More gear than you can shake a Chapman Stick at..

[Tigerfolly]

While snooping around for some pics of the Moog Voyager for Standbuilder, I stumbled across this site.

http://www.cikira.com/gear/index.html

Just imagine the possibilities of having that room in your house. *Drool*

[Scrap]

Lord have mercy. Can I have the chick too? :P

[Purator]

I would combine that with this one:
http://www.aliens-project.de/studio.html

[ImaX]

That's a LOT of stuff... but you can never play everything at once, I'd find it dissapointing, I wouldn't know where to start :-)
Do you think the more synths you have the better your studio is? Or is there a point where you have so much that you can't use it?

[Tigerfolly]

That's a LOT of stuff... but you can never play everything at once, I'd find it dissapointing, I wouldn't know where to start :-)
Do you think the more synths you have the better your studio is? Or is there a point where you have so much that you can't use it?

I totally think it's overkill.. but she obviously has money. She built that house herself, she bought all of that gear.. I think it's an obsessive/compulsive thing myself. She can use all of it too, because it's all MIDI'd up to the control rig(s). Insanity.

If I had an unlimited budget, I personally wouldn't have a ton of gear. I'm a huge gear head, but having that much gear is a little over the top for me.

[Over The Edge]

That still is not as large a setup as Geoff Downes had when he played keys for the rock supergroup ASIA back in the early 80's.

That setup coupled with Carl Palmer's enormous drum kit made for a beautiful stage presentation. He also happened to use every single one of those keys too! You know those Yes keyboardists loved trying to outdo each other.

Oh, by the way...

you can never have too much gear!!! 8)


FL
www.franklucas.net

[ImaX]

Well, you must have that much gear if you aren't able to program anything on a synth - so nearly every sound you're looking for should be found as a preset on any synth.
In the end you will use a synth for just one or two very special sounds, now it's the question if you could make this special sound on another synth.
The studio lacks a Kurzweil, does it (except for the expresion mate)? Very bad... 8)

[Over The Edge]

Back then, you did need a lot of that gear because a lot of those analog synths needed to be preprogrammed just to achieve one particular sound and there was no way to store these programmed values.

FL
www.franklucas.net

[JackJens]

Oh my God !!!!!

[Digilog]

We would all love to all of that gear, but in all seriousness, there was so much redundant stuff in that room it wasn't even funny. How many VA's can you cram into one room? :mrgreen:

[Sol]

Pfft. If I had money like that, I'd buy good monitors, another fully weighted board, a few racks, a mixing board, and I'd probably be set. Two boards is more than enough, especially for two hands.

[StandBuilder]

You guys grab the equipment, I grab the chick...:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
I don't know how to play keyboards, so than everybody will be satisfied...

Stainlessly,

Patrick

[ImaX]

Oh my god, I just saw the rest of that site... nice building she lives in, in a nice area :-) where comes the money from, has anyone ever heard of her?

[Cary]

If money were no object, I think there would be a definate limit to the gear I would have too.

[PsawniK]

If I had an unlimited budget, I'd just call up Musician's Friend and order one of every 'board and effects unit over $800. I'd also get some sort of custom modular system. Then I'd get 4 monitors and and mixing board with enough inputs for all my 'boards to be in stereo.

[maJ estY]

I feel sorry for all the people who think that they become better when they have more gear!
Yesterday I've found a JR interview by chance, which he made back in early 2000, where he was asked if using only one keyboard wouldn't be too less...
He said that his K can do everything he wants it to do and even a lot more! - Most people don't know about the power of their instruments, so they buy new gear without knowing that their old instrument can do all the things the new one can do aswell...

[Over The Edge]

More gear obviously doesn't make you a better player. There is obviously the gear lust factor involved, and there are people who are also collectors, like myself, who enjoy the company of various synths for the sake of fun.

Ask anyone who has seen me perform live. I usually have just one K2600XS on stage and that's it. Sometimes more but not necessary.


FL
www.franklucas.net

[Tigerfolly]

I feel sorry for all the people who think that they become better when they have more gear!
Yesterday I've found a JR interview by chance, which he made back in early 2000, where he was asked if using only one keyboard wouldn't be too less...
He said that his K can do everything he wants it to do and even a lot more! - Most people don't know about the power of their instruments, so they buy new gear without knowing that their old instrument can do all the things the new one can do aswell...

