The Cold West Project 


Me and my buddy Anders are currently working an a project called Cold West. The Cold West name is just a temporary name while the songs are beeing produced. Cold West is a music project that we have been working on for over 5 years.

Home studio 


Remastered songs with use of TC Electronic Powercore x8

Cold West - Playing With Fire

Cold West - Seven

Cold West - Secret Room


Older songs

Cold West - A Passage

Cold West - The Pacific 

Cold West - Reported Missing

Cold West - The Longest Time Away

Cold West - Mid August

Cold West - Cold Winter

Cold West - Fegil

Cold West - Forgive

Cold West - Mirage

Cold West - Magic silence               

Cold West - Without a name

Cold West - Left Over

Cold West - Lost Sunrise


Equipment used:

Equipment Schematic overview

Computer:       Intel P45, Intel Core2 Q9450, 4GB RAM, SSD RAID-0
Monitor:          Dual Dell 24" monitors
Audio HW:      MOTU 896mkIII firewire - Audiointerface
                         MOTU 828mkII firewire - Audiointerface
                         TC Electronic Powercore X8 - DSP audioprocessor
                         STK VH-6 - Amplifier for multiple headphones
                         Focusrite Platinum Trackmaster Pro - Mic preamp/compressor
                         Behringer Tube Ultragain MIC100 - Microphone tube preamp
                         Shure SM-58 - Microphone
                         Shure SM-48 - Microphone
                         Behringer B2-Pro - Microphone
                         Frontier Tranzport - Wireless DAW controller
                         THX-audio MT80A - Active audio monitors
                         Yamaha YST-SW300 - Active 12" Subwoofer
                         Beyerdynamic DT770 headphones
                         POD X3 Live
                         CME UF-6 MIDI keyboard
Audio SW:    Cakewalk Sonar 8.0.2 - Sequencer program
                         Drumkit From Hell Superior - Drumsamples used with V-Drums
                         Drumkit From Hell Superior 2 - Drumsamples used with V-Drums
                         Edirol Orchestral - Orchestral soft-synthesizer
                         Audacity - Audio editing software
Drums:            Roland V-Drums TD-6KV
Guitars:           Ibanez S-540 with modified picups (EMG 81/85)
                         Ibanez S-7320 with modified picups (Seymour Duncan Blackouts)
                         Ibanez RG2020 XTLB with modified pickups (EMG 81/85)
                         Fender Squire Stratocaster
                         Takamine PT05EC Acoustic guitar
Bass:                ESP B-105 - 5 string bass

Future equipment and software upgrades:

Operating system:

  • Gone back to Windows XP since the new SSD RAID-0 harddrive system didn't work well under Vista. The testing of the SSD's contiunues under XP and Vista x86. Problems with lagging and studdering.

Software

  • Sonar 8 Producer has been installed and I am very impressed with the improved performance. 2ms latency is now not a problem!
  • Drumkit From Hell Superior 2.0 is now installed. It sounds fantastic!

Hardware:

  • The Powercore X8 is finally working! I have been trying to get it to work for 6 months and today I finally succeded. The solution was to get another Firewire card with a VIA 6307 chipset. I tried earlier with 3 different mainboards with different integrated firewire chipsets. No success. Then I tried a Belkin Firewire/USB PCI card with a VIA 6306 chipset but that did not change things either. I could only utilize 50% of 2 dsp's. Now with the Hama VIA 6307 card, I get full utilizing of all 8 dsp's!
  • The Ibanez S7320 has been fitted with with Seymour Duncan Blackouts. My favourite guitar for heavymetal. These pickups rock!
 ! 

Notem Ipsum

The songs are as to be listened to as demos. They are no way near a final product! With that being said: The songs are NOT to be used for any other purpose but your own listening experience. Anything else needs our approval!

Members of the Band
Guitars        Jens
Bass             Anders
Vocals:        Anders.
V-Drums:   Thomas & Anders Kalleberg
Synth:          Jens

Producer:          Jens