Home Studio Registry: Mark Cundiff

Future plans/projects

This is a personal project studio, but it is also used for commercial demo production.

Guitars

Fender Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul Standard Flame-top, Yamaha 6-string acoustic, Yamaha 12-string acoustic, Yamaha nylon-string classical, Keilani soprano ukulele (purchased while in Hawaii), Fender Precision Bass.

Keyboards

Yamaha DJX (first version)

Sound modules

Virtual Sound Canvas DXI, Dream Station DXI, Triangle II DXI, Cakewalk Sound Center, Studio Instruments Drums, Roland TTS-1, and IKMultimedia̢��_� Amplitube��� X-GEAR (Soft Synths)

Percussion

Alesis SR-16

Effects

Behringer Tube Ultragain MIC100 Mic Preamp, Korg AX-1G, Boss Flanger and Noise Gate, Furman Dual 15-Band Graphic EQ, Alesis Nano-Compressor, ART MR-1 Reverb, DOD Stereo Bass Chorus, E-Bow, ART Cable Cop.

Microphones

Audio-Technica XM-4 Dynamic, MXL 990 Condenser, Shure 565 Dynamic, Nady CM-02S Stereo Condenser, and an Audio-Technica lavaliere Omni Condenser. I clip the latter into the sound hole of the nylon string guitar and the ukulele -- it̢��‰�s absolutely brilliant! I also use a Dean Markley Pro-Mag pickup for the steel string acoustic guitars in addition to the MXL 990.

Mixing

I use a Behringer Eurorack MX602A mixer to bring (SR-16) drum tracks into a Behringer Xenyx 1204FX-USB which connects directly to the computer. The Xenyx also supplies 48 volt phantom power to the MXL 990.

Tape decks

None

Hard disk recorders

None

Monitoring

Altec-Lansing model 251 multi-media (5.1 surround) speaker system, Shure SRH440 Headphones for me; AKG K-44 Headphones for clients.

Computer

Dell Inspiron 1525 Special Edition running Windows Vista Home Premium (120GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM), Intel��� Core̢��_� 2 Duo T5450 (1.66GHz/667Mhz FSB/2MB cache, 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz), Edirol UA-20 audio/MIDI USB interface.

Music software

Cakewalk Music Creator 5, EnergyXT 2.5 (Behringer Proprietary Version), Audacity 1.2.6 (1.3 Beta), Steinberg Clean! 2.0, Nero 5.0 CD Burning software, Wave Editor, and CD Cover Designer.

Additional equipment

Auralex Roominator wall treatments. Behringer BXL 900 Bass Amp (90 WRMS, 12" Bugera Speaker), Marshall AVT-20 guitar amp (20 WRMS, 10" Celestion speaker), Fender Frontman 25R guitar amp (25 WRMS, 10̢����_ Fender speaker. Strings by ghs. Picks by Dunlop, Gibson, and Fender. Stands by Warwick, Quik-Loc, ProLine, Atlas, and On-Stage. Security System by ADT.

Additional notes

None

Primary use Secondary use
Recording Commercial work
Recording level MIDI level
High Average
Commonly work (with) Completed songs/demos/jingles
Alone More than 100