The gear has recently been upgraded, with a FireFace 800, DAV BG 8, Mackie Onyx 1640 mixer/Firewire interface, a Mac Core 2 Duo with Logic Studio 8, and loads of nice & expensive plugins.
Microphones
Mixers and mic preamplifiers
- CAD M179: Two of these flexible multi-pattern large diameter diaphragm condensers.
- Groove Tubes GT 33: Two of these ludicrously good cardioid medium-diameter condensers.
- Ted Fletcher TF 27: Two fast-sounding small diameter condensers
- AKG 451:. Classic small diameter condenser.
- AKG C-1000: Electret condenser, not at all bad for live acoustic instruments
- SE 3 stereo pair: Medium diameter cardioid gems
- Sennheiser 421: Three of these fine dynamic mics. Classic mic for drums.
- Shure SM 57: Five of these dynamic mics. Good for drums, amps and instruments.
- Shure SM 58: Five of these dynamic mics. The classic mic for live vocals.
- Various hypercardioid dynamics, good for feedback rejection, and a warmer sound on sax and trumpet in live situations, bla bla bla
- Any extra mic/s needed, such as super-directional types, or dedicated stereo mics, will be hired in.
Computer & software
- Mackie Onyx mixer with integral Firewire card. This has 16 above average microphone pre-amps, directly connected to the computer, via Firewire. A very flexible desk which is great live, as well as for recording
- Alice 828 eight channel broadcast mixer, which has cool vintage transformer mic-amps for a warm, open sound. .
- DAV BG 8 eight channel mic preamplfier, a really clean un-coloured sound. These DAV BG preamps kepp getting great reviews – quite rightly
PA Stuff:
- MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo for speed and reliability.
- Logic Pro 8, as it is probably the best audio/midi sequencer.
- Peak, for stereo editing mixes and samples.
- Altiverb, a specialist plug-in for incredibly realistic reverbs and ambiences, which also re-creates most of the classic reverb units out there – digital, plate or spring.
- Plus more specialist plug-ins, for tone control, dynamics and vintage gear emulation.
- Logic Etos CA10 line-array, 3/side and 4 Nd 215 subs
- 4 Logic LM12 monitors and 2 EV SX 300/HZ bins for drum monitors
- Logic systems DP 2140 DSP sytem controller
- 4 gates
- 6 compressors
- Eq on all mixes
- Reverb two
- Delay two
- Sprinter van one
