The Requisite Information For Gearheads

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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.

Computer/DAW

Metric Halo ULN-2 2d 1
Focusrite Saffire Pro 40
Logic Pro X
MIO Console 5
Ableton Live 9
iPad2
TouchOSC
Lemur
TouchABLE
SoundPrism Pro
Chordion
iConnectMIDI2
Focal Shape65 Nearfield Monitors
ADAM A7 Nearfield Monitors
ADAM Sub7 Active Subwoofer
Dbx 376 Channelstrip
Akai MPD18
Arturia Keylab49

Microphones

Advanced Audio CM47 Tube Mic2
Royer R101
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 (3)
Audix Fusion f2
ElectroVoice n795
Blue Encore300 (2)
A bunch of random dynamic mics

Softsynths

(not counting everything that comes with Logic, which admittedly is a lot)

Apple Alchemy
D16 Silverline collection
EWQL Symphonic Orchestra Gold (Play Edition)
EWQL RA
FXpansion DCAM SynthSquad
FXpansion Geist
G-Media ImpOSCar
NI Komplete
NI Kore Player
NI India
RobPapen Blue
SugarBytes Cyclop
TAL Bassline101
TAL Sampler
xFer Serum
u-He DIVA
u-He RePro1

Oberheim Matrix1000
Alesis Fusion

Effects

I hoard plugins, so this is just a sampling, and it changes a lot.

Audiodamage Eos
Audiowish Pitchshift
D16 Decimort2
DMG Essence
Eventide Blackhole
Eventide Octavox
Eventide UltraChannel
Eventide Ultraverb
Fabfilter Pro-C
Fabfilter Pro-MB
Fabfilter Pro-L
Fabfilter Pro-Q
FXPansion Bloom
FXPansion Maul
McDSP Analog Channel
McDSP 6030
NI Deep Reconstructions
NI Finger
NI GuitarRig
NI Premium Tube
NI Komplete
PositiveGrid BiasFX
PSP NobleQ
PSP OldTimer
PSP sQuad EQ
Sknote CutterTone
Sknote Disto
Sknote SDC
Slate VBC
Slate VCC
Slate VMR
Slate VTM
Soundtoys Crystallizer
Soundtoys Decapitator
Soundtoys DevilLoc
Soundtoys EchoBoy
Soundtoys FilterFreak
Soundtoys Microshift
Soundtoys Radiator
Soundtoys PanMan
SugarBytes Effectrix
SugarBytes WOW
Valhalla ValhallaPlate
ValhallaDSP ValhallaRoom
ValhallaDSP ValhallaShimmer
ValhallaDSP ValhallaVintageVerb
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Instruments

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
Ibanez SR4 Bass<
Custom-built bulbul tarang
Big Briar/Moog Etherwave Theremin 6
A couple of violins that have been in my family for a hundred years

1 God I love this thing

2 Dave Thomas at AA does amazing things to stock chinese mics. This thing is probably n par with mics many times its price. The downside is that shipping from rural British Columbia takes a while.

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.