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gear in the gallery


CONSOLE
48 Track Digidesisign ProTools 003 w/full automation (8 tracks viewable at a time)
 

COMPUTER
Mac Dual 2.5 G5 Processor w/2.5 Gigs RAM
Seagate 300 Gig session record drive
LaCie 250 Gig session backup drive
LaCie and Sony CDR/DVD Burners

PLUG-INS
Universal Audio UAD-1 card: Neve 33609 stereo buss compressor, LA2A,
1176SE, Precision Limiter, Realverb Pro

Bomb Factory Pultec EQ's, Bomb Factory BF-3A Classic Compressor, Smack
Compressor, Cosmonaut Voice, D-FiT bundle (Lo-FiT, Sci-FiT, Recti-FiT,
Vari-FiT), JOEMEEK® SC2T Photo Optical Compressor, JOEMEEK VC5T
Meequalizer®, Maxim, Moogerfooger® Analog Delay, Moogerfooger Ring
Modulator, SansAmp PSA-1T, Tel-Ray® Variable Delay, Voce® SpinT, Voce
Chorus/Vibrato, TL Space Impulse Reverbs, BBE Sonic Maximizer,
Pitchshifter, Amplitube LE, Ozone
 


MONITORING
Event Studio Precision 8's
Sony MD7506
Extreme Isolation Headphones
Akai Headphones
Behringer HA8000 8-Channel Headphone Amp


ANALOG RECORDING
Otari MX-5050 1/4" 2 Track mastering machine (mix-down machine for those who seek the magic of tape!)
1969 Akai mono w/ Germanium Transistors 1/4" tape machine
1955 Revere mono 1/4" tape machine with tube pre


PREAMPS
API 3124+
Mackie Onyx X8
Digidesign X4


Vintage Preamps:
1977 Boss KM-60 pre's (X6) (same pre's used live by Tangerine Dream keyboardist in the early-mid eighties)
Mid 1970's Peavey PA600 pre's (X6) w/ REAL Spring Reverb

DI BOXES
Countryman DT85 FET
Whirwind


MICROPHONES
Neumann U87 (if you don't know how famous this mic is, just Google it!)
Audio-Technica AT4033 large diaphragm condenser
Audio-Technica AT822 stereo condenser
Heil PR30 Large Diaphragm Dynamic
Shure Beta 52
Shure SM57 X2
Shure "Green Bullet"
Shure SM58
$5 Radio Shack Mic ("Go ahead, scream into it")

VINTAGE MICROPHONES
Late 1970's Shure Brothers SM57 (tastes more like RedHot than the other
Heinz 57's)
1960's Telefunken TD25 Dynamic (looks like "Star-Trek")
1960's Telefunken TD26 Small Diaphragm (great for hi-hat)
1970's Sennheiser MD611 (low-fi with crisp detail, intimate)
Calrad "little hog" harmonica mic (smaller than your pinky and goes to
eleven! gritty, telephoney)
1970's Beyerdynamic M55 (not as gritty as the Calrad, usable clean with
some trebley magic)


INSTRUMENTS
Basses:
Fender Jazz Bass
Ibanez 1206E Prestige 35" scale 6-string w/USA Bartolini's and
neck-through body
Epiphone Late 70's short-scale vintage bass
Squire P-Bass
Strunal Upright Bass w/bow

Guitars:
Italia Rimini Semi-Hollow Guitar w/Trevor Wilkinson P-90's
Epiphone SG Les Paul Custom electric guitar (w/3 Humbuckers!!!)
Yamaha Acoustic

Keys and Synths:
Vintage Wurlitzer Omni 4600 organ
1978 BeeGee's Rhythm Machine (same as used by Kraftwerk)
Yamaha PSR16 cheap 80's synthesizer
Yamaha PSR-740 keyboard (lots of patches: strings, organs, etc.)
Casiotone VL-1 miniature keyboard (first mini-synthesizer, used on the "Da Da Da" Volkswagen commercial among other things)

World:
Handmade Dulcimer
Miniature African Balaphone
Dumbek
Djembe
Bongos


AMPS
ORANGE Rocker 30, Class A 30 Watt 2 channel open back combo with 12"
Vintage Celeston speaker, 3 12AX7's and 2 Electro-Harmonix EL34 "Big
Bottle" Tubes!!! (Can you say Made in England!!!)

David Eden Bass Rig Consisting of The 1200 Watt WT800 World Tour Head,
Korg Tuner, Furman, 410XLT, and 210XST cabs (same amp used by Battles,
STS9, Phil Lesh and Mike Gordon!)

Fender 1991 BXR300 300 Watt Bass Amp w/15" woofer

Vintage Traynor 4 channel head

2 Vintage Ampro 12" speaker cabs

2 12" Floor Wedge Monitors


PEDALS
Moog 101 Low-pass Filter (also used by Pnuma and The Disco Biscuits)
Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb (luscious hall and spring reverb)
Electro-Harmonix EH400 Small Clone Full-Chorus (also used by Nirvana's
Kurt Cobain)
Boss GE-7 7band EQ
Boss OC-3 Super Octave
Boss SYB-3 Bass Synthesizer (also used by The New Deal, Pnuma, and The
Disco Biscuits)
Boss PS-2 pitch shifter/delay
Digitech Bass Synth Wah
Danelectro Chilidog Octave
ProCo Turbo Rat distortion pedal (Sonic Youth bass sound on Goo)
Digitech Talker vocoder (also used by Trans Am)
DOD Votec Vocal FX processor
Korg Toneworks AX1B bass FX processor
Ibanez PT3-DX Guitar FX Processor
Rocktron Super Hush C (stereo noise reduction for noisy amps or EFX loops)


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