Reply To: What Is Your Absolute Go-To Physical and Virtual Gear?

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Physical: An Oxygen mini keyboard to input midi (great for composing). I have a bigger Yamaha 8 octaves keyboard too. To me these kind of things are a must to anyone. For real. Very inspirational. Pair with KONTAKT… never ending inspiration.

A guitar, I just got a new (new to me, lol) Ibanez 7 string. I used to have an Apex II which I just sold because it was when I was soooo poor I couldn’t keep it.

A bass, I have 2, one Yamaha JP Bass and a Squier (both 5 strings, I always have to have MORE strings).

My Apollo X8 interface. BEST INTERFACE in the world. For real.
Not because it records great or anything, but because… wait for it… its headphone output is the only one I have come across to work properly with high impedance headphones! For real! Best part is… I FOUND MY GO TO HEADPHONES: The Sennheiser HD620S… closed back… yes, you hear that right… closed back. These are stellar and any other Sennheiser model sucks (including the HD800s, and the HD600 /latter not too bad).
Add to that an Audient interface (I think I should’ve gone with an Audient 8 channel pre, but I am using right now an iD44 as input for bass and guitar and send its output via optical (red laser!) to the Apollo.
A Mac Mini M2 Pro… nothing beats Apple… and … even if they were beaten, Apollos only work well with SILICON Macs.

Acoustic guitar: Taylor dreadnaught (mine is like a 500 series). With 80 20 strings (frack Phosphor Bronze… hehe).

Microphone: TLM 103… best mic in the world! I have a Bock 187 but for vocals to me at least is not good…

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