“I still use FL Studio to this day.”
What's in Monte Booker's studio?
Monte Booker has said they use FL Studio on a MacBook Pro, with a Universal Audio Apollo x8 interface, Genelec speakers, a Neumann U 87 microphone and a Teenage Engineering OP-1. For found sounds, Monte Booker has been seen recording with a TASCAM DR-44WL.
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Studio
“I still use FL Studio to this day.”
“I have a Universal Audio Apollo X8 with Genelec speakers.”
“I also use the OP-1 from Teenage Engineering a lot”
“I use a MacBook Pro with FL Studio.”
Field recording
Records that shaped me
“After hearing Kaytranada I was inspired by what he was doing but I made like a deeper house-tone”
About Monte Booker's gear.
What DAW does Monte Booker use?
Monte Booker has said they use FL Studio, the program they started on in high school, praising a workflow that feels like a video game (Image-Line, 2022).
What audio interface does Monte Booker use?
Monte Booker has said they use a Universal Audio Apollo x8 with Genelec speakers (Image-Line, 2022).
What studio monitors does Monte Booker use?
Monte Booker has said they use Genelec speakers, paired with a Universal Audio Apollo x8 (Image-Line, 2022).
What synth does Monte Booker use?
Monte Booker has said they use the Teenage Engineering OP-1 a lot, and Bandcamp Daily described the OP-1 being used to rework recorded household sounds into a beat.
What microphone does Monte Booker use?
Monte Booker has said they use a Neumann U 87 microphone (Image-Line, 2022), and has been seen recording found sounds with a TASCAM DR-44WL portable recorder.
Monte Booker is a Chicago producer behind much of Smino's music and a member of Zero Fatigue and Soulection. This guide covers the studio setup and field-recording tools named in interviews with the artist.
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