🎛️ Kassiopeia: Tech & Gear Stack
Welcome to a behind-the-scenes look at the tools, tech, and tone that power Kassiopeia—from the website stack to the studio and stage.
🎼 Music Production Tech
These are the tools used to build, deploy, and manage our digital presence:
- Guitar Pro 8 — Notation, composition, and riff sketching
- Ableton Live 11 Suite — Main DAW for recording, editing, and production
- Guitar Rig 6 — Guitar tone shaping & amp sims
- Native Instruments plugins — Soft synths and effects
- Serum — Synth plugin for electronic textures
- Gclip - free clipping plugin
- George Yohnge Limiter - free limiter plugin
🎙️ Studio & Recording Gear
Vocals
- Shure SM7B — Vocal mic
- Sennheiser HD 206 — Tracking headphones
Guitars
- Shure SM57 — Amp mic
- Audient iD14 — Audio interface
- Big Knob Passive — Monitor controller
- JBL 3 Series MkII Studio Monitors — Nearfield studio monitors
🎸 Instruments
Guitars
- Fender MIJ Telecaster - Main tone
- Kiesel 7-string 27-Inch, Hipshot tremolo - used in small sections where I needed a little more stability
Bass
- ESP LTD 5-string — B205
🧰 Pedals & Effects
- MXR Carbon Copy — Analog tape-style delay
- Empress Heavy — Distortion pedal
- Ibanez Tube Screamer Mini — Classic overdrive
- Behringer Heavy Metal — High-gain distortion
- Electro-Harmonix Mainframe — Bit crusher/sample rate reducer
- Keeley Electronics Caverns — Reverb + delay combo pedal
- Seymour Duncan PowerStage 170 — Pedalboard amp
🎹 MIDI & Control
- Akai MPK Mini — MIDI keyboard controller
- Looptimus — Footswitch MIDI controller for live looping & triggering
🖥️ Website stack
- Zola — Static site generator
- Docker — Containerization for local and server-side services
- HTML + CSS + JS — Static front-end site stack
This page is a living document—gear may evolve over time.