Gear

Parker Deluxe Refined

 

Peavey Wolfgang Special

Everything stock except the Bareknuckle pickups ('Cold Sweat' and "Miracle Man') and the coil-tap. A perfect rock guitar.

Ibanez Universe UV777 (7 String)

Chunky low-end grunt.

1995 USA Stratocaster Standard

Typical and classic strat tones. Great cleans and bluesy crunch.

Starfield Altair SJ Custom

A rare guitar with some modifications. Seymour Duncan Vintage Rail at the bridge, Quarterpounder in the middle position and stock single coil at the neck. Fitted with a Roland GR3 MIDI pickup. I mainly use this guitar to capture MIDI performances including a "played" feel for MIDI bass lines.

Taylor 112

My most regularly used acoustic guitar. Bright, woody and earthy tone. Sounds great close mic-ed with a good microphone.

Ibanez EP9RBR Euphoria

Great plugged-in electro acoustic tones.

Epiphone PR 200 "Trash Guitar"

Sometimes a track demands the less polished sound of a "trash" guitar. It's nearly 20 years old and is the guitar Owen wrote some of his first songs on. It has made a few trips to the beach parties and has the scars to prove it. Owen also has trash basses and electrics for the rare cases that they might be needed (not pictured).

Lakland Skyline 55-02 (5 String)

This 5 string Lakland Skyline 55-02 is Owen's main session bass. Although Owen has a workhorse bass amp he tends to use it DI'ed most of the time.

Yamaha RBX 774

Although not Owen's main instrument this bass has proved itself a real workhorse in the studio.

Amps

These are Owen's main two amplifiers when not using virtual amps. The Engl is a tight and clinical amp with pristine high gain tones.

The Fender has glassy cleans, punchy crunch and bluesy high gain sounds.

For detailed clean sounds an SE Z5600a II microphone is well suited. For louder stuff a tried-and-tested Shure SM57 is a better fit.

Ukulele & Mandolin

A recent project required Ukulele and Mandolin so Owen stepped up and gave it a go!

Computer and Hardware

8 Core Mac Pro “Nehalem” - main studio workstation

6GB 1066 MHz DDR3 RAM
2 x 2.26 GHz QuadCore Intel Xeon
24" LED Apple Cinema Display

4 x Internal 1TB Hard Drives
2 x 1TB Firewire 800 External Hard Drives

 

MacBook Pro 13 - backup and mobile

2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM

 

Microphones

SE Z5600a II with matching tube preamp - great for detailed sounds like close mic-ing acoustic guitars.

Shure SM57 - tried and tested and more appropriate for grittier, high SPL such as recording loud guitar amplifiers.

 

Other

Apogee Duet Audio interface

Native Instrument Rig Control

Roland GR-33 MIDI Guitar Synthesizer

M-Audio Keystation Pro 88 and Oxygen 8

Selected Software and Plugins etc

Logic Pro Studio 8

Pro Tools 8 LE

Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3

Spectrasonics Suite: Omnisphere, Trillian, Stylus

Toontrack EZ Drummer and Expansion

East West / Quantum Leap Symphonic Strings and Choirs.

Native Instrument Alicia's Keys