GEAR LIST
Recorders, Console & Monitoring
- Pro Tools|HD1 - The industry standard. TDM, not LE. Digital finally sounds great
- 2x Pro Tools 96I/O - audio interface
- Power Mac G4 dual 1 gig
- Focusrite/Digidesign Control 24 - Pro Tools control surface with 16x Focusrite Pre amps. Couldn't live without those faders
- Soundcraft Ghost - 24 channel in line console. Nice pre-amps and EQ. Now used for tracking only
- Alesis Adat XT20 - 24 track 16 or 20 Bit digital recorder. Used for transfers to Pro Tools
- Alesis Adat BRC - Remote control. Same as above
- JBL 4411 - 3 way monitor speakers. My babies
- Yamaha NS10 - 2 way monitor speakers. Good for referencing a mix
- Perreaux PMF1150 B - power amplifier
Microphones
Because it doesn't matter how good things are, if you don't get it right at the source.
Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphones
- 2x Neumann U87 Ai - Sound good on anything
- Groove Tubes MD1A - Valve mic. Looks cool! Sounds great on some singers, and acoustic guitars
- 2x AKG C414 B - Nice for piano, electric guitar amps or drum overheads, when the U87s are busy
- Shure KSM 27 - Favorite on double bass
- AKG C3000 - Great for 'rock' hats or to help a dull acoustic guitar cut through the mix
Small Diaphragm Condenser Microphones
- 2x Neumann KM84 - Classic, versatile mic. Great on everything except lead vocals
- 2x Earhworks SR71 - Great on a great kit, not great on a not so great kit. Very honest
- Audix VX-10 - hand held condenser mic. Nice for live vocals and acoustic instruments
Ribbon Microphones
- RCA SK-46 - 1950s era. Nice room mic.
- Oktava ML52 - From Russia, with love for percussion.
Dynamic Microphones
- Sennheiser MD441 - Smooth. Too nice for some things
- 4x Sennheiser MD421 - Toms, sax, electric guitar
- Sennheiser e609 - Like an even more 'rock' SM57!
- Beyerdynamic M88 - Favorite bass amp mic. Also good on Electric guitar and percussion
- Beyerdynamic M101 - omnidirectional dynamic microphone
- Audix D6 - monster bottom end, for kick or bass
- 2x Audio - Technica ATM25 - First call 'Kick' mic
- AKG D112 - 2nd favorite bass amp mic
- Shure Beta 56 - Brighter, harder version of the SM57
- 4x Shure SM57 - The workhorse
- Shure SM58 - Guide vocals and hammering nails
Outboard
- LA Audio PS10 - Mic Pre-amp, De-esser, Compressor and EQ
- Joe Meek Studio Channel VC1Q - Love the compressor, never use the enhancer, ocassionaly use the EQ
- Gyraff Audio designed G9 Mic Pre - All valve, dual channel mic preamp. Pure valve goodness
- Bellari RP220 Dual Tube Microphone Preamp - Modified for better headroom and a more natural sound
- 2x Jensen dual microphone pre-amp - Dean Jensen designed pres. Very nice
- 4x Yamaha PM1000 dual mic pre-amp/EQ - The Japanese Neve
- Bellari RP583 Studio Dual Tube Compressor/Limiter - Valve optical compressor. Also modified
- Behringer Composer MDX 2000 - compressor/limiter/gate. From when they made 'very good' gear at a great price
- Behringer Composer MDX 2100 - compressor/limiter/gate. Same as above
- Rocktron Hush IIBX - noise reduction. Kill that amp buzz
Pro Tools Plug-Ins
- URS A,N and S Classic Console Equalizers - API 550B, Neve 1084 and SSL EQs. My favorites
- Focusrite D2 - Eq. Almost never used
- Sony Oxford - Eq. Another favorite
- Massenburg High-res Parametric Eq - Mastering grade EQ. Clean, transparent and uses heaps of DSP
- McDSP Filterbank - Eq Quite nice really
- Waves Renaissance Equalizer. As above
- IK Multimedia T-Racks EQ. Almost never used
- Bomb Factory BF3A -Optical style compressor. A favorite
- Bomb Factory BF76 compressor - Urei 1176 emulation. Another favorite
- McDsp MC2000 - multiband Compressor
- Waves Renaissance compressor. Versatile comp
- Waves Renaissance Vox - Vocal compressor. Another favorite
- Waves Renaissance De-esser. Best de-esser I've found to date
- Drawmer Dynamics - expander/gate, compressor/limiter. I've tried, but never found a use for this.
