Ulrich Schnauss

"The QRS is probably the opposite of that, where the Ursa Major is very low-fi, and very gritty, this is probably one of the most high end most expensive sounding reverb i’ve ever heard. I actually think it’s superior to something like the expensive Lexicon stuff," says Ulrich Schnauss, at 4:07 in this video interview with Future Music Magazine.

Two Tannoy DMT speakers can be seen throughout Schnauss' interview with Future Music Magazine. The best shot you can see them in is at 1:30 when Schnauss plays us a sample.

In this article from Music Radar, Schnauss says about the monitors "I always liked these very much because they’re very honest. They’re quite brutal, not like hi-fi speakers. But that’s great because when something sounds spacious and wide on these it’s going to sound good on any system.”

A Boss VF-1 can be seen underneath Ulrich's Korg Triton Rack at 8:05 in this video with Future Music Magazine.

"I think with effects it’s actually quite similar to synths. I just try to buy stuff over the years that has an interesting character and adds a unique element to the overall sound, and the URSA MAJOR certainly does - that’s a very odd sounding unit," says Ulrich Schnauss, at 3:45 in this video for Future Music Magazine.

"...again that’s quite a weird one as well (points to the TAM-19), I suppose you can say it’s a flanger mostly, but at the end of the day it’s just a very brutal modulation effect," says Ulrich Schnauss, at 4:38 in this video interview with Future Music Magazine.

A Waldorf Blofeld Synth can be seen on Ulrich's desk at 1:50 in this interview with Future Music Magazine.

Ulrich shows us his PPG Wave at 3:56 in this studio tour with MusicTech. Ulrich says "It's a bit difficult to see: the PPG Wave. Another digital classic." This accompanying article confirms this as the 2.2 specifically.

Ulrich's Memorymoog is shown at 4:16 in this studio tour with MusicTech. Ulrich pulls out the synth and says "Memorymoog, also a nice polyphonic synthesizer from the 80s."

At 4:33 in this studio tour with MusicTech, Ulrich says "On top is another one that I can't move just by myself because it's too heavy, so that's why it's permanently set up - the Waldorf Wave - which is usually, I think, considered as probably the ultimate wave table synth. It's quite lucky actually, I bought two of these in a very very bad state, completely broken. Sent them to Germany to a technician who had worked for Walforf previously and out of the two broken ones, he assembled this working one."

At 5:16 as the camera pans left to right in Ulrich's studio we can see his Apple iPad running Waldorf Nave.

The Doepfer MAQ can be seen at the top left at 1:23 in this video with Future Music Magazine.

official website of his projekt Quaeschning-Schnauss: ULRICH SCHNAUSS:Software: Steinberg Cubase all tracks bar PRISM and AMONG MANATEES** (Logic)*Peripheral equipment: Manikin Schrittmacher sequencer.*Hardware synths:Roland JD XA synthesizerRoland Jupiter-8 synthesizerRoland JD-800 synthesizerOberheim OB-8 synthesizerRoland System 1 synthesizerRoland MKS-70 synthesizer moduleRhodes Chroma synthesizerWaldorf Q synthesizerMicrowave XT synthesizer module*Software synths & effects: Various modules from Sonic Core’s SCOPE system.*Hardware effects: Ensoniq DP4

When talking about his Korg PS-3200 during a studio tour with Music Tech magazine, Ulrich Schnauss says [@ 5:42], "It has a very interesting sound as well, because it's using… a kind of octave divide technology which makes it fully polyphonic, although it doesn't have 32 or 48 or whatever oscillators. It's the same technology that was used in 70's string synths, and has a bit of a similar sound to those as well..."

The first synthesizer shown in Ulrich's "Studio Tour" video by MusicTech is a Elka Synthex. This can be seen at :07s with Ulrich saying "it’s a polyphonic synthesizer from the 80s - it has a quite a particular sound."

