Don Braden uses and endorses the gold plated R.S. Berkeley Virtuoso tenor saxophone. 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 R.S. Berkeley Volare concert flute (sterling silver body, plated keys), and a Sonaré (sterling silver head joint, plated body & keys) AF-60 alto flute.
His DAW/video PC is an HP m9070n with a Quad core Q6600 processor (@2.4 GHz) with 3GB of RAM, running Windows 7, with a 24" Samsung monitor, an LG DVD Writer, Sony 810i, HP 300i DVD Writer, and a HP LaserJet 4 Plus and HP 750xi printers.
His Audio/MIDI production and recording studio is equipped with a Mackie 24-8 mixing console, Genelec 8040, 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 value (and great quality) in recording software for the Windows/PC world. He also uses ProTools, Sony Sound Forge and CD Architect, and Vegas (for video editing).
Don Braden uses and recommends Jamey Aebersold play-a-long jazz products.
When the occasion calls for the very finest in designer apparel, Don Braden wears Blanc De Chine.
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