Gear Talks

What EQ Does in Music Production? I was thinking about what’s gonna be the first digital “Gear” for this Gear Talk Category.  As a producer, film scorer and songwriter, I have to master  tons of digital plugins for daily use.  However I believe the basic gear should be beneficial for all readers, so I picked it up from one of the EQ plugins.  Okay, let’s get into the TDR VOS Slick EQ GE (Tokyo Dawn Lab). My great fellow mixing engineer said one day that if he can record music played in the perfect acoustics, there’ll be nothing to do for mixing.  The perfect acoustics can be the results of […]

Another American Vintage This is the oldest electric bass of mine, Music Man Stingray Bass 1977.  This bass has come to me in pretty good condition with no replacement parts.  However, the original frets were thin and they’ve almost gone around 2010, so I asked a repair shop to replace them.  Since this unique one piece maple neck with lacquer finished, I had been looking for the right person who has skills for maintaining vintage instruments for many years.  It cost me over 1000 dollars for fret replacement, refinishing and setting up, but I was happy because it was worth it.  The other unique feature of this bass is the

My Main Instrument This series of posts cover the gear that I purchased and use now (or maybe used before).  So that they’ll be no sponsored by others. Well, I  must start “Gear Talks” with my main instrument, Fender Jazz bass 1978.  This instrument is now 46 years old however, still in the front line of my business.  The bass came to me in 1994 from New York, as the picture shows, right after Roger Sadowsky tuned.  According to the agent, Roger set it up with replacing frets, replacing the bridge and installing a preamp.  For controllers installation, the output jack was moved to the side.  This preamp requires a