Spleen Arcana

Le Refuge is the place where I record and mix Spleen Arcana’s music, a project studio as we say these days. No Pro Tools, no Mac computer neither but various humble tools that I chose through the years and which fits my needs. As you may guess, this page is in constant evolution…

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Gear list

Computer

• Intel Pentium 4 – 2,8Ghz (Bus 800 Mhz)
• ASUS P4P800 SE
• Corsair DDR 2048 Mo (PC3200)
• HD Maxtor 120 Go SATA/8 Mo (recording)
• HD Samsung F1 Spinpoint 250 Go SATA/16 Mo (system)
• External HD 160 Go/8Mo My Book (back-up)
• Matrox Millenium G450 dual-screen
• RME Multiface II
• EMU 0404 usb
• Toshiba Satellite L505-10P
• Magix Samplitude Pro 9 DAW
• Universal Audio Project Pak UAD-1
• Many VST plugins, some of my favourite are: Voxengo Elephant, Voxengo Polysquasher, Kjaerhus Audio Classic, Leftover Lasagne Pushtec EQ, Digital Fish Phone Blockfish, Stillwell 1973
• Vstis: M-Tron from GMedia, E-piano from MDA, B4 from Native Instruments, Spectrasonics Stylus RMX

Recording

• Soundcraft Spirit M8 mixer
• Studio Projects C1 microphone
• Oktava MK-319
• Oktava MK-012 microphone x2
• T-Bone RM700 Ribbon microphone
• T-Bone EM900 microphone x2 (drum overheads)
• Shure SM-57
• T-Bone BD300 (kick drum)
• T-Bone CD55 (toms)
• Joemeek Studio Channel VCQ1 preamp
• Great River ME1-NV
• Johnson Jstation guitar preamp

Monitoring

• Adam A7
• Behringer Mini Mon 80
• BeyerDynamic DT 770 Pro
• Directsound Extreme Isolation headphone

Guitars & related

• Gibson Les Paul Custom
• Custom 77 China Girl Raw Power
• Fender Classic Player 50’s
• Maison Les Paul copy
• Yamaha LL16 acoustic guitar (solid spruce top, solid engelmann back and sides,solid Rosewood Mahogany neck)
• Fame Baphomet IV 2004 Limited Edition bass (Ash body, maple flametop, MEC J/J mics…)
• Fender Bassman 70 vintage head (1981) with Matamp 4×12 cabinet (V30 speakers)
• Hora Portuguese I mandolin

Pedalboard

• Budda Bud-wah
• Ernie Ball Jr Volume
• Digitech Bad Monkey overdrive
• MI Audio Crunch Box
• Electro-Harmonix Small Stone modified by Analog Man
• Arion SFL-1
• Maxon AD999
• Boss DD3
• Boss CE-2 (mij)
• Danelectro Tuna Melt Tremolo
• Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail
• Wobo Double Looper
• Tech 21 Character Blonde
• Tech 21 Character British NEW NEW
• Tech 21 Character VT Bass
• Boss RCE-10 Chorus Ensemble

Aside at the moment:

• Electro-harmonix Big Muff Pi
• Behringer Bass Overdrive BOD100 (used on bass)
• Behringer Bass Chorus BCH100 (used on bass)

Keyboards

• Studiologic Fatar TKM88 Master keyboard
• Edirol PCR-50 Master keyboard
• M-Audio Oxygen 8
• Expandeur Emu Xtreme Lead-1
• Rom card Emu Vintage Collection

Drums/Percussion

• Irish Bodhran
• Derbouka Schaller
• Shock 12″/13″/16″ drumkit
• Basix Gewa 14×6.5 snare
• Crash 16″ Meinl Raker
• Crash 17″ Istanbul Mehmet Traditionnal dark
• Ride 20″ Meinl Raker Heavy Ride
• Splash 6″ Sabian Mike Portnoy Signature
• Splash 9″ Sabian Mike Portnoy Signature
• Splash 11″ Sabian Mike Portnoy Signature
• Charley 14″ SABIAN AAX Studio Hats Brillant Finnish
• China 12″ Wuhan
• China 14″ Wuhan
• China 16″ Wuhan
• Remo Emperor skinheads (toms)
• Remo Powerstroke 4 skinhead (Kick drum)
• Evans Genera and G2 skinheads (Snare and tom bass)

Misc. and Trivia

• Neutrik jacks
• Elixir strings
• India incense
• Single malt Scotch whiskies
• Several feather beds and covers

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