Don Braden's Equipment

Don Braden uses and endorses Keilwerth saxophones. His main tenor sax is the Keilwerth Shadow, and he also has a Keilwerth SX 90R gold lacquer/nickel plate. He uses a Lawton #8 mouthpiece, and 1980's Vandoren #4 reeds. His soprano sax is a Keilwerth SX 90-II gold lacquer/nickel plate, with a Meyer #7 mouthpiece and Vandoren #4 reeds. He plays a Schreiber WS 3440 flute (sterling silver body, plated keys), and a Sonaré (sterling silver head joint, plated body & keys) AF-60 alto flute.

His live microphone setup is a custom AMT dual-mic clip-on system, especially designed for tenor saxophone. It has a very natural sound!

His DAW/video PCs are a HP m9070n with a Quad core Q6600 processor (@2.4 GHz) with 3GB of RAM, and a HP a280n, 2.8 GHz, with 1.5 GB RAM, 64MB ATI Radeon All-in-wonder video adapter with 22" ViewSonic monitor, a Sony 810i DVD Writer, HP 300i DVD Writer, and a HP LaserJet 4 Plus and HP 700PSC printers. His laptop is a HP 3280 Series with 512MB RAM, 80 GB hard drive, Active Matrix SVGA video. All PCs are running Windows XP.

His Audio/MIDI production and recording studio is equipped with a Mackie 24-8 mixing console, Mackie HR824 and Yamaha NS-10 monitors, an Alesis HD24-XR 24 channel 24bit/96KHz hard disk recorder, a Tascam DA-78 HR 24-bit digital 8-track deck, an ADAT-XT, a Panasonic 3700 DAT machine, a Korg SG-1D Digital Sampling Grand Piano, a Yahama TG-77 synth, an E-Mu Proteus FX synth, a Korg EX-8000 synth, a Korg M3-R synth, a Yahama TX16W sampler and an Alesis DM5 drum machine. It all communicates via MOTU 2408 mkII digital recording system.

His main recording and editing software packages is SONAR Producer, which he endorses and believes is the best recording software for the PC world. He also uses ProTools, Sony Sound Forge and CD Architect, and Vegas (for video editing).

His road MIDI studio consists of an Oxygen-8 and Roland PC-200 MIDI controller, a Yamaha MU5 sound module, a Midiman 2+2 USB MIDI interface, and AudioTechnica and AKG headphones.