Gear

From classic microphones and pre-amps/channel strips, “boutique” Compressors and EQs, etc. (click HERE for detailed info about the outboard gear I use), to the best UAD, Soundtoys, Waves, Slate DigitalSONNOX, Brainworx and other premium plug ins available, you can be certain I’ve got just the right thing to bring Your songs in to Focus!

MICS:

  • Chandler REDD tube mic/pre
  • Mojave MA-37
  • Mojave MA-300
  • Royer 121
  • Royer 101
  • RODE K2 (Telefunken tube mod)
  • Shure SM7b
  • Audio Technica 4033
  • AKG 451b (pair)
  • AEA KU5A
  • Stager SR-3 (large ribbon)
  • Stager SR-2N (matched pair/ribbon)
  • EV RE-20
  • Sennheiser 421 (vintage 60s)
  • Lauten Audio Snare Mic
  • AKG D112
  • Shure 520DX ‘Green Bullet’
  • Shure sm57 (3)
  • Shure sm58
  • Audio Technica 2020
 
PRE AMPS:
 
  • Chandler TG Channel mkII (4)
  • API 3124V (2)
  • UA LA-610 mkII
  • Focusrite ISA 828
  • Audient ASP-880
  • Audient ID44 (4)
  • Acme Audio ‘Motown DI’ Bass DI
  • SansAmp ‘GED-2112’ Bass Pre/DI
  • Universal Audio ‘Ox Box’
 
COMPRESSORS:
  • API 2500
  • Manley Variable Mu (T-Bar mod)
  • PomPYE Compressor (dual mono/stereo)
  • Airfield Audio Liminator 2
  • Empirical Labs Distressor (brit mod) (2)
  • Empirical Labs ‘FATSO’
  • RETRO 176
  • Audioscape DA-3A
  • DBX 160A
  • LA-610 mkII
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Iron + Tubes = YES.

EQs:

  • API 5500 stereo/dual mono (2)
  • Manley ‘Massive Passive’
  • Manley Stereo Pultec
  • A-Designs Hammer 2
  • Chandler TG Channel mkII (4)
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ANALOGUE SUMMING:

Chandler EMI/TG Mini Mixer (16 channels)

BURL B32 Vancouver (32 channels)

CONVERTERS and CLOCKING:

  • BURL B80 Mothership
  • BURL BAD4 (3)
  • BURL B2 Bomber ADC (2ch)
  • BURL BDA8 (4)
  • Audient ASP-880 (8ch)
  • Audient ID44 (4ch)

INSTRUMENTS:

  • Fender Tele (modded)
  • Gibson Les Paul Deluxe ‘Gold Top’ (70s reissue)
  • Gibson Les Paul ‘melody maker’ (modded)
  • Charvel model 3-a (modded)
  • Fender Squier Strat (modded)
  • Fender P Bass
  • Music Man/Sterling Sting Ray (short scale)
  • Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar
  • Yamaha FG 430 acoustic guitar
  • Korg Minilogue xd analogue poly synthesizer
  • Mellotron M4000D
  • Native Instruments Kontroller S49
  • Yamaha EX5-r Digital Tone Generator
  • Arturia Drum Brute Analogue Drum Synth
  • Gretsch ‘Catalina Club’ 4pc w/Zildjian, Sabian, Soultone cymbals
  • Ludwig Acrolite snare (1978)
  • Various percussion
     
    AMPS:
  • Vox AC15-C1 
  • Bad Cat Lynx 40W Hi-Gain tube head
  • Roland Jazz Chorus 40 (stereo)
  • Orange ‘Tiny Terror’ 15W tube head
  • Orange ‘crush’
     
    PEDALS:
  • BOSS DS-1 (original late 70s)
  • BOSS Phaser-r (1981)
  • BOSS DD-3 delay
  • Ibanez Tube Screamer (late 70s)
  • CatalinBread SFT
  • Earthquaker Devices Black Ash (limited edition) x2
  • Earthquaker Devices ‘Afterneath’ FX x2
  • MXR Carbon Copy delay
  • Strymon ‘Big Sky’ reverb
  • Electro-Harmonix ‘The Clone Theory’
  • Fairfield Circuitry ‘Shallow Water’ modulation +
  • ZVEX ‘lo-fi junky’ tape sim/compressor
  • Stonegate FX (custom fuzz and Phaser) (3)
  • Plus many more

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