It also depends on what you're looking for. I'm not a very good keyboard player, and if I had my "dream rig" I'd have three or four keyboards, just so I had all of the bases covered. (A Nord Lead 3, S90, Karma, and a CX3).

Can one keyboard do it all? Possibly, but if you're looking for specific features or tones, sometimes you need separate boards. Whether it's a drawbar organ and a workstation, an analog and a sampling board, or what have you, it all comes down to one thing: Your Mileage May Vary.

While I agree that having a studio filled with -that- many boards is silly and frivilous, having a studio with an inventory of options is always a good thing to have around. Wouldn't it be nice to have a real mellotron in your studio? A real Hammond B3 with a couple real Leslie cabinets to switch between? A few of the old vintage analogs?

I look at it the same way I look at guitars. A Fender Stratocaster gives you certain tones, a certain playability, a certain action.. as does a Les Paul.. and then you've got various years, different woods, pickups, bridge setups, amps, cabinets. I personally use one guitar, a Steinberger, to try and get as close to all of the tones I need, because I require more flexibility than authenticity as a player.. but if I was recording a big budget album, you better believe I'd be renting that '62 Strat for those Strat parts, and a '59 Les Paul for those meaty LP rhythm parts. :)

Yes, Jordan uses one keyboard onstage, but that keyboard controls a Korg Karma, two K2600 racks, and a Korg Triton Rack. Technically, he could have two K2600s, a Karma, and a Triton onstage surrounding him, as well as a Korg CX3 for those great organ lines, but he prefers to work on one instrument instead of switching between many.

To each their own.. but I can't look down on this lady because she wants one of everything, even though I do think it's overkill.

[DanieL]

I have my Korg Triton le :)

I dont need another sinth ...
but if iI had the money.....................


only god knows what i have been bought :twisted:

[Over The Edge]

Cool board! Great for gigs. Now start playing out!



FL
www.franklucas.net

[Over The Edge]

:D


http://www.klaus-schulze.com/photos/studiot.htm



+ equipment list and explanation of live use.
http://www.klaus-schulze.com/misc/instr.htm



FL
www.franklucas.net

[Rexx]

Man that is one big collection of synths.

I noticed her gear pictures here before, I recently started trying Opcode's Studio Vision Pro and Galaxy librarian and I noticed she's part of the Opcode email group that I recently joined. She wrote a music software program MaxWerk which I couldn't figure out.

[Bastardo Demono]

thats pretty ridiculous... this isnt the early 80's where you need 20 different keyboards to get all the sounds of 20 different keyboards. Maybe you can get away with this if you are a pro like Erik Norlander that can actually do something with all that, but its clear that this woman is not. Just looking at the site, and how it is filled with pictures of herself, her house, and her gear room, this woman seems like she is just about showing off. Whatever to each there own I guess. Im not saying that collection doesnt look sweet as hell.

on a side note, Erik Norlander rules :)

[Rexx]

She's says that she doesn't waste her money on drugs but has an obvious music gear lust obsession.

I bet she got Emagic's SoundDiver 3 and then proceeded to buy as many modules as it supports.
[I'm confused enough trying to handle the library of 2 synths]

Still the amount of dust covers you would need? :oops:

I agree that someone with one powerful synth setup can do all they need, for LTE Jordan was using just a K2500xs plus a second K2500rs, for KB3 organs (which are a polyphony hog)
And seeing someone do it all with one synth is extremely impressive.
Seeing her home studio picture instantly makes me think-
"Nice, but can she play?" :P

Then again a lot of us wouldn't mind test driving all those synths and jamming in that custom studio.

[UnboundedSky]

Yeah, I use alot of gear, but, its all analog stuff.
Her studio is all digital from what I could see, and thats just completely overkill. All that stuff can be programmed or sampled onto one or two boards, but all that stuff is obviously just there for show. I use a real rhodes, a moog, an arp, a dw-8000, and one ensoniq for pianos and organs, but thats just because i've never found a rhodes patch that has really sounded completely authentic to me, and on the moog and arp, I love the instant programability. So while yes, to each his own, I still think that you should only use what you need.

[Kamin]

i would like to hear one thing she's recorded (don't tell me if there IS somthing on her site)...and plus...the angle on some of those 2nd tier boards...i dunno about any of you, but i could not play them very well at that angle, thats crazy :?