STUFF I USE cos u asked

sell one, buy two

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Like I said, you asked. Now I have a new home studio up in Harlem, and I love it, plus my space in Brooklyn. PLUS I’M STARTING TO SELL STUFF OFF SO IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING. That’s how we keeps it safe in NYC

TRUE!   I try to come off all slick but  I’m a big geek for equipment so if you want to talk about that I’m sometimes in the mood but not always

TRUE!  It’s a bit sad; we all should be out helping others survive, and there we are,  having spent the last 10 years in our bedrooms, doing endless hammer-ons.

TRUE!   I need tighter parameters, I’m going soft, so I’ve been streamlining my shit (except for my guitar collection, which seems to have developed a mind of it’s own).

Here’s some machines I use at home to make music, upon which I’ve spent far too much money (and so have you if you’re reading this boring-ass page)

HEAR ME NOW ! I still seek to make fucked up and beautiful sounds, people!

Here’s what I got:

now how can I say it with proper emphasis? The guys at FOLKTEK make the raddest, most beautiful music generating sculptures anywhere. I just bought a LUMINIST GARDEN, and it’s all over the latest couple of film scores I’ve done. PLEASE LOOK AT WHAT THEY DO!! HERE: http://folktek.com/

analog: i love and have:

Sequential Circuits- Prophet 10, Prophet 5, Prophet VS (fucking brilliant and underrated) Prophet 600 (broken!) , Pro One, TOM

ARP- Odyssey (SOLD IT) , AXXE, Solina String-Ensemble (I call bullshit on the plug-in version)……..sold my 2600! didn’t use it enough

Oberheim: OB-Xa, DMX, Matrix 12 (OOPS I SOLD IT) and the lowly but functionalist Matrix 1000- sold my Xpander

Dave Smith Instruments – Evolver ; Polyevolver keyboard….FOR SALE

Crumar- DS2, Organizer

Yamaha- CS-40m

Roland- Jupiter 6 (FOR SALE) , SH-101, Space Echo 201, SH-1000

Akai- AX-80 (still busted otherwise I’d sell it)

Casio- SK-1, VL-tone

Univox -Mini Korg, Echo Chamber

Fender – ARP/ Rhodes Chroma, Chroma Polaris 2 (underrated as well)

Big Briar-  theremin

Moog – Memorymoog, Micromoog

Optigan! looking for “Vox Humana” disc. Those who know, (what’s up, ML…..even from beyond the grave I feel you my brother) will know. Explore this exclusive club of freaks and losers at their website www.optigan.com.

2 Wurlitzer  200a student models, 110 and 220v  for both sides o the ocean

Maestro ECHOPLEX EP-2

‘50s Deagan Vibraphone

Swedish-made pump organ, circa 1900

trumpets, percussion, piles of stuff i can’t really play. A Latvian lute of some kind. A dulcimer from the ‘20s.

Harmonium, bought in New Delhi off the dude who made George Harrison’s sitar. True! He had photos!

loads of wierd drum machines, including: Maestro Rhythm King, Rhythm Jester, Acetone Rhythm Ace, Univox, ELI Compurhythm (my fave), Synare (a la “Whip It”), Yamaha RY30, Roland 505 (sucks but that’s good sometimes)

Plus some homemade oddities like this little metal mixer that allows you to plug lots of pedals into themselves and go SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

And I just super dig the Fulltone Tape Echo, which is awesome and sees heavy heavy use on the A Camp record and just about everything else I’ve been involved with lately

digital: i like and have:

Oberheim/ Gibson Echoplex

Nord Wave, has some OK sounds, and a Nord Stage that I use mostly as a MIDI controller.

A Korg Kharma  , and a MS2000. VERY useful when lazy. And the new Korg Micro X, which looks like a joke but isn’t!

I sold all my Line 6 processing products. I’m sorry but they did not age well.

Electrix products: Repeater and the Filter Factory. Getting tired of them though too.

Akai MPC 2000xl  ….now my boy Domali has it cos I can’t figure the thing out. I’m passing it around.

I gave into the software stuff and am using Structure, and just about everything I do for film has Storm Drum 2 in effect. Plus Absynth which one has to admit is pretty rad, and because I’m totally lazy and the product is totally rad I use G-Force MTron, on EVERYTHING

i have 2 systems, one Digi 003 and one DIGI 002, in Harlem running off a Intel quad-core and in Brooklyn a Intel Duo core.

outboard:

-Avalon (V737)
- 3 Emphirical Labs Distressors
-UA 1176 remake
-set of racked Neve 33135s
-RNC and a RNL

Do I need more than that? Nope.

Mics, boring but I will tell you a super secret only cos you’ve come this far: buy an APEX 460 before people figure out they’re the best mics on the market for the price. You heard it here.

I’ve also got 2 mobile set-ups with Mboxes and those little AKAI keyboard controllers so I can pop and lock on the plane.

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If my wife can kick it Imelda Marcos style with the shoes, I can match her on guitars…..though I am slowly selling them off! Make me an offer!

GUYS I SOLD MY BLACK 1968 LES PAUL , THE “PONY EXPRESS”…..TRUST ME I HAD TOO, YOU WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME…..

