Peak Pro 5.2, Pro Tools, iZotope Ozone and Speakerphone audio processing plug ins. Other utility apps I rely on: Interarchy for file transfers, Twitter's OS X app and sometimes Twhirl (another Twitter client), SuperDuper for backups, VLC for my "plays anything" media player. I use the SpamSieve Mail.app add on, it works very well. I spend a ton of time doing web development using BBedit and the OS X Terminal program. I don't really use Word or Powerpoint, just Excel. OmniOutliner is my main organizing/planning tool along with Microsoft Excel. I have a HP Color LaserJet 2025 and a Canon 8800F flatbed scanner but I don't consider them part of my "core kit".įinally, I carry an 160gb iPod Classic and a Bose Sounddock Portable when I travel. My headphones are a pair of Grado 225's which are great for critical listening and letting the outside sounds in, and an older Shure e3c in-ear sound-isolating headphones which I love. The quality isn't quite as good but it is quite decent. It's amazing that it can replace my laptop, cameras and digital recorders in a lot of cases. I carry an iPhone 4S and use it more as a mobile computer / communications device but don't talk on it too much. I usually use it with a Sony ECM-77B lavaliere mic or a Electro-Voice 635a handheld interview mic.įor carrying around my gear, I have a couple things: a Tamrac System 6 camera case a small Timbuktu Classic Messenger bag and a Dakine Terminal 32L backpack in "Digital Camouflage". What the Marantz does have is a great display and big buttons. I have a Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod with the 701HDV Fluid Video Mini head.įor portable audio recording, I use a Sony PCM-D50 for location sound and recording environmental audio For doing interviews and board recordings, I have an older Marantz PMD620 digital recorder which weighs half as much as the Sony but doesn't have nearly as good as built-in microphones. I also use the S100 for video as it shoots great video. I think of the Olympus as my "Art" camera.įor video, I have a Sony HRD-XR500 and a wide angle lens adapter. I have an Olympus E-P1 "Pen" micro 4:3 camera that I use for its "art modes" and to get "Instagram"-like effects but with a lot more resolution. I have a Canon S100 which I use when I need a smaller camera that does well in low light. I also have a Nikkor 12-24mm zoom, a Nikkor 10.5mm fisheye, a Nikkor 80-400mm, and a Sigma 30mm f1.4 for low light. The playout systems and stream servers live at a datacenter near the Financial District so I don't touch them physically that much.įor photography, I have a Nikon D300 which I mostly use with a Nikkor 18-200mm zoom. Our stream servers are all Linux (mostly Ubuntu these days). Our music playout systems all run on Windows XP and most of them have Orban 1100/ 1101e DSP/Audio Processing boards. This is a pretty amazing laptop - when I go into the studio I plug it into a big monitor and external keyboard and forget that I'm using a laptop. On the go I use a 13" MacBook Pro with a 256gb SSD and 8gb of RAM. There are better sounding speakers, but this is a lot of bang for the buck. I really like the KRKs, they're super revealing and can play quite loud with the sub, and it's not that expensive as a setup. I use a Mackie Big Knob to select between sources and control the levels on my KRK Rokit-5 monitors and KRK Rokit 8S sub. Since I'm doing lots of audio stuff, I have a couple different audio interfaces, including a HRT Music Streamer II and a Digidesign Mbox. And there is a Synology NAS with 6TB of space where I keep big media files that aren't actively being used. I have a bunch of other drives I use for backups, including a second DS4600 configured as RAID5 for 6TB of usable space that's used for backups. My main computer is a 27" iMac, "Late 2009" model, 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 8gb RAM, with a 2TB internal HD and a Promise DS4600 configured in RAID10 with 4TB of usable space. What I do is everything from choosing much of the music we play to audio production to web and app development to shooting photos and videos of bands to IT operations for our streaming servers and music playback systems. I'm Rusty Hodge, the founder and general manger of, a listener-support, commercial-free Internet radio service based in San Francisco.
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