Gear

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

• 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
• Clavia Nord Electro 5D stage piano
• Sequential Prophet-5 rev. 4 synthesiser
• ARP Odyssey ver. 2 (2813) synthesiser
• Moog Matriarch synthesiser
• Modal Electronics Argon8 synthesiser
• Arturia DrumBrute Impact drum machine
• Dubreq Stylophone Gen X-1 synthesiser
• Novation Bass Station II synthesiser
• Rheem Mark VII combo organ
• Farfisa Combo Compact combo organ (to be restored)
• 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
• 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.