I just noticed Carlos’ post about his digital toolbox, so I thought I’d share the secrets behind the scenes here. We like being different, so it seems that as Windows users in the creative community, we’re being just that!
Here’s the unhip and mostly free stuff that we use to express ourselves.
HARDWARE
Dell Inspiron E1505 C2D 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM
Compaq Presario R3000US i forget what the stats are
Antec Cooler ($8 after rebate)
Targus Brilliance Convertible Notebook Case ($5 new! we love sales)
WRITING
Wordpad
Microsoft Word
Blogger
WordPress for other sites
IMAGERY
Irfanview
GIMP
Inkscape
Kodak CX7530
VIDEO
WinDV
Windows Movie Maker
VirtualDub
AutoGK
Flip Video
INTERNET
Filezilla
iGoogle
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Firefox
IE to make sure our sites look right
AUDIO
Kristal
Cool Edit 96
winLAME
iTunes
REAL RECORDING
Digi 003 Rack with Pro Tools LE
Presonus Eureka Pro
some nice mics
Fender Mex Strat with Lace Sensors
Gibson SG Standard
more pedals than I need, not enough pedals for what I want
Those are our tools of the trade. Geeky, cheap, but they work for now. You’re here, after all, and that’s what counts.
(photo: Felixe)
Oh boy.
[-22 cool points]
For posting this on our blog, including an exclamation point in the midst of a post of this nature, and for the actual items on the list.
Yeah – I feel either really cool or really Not cool as I have no idea what most of the stuff on this list is…
You should feel really cool. You have to be quite a geek to use or even know what a lot of that is.
your right about the geek part, thing is I dont most people are using products from the mid 90′s anymore. ha ha ha.
I thought i was bad because my mac is from 2000, but that thing must be from like 95 or something. “Window95″ I think i remember hearing angels singing about window95 when it came out. it may have just been a marketing thing.
wow, this post has a ton of info.
randy – oh, the machine’s not from the 90s, even though some of the software is! i’m looking at you, Cool Edit 96. our main laptop is a Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz which makes life easier
aaron – yeah and unfortunately, most of it is boring. i’ll do better!