Ampeg Stud (Tele-copy, ‘70s?) THANKS MARC!!
Dobro lap resonator, recent
Fender Telecaster, 1965 with factory Bigsby
Fender Telecaster Custom, 1972 , black
Fender Telecaster Custom, 1972, cream SOLD IT
Fender Telecaster reissue, Black, mexican and cheap (somebody in NYC has it but I forgot who; i should be more careful with my shit)
Fender Telecaster ‘52 reissue , copper,  2000 SOLD IT
Fender Mustang, old and all fucked up
Fender Jazz bass, sunburst, ‘70s
Fender Telecaster Bass, yellow / white 1968
Fender Lapsteel, lovely, from the 40’s
Gibson Les Paul Custom, cream, late 70s MY MAN MARC HAS IT
Gibson Les Paul All-Gold , 1955 (? this is actually my wife’s )
Gibson SG, “Les Paul Custom” reissue, 3 pickups, ‘80s reissue, white SOLD IT
Gibson SG, black 1996 with ‘72 S-100 Guild humbuckers
Gibson ES335, 1976, walnut with Bigsby
Gibson ES345, 1972 , stereo, white refin
Gibson “Firebrand” ES-335, 1981 (?) , maple? w Bigsby – these rock and are underrated!
Gibson “Firebrand” ES-335, 1982 , mahagony SOLD IT
Gibson Les Paul Signature (goldtop) , 1973
Gibson Les Paul Signature bass (goldtop) , 1973
Gretsch 6120, 1958
Gretsch Duo-Jet, 1964, black with Burns tremelo
Guild Starfire V, 1976?? , PINK!! My friend Angie rocks this out in LA
Guild Starfire V, 1967, rad green factory finish + Bigsby
Guild S-60D, black, ‘77….these rule! New to me! Why didn’t I know this??
Guild S-70D, white, ‘79 if you have a black one you gotta have a white one
Guild S-100, 1972, black, Bigsby….my main shit!
Guild S-100, 1974, natural with oak leaves and acorn inlay….lovely SOLD IT
Guild S-100 Polara, 1965- white refin, put the Hagstom single coils back in
Guild S-50 Polara, 1964 – redish refin, a mutt, has stock p/u plus two more jammed on there, love it
Guild S-300-D, white, ‘79 twin humbuckers SOLD IT
Guild S-300-D, white, ‘79 why not have 2
Guild Jet Star 1 bass-black, 2 pus
Hagstrom I , 1966, white on white, rad with the vinyl padded back n’ made in SWEDEN
Hagstrom I bass, 1966, white, companion to above guitar. Emm Gryner has and plays this!
Hagstom 1 bass, 1965, black….yin yang
Hagstrom I bass, 1964, violet , lovely! perfect for a girl
Hagstrom 1 bass, 1962, red/black
BC Rich Mockingbird, natural and brown, mid 70s and rocking your ass, don’t dis this
Danelectro RI Baritone, pinkish? cheapo and good
Danelectro RI Baritone, black,  cos you can’t have just one
Danelectro RI dual lipstick pickup jobbie, Black , cheapie, with whammie bar
Danelctro RI blue sparkle 6 string “Hodad” (my friend Petra, Finnish video-artist, has it)
Electra, Les Paul shaped, red with built in effects cartridges, maybe early 70s? (somewhere in the city)
Goudin Les Paul copy, mother-of-pearl, 2000ish?
Gibson acoustic, Hank Williams JR. reissue from the early 90s
Martin 00-17 Orchestral, new
Martin D-15, new
Vox teardrop Stingray bass , red, 1964?
a couple nylon stringers, cheapos

i think that’s about it. Fuck’s sake, why do I need so many guitars?

Now I got some amplifiers of different shapes and sizes.

I was mostly using an 80 watt Bogner Shiva 1 x 12 combo for loud rocking, with a single-speaker extension cab, but I done sold it.

I got love for my:

Marshall JMP 100 watt head MK2 w matching cab, 1978
Marshall plexi combo, 1972
Ampeg Reverbarocket 2,  blue tolex, 1963
Ampeg Jet II, 1964?
Fender blackface Bassman w Tremolux cab, 1965
2 Fender blackface Princeton Reverbs, 1965 and ‘64 (pretty much only using a Princeton now)
Fender blackface Pro Reverb, 1966
Fender Deluxe Reverb, ‘70s
2 Fender blackface Vibra-Champs, 1966 and 1964
Matamp 150 watt head (like Orange), late 60’s?
Vox’s, reissues (pretty OK)
Gretsch 6125 from ‘63?

been playing a lot of bass lately, must confess I sold my fridge of an SVT and got an ugly but amazing amp by Markbass, this Italian company that makes amazing amazing stuff that just looks awful.

pedals are fun but I dont wanna list all of them EXCEPT MY BOSS HM-1 4-ever, SCREEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! And Electro Harmonix in general gets a shout cos they make great shit and they’re super nice. Oh and something (homemade?) that’s a silver box that I’ve been using lately, no idea who made it, but it’s a sick distortion box with a really heavy gate , it just goes wham!!

Also I’m deeply into an old TC Electronics Chorus/ Pitch Mod/ Flange pedal. It’s my new shizzle. And a big Morley wah. AND a Mu-tron III. All from my boy Marc, thanks Marc!!!

oh and this Fulltone OCD pedal, wow, love their Clyde Deluxe Wah, and the Deja Vibe…and the Foxx Tone Machine reissue…..and an old EHX Electric Mistress, sveet!

More EHX: the RIDDLE Q envelope pedal is great, the FREEZE pedal is super rad, the RING THING is boss as hell. Though I’m very interested in the Pigtronix Mothership which seems similar but even more awesome.

But my ABSOLUTE fave pedal at the moment: the Source Audio Soundblox Multiwave Distortion Pro. This pedal has absolutely floored me, it’s totally unlike anything else out there. A really special unit. These days I’m recording with it at all times, even with the clean setting if just for the fantastic compression. HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!

Ok I wound up listing a bunch of pedals. Did you see that? I got excited.

How do you do your thing? Tell me stuff, trade with me, because…..

Still I seek unidentifible magikal sounds. Still I desire machine-control thru pure thoughtpower.

Don’t you, hot ones?