Thomas Gold – The Button album cover

Thomas Gold – The Button

Single 2010

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2010 single The Button.

Music from The Button

Gear Used On The Button

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Thomas Gold – The Button (2010). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Studio Monitors used by Thomas Gold on The Button

Active & Passive Monitors

Yamaha NS-10M

Avg price: $172.50

In "Thomas Gold In The Studio With Future Music Part 1", seventeen seconds in, the black 'teardrop' or 'bunny-ear' design of the NS-10M appears just to Thomas' right, as well as directly behind him.

Active & Passive Monitors

Avantone Pro MixCubes Buttercream Passive Studio Speakers

Avg price: $304.57

Seventeen seconds into Part 1 of Thomas Gold's "In The Studio" feature, these cream-colored speakers can be spotted on top of his Yamaha-NS-10Ms.

Studio Monitor Management

Dangerous Music Monitor ST Remote-Controlled Source & Speaker Switcher

Avg price: $2,554.67

The remote control can be seen on the left part of the screen lying on the desk at around 0:18. The rackmount interface itself can be seen in the top rack space behind him at 0:18.

Active & Passive Monitors

ADAM Audio A77X

Avg price: $1,037.49

Can be seen above his Dangerous Music 2-Bus at around 1:24. The switches, green light, and location of the speakers are consistent with the A77X model.

Keyboards and Synthesizers used by Thomas Gold on The Button

Synthesizers

Korg MS-20

Avg price: $1,374.99

The right part of this keyboard can be seen peeking on the left hand side of the screen at around 0:18.

Studio Gear used by Thomas Gold on The Button

Preamps

Avalon VT-747SP

Avg price: $2,808.00

The Avalon's sliders, central meter, and power switch can be seen on the right part of the screen at the bottom most rack space around 1:19. At that particular time, those three portions are between Thomas' back and the chair.

Studio Equipment used by Thomas Gold on The Button

Audio Interfaces

Avid HD I/O

Avg price: $2,432.46

Can be seen on the left part of the screen at around 1:18 in the bottom most rack.

Mixers

Dangerous Music 2-BUS

Avg price: $3,191.38

This module can be seen above his Avid HD I/O at around 1:18 in the left-most rack.

Drum Machines

Elektron Machinedrum SPS-1UW MKII

Avg price: $2,089.05

"When I did the toms, I used the Machinedrum, one of my favorite piece of gear at the moment, and the drums sound like this... and I just used here... you see the buttons? These are the three sounds, and I just tuned them in a certain way so they fit to the bass and they fit together like a melody... and the good thing is you can really go here and tune the single drums... and make them sound like a chord..." (1:41)

DAWs used by Thomas Gold on The Button

DAW Software

Apple Logic Pro

Logic Pro can be seen on both of Thomas' screens (left with arrangement window, right with mixer window) throughout the video.

Software Plugins and VSTs used by Thomas Gold on The Button

Drum Machine

Spectrasonics Stylus RMX

Avg price: $379.00

"I just have a kick drum, which sounds like this... and this one is taken from the Stylus remix..." The screen then zooms in on the plugin. (3:19)

Sampler Plugins

iZotope pHATmatic Pro

An instance of this plugin can be seen running on-screen at around 5:08. At 5:10, the camera pulls back and we see a fuller view of the plugin.

Compressor Plugins

PSP Audioware PSP Vintage Warmer2

Avg price: $146.00

"Here I have some... the PSP Vintage compressor, but only to add some warmth to it, some body. You can hear it, that's more bottom there."(5:52)

EQ Plugins

Waves VEQ4 Vintage Equalizer Plugin

Avg price: $34.00

"And, on the clap, for example, I have only a... the... some, um, low-cuts on there, I often use the Waves Q4, and I have all four low-cuts on, so you can have a steep EQing curves..."(6:04)

EQ Plugins

Sonalksis SV-517 Software Equalizer Plugin

At the 7:16 mark of his video with Future Music, Thomas is running an instance of SV-517 on the left screen. The camera zooms in on the plugin so we get a clearer view of it in action.

EQ Plugins

PSP Audioware PSP ClassicQ Equalizer

Avg price: $68.75

"There's some EQing on it... it's where I boost the mids a little bit." (10:54) The camera then zooms in on the Classic Q at 11:01, before another plugin covers it from view.

Synth Plugins

Lennar Digital Sylenth1 Software Synthesizer

Avg price: $155.00

Sylenth can be seen on Thomas' left screen around 14:32.

Compressor Plugins

Universal Audio DBX 160

Avg price: $85.67

"I used some compression from the Universal Audio card, I really like that stuff, Universal Audio's stuff is just great" (9:04)

At 9:07, an instance of the DBX 160 appears on screen. Thomas is using an older, prior version of the plugin listed here.