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Japanese factory birch laminated maple laminated Asian spruce hokkaido source grand piano, singing lead analog poly synth, sitka spruce European maple bosnian source flamed figure oil varnish violin orchestral, alder pyramid pure nickel bass British mid 60s era electric bass, pre muffled edge muffled brushes-and-sticks drum kit, python skin snake skin mahogany mid tier bamboo stick horsehair erhu, mahogany rosewood open string slide resonance clean strummed single coil electric guitar, shell padauk mid tier guzheng. hong kong flagship 1980-2000 mid tier hong kong cantopop studio 80s. Neumann U87, console-strip pre, SSL inline console, dbx 160 VCA, SSL surgical EQ. 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