Nguyên Lê’s equipment

Nguyên Lê endorses

Stage setup

             quilted Maple thinline body shaped after a chinese calligraphy

             24 fret maple neck, ebony fingerboard

             China black ink painting

             Tahiti mother of pearl Yi King position markers :  

                                                    3rd fret - the Water

                                                    5th fret - the Wind

                                                    7th fret - the Mountain

                                                    9th fret - the Lake

                                                    12th fret - the Sky

             EMG pickups, 2 SA single, 1 bridge 89 humbucker

             Floyd Rose/Schaller vibrato

             GK2A Roland guitar synth pickup with integrated controls

            small quilt Maple Body with wedge comfort design (courtesy of Linda manzer)

            24 fret maple neck, ebony fingerboard

            single cutaway at 18th fret

            Jura epicea top, violette wood bridge

            GothO SG510 golden machine heads

            Amarello & bulnesia neck & neck head inlays

            Tahiti mother of pearl back inlay with Nguyên Lê's ideogram

            B-Band UST pickup with ZAM  external phantom power Block

James Trussart electric guitar

             Warmoth body & 24 fret neck, birdeye maple, ebony fingerboard

             EMG pickups (neck 81 humbucker/ middle single SA/ bridge 85 humbucker )

             Floyd Rose vibrato

             Dean Markley strings 09 / 42

HT Boost black star tube booster pedal

Boss GT10 guitar multi-effects floor unit with Boss EV5 pedal for continuous control

midi connected to a

Lexicon PCM 80 digital multi-effects

Korg Kaoss Pad II & III (great toys !)

Apple MacBook Pro 2,33 Ghz laptop for playing sounds & sequences w/ Ableton Live, Reaktor & Stylus RMX

Audio kontrol ak1 native instrument usb audio interface

Evolution UC-33 USB controller

Roger Mayer Vision Wah pedal

(when Nguyên cannot bring his own amps he usually asks for two Roland Jazz Chorus or Fender Twin Reverb)

Home stuff

String Instruments

Fly Deluxe Parker electric guitar

             DiMarzio pickups

             Parker piezo vibrato

             Maxima Gold strings 10/46

Hagström jazz guitar (designed by d’Aquisto)

             EMG 91 pickup 

             Bigsby vibrato

Gibson ES 345

Sadowsky nylon electroacoustic

Lowden F22 acoustic steel

Hermanos Condé flamenca acoustic nylon

Aria electric with double frets for quarter tones

James Trussart fretless electric

            Vigier fretless brass fingerboard

            Warmoth neck & hollow body

            Joe Barden pickups

Leduc 5 strings fretless electric bass

Gobson acoustic mandolin from India

Dan Tranh vietnamese zither

Dan Tam vietnamese banjo

Dan Bau vietnamese monocorde

Cai Luong vietnamese 5-strings electric guitar with curved fingerboard

Cai Luong vietnamese 5-strings acoustic guitar with curved fingerboard

Cümbüs (fretless banjo) from Turkey

Tar (lute with double steel strings, drone & moveable frets) from Azerbaïjan

saz from turkey

Synthesizers

Korg Triton Pro 76 notes keyboard with

EXB 1 & EXB2 extensions & MOSS synth card

Korg Triton Rack

Roland XV 5080 expander w/ World, Pop, Orchestra I, Orchestra II cards

Roland D 110 expander

Oberheim Matrix 1000 analog expander

Roland D 550 expander

Alesis D 4 drum module

Yamaha TG 500 expander

Korg WSSR Wavestation expander

M-Audio Trigger Finger

Roland GR33 Guitar Synthetizer (not much use these days)

Outboard Effects

Lexicon PCM 80 multi-effects w/ Pitch FX card

Lexicon PCM 70 reverb

Yamaha SPX 1000 multi-effects

TC Electronics M One reverb

Alesis XTC digital reverb

Boss SE 70 multi-effects

Electrix FilterFactory analog filter

E-Bow

Boss GT6 guitar multi-effects floor unit (used on most home el. gt recordings)

Groove Tubes TRIO guitar tube preamp (on sale !)

Morley wah wah

Ibanez Tube Screamer distortion pedal

Maxtor Tube Compressor RCP660 pedal

Recording & Computer Equipment

Microphones

    Neumann U 87

    Microtech-Gefell M 930 cardiod (fantastic !)

    Mojave MA 200 tube cardioid

    Schoeps MK4/CMC5 cardiod (x2)

    Earthworks Z30X cardiod (x2)

    AKG C535

    Royer R121 ribbon omni

Preamps

    Universal Audio 2-610 stereo tube preamp

    SPL Gain Station 1 tube preamp w/ digital output

    TC Electronics Gold Channel stereo digital preamp & converter

Mackie 24/8/2 mixing board

Monitors

   ADAM S2.5-A (superb !)

   Genelec 1030

Headphones

   Beyer DT 831, Sony MDR V700, M-Audio ear monitors

Apple Mac Pro 2 X Quad 2,8 Ghz computer

10 Gigs RAM, 320 G° & 750G° hard disks, 250G° ext HD (X2), 500G° AluICE ext HD, 1 T° Ext HD,

21’ Samsung SyncMaster monitor

UAD-1 PCI accelerator card

TC Powercore firewire

MOTU Traveler Firewire Audio Interface

MOTU Midi Time Piece AV Midi interface

Tascam CDRW 2000 CD recorder

Sony DAT 60ES

Software (favorites)

Digital Performer

Reaktor 5 (awesome !)

Ableton Live

Sibelius

MachFive II

Absynth

Atmosphere

Stylus RMX w/ Metapmorphosis & Liquid Grooves expanders

East West Symphonic Orchestra Gold XP

PSP Vintage Warmer

PSP MixPack

OhmBoyz

CamelSpace & CamelPhat

Audio Damage Discord & Replicant

sir II convolution reverb

Soundtoys native effects