AXEL’S ESSENTIAL GEAR

UTA UnFairchild 670M II “The most impressivesounding compressor I’ve ever had.” UTA MPEQ-1 “The EQ section on this one is unreal. When you sweep through the bands it feels like a synth.” Fulltone Tube Tape Echo “Nice combination of tube and tape. The tube distortion is really fat and always helps add more personality.” Bricasti M7 “The lushest and widest reverb around.” Strymon pedals “Most used are the Blue Sky, Brigadier and Deco Tape.” Neumann mixing console “Custom-made for the Berlin concert house in 1991. The heart of my control room.” Neumann U67 “If I only had one mic, it would be this.” UAD plugins “I use the 1176s and the Fairchild collection a lot.” FabFilter plugins “I use the Q2 for corrective EQ – to cut stuff, do some M-S EQing to widen specific frequency ranges or focus the low end in the middle on stereo sounds.” iZotope plugins “Whenever there is audio to fix, iZotope can do it.”