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Some live and some studio stuff:

DR. ARTHUR KRAUSE:
Guitars: 12-strings Aria Pro II Aquanote, Epiphone Les Paul, Landola DD21-E steelstring, Fender steelstring
Guitar amp: Marshall JCM 800 combo 50W
Guitar effects: Korg A3, Korg AX1000G, MXR Distortion first edition
Synths: Yamaha DX11, Yamaha SY85, Yamaha TG55, Yamaha SK-20
Drummachine: Yamaha RX5 (I´ve got two for some reason)
Effects: Yamaha SPX 90 MkII, Alesis Quadraverb
Vocal live mic: Shure SM58
Vocal studio mic Studio Electronics B1, AKG1000S
Sound card: E-MU 1616m
Studio monitors: Alesis Monitor One
Mixer: Yamaha MG16/6FX

PETER HAGEUS
Guitars: Fender Jazzmaster, Gibson SG Special
Guitar amp: Music Man 110HD
Guitar effects: Proco Rat, Ibanez Digital Delay, EH Small Clone, Crucible Fuzz
Synths: Clavia Nord Modular G2

History
Dr. Arthur Krause is the owner of the JMO STUDIO. The first edition of the studio was set in 1993 when the YAMAHA DX11 became part of my spare time. The music was recorded on a simple stereo tape recorder. Later I bought myself a Kawai Q-80 midi sequenser which was connected to the DX11. In performance mode on the DX11 you can use up to eight different sound at the same time, very powerfull. I could use some of the DX11 FM drum sounds and basses to write songs on the Q-80. Sadly enough the Q-80 broke down, I went back to the store, they fixed it, the Q-80 broke down again and it´s still broken. In the very hot summer of 1995 I bought a brand new YAMAHA SY85. The SY85 has an internal sequenser which was very easy in use. I started writing some more songs with a more natural sound because it was a sample based synthesizer.

Times, they are changing and 1997 became the ROLAND VS-880 VXPANDED the heart of the studio. It was a very expensive little machine but much cheaper than buying studiotime in a proffesional studio hour after hour. Dr. Arthur Krause spends hundreds of hours in the studio each year. The debut album "BEFORE AND AFTER" was recorded on the VS-880.

Drums
I use a YAMAHA RX5 drum machine for its great 12bit PCM samples. The snare, kick & tom tom sound is the best I´ve ever heard from a machine so far. The hihat and cymbals suits me fine too. And yes, Sisters used this one on Floodland. In the early days on I had an old laptop 486 IBM for the beatprogramming. The internal SEQ is even to old fashioned for me...but maybe some day. To get it sound heavier I put the snare through a KORG AX1000G guitar effect to add some dist and big reverb. For the rest of the drums I used two ALESIS QUADRAVERB multieffect processor. One for dubb and one for reverb. Nowdays I have sampled the RX5 and created a stereo soundfont file of it with Vienna 2.3 on the Soundblaster Live 1024 soundcard. I used the RX5 krauseversion 1.0 soundfont on "BEFORE AND AFTER" for the first nine tracks and a softer version on "DREAMING". I´m working on a new edition of soundfont called RX5 III. I have sampled all the drumsounds from the RX5 including the cartridge sounds. I put them through a KORG A3 multi effect processor into a Behringer tube MICPREAMP 200 and then into the computer via the M-audio 1010LT soundcard in 32-bit floatingpoint 44.1 kHz. Make some cutting and normalizing in the computer and then turn them into 16-bit. Then I create the drumsoundfont in Vienna 2.3. All my love for the YAMAHA RX5.

SYNTHS AND SAMPLERS
The most of the pads and strings are generated by a YAMAHA SY85 synthesizer with some useful AWM2 samples. Some of the internal samples are not to good because it greats to much noise. I´ve tried to make it clean with the filters in the SY85 but it leaks through anyway. I also sometimes use the SY85 for my own homemade samples. For making this possible I have a program in my Pentium 133MHz called WAVE-to for windows which convert WAV to AWM2 samples and send it via midi to the SY85.

Some lead synth sound comes from a YAMAHA TG55 soundmodule with AWM samples. This is now a very cheap machine but it´s still very usefull. If you into synth music like Depeche or something you would like The TG55. It has a warm analog feeling thanks to great filters.

The YAMAHA DX11 4-operator FM has resently taken over the bass play in some cases but not on any record yet. I´ve edited one of the orignal bass sound to harder and more metallic sound by changing the algorithm and set all the operators waveforms to w1.

I borrowed a KORG TR-rack to create intro and utro at the RARE FLOWER demo. A modern thing which have a couple of great landscape sound. Still I don´t like its effect unit and regular sounds. To much techno for me.