Home Studio Registry: T.C. Howard Jr.

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Guitars

I am a bass player and I use a Carvin ICON6,and Carvin LB76 basses. Squier by Fender Active Jazz 5 string bass. Alvarez aeb5 and aeb6 string basses, a VOX 4 string semi-hollow body electric, a Brice HXB-406 fretless 6 string bass ,a Galveston 8 string bass, an Ampeg BB-4 Electric Upright Bass, a Hondo 4 string acoustic-electric bass, and a Cremona Upright Bass. I am not a guitar player, but I do own a Squier Strat, a Spear Claymore, and a couple of acoustic, guitars. Guitar players that I work with bring a wide variety of electric and acoustic guitars with them.

Keyboards

Alesis Vortex, Yamaha DX5, PSR220, PSR505, Ensoniq ZR-76, Roland 4500. I have software on one laptop Ableton live lite that came with the Alesis controller. I have keyboardist show up with many different types.

Sound modules

Yamaha TG100, and Kurzweil Micropiano. Abelton live lite software on the laptop.

Percussion

Yahama, Zoom and Roland Drum Machines, set of Rogers drums,maracas,claves,cabasa, tamborines and other percussion pieces.

Effects

Alesis Quadraverb, 2-Rane PE-15 Parametric eq's, DBX 180A Type I Noise reduction,Kawai 8 channel parametric eq,BBE Sonic Maximizer,Ross 1/3 octave Graphic eq, ART CS2 compressor-limiter-gate, 2-Aphex 108 Automatic compressors,

Microphones

Oktava mk-219's, 2-X-21-F condenser mic,Marshall 603 condenser mics, Elecro-Voice RE-10's, Superlux/Avlex pra7a's,

Mixing

Carvin mx-1602, Fostex 450

Tape decks

Fostex R-8 8 track reel to reel , Fostex A-8 8 track reel to reel and Tascam 38 8 track reel to reel, Ampex ATR700 two track reel to reel, 3-Philips 900 DCC digital compact cassette recorder

Monitoring

Yorkville, Heathkit, Cerwin-Vega VH=36's,

Computer

Dell Dimension 4300 512 mb ram, 1.6 Ghz Intel Pentium 4, 2-120 gigabyte hard drives / also personally built pentium 3 866 Mhz, w/512 mb ram, 30 gig hard drive, Dell Inspiron 1100 Laptop Pentium 4 2.2Ghz, w/256 mb ram,40 gig hard drive, Dell Dimesion 2400 2.8ghz, 1GB ram, 2-80 gig hard drives

Music software

Steinberg Cubasis VST, Sound Forge, Vegas Audio and more

Additional equipment

Samson Q5 Headphone amp
Primary use Secondary use
Demos Practice and Rehearsal
Recording level MIDI level
Average Just learning
Commonly work (with) Completed songs/demos/jingles
Other musicians 21-40