Jan Kalt
geboren am 12.06.1971 in Münster/Westfalen
Tontechniker
Lebenslauf
1980 – 1985 Piano and drum lessons
1985 – 1987 Heavy Metal Guitar lessons
Since 1987 live and session musician in various bands e.g. drummer, guitarist, and keyboarder/sequencer programmer in The Fatal Impact, Turncoat Jesus, Shizobrothers, Echtzeitschrauber, Nulldurchgang etc.
1988 first rehearsal room in the Odenwald with the possibility to rehearse day and night
1990 – 1995 involvement in several CD productions for local bands and compilations e.g. “Bonga” and “Darmstadt”-Sampler
50 concerts in Germany with The Fatal Impact, Treibstahl, Turncoat Jesus and other indie bands
1995 – 2000 record and CD salesman with a store in Rimbach/Odenwald. Direct sale and sale through mail order (www.totalrecall.de) of all kinds of phonograms.
Active at record exchanges and phonogram exhibitions all around Europe.
1996 first home recording studio with ATARI, Cubase 1.1 and an ESI32 sampler. The stock of equipment is growing ever since (see equipment list)
1999 – 2002 product manager for service hotlines at SternCom a consulting agency for telecommunication services in Heidelberg.
2003 Opening of the music school “SCHRAUBFABRIK” in Fürth/Odenwald (see picture). Live recordings and CD productions for local bands and comedians from the Rhine-Neckar area.
Consultancy, training, and workshops in the field of sound engineering, midi and audio sequencing.
2003 – 2004 audio engineer diploma at the School of Audio Engineering in Frankfurt, Germany.
2004 recording and digital editing assistant for Horst Schnebel at the “Studio 17” in Edingen.
Commercial remix productions for S17-Acts in collaboration with Markus Friedel of “ELUSE”.
Since 2005 instructor for midi and audio sequencing at TonArte
Equipment List „SCHRAUBFABRIK“
RECORDING:
RME FIREFACE 800
PRE-AMPLIFIERS:
6x Telefunken V676
2x Telefunken V676a (classic discrete micpreamp, 34-80dB gain
Class A version of the tab V76 mic pre. They sound beautiful and as good as any Neve or API )
1x Telefunken V672 (sounds equally good on the vocal and acoustic guitar, is smooth and tight.
has a low, tight and punchy low end and the highs are smoother, more musical and much more open than the Neve 1272.
1x Telefunken V673 (ditto)
EQUALIZERS:
2xFILTEK MK3 (3 Band EQ with hi and low cut filters, switchable Q, high precison swiss made EQ, perfect for mastering or track EQ-ing)
2x Eckmiller TS 10 / HS 10 Entzerrer
= Mastering-Unit with TAB U373a (Compressor/Limiter from 1978) Serial.Nr.: 459/460
1x Telefunken W395a
WORKSTATION:
Power PC / Silent Maxx housing
Vista Ultimate 64bit,
QUADCORE 4x 3,1GHz
2TB hard drive
12 GIG RAM
MOBILE RECORDING:
SONY VAIO 2,44 dual-core with firewire
WORKSHOP-PC´s:
PC2: P4 3,44 with DIGIDESIGN DIGIRACK002
PC3: P3/800MHZ with Marian sound card
SEQENZER:
CUBASE 5.1
UAD2-Card mit Precision-Bundle
diverse VST-powered plugins
TAPE:
Telefunken M5 (stereo) von 1962(?) for analog mastering!!!
4-track tape recorder SABA-TG664
SOFTWARE:
CUBASE 5.1
CUBASE SX 3/4
CUBASE VST 5.1
Mastering: WAVELAB 5/6
STEINBERG: all VST-I PlugIns
NativeInstruments: KOMPLETE2/5
diverse freeware vst plugins...
MIXING DESKS:
Soundcraft Series 200
Soundcraft M12
& TASCAM 308B
live: 2x MX8000 from Behringer
Monitoring/Phones: SOUNDCRAFT Spirit Folio
MINDPRINT T.R.I.O. Spdif-Interface
MONITORING:
Fostex PM1 (active)
Yamaha NS10M Studio
JM Audio A1 -custom-made (active)
BOSE-Surround system with LFE
an Sony-SADX-930 Hifi amplifier
Headphones from Sennheiser AKG, SONY and Universal
MIDI:
M-AUDIO: AXION25
MIDITECH midi-control keyboard
Steinberg Midex8 midi interface
Doepfer MSY1
MIKROFONE:
NEUMANN TLM 121 mt-K
RHODE NT55 – matched pair
SENNHEISER MD21
AKG 2000B, C1000S
RHODE NT1a
UHER 534 stereo-mic.
SHURE 2x SM57/2x 58 + diverse no names ;)
Akg D112
plus plus
SYNTHS / SAMPLER / DRUMS:
Sequential Circuits: Prophet5
Korg: Micro-Preset, Polysix, 2xPoly61, Trinity Rack, Wavestation SR
Electribe MX1,
KPR-77-Drum-machine
Roland: SH 101, SP808EX, JX3P
Novation: SuperBassStation
Waldorf: MicroQ, Kurzweil 1000PX
EMU: Proteus 1, ESI32 (2x)
Yamaha: A-3000/20GB HD+10Ausgängen
SY85-Masterkeyboard
Oberheim: OB12
Pearl: Syncussion SY-1
ControlSynthesis-DeepBassNine
EFFEKTE/DYNAMICS:
2x Telefunken U373a
Roland Space Echo SRE-555
SONY: HR MP5
SHERMAN FILTERBANK2
dbx 166xl-StereoKompressor
Yamaha: Pro R3
Alesis: Quadraverb 1+ 2, Nanoverb,
live: Philtre, BitRman, MetaVox
Behringer: Virtualizer Pro
Boss: Heavy Metal HM2
Ibanez: DL10 Digital Delay, SF10 swell flanger
electro-harmonix: Doctor Q
Cry-Baby- and Morley Wah-Wah´s
Mini-Marshall-Amp
Applied Research & Technology: Pro Verb, Tube MP
Dynacord: EC 280
INSTRUMENTE:
Steinway Piano
3 different drum sets (Pearl/Sonor/HMV)
Gibson SG (Bj.91)
Fender Stratocaster
Yamaha-E-Bass
Chevy E-Bass
acoustic guitar
various didgeridoos
congas
cembe
bongos
rainstick
miscellaneous percussion instruments
SPACE:
4 recording rooms with daylight in the “Steinberg Training Center”
at Tonarte: "Music School and Coaching" (www.tonarte.de)
in the Musikpark Mannheim / first floor
2 Hi-End recording studios in the neighboring corridor at ANIXE TV
(via 30 meters multi core)
THX-certified 7.1-recording studio for surround-cinema mixes
with Digidesigns "ICON"-console and ProTools 192Khz
plus Outboard (Tubetech/Universal Audio etc)
(see website www.anixe.tv)
1 additional big recording studio at my collegue Arthur Adler / www.adler-soundoffice.de — second floor above my studio..;)
as well as all the instruments that are available at TonArte...;)
to be continued!
