Rutger Verberkmoes

For all you gear junkie’s, here’s my gear list:

Synth’s and samplers

• Kurzweil K2500X AES, the Audio Elite version with all the options and the cool look!
• Roland MKB-1000, an old timer (1984), but it’s got the best keyboard action, never played on something more playable.
• Roland RD-1000, vintage stage piano, uses same wooden keyboard as above (MKB-1000), onboard sounds, the e-piano’s are classic, not a copy of a Rhodes, but very dynamic and warm, especially when you use it with the built-in analog chorus!
• Roland Juno 60 (MIDI-fied), punchy!
• Roland JX-10, warm, full bodied sound. My favorite synth for pads. Underestimated, so a perfect pray if you want to buy one (low 2nd hand prices).
• Clavia NordLead, cuts like a knive.
• Ensoniq SD1, transwave (wavetable) synth, great digi pad sounds
• Casio CZ 101, dirty digital:-)
• Casio PT-1, kids toy, but classic drum sounds
• Akai AX73, basic subtractive synth, but you can get a pretty good lead out of it in unison mode. The Akai S950 sampler can be routed through the filters of the AX73.
• Kurzweil K1000 Ensemble rack, dated sound but great if you like the 80-ties:-)
• Roland MKS-20, a classic, rack version of the RD-1000 (see above).
• E-mu E4XT Ultra with Orbit/Phatt ROM card, RFX32 and ADAT boards. Great sounding filters.
• Roland S-750, one of the best sounding hardware samplers, years ahead of it’s time.
• Roland SP-700, sample player version of the above with double the memory (32 MB), but DA convertors aren’t up the same leage.
• Roland S-550 (2x), 12 bit sampler, breeze to use with monitor/mouse/remote controller. Nice filters.
• Roland S-330 (2x), same as above, half the memory.
• Akai S3000XL, good workhorse.
• Akai S1000HD, bought it recently (march 2010), sounds more raw than the Roland S-750, but I like it for drums and basses.
• Akai S950, it cost me an arm and a leg back than (bough it new when I was 15 in 1990), unfortunately it doesn’t get used that much any more, but I will never sell it….
• Korg S3, not so well known drumcomputer/sequencer, has some usable electronic kits.
• VSL Horizon Sample Library, one fine library.
• Roland Sample Library, stil one fine library.
• Yellow Tools Independence Pro 2.5, another very fine (and huge +70 GB) library.
• Yellow Tools Culture, great percussion module.
• Synthogy Ivory Grand Pianos, fantastic piano sample based library.

Microphones/mic-pre’s/DI boxes

• DPA 5006-11 surround set, 3 x 4006-TL, 2 x 4011-TL, industry standard, very clean sounding mics, great for classical recordings
• Microtech Gefell M300 stereo set, you can compare these with the Neumann KM184′s, but better sounding.
• AKG C451B stereo set, nice for acoustical guitars and winds.
• Audio Technica AT4040, basic, but good sounding mic.
• Rode NT-5, even more basic, you can get great results
• Telefunken TD-25, vintage dynamic mic, great looks
• Telefunken TD-26 (2x), vintage dynamic mic, looks cooler than it sounds (unless you like  avery muffled sound)
• SE Reflexion Filter. Usefull to damp unwanted reflections
• Crane Song Spider, 8 channel mic-pre / mixer / AD convertor. One of the best mic-pre’s (a lot of) money can buy. Same applies for the AD convertors build in.
• RME Fireface 800 4 channel mic-pre. Great workhorse, decent mic-pre’s
• Radial JDI duplex DI box (2x), according to the manufacturer the best DI box in the world. I still haven’t found an argument that they’re wrong:-)

Computers/DAW

• Apple G5 Quad 2,5 Ghz
• Apple iMac dual 2,4 Ghz
• Apple MacBook dual 1,83 Ghz
• Apple PowerMac G4 800 Quicksilver
• Glyph GT050Q professional HD
• Logic Studio 9
• Final Cut Express
• Mackie Control
• RME HDSPe MADI 128 ch. interface
• RME ADI-648
• RME ADI-4 DD
• Crane Song Spider, 8 channel mic-pre / mixer / AD convertor
• RME Fireface 800
• Apogee Big Ben Master Clock
• Solid State Logic Duende
• Solid State Logic X-comp, X-EQ en Drumstrip plug-ins
• Waves “The API collection” plug-ins
• Korg Oasys 24 bit DSP Soundcard
• MOTU 2408 MkII 24 bit AD/DA Converter 2X
• Kurzweil DMTi Format Convertor
• Emagic AMT8 and Unitor8 MIDI Interfaces

Monitoring

• Genelec 8240A active dsp powered reference speaker
• Genelec GLM automatic speaker calibration system
• Tannoy S600A, Tannoy TS10 sub, stereo to 5.1 surround
• Grado RS-2, Reference Headphones

Outboard