Roland SPD-S

The Kit page has been updated to include Sean's Roland SPD-S, along with a sample of an udu that has been loaded into it.

 The 2005 upgrade list

Some significant upgrades have occurred to Sean's drum and studio set up this year.

On the drum side of things, Sean got an electronic drum pad. The pad was purchased to add percussion instruments that would be to difficult or impossible to add to his set. For example, the pad comes with two gong sound, bongos, congas, timbales etc. The pad also allows sampling, allowing Sean to finally add his udu to his sound. Since the pad only comes with a limited amount of free sample space, a flash card to expand this has also been purchased. A Crate powered monitor was purchased for playback. Check back soon as Sean will add one of his udu samples to his kit page.

On the studio side of things, several new mics have been purchased:

• AKG D112 for the bass drum
  
• A pair of AKG C430 for over heads
  
• 4 Sennheiser e604 mics for his toms

Additionally, Sean has also purchased:

• A TRS patch bay
  
• An XLR patch Bay
  
• TSR Patch Cables
  
• XLR cables

And earlier in the year:

• A tube pre amp
  
• Foam isolators for studio monitors

The XLR combiners for Sean's tom mics have also finally been mounted on his drum set.

 Otolith - Outpost

Sean's latest band Otolith has finally released a song to the public called Outpost. Go to the Music page and give it a listen.

Otolith is currently also looking for a new guitarist. Audition pieces are Tool - Aenima and Porcupine Tree - Sound of Muzak.

 The very late no more hole update

So on June 2, Sean was allowed to go back to drumming. He was so excited, that all he did was drum and forget to tell people about this for 2 months.

 New Band, New Music, Same Stupid Ear

Sean had skin graph surgery a few weeks ago to try to fix his stupid ear we won't know until May 4 if it worked or not.

In other news Sean's new band is awesome and you should all listen now. Go to the Music Page and listen to a rough cut (and I do mean rough) of one of their songs.

The group, as start last year has been doing records, but progress has been somewhat slowed due to Sean's ear.