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 Digital, SONNOX, 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
- Soyuz 013 Tube SDC (matched pair)
- RODE K2 (Telefunken tube mod)
- Shure SM7b
- Audio Technica 4033
- Audio Technica 2020
- 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
PRE AMPS:
- Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel
- Chandler/EMI REDD 47 (2)
- Chandler TG Channel 12411 (2)
- Helios Type 69 (Tony Arnold-era) 500 series (2)
- API 3124V – 4ch (2)
- UA LA-610 mkII
- Focusrite ISA 828 – 8ch
- Audient ASP-880 – 8ch
- Audient ID48 – 8ch
- Audient ID44 – 4ch
- Acme Audio ‘Motown DI’ Bass DI
- SansAmp ‘GED-2112’ Bass Pre/DI
- Universal Audio ‘Ox Box’
- Soyuz ‘Launcher Deluxe’ – 2ch (2)
COMPRESSORS:
- Rupert Neve Designs 5254 Shelford Compressor
- API 2500
- Manley Vari-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

EQs:
- Chandler ‘Curve Bender’
- API 5500 stereo/dual mono (2)
- Manley ‘Massive Passive’
- Manley Stereo Pultec
- A-Designs Hammer 2
- Chandler TG Channel 12411 (2)
- Helios Type 69 (2)
ANALOGUE SUMMING:
- Chandler EMI/TG Mini Mixer (16 channels)
- Rupert Neve Designs Satellite 5059 (16 channels)
CONVERTERS and CLOCKING:
- BURL B80 Mothership
- BURL BAD4 (3)
- BURL B2 Bomber ADC (2ch)
- BURL BDA8 (4)
- Audient ASP-880 (8ch)
- Audient ID48 (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
- Soma Lyra-8
- Arturia Drum Brute Analogue Drum Synth
- 1960s Vintage Ludwig 4pc w/Zildjian, Sabian, Soultone cymbals
- Ludwig Acrolite snare (1978)
- Various percussion
AMPS/CABS:
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Vox AC15-C1
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Bad Cat Lynx 40W Hi-Gain tube head
- Roland Jazz Chorus 40 (stereo)
- Orange ‘Tiny Terror’ 15W tube head
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Orange ‘crush’
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Mesa Boogie 4×12 (vintage 30s)
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Orange 2×12 (open back)
PEDALS:
- BOSS DS-1 (original late 70s)
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BOSS Phaser-r (1981)
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BOSS DD-3 delay
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Ibanez Tube Screamer (late 70s)
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CatalinBread SFT
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Earthquaker Devices Black Ash (limited edition) x2
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Earthquaker Devices ‘Afterneath’ FX x2
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MXR Carbon Copy delay
- Strymon ‘Big Sky’ reverb
- Strymon ‘Night Sky’ reverb
- Empress Effects ‘Echo System
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Electro-Harmonix ‘The Clone Theory’
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Fairfield Circuitry ‘Shallow Water’ modulation +
- ZVEX ‘lo-fi junky’ tape sim/compressor
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Stonegate FX (custom fuzz and Phaser) (3)
- Plus many more
