Instruments

I currently play on:

  • Zentner Wood Piccolo
  • Haynes closed hole flute (1940s era)
  • Yamaha 581 (with split G) flute with a Sankyo Headjoint
  • Armstrong Alto Flute
  • Woodflute in the Key of F
  • Dizi Soprano Bamboo Flute in the Key of C
  • Dizi Soprano Bamboo Flute in the Key of Bb
  • Shakuhachi (4 hole)
  • Akai EWI 4000S
  • Roland Aerophone Pro 30
  • Loree C+3 Oboe (NZ Serial)
  • Buffet R-13 clarinet with a Caravan mouthpiece and Vandoren V12 4 reeds
  • Yanagisawa curved soprano with a Berg Larsen 85/1 rubber mouthpiece with vandoren 3 reeds
  • Selmer Mark VI alto saxophone with a vintage Meyer brothers mouthpiece (worked on by the late, great Jon Van Wie) with an GetASax Brilhart Reproduction 3-Band Ligature and Vandoren 2.5 reeds
  • Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone with a Guardala handmade MB1 mouthpiece and Rico Plasticover 3 reeds
  • Barone Bare Brass Baritone Saxophone with a Berg Larsen 130/1 hard rubber mouthpiece, rovner ligature, and Rico Plasticover 3 reeds
  • Amati Wood Bass Clarinet with Low C with a Vandoren mouthpiece and Vandoren 3 reeds (blue box)
  • Yamaha Cornet
  • Yamaha Trumpet
  • Yamaha YRS-312B Recorder
  • Yamaha 300 Series of Recorders (Set of 4)
  • Various Tin Whistles

Musical Gear (Kinda a list of stuff I use)

  • Behringer x32
  • Mackie DL32R with Dante card – this is what I use in various groups for a mixer
  • dbx DriveRack PA2 – essential to making speakers sound good
  • Yamaha DBR10s – Two of these for monitors or mains
  • Electro-Voice RE-20 – Great dynamic mic for live performance
  • Sennheiser 421 – Classic, seen on SNL in the 90s
  • Shure SM-57 – The legendary standard
  • Shure Beta 57 – The legendary standard, made better
  • Shure Beta 98H – Great clip on mic
  • Shure SM-81 – Flat and natural sounding mic
  • NUX B-6 – Wireless Sax Mic. It’s REALLY GOOD.
  • NUX B-5RC – Make’s one’s EWI wireless.
  • Neumann MCM114 – Clip on sax mic. Buttery good mic.
  • AKG C414-ULS – my recording mic
  • AKG C414-EB – my recording mic (so I have two, don’t judge)
  • TZ Stellar X2 – A Nuemann 87 clone. It sounds great (don’t judge, I have a microphone thing)
  • Rode PodMic – Used during the Pandemic, it really does sound like a Shure SM7b
  • PylePro 78 – Shure 57 clone. For $20, it is awesome (I have like 10 of these).
  • Rode NT4 – Awesome stereo microphone.