Jon Dreyer: Equipment

Present

• Early 20th century flatback acoustic bass, possibly Czech or German, that looks bad and sounds great, with a Fishman Full Circle pickup and an 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 Ten2.
• Zoom R16 recorder/interface/controller. So far I've been using it as a recorder. 8 simultaneous tracks, combo inputs. Not as flexible as I'd hoped, and not always able to get enough from some dynamic mics, but looks like it will do the job, and an amazing piece of technology for the money. Check it out.
• Edirol R-1 (now superseded by the R-09 and R-09HR) portable solid state recorder.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