Been loving my mobile rig lately. I love getting out of the studio and into a coffee shop or cafe to do edits, comps, and even keyboard parts and soundscaping. Something about being surrounded by people and activity helps me wade through some of the more mundane (but equally as important) producer tasks like editing.
My rig consists of my mono bag, macbook pro, work hard drive, Apogee ONE, Kensington mouse, headphones, mini keyboard, and a few other odds and ends like cables, adapters, and chargers.
The Apogee ONE is amazing. It acts as my A/D converter and headphone amp (letting me bypass the notoriously mediocre Apple headphone out). The difference in sound is very apparent. Extended highs, lower lows, better clarity and depth of field.
I have a 500gb lacie drive that holds all of the sessions and projects I'm currently working on. I back this work hard drive up to the cloud via Gobbler. Gobbler is a great service which actively syncs and backs up DAW projects as you're working. It also organizes itself well, and "dedups" itself to keep from storing duplicates of the same file. Really handy tool. After a project is released I remove it from the work drive and Gobbler and archive it to another hard drive and a RAID array at the studio.
It might seem silly to even mention the mouse, but because I use a Kinsington Expert Mouse (a particular trackball type mouse) when at the studio, this little brother makes me feel much more at home when working on the go. It's the Kensington Wireless Orbit.
Well, I'm at boomtown coffee in the Heights, and I'm about to put this rig to good use to edit some guitar comps for the Paul Pelc EP, dial in some rhodes and wurly sounds for Courtney Conerly's (almost finished) debut album, and put some background B3 parts down on the Charlie Lucas Band's upcoming single. Back to work!
-Ty