Ken Lewis Mix Engineer
 
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Gear List

SSL AWS 900+ Mixing Console with full Automation and Recall

Click here for a full Plug-in list & instrument List

  • Macintosh Intel MacPro 8 Core - fast as lighting
  • Digidesign HD Accel 5 system (yes, 5 Accel cards)
  • Digidesign 192 expanded Interface
  • Apogee DA 16X 192K Convertors
  • Apogee Rosetta 800 192K Convertors
  • Apogee PSX 100 Stereo A/D - D/A convertors
  • API 8200A Analog Summing Box
  • Event SP8 Monitors with a JBL Subwoofer
  • Other Real World Monitoring (top secret, can't give it all away :-)

Outboard Gear

  • GML 2032 Mic Pre & 4 Band EQ
  • Avalon 737 (Tube Mic pre / Tube Compressor / Class A EQ)
  • Lexicon 960L Reverb (4 Lex Reverb engines - their Flagship)
  • Manley Vari-MU Stereo Compressor - found in most good Mastering houses
  • Thermionic Culture Phoenix Stereo Compressor / Limiter
  • Empirical Labs Distressor
  • Oram HD EQ - from Masterdisk Mastering
  • (4) Neumann PEV Mastering EQ's (from Atlantic's old Mastering Studios)
  • Lang PEQ2 Program EQ (Like a Pultec but Better)
  • Sontec MEP 250ex 5 Band EQ (insane across the Mix Buss)
  • EMT 140 Stereo Plate (the real 8 foot long plate, what others try to be)
  • Groove Tubes Vipre - Tube Mic Pre
  • Roland Dimension D (Chorus unlike anything else)
  • MindPrint Stereo Tube Compressor
  • Yamaha SPX990 Reverb
  • Yamaha SPX 90 II Reverb
  • Lexicon PCM 92
  • Monster Power Conditioning, lots of it.
  • Other stuff that you don't care about

Plug-in List

  • Lexicon PCM Reverb Bundle (awesome)
  • Brainworx - All of em. my favorite EQ's
  • IK Multimedia CSR, Amplitube 3, T Racks, everything
  • WAVES MERCURY BUNDLE (OH MY GOD)
  • All Sony Oxford Plug-ins with the GML Upgrades, all of them.
  • AutoTune 4
  • Amp Farm
  • Speakerphone - Audio Ease
  • Massey Tape Head & L2007
  • McDSP Filterbank
  • All SoundToys Plug-in's including...
  • Echoboy, Filter Freak, Tremolator, Phase Mistress, Speed, Crystallizer, Decapitator, Panman
  • PitchBlender, Time Blender
  • Eventide Anthology II - Amazing Reverbs, EQ's, Effects, Filters, H3000
  • Izotope Ozone 4
  • Slate Digital FG-X Mastering Suite
  • All the Bombfactory stuff including...
  • Pultec Bundle, Joe Meek, 1176, Purple Audio, Fairchild, LA3A
  • All of the Trillium Lane (TL) Plug-in's including...
  • TL Space (Convolution verb), TL Aggro, Everyphase, Master Meters
  • Revibe - Awesome rooms, etc...
  • Reverb One - old Faithful
  • Princeton 2016 Reverbs (Dave Pensado swears by them, they must be good!)
  • Princeton Space Station
  • D-Fi
  • Echo Farm
  • GRM Tools Bundle (Best dirty filters ever designed, digital or analog)
  • All URS Plugins including their designs of...
  • Neve EQ's, API EQ's, 1970 Comp/Limiter, 1975 Comp/Channel; strip, Fultec
  • MDW EQ V2.0 (THE George Massenberg Designed EQ)
  • McDSP G Channel (TEC Award Nominated)
  • McDSP MC2000
  • TC Electronic Master X
  • Aphex Aural Exciter & Big Bottom (bright AND fat)
  • Chandler EMI Limiter - that old Beatles stuff
  • Cranesong Pheonix (Analog heart for a digital plugin)
  • T Racks
  • Amplitube
  • Sansamp
  • Drawmer Dynamics
  • Focusrite EQ's, compressor's & Filters
  • iZotope Vinyl (its free and it kicks...)
  • Other Compressors... Smack!, Impact, Slightly Rude Comp, Maxim, etc...
  • BNR / DiNR - Broadband Noise Reduction (straight up voodoo)
  • Voce Chorus and Spin (Leslie Cabinet Simulators)
  • Moogerfooger
  • Digi Rack of course
  • Pitch
  • There's more but, you know, the above is mostly what I use.

Instruments & Sounds

  • I'm a producer too. These are a lot of my tools. You can hire me to add music to your song as well, while I mix.
  • VariAx 700 Guitar - The Line 6 Modeling guitar, I don't know how they do it
  • Weber Baby Grand Piano (here it on Kanye West "Family Business")
  • Fender Rhodes Suitcase with speaker cab, 1970's and MINT
  • Gretsch Baritone Guitar
  • A lot of other guitars and basses.
  • Tons of cool effects pedals and Stomp Boxes
  • Madison Amplifiers & Cabinets. I endorse them because their gear is great.
  • Tons of hand percussion instruments, years of collecting
  • Pearl Master Studio Drum Kit with several great Snare drums & cymbals
  • Lots of mics. All the right letters and numbers
  • Yamaha Motif - yep.
  • 2 Accordians. One is older than me. The other might be.

Virtual Instruments

  • Logic Audio comes with a TON of great virtual instruments, my favorites are...
  • EXS 24 Sampler - God has fewer sample libraries than I do. I checked.
  • ALL of the IK Multimedia stuff. It is truly AMAZING!
  • NI Komplete 5 - Absynth, B4 Organ, Battery, lots of great sounds
  • Novation - V Station and Bass Station
  • Spectrasonics Omnisphere, Stylus RMX & Trilogy
  • G Force Imposcar and MTRON
  • Lots more... above are my main weapons of choice.

My Mixing Philosophy

 
 
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