An Oberheim Eight Voice is shown and described at 1:38 in Ulrich's studio tour with MusicTech. Ulrich says about the synth - "that’s probably the most powerful polyphonic analog synth I’ve ever come across, which I think has got to do a lot with the fact that if you’re playing this you’re essentially playing an independent monophonic synth chained up, rather than having it designed."

A DX Programmer is shown and described at 2:42 in this studio tour with MusicTech. Ulrich says "Over here, there is a classic that everyone will know, the DX7, but what's nice about this is that at some point I managed to buy a programmer for it. Only, I think, about twenty or twenty-five of these exist. The DX7 is obviously a great and very versatile instrument, but it's very difficult to program, and the good thing with this programmer is that it makes this process a lot more intuitive."

A Yamaha DX7 is shown and described at 2:39 in this studio tour by MusicTech. Ulrich says "Over here, there is a classic that everyone will know, the DX7, but what's nice about this is that at some point I managed to buy a programmer for it. Only, I think, about twenty or twenty-five of these exist. The DX7 is obviously a great and very versatile instrument, but it's very difficult to program, and the good thing with this programmer is that it makes this process a lot more intuitive."

An Ensoniq Fizmo is shown at 3:49 in this studio tour with MusicTech. Ulrich says "There's some digital stuff here, like the Ensoniq Fizmo, which is quite an interesting instrument. Digital waveforms."

Ulrich shows us his Oberheim OB-8 at 4:06 in this studio tour with MusicTech. Ulrich says "There's some analog stuff here as well, like, for instance, the Oberheim OB-8, which is probably one of my most used instruments and something that's always a good starting point."

At 5:16 in this studio tour with MusicTech, Ulrich points to his Yamaha CP80 and says "That's the piano. Its a semi-electric piano, the Yamaha CP80. Works a bit like an electric guitar. It has strings so you can also play it when it's not amplified, but there's pickups inside and you can plug it straight into a mixing desk and it's quite easy to record that.".

A Korg VC-10 Vocoder is shown above Ulrich's Korg PS-3200 at 5:44 in this studio tour with MusicTech.

At 6:33 in this studio tour with MusicTech, Schnauss says "I'm running Logic on that. That's what I use to sequence and record." Judging by the release date of this video and what's displayed on screen, this was most likely Logic Pro X.

At 4:52 in this video with Future Music Magainze, Ulrich talks about this module saying "that Eventide stuff is classic anyway I think - I have a H3000 here as well but I think for, especially for sort of chorusing I think this is - I prefer this even - this is one of the nicest choruses I know."

At 6:24 in this video with Future Music Magazine Ulrich says "maybe one thing that I should mention is my favorite effects unit of all time - that’s probably why I have two of those as well, the Publison DSM 89 B 2."

The MXR Digital Delay can (quickly) be seen as the camera pans up at 6:46 in this video with Future Music Magazine.

At 8:00 in this video with Future Music Magazine, Ulrich shows us and plays his Korg Triton. Ulrich says "it’s great I love this instrument it’s brilliant."

At 2:34 in this video with Future Music Magazine, Ulrich talks about the GL4000 saying "I’ve been mixing stuff in the box for the last eight or nine years probably, and I always had a subjective feeling that the results weren't quite as good as the results that I used to have when I was still using a desk before that. I think the biggest problem is not even so much individual sounds, but when it comes to summing in the end, I always had the impression that the overall sound picture I was getting was lacking sort of detail and clarity and those details as well as separation and presence of individual elements. This summer I was working at a studio where I had the opportunity to use a desk again after a longer period of not doing it, and I just noticed that it wasn't just a subjective impression, I think actually objectively the summing is better in a desk, and that's why I decided to put one into the studio again."

A Roland - System 100M can be seen above Ulrich's Tannoy monitors at 1:26 in this video with Future Music Magazine.

A MOTU 828 MK1 can be seen on Ulrich's desk at 1:42 in this video with Future Music Magazine.

featured using the Waldorf microwave synth in this studio video.