Welcome to my little studio, which I call the "room of stories"e. 'Birdy' the jay used to live here. When I created the studio she moved into her new enclosure and continued to happily imitate the cat, other birds, the radio, etc til the end of her feathery days.
This room houses my percussion, wind and string instruments from all over the place plus the equipment used to record them.

The instruments are too numerous to give a complete list, but in the percussion section (the largest since I'm essentially a percussionist) there are congas, djembés, darbukas, bendirs, bodhrans, dafs, water drums, kpanlogos, tamas, ingomés, balafons, sanzas, sabars, anklungs, tablas, davuls, surdo, cajon, blekete, kanjiras, udus, ghatams, gongs, plus all kinds of stuff to shake, hit, scrape and bang together. In the wind section there are flutes from just about everywhere including the big 2.5m Urua harmonic flutes of the Brazilian Kamayura indians, the Slovakian Fujara, the Bulgarian Kaval, the Arab Ney, the Bolivian Queña, the Japanese shakuhachi, the Armenian Duduk, the Indian Shenai, the Turkish May, the Maroccan Ghaita, the Egyptian Arghul, Australian didjeridu, etc. Strings are represented by an Indian Santoor, a Malian Dozon'goni, an Iranian Qeychak, a Senegalese Kora, a couple of Maroccan Guimbri, a South Indian Saraswati Vina, a Maroccan Rebab, and a couple of Egyptian Rbaba, a Senegalese Riti, a Vietnamese Thran, an authentic 60s lap steel guitar, a fretless bass, my old Tanpura, etc. The keyboard section is relatively light: an Indian portable harmonium and a Korg N5 synth.

Photos

Silence Please 1

Silence Please 2

Silence Please 3

The Studio 1

The Studio 2

The Mill

Having a bash in the studio!

On the technical side, I record with a Rode NT2 through a Bellari tube preamp, or a pair of Russian Oktava MC012 or again my vintage Electrovoice PL20, via a Behringer MX8000 desk to a Fostex 2424 stand alone hard disk recorder. Monitoring is Genelec 1029a with subwoofer or Event 20/20 amplified by a Samson 260. Electronic sound sources are an Akai 2000 sampler, a Roland SPD 20 percussion pad and an EMU Systems "Planet Earth" module. Outboard stuff includes a Lexicon MPX1 multi-fx, TC Electronic M-ONE multi-fx, TC Electronic D-Two multi-tap delay, Yamaha REV500 Reverb, Boss SX700 multi-fx, vintage Roland SRV2000 Reverb, Digitech "Time Machine" 7.6 delay, two Paradis Loop delays, Vesta Fire "Space Commander" spatializer, TL Audio C5021 valve compressor, Behringer Composer compressor / limiter, Behringer Ultrafex sound enhancement processor and Antares ATR1a pitch corrector. Mixdown is to a Tascam DA30 DAT recorder and Philips CDR765 CD burner.

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