Gear of choice.

[the crackhouse]

Hi Dennis and thanks again for sharing your experience.

As a good geek, I would like to ask you what gear you are actually working with.

I would like to know, being you produced music for 10 years now, the reason you did buy new equipment and how you did your choice for this next piece of gear?


Thanks in advance,

Idance

[dennis f]

I'm constantly changing gear...it's a gearslut tradition. LMAO

my current setup

DAW setup:

Euphonix System 5MC
IZ ADA 24ch converters (these are my new ones)
Lynx Aurora 16
Mac Pro 8core 3ghz w/30" lcd
Nuendo 5
Ableton Live 8.1.3 w/ Akai APC40

Monitors:

Adam SX3-V
Jbl 4430

Dynamics:

Tube Tech CL1B (w/Mullard Tubes)
UA LA2A
Purple Audio MC-77
Empirical Labs Lil Freq
(2) Urei LA-4 (Eddie Ciletti Modded)
John Hardy M1 (2)
Neve 1064
(2) Telefunken V72 (Vintage King Racked)
(2) Anamod ATS-1 (w/ATR-102/351 cards)
White 4700 EQ

Mics:

Neumann U47(all original including VF-14)
Neumann U67
Shure SM-7B
Sennheiser 421 (4)

Keys:

Muse Receptor 2 Pro
Kurzweil K2500R
Novation Remote SL
Native Instruments Machine
Akai MPC-3000 (totally modded)
Elektron MachineDrum (Anniversary Edition)


This is the current list...i'll put a pic after but this was done way back before i got the ADA converters..the Lynx Aurora is up in the pic

df

[dennis f]

My small spot...not a major place like "The Hit factory" or others but it's enough for me.

http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/1185/studio3.jpg (http://img686.imageshack.us/i/studio3.jpg/)

[dennis f]

...the reason you did buy new equipment and how you did your choice for this next piece of gear?




Basically whatever can get me from point a to b the fastest and absolutely the best way determines what gear i buy at the moment. I used to believe in having a studio filled with everything that i could grab my hands on. BUT I later realized that it is better to have one piece that does absolutely the best at what it does than to half 10 half-assed pieces that still sound half-assed also. It takes a long time to assemble it all...but I could've saved at least a 100k if i would've done this from the get.

df