KEYBOARD:
okay first of all, the main, and well only keyboard that I use, is an ALESIS QUAD SYNTH...It Actually belongs to my dad, and I would not recomend it to all you Industrialists out there...For one thing it has not an arpeggiator, which, I dunno, I really want one of those! For another, the strings, and bass sounds are REALLY REALLY raw sounding, or just to classical sounding for my tastes...It's good however, IF you program your own sounds, as is what I did for almost everything on the tape, AND if you are sequencing, or recording via MIDI, which I almost completely don't believe in.
DRUMS:
For Drums on the tape, on the first song, I used an ALESIS SR-16, which I got for $250. It's okay, I guess...I'm really not TOO familiar with it yet, so I can't say too much for it, other than once again, much like the keyboard, I think that it was aimed more towards a more conventional style of music. It has some pretty humorous sounding pre-recorded loops, though!!! For the two middle songs, I just played the keyboard, and tapped 'em in (no sequencing...), and for the last song, I sequenced the drums via CAKE WALK...
GUITAR:
On the guitar for this tape...well the first song, I used my dad's custom built $2000 guitar...It's a good guitar...no noise, good feel, not heavy, excellent sounding, you can litterally get any kind of feel out of it. for the last song, I used my little Strat squire series...well I guess it's good for a beggining guitar player, but I'm looking to get a PARKER FLY.
RECORDING GEAR:
If you thought I was lucky before, here's where the real fun starts...okay, all of the following gear belongs to my dad...a 16 channel mixer, a rack-mount SONY DAT recorder (for those unfamiliar, DAT stands for DIGITAL AUDIO TAPE, and is smaller than a regular cassette, stores up to 2:30 hours of music, can store information, just like a conventional disk, and is very easily capable of having sound quality exceeding that of CDs.), an analog 8-track tape, and all sorts of various, fun effect type things, which I'll specify later. I also used MIDI (CAKEWALK) on a couple of songs (3, and 4), for sequencing purposes, but I really hate the idea of sequencing, no matter what, with the exception of drum machienes, because they give a specific sound.
SAMPLING:
Believe it or not, I actually have not a sampler of any sort...although recently I got one, which is a 12 second sampler, built into a DJ mixer that I purchased. All sampling (no samples on the demo) was done via tapes.
EFFECTS:
I cant remember what their names are at the moment, look for future updates...
