Gear
Everywhere I go people always ask me questions about my set-up, sax,
mouthpiece, Home Studio etc. Here are the answers to all those questions,
and a few that have never been asked.
Live Horn Set-Up
I am a Yanagisawa Saxophone Artist. This means that I have an endorsement deal with G. Leblanc Inc, the exclusive U.S. importer of Yanagisawa Saxophones. I went to the NAMM show two years in a row and played every saxophone in the building. After trying them all, twice, I fell in love with the Yanagisawa 992 series saxophones (I actually fell in love the first time but I had to go back again to make sure). The Yani 992's are made of Bronze which gives them a unique sound that really fits my playing. I played all the new horns again this year and I still like my Yani's the best. Here's what I have (so far);
Tenor; 992 Yanagisawa with a stock bronze neck, Bobby Dukoff D-10 mouthpiece and LaVoz Medium Hard Reeds
Alto; 992 Yanagisawa with a solid silver neck, Bobby Dukoff D-9* mouthpiece and LaVoz Medium Hard Reeds
Baritone; 62 Series Yamaha, Bobby Dukoff D-8 mouthpiece and LaVoz Medium Hard Reeds (I'm hoping to get a 992 Yani Bari very soon)
Soprano; 62 Series Yamaha, very early one piece design, Bobby Dukoff D-7 mouthpiece with either LaVoz mediun hard reeds or Rico Plasic Cover 3 1/2 reeds, it depends on how long it has to sit on the stand before I play it.
And . . . in my closet I have a 137k Selmer MkVI tenor. It's a french model with a high F#. I bought it when I was 17 years old, it was the only tenor I ever played more than once until I bought my 992 Yani. My MkVI has been stolen from me twice and I got it back both times!!!
Home Studio
I have been writing music for many years and have had some sort of home studio for almost 20 years. The technology has really changed! As most of you know home studios are constantly changing, so with that in mind, here we go . . .
Power Mac G4 Dual 1.25 w/ 2 gigs of RAM & Superdrive
Pro-Tools Mix Plus w/ an 888/24
Motu MidiTime Piece AV
Glyph SCSI Dual Hot-Swap rack w/ 2, 18 GB 10k Cheetah's
Glyph NetDrives Firewire 120 GB
Cyber-Power 1500AVR
Tascam DA-88 w/ IF-88ae interface
SoundTracs Topaz Project 8 mixer, 32x8 (64@mix) w/ meter bridge
Sony VO-5800 3/4 deck w/ timecode
Panasonic 4252 1/2 deck
Panasonic SV-3700 Dat
Tascam CD-RW4U Cd burner
Tascam CD-401 MkII
M Audio Studio Phile BX-5's
KRK K-Rok monitors
BGW Broadcast 150 power amp
DBX 166 and 160x
HHB Radious 5 (The Fatman 2)
Behringer Power Play Pro
Sony M7
Zoom Studio 1202
Yamaha SPX90
Roland SRV-2000
Akai S-5000 w/ all the goodies
Emu Mo-Phatt
Roland Jv-880
Ensoniq Sqr-32 plus
Emu Proteus 1xr
Emu Proteus 2
Kurzweil Hx-1000
Yamaha TG-77
Yamaha Tx-802
Oberheim Matrix 1000
Peavey Spectrum Bass
Roland R-8m
Roland S-550
Roland String Ensemble M-se 1
Akai EWI 1000
Furman Ar-117 and Pl-8 plus
Yamaha Kx-76
RCA 44BX
AKG 414
AKG D-112
2 MXL 2001's
2 MXL 603's
and a bunch of Sure 57's and 58's
Pearl Maple Shell Kit w/DW and Yamaha Hardware
5 snare drums and to many cymbles
Fender Delux Reverb
Gibson Blues Hawk
and . . . My grandfathers Paramount 4-string Banjo
