Frank loves music, listening to it as well as making it. Preferably Jazz, Blues, Fusion, 70s Progressive Rock, Psychedelic, Lounge, but also electronic music like deep or progressive house, techno, ambient, or Drum’n’Bass. He plays electric and acoustic guitar, bass and synthesizers, and also uses samplers and drum machines.
His experience in electronic music, goes back to 1991 or 1992. At that time he started some techno experiments with the famous tracker ModEdit 2.0 and the sound editor BlasterMaster on MS-DOS. Around 1996, he used Steinberg Cubasis and Buzz Machines on Windows.
Nowadays, Frank is a happy user of Reason Studios since many years, which he uses mainly for recording, editing, and mixing. For live sets and jam sessions, his first choice is Ableton Live.
Listen to some of Frank’s music on Soundcloud.com or on this website.
Here’s some of the gear that has accumulated over the years:
Acoustic instruments
- Epiphone Les Paul Standard (early 90s model)
- Squier Stratocaster (early 90s model)
- Squier Vintage Modified Jazz Bass ’70s
- Gold Tone M-Bass 25 FL fretless acoustic-electric bass
- Epiphone AJ-100 acoustic
- Baton Rouge V2-G guitarlele
- No name Melodica
- Standard C Xaphoon
- Hohner G Blues Harp
Hardware synthesizers
- Moog Sub 37 Tribute Edition
- KORG microKORG
- Behringer Crave
- Behringer TD-3
- Arturia Drumbrute Impact
- KORG Electribe Sampler
Preamplifiers
- DSM & Humboldt Simplifier DLX
- Markbass Mark Vintage Pre
- ART Tube MP Microphone preamp
Effects and processors
- Waldorf 2-Pole analog filter
- Artec SE-EQ8 graphic eq
- Behringer Compressor/Sustainer CS100
- TC Electronic Forcefield Compressor
- Vox VX V847A Wah
- Boss LMB-3 bass limiter
- Electro Harmonix Big Muff PI USA distortion
- Electro Harmonix Bad Stone phaser
- Nobels PRE-1 preamp
- Nobels TR-X tremolo
- TC Electronic Flashback Mini delay
- MXR M222 talk box
- Markbass Mb Octaver Raw
MIDI hardware
- M-Audio Oxygen 49 Pro master keyboard
- Akai MPD18 pad controller
- Akai APC Mini
- Millenium NonaPad percussion pad
- Miditech MIDIface 4×4
- Kenton MIDI Thru 5
- Kenton MIDI Merge
Mixing & monitoring hardware
- Presonus StudioLive 16.0.2 USB digital mixer, audio and MIDI interface
- Adam F7 active near field monitors
Microphones
- Shure SM58 dynamic microphone
- Røde NT1-A large diaphragm condenser microphone
Other hardware
- Moog EP-3 expression pedal
- Plugable USB 3.0 7-port charging hub
- Behringer U-Phoria UMC22 audio interface to go
Audio software
- Reason Studios
- Ableton Live Standard
Last update: September 2023