My Home Studio
Is playing in a band just a thinly veiled excuse to buy more gear?
My Tracking Room Audio Gear
Recording Interface (total of 24 channels in):
Presonus Quantum 2626 (8 channels)
2 Focusrite Scarlett OctoPre ADAT preamps (8 additional channels each)
Microphones:
Audix D6 (Kick)
3 Audix ADX51 (2 overheads and hi-hat)
Audix i5 (Snare Top)
Audix D4 (floor tom)
2 Audix D2 (rack tom and snare bottom)
Cascade (now Pinnacle) FatHead Ribbon mic (Drum room Sound)
Roswell Pro Audio Mini K-87 (Horns, Guitar Cabinet amping)
4 Switchable Shure SM-58s for talkback/Sonobus voice mics
2 standard Shure SM-58s
3 Shure SM-57s for guitar cabinet, extra horns
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Monitoring:
Behringer P16-I Input Module via ADAT (16 bus channels) feeding five Behringer P16-HQ personal monitoring mixers
Musician Headphones: Sony MDR-7506, Sony MDR-7509HD, Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro
Tracking Computer:
Mac Mini M1 16GB Unified RAM | 1TB SSD
Tracking Software:
Amp Modeling Software for guitar/bass:
Neural DSP Archetype: Cory Wong X
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Acoustic Drums:
2005 Gretsch Custom Be-Bop Kit: 18x18 BD, 12x8 Tom, 14x14 Floor Tom
2005 Craviotto Birdseye Maple Snare 14x5½ 10 lug
K Zildjian Special Dry Ride 21"
Bosphorus 19" Masters crash
Bosphorus Turk Dark Hi Hats 14"
Sabian Jack DeJohnette 21" Encore 2560g flat ride
Istanbul Agop Turk 22" Jazz Ride
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eDrums:
Roland V-Drums TD-27KV2 Electronic Drum Kit
Superior Drummer 3 (with Decades, Jazz Sessions, Roots Sticks, and Roots Brushes SDX kits)
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Keyboard:
Kawai ES-920 88-key digital piano
Art SLA-1 Power Amp​​
Radial Pro-D2 Stereo Passive Direct Box
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Basses:
NS Design NXTa Electric Upright Bass​
Yamaha TRBX604FM Electric Bass (Matte Amber)
Joe Dart Artist Series Bass (2024)
Amps, Cabinets and Direct Boxes:
Phil Jones Bass BP-200 200-watt Bass Amplifier Head
Raezer's Edge REBL 112 Bass Cabinet
2 Radial JDI Passive Direct Boxes
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My mixing/mastering room audio gear
Mixing/Mastering Computer:
Mac Mini M1 16GB Unified RAM | 1TB SSD
DAW (mixing and mastering):
Mixing/Mastering Monitors: Presonus Eris E8 XT
​Mixing/Mastering Interface: M-Audio Air 192|8
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