computer.
I use a wider variety of microphones for music recording, including an Audio-Technica P48 for large diaphragm purposes and an Audio-Technica AT2021 for small diagphragm purposes.
We usually record our vocals on a Shure SM58 which is just the classic stage mic, although going forward we might use the SM7B, not sure yet.
I use a Zoom H4n Pro or field recordings for the ambience on tracks.
My digital piano is a Casio CDP-S100, which is one of their low-end models, but the physical build quality is fine - the higher priced models usually just have better piano sounds onboard, and I use mine primarily for midi.
I also have an Alesis V49 I use for midi synths, and a handful of random smaller controllers left over from when I lived out of a backpack and still wanted to play shows.
My studio monitors are a pair of KRK ROKIT 5s.
For headphone monitors and producing I use Sony MDR-7506.
Coding & Development
For writing, I write in Scrivener almost exclusively.
Design
Media
For podcasting, I record audio on my end with OcenAudio or I record all participants separately using ZenCastr.
For synths I mostly use various ones built into Reason, though I'm starting to play with the Native Instruments Komplete set more often now