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Equipment / Gear List:

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Tape Recorders:

Otari MTR-10 1/4” Half track reel to reel

Teac A1500 1/4” reel to reel

Teac A550RX stereo cassette recorder 

 

Digital Recorders:

M1 Mac Mini running Protools, the latest stable update

UA Apollo 8 converter / processor / interface

Apogee AD-16X converter 

Zoom F8 field recorder

 

Microphones:

Gefell UM 92 large diaphragm tube condenser, three polar patterns selectable

Gefell UM 930 stereo pair large diaphragm condensers, cardioid pattern

Schoeps CMC 6 small diaphragm condenser, hypercardioid capsule

AKG 451 small diaphragm condensers, with cardioid and omni capsules 2pcs.

AKG D19 dynamic mics, branded Revox 2 pcs.

AKG D12 dynamic mic, branded Echolette

AKG D112 dynamic mic

Sennheiser 421, dynamic mic 2pcs.

Sennheiser 416 shotgun condenser

Shure SM57

Shure SM59

Sony Lavalier 1970s phantom powered

Sony Lavaliers with RX/TX packs 2pcs

Fischer speaker mic for kick drum

 

Guitars:

Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, 1954 custom shop reissue, real 50s soapbar p-90s

Gibson Les Paul Standard, tobacco burst, humbuckers

Gibson Melody Maker, 1965, humbuckers

James Trussart Custom Guitar, telecaster style with Gretsch/D’armond supertron pickup

Squire P-Bass, modified with DiMarzio P-bass pickup and series/parallel switch

Squire Bass VI, 6 string bass/baritone “tic-tac” style guitar

Martin D-28, 1976 acoustic guitar

Lo Prinzi Folk-model acoustic guitar, 70s

Yamaha Nippon Gakki red label FG110, 1960s, currently configured as a “high strung” guitar

Yamaha white label acoustic dreadnaught

Yamaha red label 12 string acoustic guitar

 

Amplifiers:

1956 Fender Bassman, tweed, 4 x 10” Jensens, tube guitar amp

Bourdet-Luxe 1 x 12” 15watt tube guitar amp combo built in house

Pocket-Luxe small single ended tube guitar amp combo built in house

Matchless Clubman Reverb head and 2 x 12” cabinet, tube amp for bass, guitar and keyboards

Ampeg Gemini 1, 1968, tube guitar combo amp

SWR California Blonde acoustic guitar amp

Leslie passive speaker in spinning drum cabinet from a spinet organ

 

Keyboards:

Schulz upright piano, 1930

Hammond B-2 modified with percussion, 1954, restored in house

Hammond M-2, 1954, restored in house

Fender Rhodes 73 key stage electric piano, 1977, restored in house

Moog Rogue, 1982

Leslie 122 speaker cabinet, restored in house

 

Drums:

Slingerland kit, 1970s,  12”, 13”, 16”, 22”,  configured as concert toms

Rogers R-360 kit, 1968, 12”, 13”, 16”, 20” coated ambassadors on batter and rest heads

Ludwig Acrolite snare drum, 1971

Various percussion, tambourines, shakers, bells, triangles

 

Other Instruments

Martin Ukulele, soprano, 1950s

Martin Ukulele, tenor, 1950s

Kay Mandolin, 1960s

 

Preamps:

Mountain Sounds Recorders discrete opamp, transformer coupled mic pre, based around the Jensen 918 open source design from 1976, 4pcs.

UA 610, tube mic preamps and DIs, 2pcs.  using vintage JAN tubes

Soundcraft IC channel strip preamps with 4 band eq, 8pcs.

UA Apollo, high resolution digitally controlled IC opamp mic press 4pcs.

 

Compressors

DBX 161 VU pair, modified for balanced ins/outs in house

DBX 160a

UA 1176 stock

 

Other hardware:

DBX three band expander

Panamax power conditioners 2pcs.

Monster power conditioner

 

Speakers/Monitors:

Rogers LS-1 near fields, excellent examples of the BBC design philosophy, 1970s

Yamaha NS-10 near fields

JBL LSR 8” powered monitors

 

Stereo Amplifiers

McIntosh MC7100 stereo amplifier

Hafler Trans-Nova p3000 stereo amplifier

 

Mixer:

Soundcraft 200 modified 1979