- Focusrite D3 - compressor/limiter
- Digidesign D-Verb - Reverb - Good for a 'trashier' sound
- TC Works TC Tools - Reverb, Delay/Chorus, Eq - First call Reverb and Delay/Chorus
- Waves Renaissance Reverberator - Sounds very cheap and not in a good way. Never used
- Wave Mechanics Pitch Doctor - Pitch Correction. I try to avoid using this, but sometimes....
- Wave Mechanics SoundBlender - time, pitch, filter and modulation effects. Good for the 'wacky' stuff
- Wave Mechanics Speed - Precision tempo and pitch modification tool
- Eventide H949 Harmonizer - See Sound Blender
- Line6 Amp Farm - Guitar amplifier emulation. Not quite the real thing, but pretty close
- IK Multimedia Amplitube - Guitar amplifier emulation. Not bad
- Crane Song Phoenix - Analogue tape emulation. Amazing
- Antares Tube - tube emulation
- Aphex Aural Exciter - A little goes a long way
- Aphex Big Bottom Pro - Ditto x2
- Waves Renaissance Bass - Never found a use for this
- IK Multimedia Sample Tank - Sample playback. Haven't used it for anything, but sounds pretty cool
- Propellerhead Reason Adapted - As above.
Miscellaneous
- Sony PCM2300 - DAT recorder. Used for the odd transfer. Was used a lot
- Kenwood KX-4520 - 3 head cassette recorder. Never used!
- Technics SL-P555 - CD player. Used quite a bit really
- Boss DI-1 - active direct box. What do you say about a DI?
- 2x Behringer Ultra-DI DI100 - active direct box. As above
- 2x Peavey ID 1 - passive direct box. Good for taming ugly digital synths
- 2x Q-Mix - headphone distribution system
- AKG, Beyerdynamic, Sony and Fostex headphones
- RythmTech tambourine - For that subtle lift
Instruments
Keyboards
- Yamaha C7 Piano - 1968 7ft4 concert grand. The peak of the Japanese pianos. Great, if you can play
- Rhodes MK-80 - digital piano/midi controller - 88 key weighted. Closest thing to a 'real' Rhodes
- Ensoniq ESQ-1 - digital wave synthesizer
- Evolution MK-449C - USB midi controller
Guitars
- Ibanez Talman - Gibson P100 'soapbar' pickups. A cross between a Les Paul Junior and a strat
- Tokai Love Rock - Late '80s Les Paul clone. Dimazio PAF pro pickups. Better than most of the 'real' ones
- Fender Jazz Bass - Badass bridge and Dimazio Ultra Jazz pickups. Gets used a lot
- Warmoth Tele - 'Fender Tele' made from Warmoth, Fender and Seymour Duncan parts. '52 Style. Great
- Squire Venus electric 12 string - From the Courtney Love series, but don't hold that against it!!!
Guitar Amps
- Marshall 2553 - valve guitar amp head -Black version of the Silver Jubilee heads. Great clean amp
- Marshall quad - 4x25 watt green back celestions
- Vox AC30 top boost - My personal favorite. I've owned this since 1987 and turned down a few offers to sell
- Rivera Thirty Twelve - This replaced a '54 Fender Deluxe. Tweed sound with more control
- Fender Pro Junior - Modern take on the Tweed amps. Great rock tone through the quad
- Fender Bassman - 1964 model head + 2x12" box - Used a lot for bass or bluesy guitar
- Pignose - guitar amp. Used with the Rat for massive lead sounds. Don't try playing chords
Effect Pedals
- 2x Aphek Peanut Butter - Distortion
- 2x Aphek Mr Mustard - distortion
- SansAmp Classic - amp simulator for guide tracks
- Pro Co Rat - distortion
- Heet Sound E-Bow - electronic bowing device for guitar
- Dunlop Crybaby wah
- Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer - modified to TS808 specs. Not used much anymore
- Ibanez TS5 Tube Screamer - modified to TS9 specs. Ditto above
- Ibanez SD9 Sonic Distortion - nice and nasty
- Ibanez FL9 Flanger - first pedal I ever bought
- Ibanez SC10 Super Stereo Chorus
- Ibanez Echo Machine - Very cool delay. They stopped making them of course
- MXR Dist+ - 1971 model distortion. Like a cross between an distortion and a fuzz
- MXR Analogue Delay - funky green delay. Temperamental
- MXR Phase 90 - Very Cool
- MXR Dynacomp - Smooth or Snappy
- 3x Boss TU-12 Chromatic Tuner - instrument tuner
- Boss CE-1 - Great chorus, when it's working
- Boss CE-2 - Chorus
- 2x Boss DM-2 - Analogue Delay
- Boss CS-2 - Compressor Sustainer
- Boss TW-1 - T Wah - automatic 'touch' wah
- Boss OC-2 - Octaver
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