Home Studio Registry: Ken Hall

Future plans/projects

I want to upgrade my mixing consoles to complement my 20 bit 16 track capability.

Guitars

62 Gibson SG Custom, Fender Stratocaster, Fender Flame Ultra, Guild D4o-CA, Rickenbacker 4001 Bass, Fender Jazz Bass.

Keyboards

Korg SG1-D Sampling Grand Piano/Controller, Yamaha DX7, Mini Moog Model D, Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Hammond M3 Organ and Leslie 46W.

Sound modules

Korg 03R/W, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Peavey DPMV-3, Peavey SX Sampler w/16MB RAM, EMU Proteus 1, EMU 8000 Sampler.

Percussion

Alesis HR16, Roland R5, Roland Octapad, DW Kick Pedal Trigger.

Effects

Lexicon PCM70, Yamaha SPX90, ART Multiverb, Alesis Microgate, BBE 422, CAD CGM2 Dynamics Processor, ZOOM 9030 w/Remote, MXR 31 Band EQ, 2 - dbx 160XT Compressors, 8 channels Tangent Axe Rack Sweepable Graphic EQs.

Microphones

Neuman U89, Senheiser MD 421's, Shure SM57's, Sony ECM 33-P's, AKG D12E, AKG D3900.

Mixing

Mackie CR 1604, Mackie Series 1202.

Tape decks

Otari MX 5050 8SD 1/2" Reel to Reel Multitrack, Sony DTC 690 DAT Deck, 2 - Yamaha KX 1200U Cassette Decks.

Monitoring

Tannoy PBM 8 Near Field Monitors, ADS L-810 Room Monitors, AKG K270 HC Headphones, Hafler 400 Power Amp, Rane MA6 6 channel power amp.

Computer

AMD Athlon 600, Western Digital 9.1GB Enterprise Ultra SCSI Hard Drive, Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI Controller Card, 128MB PC133 SDRAM, 2 Echo Electronics 20 Bit 16 Track Multitrack Sound Cards, Cyberdrive 16X Ultra SCSI CD ROM, 48X ATAPI CD ROM - Pentium 200MMX, 6.1 UDMA 33 MAxtor Hard Drive, 3.1GB UDMA 33 Seagate Hard Drive, 96MB SDRAM, Turtle Beach Ultrasound Classic Sound Card, BTC IDE 2X CD Recorder, 36X ATAPI CD ROM - Intel 486 DX4, 4.3 GB Maxtor Hard Drive, 64MB RAM, Creative Labs AWE32 Sound Card.

Music software

Sound Forge 4.5, CoolEdit Pro, WaveLab 2.0, Digital Orchestrator Plus, Cakewalk Pro 5.0, Vision 2.5, too much more to list. See website.....

Additional equipment

Fostex coax to fiber optic SPDI-F Converter.

Additional notes

I do mostly post production work such as audio sweetening and CD mastering and 1/2" 8 track mixes for outside studios. I occasionally still do demo projects but my studio is not set up very well for that. I have limited space to work in.

Primary use Secondary use
Other Composition
Recording level MIDI level
High High
Commonly work (with) Completed songs/demos/jingles
Other musicians 41-60