a canadian magazine devoted to technology and culture. great articles about the web and links to great new sites. also very environmentally concious. similar to wired in the tech area but a little more web/geek. unfortunately they quit printing the mag last year and it can now only be read on-line.
Fader
“a modern urban living and culture magazine. i bought my first issue because of a great bjork photo on the cover. you might think that would be a lame reason to buy a magazine, but you would be wrong. i wait very eagerly for this quarterly mag and it never lets me down.”
this is what i had to say about fader a few years ago when i was about halfway into my first year’s subscription. well i never renewed. i still stand by the fact that this is a very cool magazine with a lot of great articles. i just always felt like i was reading someone else’s magazine. someone much more hip than me…
My Live Gear
I’ve been using the same basic setup live for a couple years now. keith anderson of risen drums made the kit. its the first kit he built for me and it might just be the only kit i’ll ever need for live use. after meeting keith at a show in st. paul, and talking about drums for a while, i was really pumped about letting him build a kit for me. i had wanted to do a wood hoop kit since playing joey parish’s kit on a tour a few years earlier. i had keith build me this kit just in time for the summer tour with “smitty” and friends.
it was perfect. every piece of the kit sounded just as i had hoped. so like i said, i won’t be looking for a new live set anytime soon.
to my right i have a sampler, a metronome, and a mixer. the sampler is a roland spd-s sampling drum pad. it has nine drum pads that allow me to trigger sounds and loops. it will hold about 512mb of data and roland has a really great audio compressor which means plenty of room. we’ve been using roland hardware samplers since we bought our first sp-202 in 2000. they have easily been the most stable part of our band. the metronome is a roland dr beat and the mixer is a beringer rack mixer.
i’m basically just listening to either the loops hogan is running, the loops from the spd-s, or my metronome. sometimes i’m using all three but not very often.