We have a wide, wide variety of activities for people. Music is just one of them. The musical equipment, at least when it arrives by ship from the United States, is top flight, Meyer says. We get very nice microphones and sound systems down here. Unfortunately it doesn't last very long.
Recording is a much more makeshift venture.
Krauss brought his own recording equipment to the ice, and uses some base equipment along with borrowed gear. So for any of the recordings I do in what I call the studio, but what is actually the band practice room in the beer warehouse, I use my computer to record two tracks. When it needs any more than two tracks it gets more complicated. Being in the Antarctic, Krauss has to improvise. When he only has one or two channels to record, he uses a Macintosh PowerBook G3 PDQ and Digidesign's ProTools to record, then mixes using a Carvin mixer.