The gears of Parasite Inc.
I’m very glad to release this blog that I finally materialized this idea- “The gears of the metal bands ～ Show me your stuff ! “ with Kai (vocals, guitars) and Benni (drums) from Parasite Inc.. They introduced me their lovely stuff. So, check it out!
Kai: Hey guys, Benni and I have been asked a few times about the equipment that we use. So here it is a small introduction of it. To create all the noises I ordinary only use my Jackson USA RR1 Rhoads. It's a Neck-Through-Body guitar with 22 frets and a original Floyd Rose for the more weird sounds and effects. Originally it was armed with a Seymour Duncan JB-TB4 humbucker on the bridge and a Seymour Duncan Jazz-SH2N on the neck but I replaced both with Seymour Duncan Blackouts a few years ago.
Kai: To give that guitar the right sound I am using a rack unit with the following parts: For power supply I use a cheap Samson Powerstrip PS10. Below it, there's the Rocktron Xpression for a bit EQing and for noise reduction and finally the sound is done by an Engl E 530 preamp in combination with a Peavey 60/60 power-amp. About the Engl I can tell you that it is maybe the best tube preamp you can get for that money - especially compared to other tube preamps.
Kai: Well, that's all about my stuff :).
Benni: I'm playing a Mapex Orion kit (which really was a bargain on Ebay - one of the best deals I've ever made).
Benni: It's a rather small drum-set with 8/10/12/14" toms and a 20" bass-drum - but it has quite an impressive deep sound. My snare is a 14" Mapex Black Panther Kung-Fu snare, which can be incredible loud. Almost too loud! And those words are coming from a drummer :-) In fact we had a gig once where the mixing engineer forgot to add the snare mic and nobody did even notice it!
Benni: I'm using Mapex hardware and I'm playing a Pearl Demon Drive double pedal. The bassdrum is trigged by a ddrum trigger and a Roland TD3 module (Oh, and nooo, triggers won't make you faster, they simply allow you to play with less effort ;-). I'm quite a cymbal fan, using them a lot in my playing. And I especially likes splash cymbals. My current setup is 14" hihat, 16" crash, 18" crash, 20" ride, 8" and 10" splashes, 18" china - all Zultan cymbals made of B20 bronce - and a 9" bell. That’s all.