Gear

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

Computers/DAW

• Apple Mac Pro 5,1
• Apple Mac Pro 3,1
• Apple MacBook Pro
• Apple PowerMac G4
• Logic Pro X
• Mackie Control + 2 extenders
• RME HDSPe MADI interface
• RME ADI-648
• RME ADI-192DD
• RME ADI-4 DD 2x
• Dangerous 2-Bus summing mixer
• Crane Song Spider, 8 channel mic-pre / mixer / AD converter
• Antelope Audio Pure2 mastering AD/DA converter
• Antelope Zen Tour Synergy Core audio interface (for location recording)
• Lynx Aurora 16 and 8 AD/DA converters
• RME Fireface 802 audio interface
• RME Fireface 800 audio interface
• Apogee Big Ben Master Clock
• Apogee Ensemble Firewire (2x)
• Fabfilter Total bundle
• Universal Audio UAD2 Quad with Neve 31102, 33609 and 88RS, Pultec Pro, EMT140, EMT250, Lexicon 224 and 480, Studer A800 and other plug-ins
• Antelope Synergy real-time plug-ins
• SSL plug-ins, incl. Fusion collection, Drumstrip and Guitarstrip, Bus compressor 2 and Channel Strip 2
• Valhalla plug-ins
• Soundtoys 5 bundle
• Brainworx plug-ins
• Strymon Bigsky reverb
• Moog Moogerfooger plug-in collection
• Arturia FX Collection 4
• Waves API and Abbey Road plug-ins
• Relab QuantX (Quantec QRS) reverb plug-in
• 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 (40 I/O channels)

Synth’s and samplers

• Kurzweil K2500X AES, the Audio Elite System, all options installed. Only six of these beauties have been made!
• Roland MKB-1000, an old timer (1984), but it’s got the best keyboard action (wooden keys), never played on something more playable
• Roland RD-1000, vintage stage piano, like the MKB-1000 a joy to play (slightly heavier keyboard action), 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 MK-80, Roland’s first Rhodes emulation from 1989
• Akai MX-1000 master keyboard
• Akai PG-5 mini grand electric piano, beautiful crafted, piano samples aren’t on par with it’s looks, but the speaker system is quite adequate for monitoring purposes in the studio. Nice action keyboard, although no wooden keys…
• Roland Juno 60 (MIDI-fied), punchy!
• Roland JX-10, warm, full bodied sound. My favorite synth for pads.
• Clavia NordLead, cuts like a knive
• Ensoniq SD1, transwave (wavetable) synth, great digi pad sounds
• Korg 01/w Pro X
• Korg T3ex
• Korg Monotron Duo mini synth
• Casio CZ 101, dirty digital:-)
• Casio Casiotone 701, CT-410v & MT-400v (analog filters!), MT-500, MT-65 and PT-50 keyboards, early eighties
• Casio SK-1,  SK-200 and SK-2100 8 bit sampling keyboards
• Casio PT-1 (2x, one pink edition), kids toy, but classic drum sounds
• Yamaha YC-45D combo organ
• Yamaha PSR-6300 FM keyboard
• Yamaha PS-30, analog keyboard
• 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
• 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
• Roland S-10 12 bit sampling keyboard
• Akai S3000XL, good workhorse
• Akai S1100, updated version of the S1100 with beter converters, effects board and other extra’s.
• Akai S1000HD, sounds rawer than the Roland S-750, I like it for drums and basses
• Akai S950, it cost me an arm and a leg back then (bought it new when I was 15 in 1990), unfortunately it doesn’t get used that much any more, but I will never sell it….
• Ensoniq EPS16plus, fat sound!!
• Korg S3, not so well known drumcomputer/sequencer, has some usable electronic kits
• Yamaha TX16W, stereo 12 bit sampler
• Roland DDR-30 Drum module with drumpads, doesn’t get more eighties than this!
• Roland R-8 drumcomputer
• Native Instruments Komplete 12 Ultimate + Komplete Kontrol 25, huge collection of great sounds
• Arturia V Collection X – emulations of classic synths and keyboards
• Korg Collection 4
• Universal Audio Electra 88 and Waterfall B3
• VSL Horizon Sample Library, one fine library
• Large Roland Sample Library, stil one very fine library
• Large E-mu and Kurzweil sample library
• Yellow Tools Independence Pro 2.5, another very fine 70 GB library
• Yellow Tools Culture, great percussion module
• Synthogy Ivory Grand Pianos, fantastic piano sample based library

Microphones/mic-pre’s/DI boxes

• Neumann M-149 tube mic
• 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
• Sennheiser MD441
• Sennheiser MD421-2 (4x)
• Audio Technica AT4040
• Neumann KMS105 handheld condenser
• Shure SM57 (2x)
• Rode NT-2A
• Rode NT-5, even more basic, you can get great results
• Sennheiser E602, E604 and E906 dynamic mics
• Telefunken TD-25, vintage dynamic mic, great looks
• Telefunken TD-26 (2x), vintage dynamic mic, instant vintage recordings!
• Grundig GDM312 and GDSM331 dynamic mics from the 60-ties
• SE Reflexion Filter
• Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel (2x), best of Rupert Neve in one box!
• AMS Neve 1073DPX, stereo version of the classic 1073 mic-pre/EQ
• Focusrite ISA-430 Producer pack (2x)
• Crane Song Spider, 8 channel mic-pre / mixer / AD convertor. One of the best mic-pre’s out there. Same applies for the AD convertors build in
• API 3124V, discrete 4 channel mic-pre/DI, equipped with the legendary 2520 op amps.
• RME Fireface 802 audio interface
• RME Fireface 800 audio interface
• Radial JDI duplex DI box (2x)
• Radial X-amp reamper. Lo-Z to Hi-Z adapter

Monitoring

• Genelec 8240A active dsp powered reference speaker
• Genelec GLM automatic speaker calibration system
• Genelec 8010AP (for location recording)
• Tannoy S600A, Tannoy TS10 sub, stereo to 5.1 surround
• B&W Matrix 1 series 2
• Telefunken TLX-3
• Grado RS-2, Reference Headphones
• Behringer Powerplay personal monitor system
• Audio Technica ATH-M50x (3x) an ATH-40 (4x) studio headphones

Analog Tape Machines:

• Akai MG1214 12 track tape recorder/mixer
• Akai MG614 4 track tape recorder/mixer

Outboard