Compressors
COMPRESSION / LIMITERS
Audioscape 76d - A classic build of the prestiguous 1176 Limiting Amplifier
MCDSP APB-16 - 16 channels of Analog processing from MCDSP, with over 10 different processing units available to choose form, all with recallable settings
Federal AM-864U Vari-Mu - a very "Fairchild" like variMU compressor.
Wes Audio NuBuss - Digitally integrated analog buss compression with recallable settings
DBX-160 - Classic DBX compression
DBX-160 VU (2 channels) Spongy on the low end, and poppy sounding on transients. Put a kick and snare together in a sub group and hear the snap of the transients pop out. Cool for mixing with original tracks or other compressors. sometimes cool on backing vocals and good for bass guitar.
(2) Channels of IGS "S-Type" 500 series stereo compressors. - SSL 4000 clones that have parrallel mix capabilities, good for buss compression duties. Drums, guitar and vocal busses, anywhere an SSL 4000 buss compressor likes to go.
Effects
EQ/ DYNMAICS
Audioscape Pultec EQP-A - A classic build of the prestigious EQP Pultec EQ
Heritage Audio Motor City EQ ‘Motown’ - A pair of amazing EQs. Modeled after Michael Brower’s personal Motown EQs!
Pope Audio Beast Model - Nice and airy on the top, nice chunky low end. Very simple.
Tel-Ray-1960′s oil-can delay, swirly warbley goodness!
Sony D7 Delay, great Multi-tap!
DSP, plugins and CPU
Avid/ProTools HDX card, ProTools ULTIMATE HD
UAD Octo card with the following plug-ins: ALL
Ex. MXR Flanger-Doubler, Little Labs VOG, Ampex ATR-102, SSL E Channel Strip, Studer A800, EP-34 Tape Echo , EMT 250, Little Labs IBP, Moog Filter, Precision De-Esser, Neve 88RS, Helios 69, Neve 33609, Neve 1073 legacy, Roland Dimension D, EMT 140, Teletronix LA-2A Legacy, UA 1176LN Legacy, UA 1176SE Legacy, Pultec Pro Legacy, Faichild 670 Legacy, Dreamverb, Cambridge, RealVerb-Pro, Pultec EQP-1A Legacy, CS-1
& literally thousands of other plug-ins , with too many to list!
Microphone Preamps/DI's
Coil Audio Preamps - CA-70 (10) – Based upon the classic Western Electric Circuit Gates CA70, this preamp has amazing clarity and low end for days. Each preamp uses Coil's custom made, interchangeable transformers, NOS capacitors and resistors, and a pair of NOS EF86 vacuum tubes.
Coil Audio Preamps - CA-286 (2) – Based upon multiple circuits by Langevin, Collins, Gates, and Telefunken during the 1950s and 60s. Each preamp uses Coil's custom made, interchangeable transformers, NOS capacitors and resistors, and a pair of NOS EF86 vacuum tubes.
Harrison Series 10, 8 channel Jim Williams modified, 1900 volts per microsecond slew rate! , bypass caps on the new elctrolytics means Damn fast performance! fantastic sounding preamps up there with my best tube pres.
Cinema Engineering (4) – 1950′s incredible sounding and very rare, these tube pres have a tone unequaled by anything made today or in the past. Very easy into distortion as you increase gain and get the elusive “grrrr” sounding edge to your tracks. Cinema Engineering invented the term “console” for their products in the 1950′s that we all use today.
Hamptone HVTP2 - 2 channel tube microphone pre-amplifier, 2 di inputs m transformer I/O (jensens) great mic preamplifier
DI
Kneel Before Zod - Tube DI (The best for bass I have ever found)
(2) Neve DI - Great sounding standard DI
MW1 Studio Tool. Fantastic guitar/bass DI as well as a versatile guitar re-amp tool that gets used here on a daily basis.
Microphones
Condensers
(1) Flea Vintage 47 - The King of All Microphones
(2) Soyuz 013Tube - Matched Pair! Amazing small diaphragm condensers
(2) SE Rupert Neve RN17 - Matched Pair! Small Diaphragm Condensers
(2) Telefunken M60 - Matched Pair! Small Diaphragm Condensers
(1) AKG 414 EB modified by Jim Williams (amazing)
(2) AKG 451 EB condenser mics
(1) Lauten Audio Oceanus tube condenser mics
(2) Lauten Audio Torch tube condenser mics
(2) Audio Technica 4047 condenser mic (kick and bass cabs)
(1) Earthworks DM23 condenser mic (crispy critter high end)
Dynamics
(1) Beyerdynamic m201 dynamic mic
(1) EV RE15 dynamic mic
(2) EV 654 Omni dynamic mics
(1) EV ND68 kick drum microphone (fantastic and often overlooked kick mic)
(5) Vintage Sennheiser MD421
(1) Vintage Sennheiser 441
(12) Shure SM57
(2) Shure SM58 dynamic mic
(2) Vintage Shure SM7 - The originals!
(1) Telefunken M82 dynamic microphone (kick and low freqs)
(1) MBHO 219SC - Dynamic microphone
Ribbons
(1) Stager SR-1A - Amazing Beefy Ribbon!
(1) Fostex M22RP - MS stereo Printed Ribbon Mic
(1) Royer R121 - Classic Royer!
Guitars
1976 Guild D-50 acoustic guitar, an exquisite sounding example, sunburst Guild. My favorite guitar for pop/rock tunes
1981 Greco Super Real Custom Les Paul w/ ‘59 Neck - Classic guitar that plays better than any Gibson Les Paul Custom - bar none.
