David Lieder Gear -
Keyboards: Yamaha Motif 7
Softsynths used on "Blackwing": Trilogy, Steinberg
Steinway Grand Piano, EastWest Symphonic Orchestra, Native
Instruments B4, Kompakt and Absynth 3
Guitar Processor: Line 6 32 bit
El Guitar:
Bill Laswell Sample Library
Studio Gear of David Lieder:
Avalon Mic Preamps
Equitech studio microphone
Cubase SX3, Wavelab 5, Acid Pro 5, Reason, Native Instruments
Waves effects and mastering plugins with APA 32 Accelerator
Two Muse Research Receptors
Emu Eumulator X Studio with 1820m Audio Dock
2.4 GHZ PC Pentium 4 with 3 GB Ram, RAID
Kevin
Page Gear -- Kevin Page is formerly from the band
"Crux Shadows" and does studio guitar work on
"My Generation", "Calling Your Name",
"Where Is Our Love", "Smoke With Me",
"Losing My Mind", and "Enchanted".
El. Guitar - 1989 Gibson Les Paul
standard, sunburst paint job with medium strings
El. Guitar - Ibanez Joe Satriani model JS3 voodoo paint
job by D. Hunt with Ultralight strings
El. Guitar - Epiphone Sheraton
For "Where Is Our Love" heavier chords -- Line
6 Pod through Yamaha T100 tube amp powering a peavey 412
cabinet with four celestion speakers mic'd with AKG C3000
mic and Sure SM58 microphones.
Digitech 2120 used on Blackwing album
Digitech 2101 for live concert effects use
Stephan -- Featured
guitars on "Cry Little Sister", "My Generation",
Rhythm guitars on "Where Is Our Love"
Line 6 Pod 32 bit
Sunburst Fender Stratocaster
Jemal Wade Hines -- From
the band "Hu Dost" and formerly founder of Seraphim,
Jemal Wade played on "Where Is Our Love",
"Back Up", and "Landscapes".
Guitars -- Paul Reed Smith, Rickenbacker
and Takaminie guitars
Elixir strings
Line6 POD and Delay Modeler
BOSS Loopstation
Digitech Whammy
Pro Tools on a Macintosh
Don Juan -- From
the "Don Juan Band"; played on "My Generation",
"Losin My Mind", "Enchanted", "Where
Is Our Love", "Back Up", "Ghosts"
(unreleased from the blackwing sessions) and "Aquarius
Rising".
On the Blackwing album Don Fortner played
a 1970 Leblanc Paris silver flugel horn (given to him by
the lead trumpeter of the Ray Charles orchestra).
Other horns Don uses in live and studio
settings:
2003 blue and gold engraved Martin Committee
trumpet.
1947 burnished silver Martin Committee trumpet.
1970 Courtois French classical trumpet.
1930 William Frank antique cornet.
Don Fortner uses "Bach 3C" mouthpieces
and "Zaja Pro" valve oil.
Recorders -- Yamaha soprano, alto and
tenor
Chris Ozuna -- Drums
on "Cry Little Sister", "Where Is Our Love",
"My Generation"
DRUMS:
Pearl Master Studio midnight fade color
#154, tom sizes 10 x 10, 10 x 12 and 14 x 16 floor tom,
bass drum is 18 x 22 inch, clear pin stripe batter side
heads, on bottom of toms (resonant head) are clear ambassador
heads.
Zildjian cymbals, 14 inch newbeat hi hats, 16 inch medium
thin crash A series, 17 inch rock crash A series, 20 inch
K series protype, homemade trash hats sears brand, 14
x 6 pearl snare drum Dennis Chambers model, 14 x 5 D.W.
Cravittio cherrywood exotic wood snare drum number 57,
snare drum heads are coated ambassador
D.W. 9000 series double bass drum pedal
Bass Drum heads batter side power stroke three by Remo
Gibralter rack system.
Vic Firth drumsticks model 5A wood or nylon tip depending
on situation and song.
RECORDING:
Yamaha AW 16G for track recording on
some projects.
OTHER CHRIS OZUNA LINKS:
Jim McCarty -- Drums
on "My Generation", "Losin My Mind"
Remix, "Enchanted", "Calling Your Name"
DRUMS:
Tama Superstars (all bearing
edges re-cut by Bill Detamore of Porkpie Drums)
All toms with R.I.M.S. (Resonance Isolation Mounting System)
Drum sizes: Kick - 14" x 22"
Toms - 8" x 8", 10" x 10", 10"
x 12", 12" x 14", 16" x 16"
Cymbals: Paiste (Signature Series) - various sizes
RECORDING EQUIPMENT:
Microphones: AKG D-112 (kick)
Shure SM57 (snare top and snare side )
Shure BG 4.0 Condenser (snare bottom)
Electro Voice RE200 (hi-hat)
(3) Sennheiser 421s (toms)
(2) AKG 423s (overheads)
Electro Voice RE55 (room mic)
Shure SM81 (percussion, etc.)
Mic Preamps: Neve 1272s and API 312s
Hard Disk Recorder: Alesis HD 24
PC Editing and Mixing: Cubase SX 2.0, Vegas 4.0, Sound
Forge 6.0
PERCUSSION:
Tambourines - (regular, brass, and
LP Jingle Sticks)
Shakers - (eggs, tubes, and an LP Soft Shake),
Maracas
Claves
LP Cricket - (similar to a clave sound but softer and
with a light flam effect)
LP Snooker - (to get a clave "roll" sound)
Triangle (4")
Mark Tree
Belltree
Woodblocks - (standard LP wood, and LP Jam block)
Cowbells
Guiro
Rainstick
Ribbon Crasher
Whistles - (Samba whistle, Police whistle, and Slide whistle)
Washboard - (played with thimbles or brushes)
Bongos - (LP with calf heads, and Rogers with plastic
heads)
Roto Toms - (8", 10" and 12")
Talking Drum
Dounbek
