The Crystal Method

The Crystal Method praises the reFX Nexus 2 for its stunning sound quality, highlighting the natural character and depth of its pianos and strings. They appreciate the synths for their rich harmonics and tonal qualities, comparable to original sources. This endorsement is featured on the reFX website.

Scott's primary sampler for live triggering sounds for many years. Great shot of it at 2:40 into this video

“The L3 MultiMaximizer is always the last plugin on my stereo bus chain. Incredibility versatile, not only does it make my tracks sound louder, it makes them sound better!“

The Crystal Method utilizes Sample Logic's Morphestra 2, as highlighted in the Sample Logic LLC community feature.

"We were bringing out some of these old synths that we hadn’t used — the Minimoog and the Yamaha CS-40. We’ve always used the Roland Jupiter-6; it’s pretty much a workhorse. It was getting back into that world."

"We were bringing out some of these old synths that we hadn’t used — the Minimoog and the Yamaha CS-40. We’ve always used the Roland Jupiter-6; it’s pretty much a workhorse. It was getting back into that world."

“We got excited going through some of the new virtual instruments — Arturia having a Yamaha CS-80 and an ARP 2600, and GForce having an OSCar and an ARP Odyssey, and we were intrigued the things they did.”

Casio chatted with the duo Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland and discussed their beginnings and their respect for the Casio XW Synthesizers.

At The 22:05 Mark of this Interview, Scott Kirkland Mentions that the Organ and Wobble Sounds Came from the Roland MC-202 MicroComposer.

At Some Point In This Interview, Scott Kirkland Mentions that this Synthesizer was used for their Song Comin' Back

Scott Kirkland, During this Interview that the Intro Pad Sound for their Song Keep Hope Alive Came from the the E-MU Vintage Keys.

at 1:10 in the video we can see their Avalon Preamps

at 1:10 in the video we can see their Avalon preamps

at 1:55 in the video, they talk about their compressors

they show the tuner at 1:55 in the video

you can see the FireoworX at 1:55 in the video

at 1:55 they show the Joemeek SC2

(@2:15) "right now we're using a lot of SSL stereo bus compression"

at 3:03 in the video you can see two Avalon Preamplifiers

you can see the DBX 160A Compressor at 3:03

you can see the DBX 165 Compressor at 3:03

you can see the Electrix Mo-FX on the bottom of the rack at 3:03

(@3:15) "we wanted to be able to record drums and whole bands if we needed to so we got an API 500 series rack"

you can see the API 512 preamp at 3:23

when they are showing the synths at 3:40, you can see the Monomachine SFX-6

at 3:47 when they are showing the synths, you can see the Poly Evolver on the rack

at 4:15 the MicroKORG can be seen on top of the Prophecy

at 4:45 the MS2000B can be seen on top of the rack

at 4:58 Scott talks about the MPC 3000

at 4:58 the TR-606 can be seen on the left