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Japanese factory birch laminated maple laminated Asian spruce hokkaido source grand piano, plain gut lamb gut whole lamb method hard rock maple acer saccharum violin orchestral, marshall plexi amp British rock amp alder ernie ball slinky electric bass, pre muffled edge muffled brushes-and-sticks drum kit, cedar flatwound thomastik strummed open chord ringing overtones dreadnought acoustic guitar, oberheim lineage canonical ob x 1979 ob xa 1980 los angeles ca lead analog poly synth, shell wutong paulownia 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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