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. It’s hard (and unnecessary) to decide when there are so many great styles to choose from.
Frank 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:
Guitars
- Baton Rouge V2-G guitarlele
- Epiphone Les Paul Standard (early 90s model)
- Epiphone AJ-100 acoustic
- Squier Stratocaster (early 90s model)
Basses
- Gold Tone M-Bass 25 FL fretless acoustic-electric bass
- Squier Vintage Modified Jazz Bass ’70s
Other acoustic instruments
- Hohner G Blues Harp
- Standard C Xaphoon
- No name Melodica
Hardware synthesizers
- Arturia Drumbrute Impact
- Arturia MiniFreak
- Behringer Crave
- KORG microKORG
- Moog Sub 37 Tribute Edition
Preamplifiers
- DSM & Humboldt Simplifier DLX
- Markbass Mark Vintage Pre
- ART Tube MP Microphone preamp
- sE Electronics DM1 DYNAMITE Microphone preamp
Effects and processors
- Artec SE-EQ8 graphic eq
- Behringer Compressor/Sustainer CS100
- Boss LMB-3 bass limiter
- Electro Harmonix Big Muff PI USA distortion
- Electro Harmonix Bad Stone phaser
- Ibanez DL5 Digital Delay
- TC Electronic Afterglow chorus
- TC Electronic Flashback Mini delay
- TC Electronic Forcefield Compressor
- MXR M222 talk box
- Markbass Mb Raw octaver
- Nobels PRE-1 preamp
- Nobels TR-X tremolo
- Vox VX V847A Wah
- Waldorf 2-Pole analog filter
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, recording & monitoring
- Presonus StudioLive 16.0.2 USB digital mixer, audio and MIDI interface
- Behringer U-Phoria UMC22 audio interface to go
- Adam F7 active near field monitors
Microphones
- Røde NT1-A large diaphragm condenser microphone
- Shure SM58 dynamic microphone
Other hardware
- Harley Benton Spaceship Power 40 pedalboard
- Harley Benton Spaceship Power 50 pedalboard
- Moog EP-3 expression pedal
- Plugable USB 3.0 7-port charging hub
Audio software
- Ableton Live Standard
- Reason Studios
Routing diagrams
Last update: July 2024