about me

Hi, I'm james Hart, a musician and producer in Luton, in the UK. For the past twenty years, I've been making music, and this website contains quite a bit of it. If you want to jump straight to where the action is, click here.

This site also includes my blog- a fairly frequently updated chronicle of my life and times with my family in Luton, and a gallery of our activities.

Oh, and let's not forget the mighty image fm- a radio station that finds its way onto the internet occasionally, made possible by (and quite often in an attempt to break!) the fine OnAStick Playout software created by my mate Jon.

So.. I've had the makings of a recording studio, whether it was a corner of my rented bedroom or the loft in our first house, for the past decade. However, when we moved here, I took the opportunity to put all the bits I had together to make a proper studio, so I could make music both on my own and in collaboration with friends. (The studio building project section will hopefully be reinstated soon!)

studio equipment

• This includes, among other things:

• Home-built PC running Emagic Logic Audio 5 (the Big Box version) with various plug-ins,

• Yamaha 01X digital mixer,

• Gadget Labs Wave 8/24 eight channel sound card,
• Beyer MCE90 microphone,
• Shure SM58 microphone
• Sony ECM-MS957 stereo microphone
  

• Ibanez GAX75 electric guitar,
• Behringer V-AMP 2 virtual guitar amplifier,
• Marshall AVT50 amplifier
• Yamaha FG422-TBS acoustic guitar
• Fender Squier P-Bass electric bass guitar
• Alesis QS6 keyboard
• Yamaha TX81Z and Casio VL-Tone synths
  
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• Behringer bits (a Tube Ultragain Pro mic pre-amp, Powerplay Pro headphone distribution amplifier, and Ultragraph equaliser),

• Quad 405 amp and Wharfedale MFM7 midfield monitors

Soundcraft Spirit Folio FX8 mixer

• Roland D5 keyboard.
• (both flood damaged in June 2007)
  

More specific details will be available with each piece of music... when I get round to it!