The gear doesn’t matter, but if you’re considering hiring me as a player for your live show or record, here are the instruments and tools I have at my immediate disposal. Instruments with asterisks (*) are not available for offsite/road use.
instruments
- 1964 Hammond B-3 organ
- 1955 Hammond C-3 organ*
- 1939 Hammond BC organ*
- 1951 Hammond C-2 “chop” organ
- Leslie 31H cabinet*
- Leslie 46W cabinet (in restoration)*
- “Gonzo” 750W solid-state Leslie cabinet
- 1974 Fender Rhodes Stage Eighty-Eight piano with Janus active stereo preamp
- Wurlitzer 200 piano with Warneck Research preamp and Varivib system
- Yamaha s90 ES stage piano
- Sequential Prophet-5 rev. 4 synthesiser
- Clavia Nord Electro 5D stage piano
- ARP Odyssey ver. 2 (2813) synthesiser
- Moog Matriarch synthesiser
- Rheem Mark VII combo organ
- Modal Electronics Argon8 synthesiser
- Arturia DrumBrute Impact drum machine
- Farfisa Combo Compact combo organ (to be restored)
- Dubreq Stylophone Gen X-1 synthesiser
- Novation Bass Station II synthesiser
- GEM InstaPiano (like an RMI, but worse)
- Spectrasonics Keyscape software
- Hohner Piano 26 melodica
- Fender Twin Reverb ’65 Reissue amplifier
- Ampeg SB-12 amplifier
- Heath TA-16 amplifier
- 2x QSC K8.2 powered speakers
- Groove Tubes SFX Spacestation stereo amplifier
*Stationary/not for offsite use
recording
- MOTU 8pre-es audio interface
- Cockos Reaper DAW software
- Lauten Audio Clarion FC-357 microphone
- Heil PR-40 microphone
- Shure SM7B microphone
- 2x Shure SM57 microphones
- 2x Sennheiser e609 microphones
- Apex 210B ribbon microphone
- Electro-Voice ND46 microphone
- Electro-Voice N/D767a microphone
- 2x 12 Gauge Blue12 condenser microphones (check this company out—mics hand-built in Vermont from spent shotgun shells)
- 12 Gauge Red12 condenser microphone
This humble recording setup may not impress today’s “producers” (whatever that means anymore), but it allows me to get great-sounding remote session work done for any level of artist.
Maxwell Butler 