shok's Reviews

Unbelievable sound and light and compact for travel!!!

I scooped a box of the drums a few months ago with some of the electronic drums, all for $5 at Sam Ash Hollywood's drum shop. I had to find an additional Floor Tom to shift the toms to be lower in tone as desired as well as the rack system.

Luckily, while searching the FACEBOOKERY MarketPlace a few weeks ago, I found a full A-400 kit, complete with Travel Bag for $300 and the guy was 20 minutes from my home!!!

I have since been working with this kit, having modified it with the deeper tom selection and have headlined a festival just before we split town to do a 3-week tour!!! I was able to carry all the drums and the rack myself in one go with my laptop stand and linux netbook & audio interface and my tech carried the bag with the og hi-hat stand, throne, stick bag with fan, snare & stand.

Super easy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

O MAY ZZZING

After a long time of this being on my wishlist, I scooped up a fresh new pedal yesterday, the 26th of June 2024, at one of the remaining Sam Ash stores. (Torrence, CA).

$70 #maybe

This pedal will provide reverse-sounding fade-in tones, great for creative passages!

This is used at home and works well.

I scooped this up during the pandemic for a very low price and it works well.

There are some excellently modeled amps and effects!

A bargain!

Fun for all!

I found this kit at the Goodwill for $29.99 in West LA in May 8th, 2023. I have used the snare on several jobs and in less than one hour, it paid itself, the kit, the gas and more.....

My set came with everything plus a triangle.

The kick drum sounds decent as well!

RUGGED, lasting nearly 20 years so far and lots of use!

I got a few of these in 2007 to add to my (then) new studio to have some extra inexpensive "throw-away" SM-58 / 57 dynamic microphones.

I have only now added this item as I am preparing to head off on a trip, hitting various cities and while I have rarely used this for any studio recording, I very much use this when I am broadcasting on my twitch shows remotely and have used these for nearly all DJ gigs when any announcement is to be presented.

While I have not compared the audio results with any of my other dynamic mics (many which need to be also added on the site and to my equipboard), for 20-30 smackers, this is a great microphone.

I will have to review my records to see what I paid for these nearly 20 years ago BUT it was certainly worth it due to the way I have had these in various bags, suitcases and places all over USA, MX, Canada and Europe!

Added this item to Equipboard on the 15th of March, 2024

Excellent Analog Synth from the collaboration of Roland & Studio Electronics

I finally acquired this synth today 2024 03 14 for $280 with the K25 Controller after years of it being on the "items to add to the sonic family".

My friend at Roland mentioned a while back that these were discontinued.

While I certainly have a Moog and the Behringer clone, this joint creation between Studio Electronics and Roland for the Boutique series is quite unique with its PWM and sequencer gems.

I look forward to creating in the studio for my own art as well as client work. It is always exciting for sessions when you can be "hands-on" with equipment.

90s Effects - Mysterious Ways

The exact guitar patch for Mysterious Ways is right here.

I wound up with two (one free) during my hunt for the patch for a song in a soundtrack I was composing in 2020/21.

You will be able to hear it later this year and if I remember, I will share a clip once it is released with sound samples.

The 90s certainly explored sounds even if some are not quite "musical" at first.

Amazing Vintage 60s Grundig Stereo Mic set!

This stereo mic set from Grundig was originally paired with a reel to reel.

The mics are designed by Sennheiser.

If you see these and they are $125 or lower..... GET THEM!

Clean & Solid

I have been using this since 2020 when I began work on a huge soundtrack. I needed extra juice / pre-amp for a set of mics to run into my CL1B and one of the folks on the team gifted me this.

I had previously been using these and similar models for a few years when I was producing audiobooks at a bunch of studios and was surprised they opted for ART over other brands. Once I gave these a whirl, I was pleasantly surprised.

I tend to use mine for gain, gate and disengage the rest.

Good bang for the buck!

I was lucky enough to scoop up this microphone used and in good condition for roughly $10!

While it is different from my AKG 451 B mics, this little friend can get a fine sound by the hi-hat.

Perhaps this mic will bring you joy!

WORKS!

I got this guitar years ago for $25. I rarely used it until I worked on an album and it had the perfect sound for the material. I have since grown to love this!

I have loved the way this plays so much that I even got a black one with a chrome pickguard for shows.

EXCELLENT CLASSIC LADDER FILTER SOUND!

This is the part for part clone of the original from Moog.

I was able to grab this for $150 from a local fellow who wound up with an entire lot of them from a collection. Mine has custom wood side panels.

I may or may not use this with clients or even on my own music but it will be a fun edition to the instruments back at my home.

There will be a photo in my gear collection.

Fun Pedal

Expression and Effects are fun! I paid $50 for this and it is worth it!

HOT ACTION

Tape-Style experimentation in a pedal! Small and ready for the studio or live!

VERSATILE!!!

I picked up this drum while traveling and working on sessions on the east coast in 2022.

It has since become one of my main snares having been used in more than a few dozen different client productions as well as a few handfuls of my own recordings.

If you see this in a store or used.... GET IT!!!!

Fun... affordable and great for live

It feels great and has a decent sound while looking exciting on stage!

Expressive Electronic Percussion

This is a lightweight, expressive electronic pad geared toward world music with a bevy of percussive organic sounds and tones. It is extremely well build and is unfortunate that Korg did not (yet) continue with this direction!

Excellent and road worthy!

These have been great for session work as a drummer and have gotten even more use as my IEM for DJing / Broadcasting.

While I have not used these for my day job in the studio (production / mixing) they are flexible for my ears, applications and such and the included case it great!

Solid Kit

These have been great for session work as a drummer and have gotten even more use as my IEM for DJing / Broadcasting.

While I have not used these for my day job in the studio (production / mixing) they are flexible for my ears, applications and such and the included case it great!

This is an extremely expressive synthesizer and musical friend!

Since its release, I quickly fell in love with this instrument. This is still one of my favorite synths of all time.

It is right up there with my Oberheim Xpander, Arp 2600, Alesis Andromeda and some other gems like my Jupiter 6 & 8.

I was able to secure an artist deal with Dave however was not in the mode of adding new synths.

Sadly, my buddy, Dave, passed this year. I was looking at Craigslist and spotted one, by accident for $800. It was in MINT condition and so it was acquired and now it lives with me and will be the source of my happiness.

It moved in with me on Saturday the 17th of December 2022.