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.
Remastered songs with use of TC Electronic Powercore x8
Older songs
Cold West - The Longest Time Away
Equipment used:
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!
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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 |