Mike McKnight’s Vintage and Home Studio Setups

Here are a few shots of my home studio and vintage room. The vintage room is a pile of Arp, Sequential Circuits, Fender Rhodes, Yamaha CP70B, Clavinet, and many other newer keyboards, all wired and ready to make music. When I first started putting my vintage room together, I was thinking more along the lines of renting the gear to studios or live acts that were passing through. But after actually buying the gear and playing with it, I knew it would be tough for me to let anyone else bang on my cool new toys.

I share the space with some recording engineers who teach Pro Tools, Reason, and basic engineering. I’ve done a couple seminars for them on touring, synth programming, and the stuff I do for a living. Check out their web site: www.hollywoodrecordingworkshop.net.

The home studio is my Digital Performer and Pro Tools HD rig, with several newer MIDI modules for doing pre-production for the tours I go on, and some remixing and producing.

Ultimately, I’m hoping that once I finish the next couple tours I’ll be able to get on eSession and some of the other sites Michael Gallant wrote about in the August issue of Keyboard and use these great-sounding keyboards on some other musician’s projects.

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or comments. I have many more pictures at my .mac website web.mac.com/michaelmcknight. Click on the top DP transport buttons for more pictures of the vintage room, and the home studio has more pictures on my equipment page. Thanks for looking!