The Requisite Information For Gearheads
Everybody loves long, detailed gear lists, right?
Null Device records at Submersible Studios. It’s really just a room in the basement, but as one can tell from reading entries on blog.nulldevice.com, we put a bit of work into making it sound decent. Acoustic paneling, diffusers, monitor stands, the works. In some ways, acoustic treatment is one of the most important bits of kit in a studio, since if you can’t mix accurately, you can’t get a good mix, period. But aside from that, we’ve got a chunk of kit we rather enjoy.
Currently, we are using:
| DAW/Computer rig | Mics |
|---|---|
| Apple iMac 21.5″ 3.06ghz Metric Halo ULN-2 2d 1 Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 MOTU 828 Logic Studio 9 MIO Console 5 Ableton Live 7 ADAM A7 Nearfield Monitors ADAM Sub7 Active Subwoofer Dbx 376 Channelstrip |
Stellar CM-6 Tube Mic2 GT Velo8 Ribbon Mic OktavaMod 219PE 3 Rode NT-2 M-Audio Pulsar II (matched pair) Shure SM-57 (3) Shure SM-58 (2) Shure SM-58Beta Sennheiser e604 Karma Silver Bullet ElectroVoice n795 |
| Softsynths | Hardware Synths |
| (not counting everything that comes with Logic, which admittedly is a lot) EWQL Symphonic Orchestra Gold (Play Edition) EWQL RA G-Media ImpOSCar NI Absynth NI FM8 NI Kontakt NI Kore Player NI North India NI Massive NI Reaktor ReFX Vanguard RobPapen Blue TAL Bassline |
Don’t use these much anymore, but… Alesis Fusion Korg MS2000R Novation A-station Yamaha TX81Z Yamaha SY35 |
| Instruments | Other effects |
| Ned Steinberger CR4 Electric Violin 4 Sher-e-Punjab Dhol Standard KK Dholak Dilruba (unknown mfgr) Soprano Tumbi (unknown mfgr) Tenor Tumbi (unknown mfgr) Chimta (unknown mfgr) Alexandria Dumbek Mid-East Bodhran MS B-flat Duduk Gibson-Steinberger Fretless Bass Gibson-Steinberger Guitar 5 Ibanez SR4 Bass Custom-built bulbul tarang Big Briar/Moog Etherwave Theremin 6 |
Airwindows Busscolors Airwindows Console Airwindows ToTape Audiodamage Replicant Audiowish Pitchshift Fabfilter Pro-C Fabfilter Pro-L Fabfilter Pro-Q Line6 PodFarm McDSP Analog Channel McDSP 6030 NI Deep Reconstructions NI Finger NI GuitarRig PSP NobleQ PSP OldTimer PSP sQuad EQ PSP VWII Stillwell Bombardier Stillwell MajorTom Stillwell Rocket Sugarbytes Effectrix |
1 God I love this thing
2 Peter Bloch at Stellar basically rips the guts out of a stock chinese-made Ningbo-Alctron, and replaces them with a dual-bobbin transformer and a Tungsol EF86 tube. The results are kind of spectacular, especially for the price he charges.
3 Michael Joly at Oktavamod does a stunning job converting budget mics into the kind of gear that competes with high-end stuff.
4 Possibly the nicest-sounding electric violin I’ve ever gotten my hands on.
5 yeah, I’m kinda into Ned Steinberger’s designs. The Gibson-made instruments aren’t great, but they’re cheap. The bass isn’t bad, all things considered.
6 Purchased before Bob Moog got the name back. He actually answered the phone and took my order, too. It was a great day.