John Mazzei
Harpo Productions
Currently writing for Harpo Productions for daily shows and specials.
Fairly Complete Gear List
PowerMac G5 Dual 2.7GHz w/ 5G RAM
Mac G4 800Mhz upgrade
Mac G4 Laptop 12"
Carrillon Music PC 3.4G P4, 2G RAM, RME HDSP9652 audio card.
Vision DAW XP64 bit RMEHDSP9652 audio card, 8G RAM

MOTU 2408 MK1
MOTU 2408 MK2
Motu 24i
MOTU 308
Motu PCI 424 card
M-Audio Firewire 410
Lucid GenX 6-96 Word Clock Generator
Motu MTP AV
Motu MTP 1
Radial JD1 stereo passive DI
Benchmark DAC1

Electrix Mo-FX
Line 6 Filter Pro
Line 6 Echo Pro
Lexicon MPX 500 (w/550 upgrade)
Roland SVC-350 Vocoder (Vintage early 80's)
Ibanez AD202 Analog Delay (Vintage early 80's)
Funk Logic Digilog Dynamicator (absolutely quiet, includes vintage UV meter)

Radikal Sac 2.2 control surface

Event Project Studio 8 Monitors
Avantone Mix Cubes

dbx 386 mic pre (2 ch tube, SPDIF out)
dbx 166xt compressor
Neumann TLM 193 Mic
MXL 603s (pair)
SM58
SM57
Cascade Fat Head Ribbon Mic

M-Audio 02 USB MIDI controller
M-Audio Trigger Finger USB MIDI controller
Behringer FCB 1010 MIDI Foot Controller

Roland V-Synth Keyboard
Emu E-Synth Ultra
Korg X5DR
Dave Smith Instruments Evolver
Nord Electro 2
Emu PK-6
Oberheim OB-8 (in storage but available)
Korg Wavestation EX
Korg X50

Digital Performer 5.0
Live 6
Reason 3
Reaktor 5
Kontakt 2
Peak 6
Sibelius 5
Finale 2007
East West Gypsy, Voices of Passion, Ministry of Rock
East West Quantum Leap Orchestra Platinum (Play upgrade imminent)
Stormdrum
RA
Vapor
Adrenaline
Bosendorfer 290 (sampled)
Steinway B (sampled)
Tons of samples, loops over 300G
Garritan Personal Orchestra
Garritan Jazz and Big Band
Garritan Stradivarius Violin
Steinberg Virtual Guitarist
ToonTrack EZ Drummer
Yellow Tools Majestic (bass)
Percussive Adventures 1 and 2
Stylus RMX + all expansion libraries
Atmosphere Dream Synth
Korg Virtual Instrument Collection Digital and Hardware
Big Fish Audio First Call Horns
Nine Volt Audio REX Libraries
Groove Monkee MIDI loops for EZ drummer
Synthogy Ivory Piano
Sampletekk 7CG Yamaha Grand
Sampletekk Black Grand
VIR2 Acoustic Legends
Kirk Hunter Diamond Orchestral Library (combines Ruby and Emerald libraries)
Westgate Studios solo woodwinds and timpani
SAM Orchestral Brass

Bach Stradivarius Trumpet
Lava Lamp (blue base, red "lava", low noise, no distortion)
1964 Gibson ES175 guitar
Roland Micro-cube amp
Ampeg Reverb Rocket guitar amp (vintage)
Harmony Tenor guitar (4 strings, tuned like Viola)
Melodica


Live sound:

Kurzweil SP 88 (also controller for studio)
Roland KC 300 and KC 500 keyboard amps
Mackie SRM 450 mains
JBL Eon 10 monitors
Mackie mixer
Boss RC-50 Looper
Digitech Vx400 Voice Processor
Back Brace
Custom Ear Plugs 15dB filter
EH Holy Grail Reverb
Alesis PicoVerb


Libraries
My music is in two libraries:

The Music Kitchen http://www.themusickitchen.com/

My Music Source http://www.mymusicsource.com/
Cats without a Home
Just finished scoring this documentary for the Santa Clara County ASPCA. It will be airing summer 2006 on two stations.

KTEH, San Jose Public TV: Monday, July 17 at 10:30 pm

NBC11, Bay Area NBC affilliate:
Saturday, July 29 at 11:30 am
Sunday, July 30 at 10:30 am
Saturday, Aug. 5 at 11 am

Looks like it will be going to film festivals as well. Exciting!
MySpace
Hi everyone. I'm on MySpace http://www.myspace.com/john_mazzei

I don't know much about it and how to use it yet but if you are up to speed on it and would like to become my friend, well, what are you waiting for?!!

See you in space.