Jon Dreyer: Equipment

Present

• Early 20th century flatback acoustic bass, possibly Czech or German, that looks bad and sounds great, with a K&K Double Big Twin pickup.
• Czech Juzek cello, circa 1930
• Electric upright bass by Jensen Musical Instruments
• Braided carbon fiber French bass bow bought for about $90 (!) from YouBow.com
• I wrote a review of my excellent combo amp, an Acoustic Image Coda. I have the first version, which is still a great amp, but I'm lusting after the Coda+.
• Edirol R-1 (now superseded by the R-09 and R-09HR) portable solid state recorder. Not much bigger than a pack of cards and with no moving parts, this box does a wonderful job of recording audio to a CompactFlash card in .wav or .mp3 formats. You can listen directly with headphones or upload recordings to a computer via USB cable, at which point you can edit, burn to CD, etc. You can get these at a local Boston-area online/mail-order business, Wingfield Audio. Sweetwater Sound also has a great selection.
• Tiny binaural mics from Core Sound, which sound great and work well with the Edirol R-1 and minidisc recorders
• Audacity, an excellent, free, open source software package for audio editing and recording
• LAME, an excellent, free, open source mp3 encoder

Past

• Polytone Mini-Brute III amp (sold)
• Ampeg B-15-N Portaflex bass amp (sold)
• My 1971 Fender Precision fretless bass is now one of Bob Gollihur's "eclectic basses"

Jon Dreyer • 781-696-2614 • 81 Baker Ave, Lexington MA 02421-6228 • email