[BOOM TOOLS] DAW of MICHAEL SCHWENDLER

December 7, 2012

Michael is one of our sound designers and a lot of BOOM Libraries and great SFX projects bear his mark. His track-record includes famous games such as “Alan Wake”/Microsoft, “Blade & Soul”/NC Soft, “KINECT Rush”/Disney•Pixar and many more. To ensure a trouble-free and straight-forward workflow, Michael customized his workstation to fit his specific needs. Read on to see which components Michael put into this tower of power.

    • Desktop Housing
      Michael uses an ultrasilent tower desktop housing with rubber-sprung HD frames to absorb any noise that may come from the storage hard drives. Inside the housing there are ultra-silent 120mm fans.

 

    • Operating System
      Windows 7 64-bit

 

    • Processor & RAM
      Sandy-Bridge Intel® Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz (6 CPUs)
      16GB DDR3 1600MHZ G.SKILL RAM

 

    • Input Device
      Wacom Intuos 5 – Michael uses this touch sensitive tablet to have a better control over automations and intuitive sound design.

 

    • Hard Drives
      HDD 1 (system) : 256GB Samsung SSD 830 | read speed 520MB, write speed 400MB
      HDD 2 (storage): 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM
      HDD 3 (storage): 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM
      HDD 4 (storage): 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM

 

    • Audio Interface
      RME Fireface UC

 

    • Monitoring System
      2 x EVENT OPAL
      1 x ADAM SUB 12

 

    • DAW Software
      Cubase 7

 

  • Current Favourite Plug-Ins
    Abbey Road TG2412
    Abbey Road TG2414
    Acustica Audio Nebula 3 Pro
    Audio Damage Kombinat Diva
    Audio Ease Altiverb 7
    Brainworx Control V2
    Brainworx Stereo Maker
    Brainworx VSC-2
    Camel Audio Camel Phat3
    Dada Life Sausage Fattener
    FabFilter Pro-Q
    INA-GRM GRM Complete
    iZotope RX 2 Declicker
    iZotope RX 2 Declipper
    iZotope RX 2 Decrackler
    iZotope RX 2 Denoiser
    iZotope RX 2 Hum Removal
    Lexcion LXP
    Native Instruments Reaktor
    Nugen Audio Stereo Pack
    PSP Mix Pack
    PSP Neon
    PSP Vintage Warmer 2
    Slate Digital FGX
    Softube CL 1B
    Sonalksis CQ-1
    Sonalksis DQ-1
    Soundhack pvoc kit
    SPL Deverb
    SPL Vitalizer MK2-T
    Sugarbytes Effectrix
    Sugarbytes Turnado
    U-He Ubik Bundle
    Voxengo Elephant
    Waves Doppler
    Waves LoAir
    Waves RBass