Armin Van Buuren's Gear

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An Apple 23 Inch Cinema HD Display appears in use by Armin van Buuren throughout this video of his production studio.

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"But, yeah, when I got a Technics SL-1200 turntable that was a moment for me. At first, I only had one [laughs]."

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In this Photo, You can see Armin Van Buuren using the EFX 1000

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In this photo, Armin van Buuren can be seen holding the video card for his Apple Mac Pro. In the caption he says, "Working hard in the studio. Burned another videocard in my MacPro... Got it fixed today!" Based on the dual DVI ports, color of the video card, and flame decals, it can be identified as the Mac Pro version of the ATI Radeon HD 2600XT.

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At 9:47 you can see Armin Van Buuren open Ableton to show how he made the drums of his track "Suddenly Summer" and at 10:32 he zooms in on the loops and you can clearly read ''VTS1 Lovely Day Kit 134BPM Loop 02'' on the loop below.

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A 3:45 Armin opens up Omnisphere to show the bass patch, he uses a patch named Classic UpDown SH-101. This patch comes with Trillian. Trillian patches can also be used in Omnisphere.

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"This is our bread and butter. We put it on almost every vocal," Armin says, at 13:10, when he shows LA-2A.

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At 25:07 in this video, Armin describes how he uses UAD Precision Limiter.

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"The Ampex ATR-102 Mastering Tape Recorder plug-in and the Studer A800 Multichannel Tape Recorder plug-in tape emulations give a nice edge to bass tracks.

Another favorite is the the Pultec Passive EQ Collection. I like to use it without any boost — just insert it and it gives you a wonderful tool for blending live elements with synths — just by going through the virtual circuitry." - Armin Van Buuren.

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"Another favorite is the the Pultec Passive EQ Collection. I like to use it without any boost — just insert it and it gives you a wonderful tool for blending live elements with synths — just by going through the virtual circuitry." - Armin Van Buuren.

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Armin posted this photo of his mini studio at the airport, and in it his Novation Launch Control XL.

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At 00:33 you can see he uses logic keyboard

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In this Universal Audio article, Armin van Buuren states he "went to New York to record Miri there in Pro Tools." Due to the date of the article, it can be assumed that the version of Pro Tools that Armin is using is Pro Tools 11.

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In this photo on his desk there is ms-20.

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In this user-uploaded photo, Armin Van Buuren's studio setup includes the Novation SuperNova synthesizer.

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The photo shows an Aviom A-16D Pro in Armin Van Buuren's studio setup.

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There is an16-i in his studio.

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In this user-uploaded photo, Armin Van Buuren's studio setup includes the Rosendahl Nanoclocks, highlighting its role in his signal processing gear.

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In the photo, Armin Van Buuren's studio setup includes two Apogee Electronics DA-16X audio interfaces.

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In this photo, there is a korg legacy collection box.

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In this page he says, "Twenty years ago your Juno 106 had just 32 presets, so you had to be much more creative with what you had."

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He says "it's all about ES1, ES2 and EXS24, and that's it! It's so amazing what you can do with stuff like that."

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"Really loving this!"

Armin van Buuren endorses HalfTime on the official product webpage, giving the above quote.

Additionally, his name appears in the "In Use By" section of the product video beginning at 2:03: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y9Tr5f1UCo&feature=youtu.be&t=2m3s

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Armin van Buuren
“H-Reverb is amazing for clear reverbs that don’t clog up your mixes.”

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“You will find Waves plugins on almost every one of my mixes. H-Delay, H-Reverb, C6, SoundShifter and the Renaissance plugins are all essential tools for me.“

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In the advertisement for his Masterclass music production tutorial, The Glue is shown at the 1:18 mark when the computer screen is shown running Logic Pro X with some plugins visible.

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Developed in collaboration with Van Buuren.

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Armin has collected many synthesizers over the years, and amongst them is the Minimoog Voyager. In an interview for Music Radar, Armin Van Buuren said about the Minimoog Voyager, “Still a classic, especially when you overdrive the input or output with a special cable and get feedback - the filter goes nuts!”

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At 12:14, Armin shows the Shadow Hills compressor plug in and the actual settings he used on his latest track with Mr Probz, "Another You".

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