1965 Framus Stratodeluxe very unique electric guitar that sounds nothing like a Strat or Tele, has band pass filters switchable from its extensive pickup/tone selector switches.The Framus gets the rattiest funkiest tones I’ve ever heard from a guitar
1992 Takamine S132 - Solid top classical guitar (1990′s) a very dried out and well used classical with a nice tone for those last minute “i have a classical guitar part” ideas that tend to come up!
1982 Ibanez Artist Series 300 w/ Evertune! Whenever i played this model of guitar “back in the day” i was blown away with the quality of these guitars. After owning many Les Pauls throughout the years and being dissatisfied with their overall quality, I decided to go back to what i really loved from the start. Equipped with an Evertune bridge, so it literally cannot go out of tune. The guitar has just been majorly upgraded with the addition of Fishman Electronics Modern Fluence pickups. Very high gain and very top quality!
1994 G&L ASAT w/ Evertune! - A one-off vintage gold paint job for the NAMM show 1994. Great and unique sounding guitar - Side note this guitar was signed by George Fullerton, after i went pistol shooting with George and Jeff (son). Equipped with Evertune bridge.
Hohner 1970's Les Paul, FAT C profile neck , great sustain, Zhangbucker hand/hand wired pickups, Faber bridge, and all upgraded pots and caps.
Bass
2019 Musicman Stingray HH Bass - Great standard bass with multiple pickup options. Great tone!
Cabinets
(1) Mesa Boogie 4×12 cabinets
1970's Marshall Checkerboard cabinet with (2) Original ROLA era G12-H speakers and (2) old ‘Vintage 30's. Unreal sounding.
Ampeg 4×10 (PR410-HLF) bass cabinet. The 13-ply void-free Baltic birch cabinet, braced to survive nuclear attack.
Amplifiers
Marshall JVMJS 410HJS - Excellent out of production High Gain amp, with independent gates and verstaitility!
1959 Tonemaster by Magnatone - one of the greatest guitar amps of all time!
Otis Amps Custom Amp - Funky 1950’s amp made from an old projector/PA. Gets some cool fuzz tones!
1961 Gibson Invader Amp - Really cool vintage amp with a 12” speaker. Pairs really with a TS808!
1967 Sunn Polaris Amp - Amazing tall combo amp! Really great clean tones!
Fender Vibrolux Reverb - Handwired 2×10″combo. Excellent in between clean and dirty tones, and great classic Fender tones.
Thunder Tweak Buzz Bomb 18watt high gain, Basically a Soldano SLO 100 front end with a Vox AC15 back end. Cool little amp!
National 1950′s era 2×10″ combo amplifier unique tone, handwired by magnavox, great chimey class A clean tones.
Ampeg 1963 "Fliptop" B15 bass amp with original JBL D150 speaker, the bass sound we all have heard on countless hits through ther ages!
Pedals
Mutron Bi-Phase (1970's)
Mutron Octave Divider (1970's)
Electro Harmonix Micro Synthisizer
Digitech Bad Monkey (that funky monkey!) Overdrive pedal.... very surprisingly good in certain situations
Microtubes B7K analog bass preamp pedal. the best overdrive/parrellel effect for bass I've heard!
Foxrox Octave fuzz clone, great sounding all NOS parts clone built by my friend Joe, EPIC!
BOSS bass overdrive- a terrible sounding overdrive for bass that sometimes sounds like the "right kind of terrible" for certain things
Dunlop 535Q wah pedal.
Snarling Dogs Mold Spore Wah Psycho-Scumatic yes that's its real name! a completely unhinged, crazy sounding ring modulator, distortion and wah pedal that can peel the skin off your face.
Snarling Dogs Bootzilla Bootsy Collins Signature Bass Wah with Fuzz Pedal pretty self explanatory!
Holy Fire distortion pedal by Creation Audio Labs
Electron Analog Drive incredibly versatile pedal with 8 different analog circuits, fully programmable and a sweepable midrange eq!
VFE Focus pedal allows very sophisticated tone shaping before the amp that allows you to focus your tone to have the amp clean up or breakup where you want, its a game changer!
Bogner "la grange" overdrive pedal
BBE Stinger the 1980's sizzle sound in a box, this is a vintage pedal that really gets the cool sound of the early BBE devices and works wonders for cleaning up some muddier amps by hyping the highs and/or lows in a cool way.
VooDoo labs Sparkle drive a parallel mix tube screamer like box that allows some clean mixed in .... just the thing when needed.
Ibanez Tube Screamer overdrive pedal has that mid-range push and subtle character we all love to hate, or hate to love.
BAE hotfuzz pedal- amazing and unique fuzz pedal with high boost
Piano
Starr 1939 Minum 6' grand piano, A great sounding baby grand that came from an original owner, out of an old ranch estate in Yucaipa. Records great!
Drums
1980’s Gretsch Kit (StopSign Badge) - Amazing vintage kit. Not much else to say. 24” Kick, 18” Floor Tom , 16” Floor Tom, 14” Rack Tom, 12” Rack Tom
2005 Fibes Kit - Very Rare kit the Fibes drum kit utilizes maple plys with one ply of gumwood in the middle as a overtone balancer. Tom sizes are 12", 13", 16". Kick is 24″
Snares
Gretsch USA Custom Phosphorous Bronze - Amazing. 14x6.5”
Noble and Cooley - 14"x7" Solid Shell
Noble and Cooley - 13"x4.75" Solid Shell
Monitoring
Ex Machina Soundworks Qusar mkii - The most amazing clarity I have ever heard. Amazing DSP.
Tannoy System 1000 speakers and the Adcom 535 I stereo amplifier modified by Jim Williams fantastic near/mid fields that are my primary speakers for monitoring.
