Equipment

This is a list of equipment Neil has used in-studio/live.

Software

• Cool Edit Pro 2 (Demo song heard in Shut Up Your Mouth)
• Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 (1997 - 2006?) (Vow of Silence project file)
• Sonar 5 Professional/Sonar X3 Producer (2006 - now?)
• Reaper (since I Am Become Christmas)
• Adobe Audition (mastering)

Instruments

• Squier Stratocaster (appears in the Word Disassociation video)
• 25-Key Accordion (named Cap'n Crunch, formerly Kiki)
• Yamaha Motif 8 (Youmacon 2009)
• Korg microKORG XL (Youmacon 2011, turned into a keytar)
• Yamaha SHS10 (seen on switchable Dinosaurchestra cover, Welcome to the Jungle)
• Roland JV-80
• Jew Harp (Kitten Is Angry)
• Yamaha CS15 (Matches and Nails, Somnolence)

Gear

• M-Audio Axiom 61 (MIDI controller)
• Marshall MXL V67G
• Behringer AMP800
• PreSONUS TubePRE
• Digitech RP200

VSTs

• Synth1 (Dinosaurchestra Part Three, Brodyquest, post-I Am Become Christmas)
• Native Instruments FM7
• GSi MrRay73 Mark II
• Acoustica Pianissimo
• Toontrack EZdrummer (post-View-Monster)
• FL Slayer (Redesign Your Logo, only available in FL Studio)
• Garritan’s Stradivari Violin (Touch-Tone Telephone, Redesign Your Logo)
• Bitspeek (Spirit Phone)
• SimSynth (Deporitaz era)
• TAL Noisemaker (Smell Like a Cookie All Day)
• Melodyne
• Fretted and LePou's Guitar Amps
• Korg M1 (Proteus)
• VProm (Mocks You)

Soundfonts

• FluidR3
  • Slap Bass (Captain Planet)
  • Power Drumkit (Mr. Wolfgang)
  • Yamaha Grand Piano (Hydroelectric Viking Funeral, Behold the FUTURE)
  • Room Drumkit (Pumpkin Pie [Earlier Version])
  • Room 2 Drumkit (Rainwater)
  • Electronic Drumkit (Bad Electricity)
  • Multiple presets (Error)
• Many Hammersound.com soundfonts
  • HS-R8 Drums (Kaleidoskull, 320x200, The Only House That’s Not on Fire (Yet))
  • Several patches from HS Synth Collection I:
    • P600-PLUGBAS (Vow of Silence)
    • P600-WAHSYNT (Vow of Silence)
    • DX-SYNCLAV (Vow of Silence)
    • DX-FUNKBASS (Attention)
• 4GMGSMT.sf2 (Two and a half hours of MIDI)
• Yamaha S-YXG50 (Hazel's Modus Operandi)

Sources

• WikiLemon FAQ
• Neilblr
• UsesThis