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After my third flat tire in a row I figured it was time for new outer tubes on my bike. I want to keep on biking during Swedish winter when the streets are filled with snow, slush and ice, without falling on my muil all the time. So I put on these awesome snow studs. They have metal spikes in them. Metal spikes rock.

This was only a matter of time I guess – but very cool though:

In the past few weeks I’ve been traveling up and down to Linköping regularly. Sweden has pretty nice trains, luxurious and with breakfast and internet and all that, but man do I miss my car.

The trip to Linköping lasts an hour and a half. I have thusfar had the pleasure of spending those 90 minutes amidst screaming babies, puking babies (bye bye brand new shoes), women wearing eau-de-cilit-bang, and right now this obnoxious dude sitting next to me is literally screaming in his phone, when he’s not coughing his guts out that is. I want my good old Ford back !

I think I’ve sort of put together the mobile recording studio that I’ve always wanted to have. Gonna try it out today at the Älvsjö replokal. I’m curious what the drum microphones sound like. It’s a kit from JJlabs, a Swedish brand, and at around 2500 SEK it was an absolute bargain. Four dynamic tom clipons, a kickdrum mic and two overheads. The guy at Jam said I would not be disappointed, and if I was to be anyway, I could return it. Nice.

The C214 I picked up mainly for vocal recordings, but from my time at SAE I remember that its slightly bigger brother sounded really good on hihats as well. The C214 is supposed to be exactly like the C414, but it lacks the figure-eight and omni switch; it can only do cardioid recordings, which I think is actually just fine.

Then there’s the ProFire2626 which I’ve had for a while. A great firewire audio interface which comes with good Mac software and pretty good mic preamps. So I should be able to live without  separate mic preamp for a while, though of course that’s still an item on my wishlist

Completing the set with, of course, a MacBook running Logic Studio, and my DT770 Pro headphones which I’m actually looking to replace cause I think I’ve been hearing a strange crackle in them.

All in all, a sort of portable solution… Kind of heavy though, and I don’t have a car yet so I’ll see how my mood holds up in Stockholm’s public transport…. If today’s recording works out the way I want it to, I’ll post some stuff online. Meanwhile, if you need me to do a recording for you, give me a call