Instruments:
- Tenor Saxophone (Santa-Fe)
- Alto Saxophone (Arbiter)
- Set of 7 Hohner blues harps (keys A to G)
- Fender Stratocaster electric guitar
- Cort Z44 electric guitar
- Cort bass guitar
- Yamaha steel string acoustic guitar
- Yamaha classic (more than 30 years old!)
- Fender DELUXE 900 guitar amp
- Various Boss pedals
- Zoom multi FX guitar pedal
- Roland A37 music keyboard controller
- Roland XV-2020 hardware sound module
- Roland SC880 hardware sound module
Hardware & Software:
Control Room
2 Windows powered i7 DAWs in case of failover.
- The setup on each is almost identical.
- Backups are regularly made.
The recording software used below each has a host of software sounds and patch libraries, and many plug-ins:
- Avid Pro Tools
- Reason Studios
- Main mixing suite: Izoptope Neutron
- Main mastering suite: Izotope Ozone Advanced
Vocal Chain:
- Celemony Melodyne Studio
- Izotope Nectar
- Izotope RX
- Izoptope Neutron
Favourited Plugins:
- Many Rack-Extensions from Reason Studios, including:
- Friktion modelled strings
- Studio, Rock and Classic Drums
- Reason Bass
- Izotope Production Suit
- As a member of EastWest Composer Cloud, access to all of the libraries, including:
- Hollywood Backup Singers
- Hollywood Orchestrator
- Hollywood Choir
- Hollywood Soul
Audio Interfaces:
- Presonus Firewire (10 channels)
- Behringer USB (4 channels)
Monitoring:
- Adam (Advanced Dynamic Audio Monitors) Audio T-Series active near field studio monitors
- To represent a full range frequency spectrum, this is paired with a Mackie active sub-woofer and forms a 3-way system (bass: sub-woofer, mids: woofer & tops: ribbon tweeter).
- Calibrated and using a crossover.
- nEar-Experience ESI active near field studio monitors
- only used as alternative reference
- SR-850 studio headphones
- Fostex studio headphones
The recording room also includes:
- Snake Box (10 XLR & 10 1/4-inch)
- Mini mixer (12 channels)
- Tannoy playback monitors (powered by an old AKAI amp built in 1980!)
- Multiple dynamic mics, condenser studio mic, headphone sets & amp
- Other:
- PA Amp rack (used for external performances, or occasionally to disturb the neighbours)
- 2400 Watts Stereo Amp
- 2 Cabs, each with double 18" drivers plus tweeters
