Karl Rose
Just me, my instruments, and home studio. All the songs here are written, played, recorded, mixed and mastered by myself.......... the rest is imagination.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Not performing my own material, I used to - but spend all my time recording now. I do perform live as a solo cover act called Rockin' ROB more details on that venture can be found at http://www.RockinRob.co.uk
Your musical influences
Too many to mention, my favourite all time band are The Stranglers, not that you'd know that from my own music though.
What equipment do you use?
Latest version of Cakewalk by Bandlab - fantastic (free) studio software. All songs here are recorded, mixed and mastered with it.
Allen & Heath QU-24 digital mixer console with monitoring via Behringer Truth
Mackie MCU & XT controllers
Mics - Condensers - SE Electronics X1S & 1000a, Matched pair of Behringer C-2s. Dynamics - Shure SM58, SM57 & a Behringer XM8500
General outboard effects processing - Digitech Studio Quad V2 & A&H onboard QU mixer FX
Compressor - Phonic PCL 3200
Electric Guitars - PRS SE Torero, PRS SE Custom 22 (semi hollow), 2 x Fender Stratocasters, one standard and one HM series., Epiphone Les Paul Modern
Acoustic Guitars - Nineboys J15CE
Effects processors for guitars are Boss GT-100, GT-6 and Yamaha FX900.
Amplifiers - Marshalls - JCM600 Head, Origin 50 Head, JCM C410 Cab, & MG30DFX, Laney Pro-linebacker PL100Head with Laney 4x10 & homemade 1x12 Celestion G75 cabinets. Session Rockette 30.
Bass - Peavey Milestone
Edirol keyboard controller
Piano - Yamaha P35
Hardware synthesizer - Roland Sonic Cell
Drums - Tour Tech TT22M heads with Alesis Strike brain
Drum machines - Zoom MRT-3 & Alesis SR-16
ART tube preamp, Samson and Behringer DI boxes.
Software instruments, synths and modellers include Rapture, Z3TA+, Dim Pro, Revalver, Guitar Rig 3, TH2, True Pianos and many more.....
