Hilltop Studio Equipment
Drum Equipment:
Drum Kits:
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Pearl Masters Studio: 9-piece kit in custom gold sparkle lacquer
- 17x22 kick
- 16x20 kick
- 16x16 floor tom
- 13x16 rack tom/snare (baritone snare)
- 12x14 rack tom
- 9x12 rack tom
- 8x10 rack tom
- Alternates:
- 10x12 power rack tom (alternate to 9x12 rack tom)
- 10x10 power rack tom (alternate to 8x10 rack tom)
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Gretsch: custom 9-piece kit in custom black sparkle lacquer
- 18x22 kick
- 9x22 gong drum
- 16x18 kick/floor tom
- 16x16 floor tom
- 14x14 floor tom
- 10x13 rack tom
- 9x12 rack tom
- 8x10 rack tom
- 7x8 rack tom
Snare Drums:
- 6.5x14 Gretsch Brooklyn chrome over steel (GB-4164S)
- 5x14 Gretsch hammered black steel (S1-0514-BSH) with Trick GS007 throw-off and DW 3-position butt plate
- 7.3x14 custom-built with Pearl lugs, S-Hoops, DW Mag throw-off and DW 3-position butt plate
- 5x14 Rogers Dynasonic retro-fitted with Trick GS007 throw-off and butt plate
- 7x13 custom-built maple with Gretsch lugs, Trick GS007 throw-0ff and butt plate
- 4x14 custom-built maple piccolo snare
- 5.5x12 custom-built maple side snare
- Various other snares
- 21" K Sweet Ride
- 20" K Crash Ride
- 20" K Custom Hybrid Ride
- 19" K Sweet Crash
- 19" K Custom China
- 19" A Custom Crash
- 18" K Custom Dark Crash
- 18" A Custom Fast Crash
- 18" A China Boy High
- 18" A Custom EFX Crash
- 16" K Custom Session Crash
- 15" K Light Hi-Hats
- 14" K Hi-Hats
- 14" Oriental China
- 10" A Splash
- 8" K Splash
Sticks, Percussion, Heads, Hardware and Accessories:
- Promark Drumsticks
- 10" PDP Drumset Timbali
- LP Conga set, Meinl bongos, 12" Djembe, various tambourines, shakers... ETC.
- Evans Drumheads
- Drum Workshop Hardware and Accessories
- Ahead Spinal Glide drum throne (SPG-BS)
- Roc & Soc red hydraulic drum throne w/backrest
- DW 5002AD4 double pedal
- Pearl P-2002c PowerShifter Eliminator double pedal
- Gibraltar Stealth rack systems
-
Tama Rhythm Watch RW200 metronome
Studio Equipment:
Mic Locker:
- Avantone Pro CV-12-BLA
- sE Electronics sE2200a II c
- Warm Audio WA47JR (x2)
- Shure KSM137 matched pair
- MXL V69M EDT
- SHURE Beta 52a
- Sennheiser e902
- Earthworks Kickpad KP1
- Electro-Voice ND44 (x3)
- Electro-Voice ND46 (x2)
- Shure SM57 (x6)
- Shure Beta 58a (x2)
- Shure Beta 57a (x2)
- Shure SM58s
- Shure SM58
- Various other utility microphones
Computers:
- Custom-built PC: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X processor, 32Gb memory, 8Tb storage, Windows 10 Pro & all the bells & whistles to ensure a fast and solid recording environment.
- Macbook Pro 15" (2011/Lion 10.7.5) - runs AudioGridder DSP server to host audio plugins to the DAW running on the AMD studio PC.
Audio Interfaces and Preamps:
- Behringer X32 Rack w/2 SD16 digital snakes (32 inputs @ 48kHz sample rate and 24-bit depth)
- Focusrite Scarlett OctoPre 8-channel Microphone Preamp
-
Earthworks KickPad KP1 in-line kick drum processor
Monitoring:
- Adam Audio T5v nearfield monitors
- Presonus Eris e8 nearfield monitors
- Presonus Temblor T10 active studio subwoofer
- Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro (250 ohm) headphones
- Presonus Monitor Station v2
- Behringer P16-M 16-channel personal monitor mixer (used with Behringer XR18 for live monitoring)
- Midas DP48 48-channel personal monitor mixer (x3)
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Several Audio-Technica headphones and various headphone amps throughout the live room
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Alto Professional TS212 PA speakers for live room monitoring
DAW and flavorings:
- Presonus Studio One 5 Professional
- All Slate Digital plugins
- Many Waves plugins
- Several other utility plugins
- X-Touch and X-Touch Extender DAW controller
- Presonus FaderPort Classic - used behind kit as DAW controller (or an iPAD with Studio One Remote)
Video Equipment:
- Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Live Production Switcher - for video recording, streaming and virtual lessons
- GoPro Hero 7 Black (x2)
- Zoom Q2n (x1)
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