PhilC - PC Warrior
Member Profile - 12/28/2005
About PhilC
I started my musical aspiriations at the age of 4 playing a cheap electric organ. By 8 I had switched to the recorder (the wind instrument, not a tape or digital recording device). By 12 I tried the French horn for a year, a lovely instrument but beyond my family's budget at the time.
At 13 I moved on to drums and fell in love with percussion. I've stuck with it ever since (more than 30 years now). I also picked up electric bass at 19 and I've kept up with it to a lesser degree as well.
I studied percussion at the University of Georgia during the 1980's and worked professionally as a drummer for a few years after college. I also played in a sort of skate-punk band (Braille Party) on an indy label which produced some other punk and "alternative" bands some of which went on to greater success than we (Government Issue, Black Market Baby, Velvet Monkeys, 9353, etc.)
I got into MIDI during the late 1980's and was one of the first owners of the Drumkat midi percussion controller. According to Bill Katoski (it's inventor), I was either the only, or one of very few users who was actually exploring some of it's more esoteric features. I used this instrument in developing compositions for non-percussive instruments, such as for string quartets and later in symphonic pieces.
Some of this music drew local attention and I began to do some professional work in film scoring in the early 1990's. Mostly since then however, music has been an unpaid but passionate occupation for me. As a software engineer (my day job since the mid 1990's) I have found the nexus between music and computers to be a niche into which I comfortably have fallen.
Like many musicians, I had always wanted a home studio and I built my first one back in 2001 in Coral Springs, Florida. I later moved to Aurora, Colorado and have built a new studio here as well.
Now days I get my kicks out of recording and producing young artists who could not afford to do so otherwise.
Computers:
Intel Pentium 4 1.8Ghz with 768 Meg Ram
Intel Celeron 2.4Ghz with 2 Gigabytes Ram
HP 733 Mhz with 512 Meg Ram
Atari Mega ST with 4 Meg Ram
Audio Interfaces:
Aardvark Q10
M-Audio Audiophile 24/96
Mixing Consoles:
Behringer 2024 Audio Mixer
Kawaii MM-16 Midi Mixer
Software:
Cakewalk Pro Audio 9
Sound Forge 5.0
Acid
Pro Tools
Band in a Box
Dr T's KCS Omega 4
Synths & Samplers:
Gigasampler
Roland U110 (2 each)
Korg M1-EX
Korg Symphony
Kawaii K1-M
Alesis HR-16
Mics:
Shure SM57 (3 each)
Shure PG52-XLR Bass/Kick Drum Mic
Marshall MXL-1006 (2 each)
Stageworks UM66 (3 each)
Instruments:
Tama Drums 7pc with 8 Zildjian Cymbals
Hofner Viloin bass (the Beatle bass)
Raven Precision/Jazz combo style Bass Guitar
Digitar midi-guitar controller
DrumKat Turbo 4.0 midi percussion controller
DrumKat 2.0 midi percussion controller
TomKat 11 inch midi drum pad
FatKat midi foot drum pedals (2 each)
Yamaha 13 inch midi drum pads (2 each)
Dauz 11 inch midi drum pad
Dauz 8 inch midi drum pads (2 each)
Digiworks 4x8 midi drum pads (2 each)
Contact Info
Email: [email protected]