THE LIVEWIRE: Hello there Gearwire. My name is The Livewire, and we are chilling in my studio, a.k.a. the living room of my place.

I have in the studio turntables, CD player, mixer, the production unit which consists of a PC-based laptop. Right now, I have Ableton Live loaded up with the glitch plugin, the lovely Novation X-Station which just is the powerhouse of this studio, and then all running through a Behringer mixer. I have a sound analyzer here which does wonders on the sound. We have the M-Audio speakers. If you look, scattered around, we have a couple of circuit-bent glitch toys that are very useful for sampling and getting that unique sound. We have a pair of Electribes, a BCD which actually works really well for doing some digital DJing which I actually only do in the studio because we have turntables for the real stuff. And then I also have a microKORG off in the corner that has a wonderful vocoder. The microKORG is actually used a lot lately, and you’ll hear it and it’s quite recognizable these days.

As I mentioned before, the powerhouse of the studio is the Novation X-Station. It performs as my recording unit, my synthesizer, my sound card, my little bit of everything. It’s got all the keys that I need.

[THE LIVEWIRE PLAYING WITH THE NOVATION X-STATION]

And last but not least we have a wonderful USB condenser mic which records amazingly because I don't know if you can hear but there’s a fan on in the background. But when I sit in my studio right here and I record with this microphone, that fan will be on but you cannot hear it. You’ll only hear the vocals. It’s wonderful. It’s a great little piece. It is the Samson C03-U USB multi-pattern condenser mic. I recommend picking it up if you’re looking for a microphone. It’s actually fairly inexpensive compared to most that are out there.

So, that is my studio. Thank you for coming through.