ADVENT DAY 13 - [BOOM TOOLS]

Today, we have another interesting article from the section BOOM TOOLS. David Philipp - BOOM sound designer - specifies his DAW. This time it's a Mac.

David is one of our long term sound designers for BOOM Library and his creativity and effort can be heard in many of our popular libraries. His track-record includes commercials for Audi and KFC as well as games such as “Blade & Soul”, “Risen 2”, “Arcania” and a lot more. Read on to get more information about his current home setup.

• DESKTOP HOUSING

  David uses an early 2008 Mac Pro with an UAD Quad for plugin power.



• Operating System

  He is still running Mac OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) for software compatibility reasons.



• Processor & RAM

  8-Core (2x 3,2 GHz 4-Core Intel Xeon 5400 series ("Harpertown")
  8GB PC2-6400 (800MHz) DDR2



• Input Device

  Razer Death Adder - It’s not only good for chopping up sound effects, it’s also precise for rushing enemies in Starcraft 2.
  
  Euphonix MC Mix - Touch sensitive DAW Controller with motorfaders.



• Hard Drives

  Four internal hard drives and one external raid to do a weekly backup.



• Audio Interface

  RME Fireface 400



• Monitoring System

  2x Neumann KH120
  1x Neumann KH810 SUB



• DAW Software

  Pro Tools 10 & Logic Pro 8



• Current Favourite Plug-Ins

  Audio Ease Altiverb 7 & Speakerphone
  Logic Tremolo
  Spectrasonics Omnisphere
  UAD bx digital v2
  UAD Manley Massive Passive
  UAD Pultec Pro
  UAD Studer A800
  Waves Dopper
  Waves LoAir
  

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