Gear List

Instruments

Guitars:

  • Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 10-top

  • Kiesel Custom Delos D6 with Mojotone ‘58 quiet coil pickups

  • Taylor Academy a10e steel-string acoustic with pickup

Keyboards:

  • ASM Hydrasynth

  • Moog Subsequent 37

  • Komplete Kontrol S61 mk ii with Komplete 13, Omnisphere 2, Trilian, Synapse Obsession, Softube Model 84, Spitfire BBC Symphony Pro, and extensive other libraries

Other controllers:

  • Akai MPD226 drum pad controller

  • Artiphon Instrument One with 6 channels of MIDI Polyphonic Expression… this is a weird one with some seriously creative mojo at your fingertips

Dan plays:

  • a 1936 Selmer Balanced Action alto sax with a Selmer Series III neck, Ted Klum Versitone custom mouthpiece, Silverstein Titanium ligature and Silverstein Alta synthetic reeds. Other mouthpieces available include Ted Klum Commercial model and R. Caravan classical model.

  • a 1954 King Zephyr tenor sax with a Ted Klum Versitone custom mouthpiece, Silverstein Titanium ligature and Silverstein Alta synthetic reeds.

  • a 1964 Haynes Commercial model solid silver flute.

  • an Akai EWI 4000s wind controller

Hardware

Microphones:

  • Micparts V-251 tube mic with VPS power supply

  • Micparts S3-87

  • DPA 4099s

  • Shure Beta 57

  • Audio-Technica ATM-350

  • Viga Music Tools Intramic

Guitar Amp/pedals:

  • Fractal Audio FM3

  • Mojotone Canyon 1x12 cabinet

  • MXR Custom Shop Timmy distortion pedal

  • JHS Morning Glory distortion pedal

  • Dunlop Cry Baby wah pedal

  • Wammy DT octave/detune pedal

  • Eventide H9 Max

A/D Conversion:

  • UAD Apollo Twin X Duo

  • Focusrite Clarett 8Pre

  • Black Lion Audio Sparrow ADC 1.5

Preamps:

  • UAD Apollo Twin and assorted UAD unison preamps: UA610, Neve 1084, API Vision, etc.

  • Focusrite Clarett 8Pre with Air circuit

  • Audioscape Engineering limited edition (1 of 300) Golden 58 stereo tube preamp

Compression:

  • Audioscape Engineering Buss Comp stereo VCA compressor

Software:

  • Logic Pro X

  • vast array of plug-ins including Plugin Alliance subscription, Komplete 13, Antares Auto Tune full subscription, Melodyne Studio, Izotope 10 Advanced, Vocalign Ultra, Superior Drummer 3, XLN XO, AlyJames Labs VPROM Linndrum, most Universal Audio channel strips, studio fx and compression, with 10 UAD-2 cores of DSP, Soundtoys Bundle, Fabfilter DS and Volcano 3, Sonnox Claro, Neural DSP Archetype Plini and Cory Wong, and many others

  • Final Cut Pro

  • Adobe Lightroom Classic

Monitoring/acoustics:

  • Neumann KH 120 nearfield monitors

  • Neumann KH 750 DSP subwoofer

  • acoustically treated studio that measures +/- 3db across the audible spectrum in the listening position

  • Neumann MA-1 reference mic room correction system to iron out that last little 3db and make it perfect :)

Camera:

  • Canon EOS M6 mk ii