Music Tools Home

Recording Gear

Keyboards & Guitars

Percussion

Studio Details

Patch Lists for OSX

Legacy Tools for OS9

Korg

 

Recording Gear

Transducers, transformers, transistors, and transceivers.

Computer, interfaces, and control surfaces

Mac Pro 8-core 2.26 "Nehalem" (details below)
MOTU 1296 (x2), 2408mkIII, MTP AV USB (x2)
Mackie Control Universal Pro
iPod Touch with DP Remote

Analog outboard and A/D converters

Aardvark Aardscape analog tape emulator
ADL / Inward Connections Model 200 Stereo Tube DI
Aphex Expressor
dbx 266XL
FMR RNLA
Focusrite ISA 430 mkII (x2) with A/D
Focusrite ISA 428 w/ 2nd gen. 8-channel A/D
Focusrite Green 5 channel strips (x3)
NightPro/NTI PreQ3
Sarno Steel Guitar Black Box
Symetrix 525

Effects

Eventide DSP7000
Korg OASYS PCI
Lexicon NuVerb (x2)
Rocktron Banshee talkbox
Roland SRV-330
Strymon El Capistan
tc electronic Fireworx
Vox ToneLab LE

Monitors and treatments

Monitors
Mackie HR824 monitors and Big Knob
JBL OnTour "smalls" (why simulate cheap speakers
when you can get the real thing?)

Headphones
AKG K240 DF headphones
Aphex HeadPod 454 headphone amp
Sony MDR-V6 headphones
Ultrasone Pro650 headphones

Treatments
RealTraps Corner Mondo Traps, RFZ Panels, Mini Traps, and Portable Vocal Booth
GIK Tri-Traps

Software

Music apps
MOTU Digital Performer
Logic Studio
BIAS Peak Pro
Izotope RX2
Jam 6
AudioFinder
Celemony Melodyne Studio
Propellerhead Reason and ReCycle
Peterson StroboSoft

Plug-ins
Audio Damage 914, ADverb (aka Reverence), Automaton, Axon, Big Seq 2, Dr. Device, Discord, Dubstation, Eos, Fluid, Fuzz Plus, Liquid, Panstation, Phase Two, Pulse Modulator, Ratshack Reverb, Ricochet, Ronin, Rough Rider, and Vapor
AudioEase Altiverb and VST Wrapper
Camel Audio CamelSpace and CamelPhat 3
Cytomic The Glue and The Drop
Eventide H3000 Factory and Black Hole
IK Multimedia T-RackS 3 Vintage Program EQ 1A, Vintage Compressor Model 670, Opto Compressor, Classic Compressor, and Classic Clipper
KuSh UBK-1
Lexicon Native Reverb Bundle
Line 6 GearBox Gold and PodFarm 2
PSP N2O, Nitro and Vintage Warmer 2
Softube Summit Audio TLA-100A
Stillwell Transient Monster
Waves Platinum Bundle and CLA Compressors

Microphones

Large Diaphragm Condensor
AKG C414 EB P48
AKG C414 B-XLS (x2, matched pair)
Audio-Technica AT4033a
Blue B4 capsule (for AKG C480B)
Blue Bluebird
Manley Reference Cardiod
M-Audio Sputnik
MXL Cr-24 (x2)
Neumann U 87 Ai
Red R6 capsule (for AKG C480B)
Red R7 capsule (for AKG C480B)

Small Diaphragm Condensor
AKG C480B (x2), with CK61 (x2) and CK62 (x2) capsules
Audio-Technica AT4053a (x3)
Audio-Technica AT3031 (x2)
Audio-Technica ATM450
Earthworks QTC-1 (x2, matched pair)
Electrovoice Cardinal (x2)
Electrovoice RE510
Shure SM-81 (x2) w/additional omni capsule

Dynamic
Audix D6
Electrovoice N/D408
Electrovoice N/D408B (x2)
Electrovoice RE20 (x2)
Electrovoice RE10
Electrovoice 635a (x2)
Granelli/Shure G5790
Sennheiser MD 421 mk II
Sennheiser MD 441U
Shure SM-57 (x2) and SM-58

Ribbon
Cascade Fat Head
Cascade Knuckle Head Lundahl
Shure KSM313 (aka Naked Eye Roswellite)
TNC ACM-200 dual ribbon

Specialty
AKG C 419
Audio-Technica ATM250DE
Countryman Isomax II Omni
MiLab MP-30 boundary layer "pzm" (x2)
Placid Audio Copperphone
Shure Beta 91
Yamaha Subkick

Mic Hardware
Enhanced Audio M600
Grace Design Spacebar
Josephson Jecklin Disk
Latch Lake Xtra Booms
Soundmirror custom 40mm spheres for Earthworks QTC-1 pair
Ultimate Support MC125 boom stands

Other Gear

Mackie 1202VLZPro and extra 1202 (comes in handy!)
Panasonic SV-3700 DAT
Gaines Audio 448 Line Level Interfaces
EbTech Hum Eliminators (x3) and Line Level Shifter
Lucid ADA-1000
Radial stereo DI
On Stage QK2B Microphone Clip Quick Releases - "you make mic swapping fun"
Radio Shack sound level meter (ear protection)
Peterson Stroboflip and Strobosoft tuners (a different kind of ear protection)
Overstuffed recliner (comfy!)
Espresso machine (tasty!)


Computer Hardware Details

Main system
Mac Pro 8-core 2.26 "Nehalem," 24GB RAM, SSD boot drive, 5TB HD storage, OSX 10.6
MOTU PCI-424 with one 2408mkIII and two 1296 interfaces

OASYS PCI host
PowerMacintosh G4/800 (Sonnet processor upgrade), 960MB RAM, MacOS 9.2, Korg OASYS PCI

NuVerb host
Quadra 700, 20 MB RAM, MacOS 8.1
Lexicon NuVerb x 2