Honestly... who needs this much gear?!

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A prize will be awarded to the first person to name every piece of equipment :D
 
Here's a start:

"Armando Avila's Favorite Gear
1. 1970's Black Face 1176LN
As everyone, I love it on Bass, vocals, mono drum mic, etc, etc.
2. Retro Instruments Sta-Level
For me it shines on Bass, drum aux and of course on vocals (my favorite right now with its fast release mod).STA-Level (RETRO): For me it shines on Bass, drum aux and of course on vocals (my favorite right now with its fast release mod).
3.AMS RMX 16
I love it on drums (especially on Snare) and some times the ambience patch works great on vocals and acoustic guitars.
4. Gefell UM900
Sounds great on everything.
5. LA3A
I always have a pair patched on my acoustic guitar tracks
6. Vintage Neve 1073
What can I say?
7. A Pair of Roland SDE3000
Hard panned L & R, they sound great on vocals.
8. Pultec EQP1a
Mine is always attached to my main vocal track, some times even without eq at all.
9.EDAX MEQ5-e
Beautiful on clean and distorted electric guitars.EDAX MEQ5-e: beautiful on clean and distorted electric guitars.
10. SDD3000
Always between my vintage Strat and my Vox AC30 (As used by The Edge!).
11. Eventide H3000
I have H910, H949, and Eclipse, but for vocals widening nothing can touch the H3000 (Dual 910 patch!!)
12. Ibanez SDR 3000
Great ping-pong slap delays and some times its gate reverb blends nice on snare.
13. Roland DC30 Analogue Delay
I grew up listening to this effect on my father's music, it was hard for me to find it again, and when I was able to buy it, it was worth all the research over the world to get.
14. Inward Connections Vac Rac TSL-3 Stereo Limiter
I got my TSL 3 after reading about it in some Audio forums, then I asked Mike Nehra about it and he sent me the first one. After listening to my vocal tracks, acoustic and electric guitars through it, I immediately ordered a second TSL 3, because the first one is now busy with my main vocal tracks, so I desperately need another one for my electric guitars, and now that I think about it, I need a 3rd one because nothing sounds like a Vac Rac on acoustic guitars too!! I have some of the finest compressors and limiters and this is by far one of my favorites, I can't replicate what it does with any other device."

http://www.vintageking.com/site/files/producers_corner/avila.html

Woof woof!
 
XLR said:
Here's a start:

"Armando Avila's Favorite Gear
1. 1970's Black Face 1176LN
As everyone, I love it on Bass, vocals, mono drum mic, etc, etc.
2. Retro Instruments Sta-Level
For me it shines on Bass, drum aux and of course on vocals (my favorite right now with its fast release mod).STA-Level (RETRO): For me it shines on Bass, drum aux and of course on vocals (my favorite right now with its fast release mod).
3.AMS RMX 16
I love it on drums (especially on Snare) and some times the ambience patch works great on vocals and acoustic guitars.
4. Gefell UM900
Sounds great on everything.
5. LA3A
I always have a pair patched on my acoustic guitar tracks
6. Vintage Neve 1073
What can I say?
7. A Pair of Roland SDE3000
Hard panned L & R, they sound great on vocals.
8. Pultec EQP1a
Mine is always attached to my main vocal track, some times even without eq at all.
9.EDAX MEQ5-e
Beautiful on clean and distorted electric guitars.EDAX MEQ5-e: beautiful on clean and distorted electric guitars.
10. SDD3000
Always between my vintage Strat and my Vox AC30 (As used by The Edge!).
11. Eventide H3000
I have H910, H949, and Eclipse, but for vocals widening nothing can touch the H3000 (Dual 910 patch!!)
12. Ibanez SDR 3000
Great ping-pong slap delays and some times its gate reverb blends nice on snare.
13. Roland DC30 Analogue Delay
I grew up listening to this effect on my father's music, it was hard for me to find it again, and when I was able to buy it, it was worth all the research over the world to get.
14. Inward Connections Vac Rac TSL-3 Stereo Limiter
I got my TSL 3 after reading about it in some Audio forums, then I asked Mike Nehra about it and he sent me the first one. After listening to my vocal tracks, acoustic and electric guitars through it, I immediately ordered a second TSL 3, because the first one is now busy with my main vocal tracks, so I desperately need another one for my electric guitars, and now that I think about it, I need a 3rd one because nothing sounds like a Vac Rac on acoustic guitars too!! I have some of the finest compressors and limiters and this is by far one of my favorites, I can't replicate what it does with any other device."

http://www.vintageking.com/site/files/producers_corner/avila.html

Woof woof!
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Cheaters get smote :mad:

I was wondering who he was! :D
 
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I see you found my secret room. :cool:

Armando was just visiting. ;)

:D
 
In my "secret" room...?

That's not going to be cheap...just ask Armando. :p
 
I'd hate to be responsible for the electric bill, Quite aside from all that gear the AC must be running constantly to keep the temp at a manageable level.

Or maybe he just printed out the GUIs of a whole load of plugin emulations of real gear and stuck them up on the wall to look cool and actually mixes 100% ITB on cool edit pro
 
I can name all but the one that's the 3rd rack from the right about half way down takes up about 6 racks spaces and has big green lights!

I bet he uses all of that stuff on every track!



:cool:
 
Bristol Posse said:
Or maybe he just printed out the GUIs of a whole load of plugin emulations
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First thing I thought when I saw the pic was that it looked like a wall of Antress plugins. :D

That 3rd rack from the right is obviously overheating and needs a little air space. I'll help Armando out by taking the LA2A, a pair of the 1176s and that side-by-side pair of LA3As.
 
Buddy in the pic kind of looks like that Turtle dude off the show "Entourage"

:cool:
 
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If you could have just one of those racks, with everything in it, which would you choose?

I'm torn between the 4th from the left (preamps, it appears) and the 5th (compression).
 
Todzilla said:
If you could have just one of those racks, with everything in it, which would you choose?

I'm torn between the 4th from the left (preamps, it appears) and the 5th (compression).
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Preamps. You can get great compression with some of todays plugins, and in a mix it's great to use them on multiple tracks. Whereas with preamps, you can't emulate that after the fact, and you won't need it on multiple tracks.
 
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