The gear selected to live in Knack's racks is carefully selected after long periods of real-world demoing in my specially treated listening environment. Each piece listed below has been hand-picked to give me what I feel are some of the best tools to deliver you the absolute finest masters.
MONITORING & METERING
ProAc Studio 140 MkII Full Range Loudspeakers
Odyssey Audio Stratos Amplifier
Chris Pelonis Signature Series Model 42 Monitor System
HSU Research VTF-1 Subwoofer
Sennhieser HD580 Headphones
Metric Halo ULN-2 Expanded 2D with Spectrafoo Complete
Crookwood Igloo Stereo VU Meters
ANALOG PROCESSING
Avalon Design AD2055 Stereo Equalizer
Empirical Labs Lil FrEQ Equalizers - Matched Pair
Kush Audio Clariphonic Parallel Equalizer
SPL Tube Vitalizer Model 9530 Stereo Equalizer
D.W. Fearn VT-7 Stereo Tube Compressor
Pendulum Audio PL-2 Analog Peak Limiter
TAPE MACHINE
MCI JH110 with 1/2" or 1/4" heads
Dolby 363 mainframe and two model 300 SR/A modules
DBX 150 Type I stereo noise reduction unit
DIGITAL PROCESSING / EDITING
TC Electronics Powercore 6000
Universal Audio UAD-2
Avid - Pro Tools
Bias - Peak Pro XT
Apple - Logic Studio Pro
Apple - FInal Cut Studio
CONVERSION
Lavry Engineering 4496 M.DA824 D/A & M.AD824 A/D
Metric Halo ULN-2 Expanded 2D
MASTER DISC BURNER
Plextor PX-716a with Plextools
REFERENCE TURNTABLE
Music Hall MMF-7 with Goldring GL-2400 Cartridge
Bellari VT-130 Vacuum Tube Phono Preamp
MISC.
Mogami/Switchcraft and Zaolla cabling throughout
(2) Apple PowerMac Dual G5 PCIe Machines
Apple Snow Leopard Server, secure client FTP server and redundant backup system
Denon DVD-2910 CD, DVD-A, SACD
Apple TV with 18,000+ Song Music Reference Library |