Just a casual amateur musician, song writer, photographer, videographer, and production software user. I'd like to learn more about post-production work, so maybe I can polish up some of the crude or rough or half-done works of mine.
Vintage Ovation Limited Edition Legend Series acoustic/electric (solid AAA Sitka Spruce top)
Vintage Matrix 12-string acoustic/electric
Gibson SG Electric (basic model)
Various Hohner Blues Harps (different keys)
Various percussion instruments (egg shakers, chimes, etc.)
Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 - hey I've had it for awhile and I know how to use it pretty good AND it works just fine for me.
I started with these programs when they were Sonic Foundry's, but still think they're the best:
Sony's Sound Forge Pro 9
Sony's ACID Pro 7 (haven't used it much)
Sony's Vegas Pro 8
Hammerhead's Rhythm Station (my only work with samples or loops)
Several other video editing tools (TMPGEnc, Nero Vision, Cyberlink PowerDirector, and others)
Dedicated DELL PC - 3MHz, 4GB RAM, 1TB HD, Dual DVD Burners and a 37" WS HD Monitor/TV
A Pair of cheap Samson large-diaphram Condenser mics with stands.
Behringer MIC200 Tube Ultragain Stereo Mic Pre-Amp
Behringer 15W True Analog Modeling Amp
Harman/Kardon amplified monitor speakers
What I've been listening to lately on my iPod, but in now particular order is:
1) Jack Johnson - To The Sea
2) John Mayer - Battle Studies
3) Daughtry - Leave This Town
4) Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now
5) Godsmack - The Oracle
6) Beck - Guero & Guerolito (2 albums of same)
7) Poets and Pornstars - (Self-titled)
8) Stone Temple Pilots - (2010 Self-titled)
9) INXS - Greatest Hits
10) Midnight Oil - 20,000 Watts RSL (Best of)
Man... this is always VERY hard to come up with only ten, since you could ask me this same question next week and I might come up with ten different ones, but here goes...
1) The Beatles - The White Album
2) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
3) Brian Setzer Orchestra - Guitar Slinger
4) Led Zeppelin II
5) Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
6) David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders..
7) Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
8) Yes - Close To The Edge
9) Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
10) Montrose - Montrose (with Sammy Hagar on Vocals)
Gotta start with The Beatles, cause they blazed all the trails that are now commonly taken, such as orchestrations and unusual instruments, concept albums, using loops and samples, and a host of other creative song and studio work.
For more recent work, I really enjoy Jack Johnson's acoustic work and rhythms, plus John Mayer, and James Blunt, but I'm an old Metal Head from WAY BACK and love all the heavy weights of today (SLIPKNOT - know them personally/home town boys, Stone Sour - two parts of SLIPKNOT, plus Godsmack, Disturbed, Seether, Crossfade, Old School - Alice In Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, and of course... OZZIE!
Amateur-ish... doing mostly acoustic guitar work and often finger-style picking and finger strumming (rarely use a pick). I try to do a bit of "Days of The New" style acoustic hard rock.
Sales - telecommunications field, which includes wire line service, DSL, and HDTV Service (DirecTV Satelite or IPTV)