Home Studio Registry: Mekaal Hasan

Future plans/projects

To work with highly skilled musicians on vocal/instrumental projects.On the studio side, we've just upgraded our studio with some gear like the Avalon vt737 and other tube equipment and plan to continue with purchasing more gear for our production purposes.

Guitars

Prs custom,fender strats,takamine nylon string classical,ovation steel string, fender jazz bass,samick hollowbody,jackson soloist,steinberger ,ernie ball music man, parker fly 1 and 2,taylor acoustics

Keyboards

Korg x3,trinity,x5

Sound modules

Proteus

Percussion

Pearl session series,DW 5 piece,Yamaha 3 Piece,Multi percussion instruments (windchimes,bongos,african shakers, tablas,dholak etc

Effects

Lexicon pcm 80,pcm60,lxp1,effectron,ensoniq dp4

Microphones

Akg 414's(2),audio technica4033,4031,atm25's(2),sm57's(10),sennheiser md421, equitek e200, rode ntk,shure beta 52,shure beta 57

Mixing

Mackie 32 chnl,8 bus console

Tape decks

Old Gear:2 alesis blackface adats,1 xt20 2 panasonic sv 3700 and sv3800 dat players. Currently running all signals form board into an Alesis HD24 and then dumping digitally via a MOTU 2408 Mk2 into the PC.

Hard disk recorders

Alesis HD24

Monitoring

Genelec 1031 a's,yamaha ns 10's,akg 240m headphones

Computer

P4 MSI Motherboard, 4 GB ram,Core 2 Duo Chipset,2000 GB plus Hard Disk space,LCD Monitoring Screen

Music software

Sonar 5 Producer's Edition,soundforge 8,,dsp plug ins,sonic foundry plugins, timeworks,tc electronics,waves,lexicon,sonitus,sony,isotope etc plugins

Additional equipment

Avalon Mic/Eq,Comp VT 737

Primary use	Secondary use
Commercial work	Recording

Recording level	MIDI level
High	Above average

Commonly work (with)	Completed songs/demos/jingles
Other musicians	More than 100