Blackberry Waves

Vintage and Modern Equipment

We have a mixture of high quality vintage and contemporary equipment. Vintage tube microphones, classic preamps and compressors, high quality conversion, and more.

Multitrack+

  • Pro-Tools / Ableton Live Suite / Logic Pro X / Reaper / Presonus Studio One with Universal Audio Apollo x16 and Apollo Twin for a total of 18 inputs
  • 3M M-79 2” 24 track analog multitrack
  • Studer B67 1/4″ 2 track

Monitors+

  • Focal Twin6 BE

Preamps+

  • API 3124+ (8 channels)
  • Great River MP-2NV (2 channels)
  • Sytek MPX-4Aii (4 channels)

Outboard+

  • Drawmer 1968 stereo tube compressor
  • Echoplex EP-2 tape delay (tube)
  • Electro-Voice EVT4500 spring reverb
  • Gibson Reverb III spring reverb
  • Hairball Rev A Blue Stripe FET compressor / limiter
  • Roland Space Echo RE-150 tape delay
  • A stairwell that functions as a natural echo chamber

Microphones+

 

  • Beyerdynamic M160 – hypercardioid ribbon
  • Electrovoice RE20 – cardioid dynamic
  • Grundig Gdsm200 (essentially two Sennheiser MD409s in a stereo configuration that can be separated)
  • Neumann Gefell CMV 563 (2) vintage East German large diaphragm tube condensers with M7, M9 and M55K capsules – refurbished by Scott Hampton
  • Oktava MC-012 (2) – small diaphragm condensers with cardioid capsules
  • Oktava MK-012 (2) – small diaphragm condensers with cardioid, hypercardioid and omni capsules – modified by Michael Joly
  • Shadow contact mic
  • Shure SM57 (3) – cardioid dynamic
  • Shure SM7B (2)– cardioid dynamic

Pedals+

  • Boss CE-02W Analog Chorus
  • Carl’s Custom Guitars Octavia germanium fuzz / with switchable  non-octave fuzz channel
  • Colorsound Wah
  • Crowther Hotcake
  • Digitech Bass Squeeze
  • Dunlop Stereo Tremolo
  • Echoplex EP-2 tape delay (tube)
  • EH Memory Man
  • Electro-Harmonix Cathedral
  • Ernie Ball VP Jr. passive volume pedal
  • Fulltone Full-Drive II
  • Moogerfooger 12 stage phaser
  • ProCo RAT
  • Radial Bigshot ABY
  • Roland Space Echo RE-150 tape delay
  • Ronsound Hairpie (70s triangle-knob Big Muff clone)
  • Sans Amp Bass Driver
  • T.C. Electronic Flashback
  • Z Vex Lo-Fi Junkie
  • Z Vex Mastotron

Guitars+

  • ’62 AVRI Fender Jazzmaster
  • American Standard Fender Telecaster
  • Fender Precision Bass with flatwounds
  • Simon and Patrick Woodland Spruce acoustic

Amplification+

  • ‘69 Ampeg SVT
  • ’64 Fender Concert Amp
  • ’64 Fender Dual Showman
  • Banana Tone 1×12″ TV-style cabinet with Eminence Texas Heat
  • Custom TL-606 bass cabinet with 400 watt EVM-15L
  • Fender Showman 1X15 speaker cabinet
  • Lectrolab R400C (low wattage single-ended EL84 combo amp with 10″ speaker)
  • Marshall JMP (50 watt)
  • Smokey Amp
  • Vox AC30 TBX with Celestion Blues
  • Weber 2×12 speaker cabinet with one Blue Dog and one Silver Bell

Drums & Percussion+

  • Assorted cymbals and hardware
  • Hammond Auto Rhythm vintage drum machine
  • Ludwig Acrolite snare drum
  • Ludwig Hollywood kit with 22″ bass drum, 12″, 13″, and 16″ toms
  • Ludwig Supraphonic snare drum
  • Slingerland Radio King 24” bass drum, 16″ floor tom, and 13″ rack tom
  • Slingerland Spitfire 12 lug wooden snare drum
  • Whippany Rhythm Master vintage drum machine

Headphones+

  • Furman HDS-6 Headphone Distribution System with 4 HR-6 mixing stations for individualized headphone mixes

Keyboards / Synthesizers / Samplers+

  • Hammond BV with Leslie
  • Lowrey console piano
  • Moog Subsequent 37
  • Yamaha Eclectone organ