MORDENTE is the name for a complex corpus of audio production carried out by Bryan Holmes. This encompasses a mobile and fixed studio for music recording, mixing and mastering as well as composition, arrangement and orchestration, music for films, corporative sounds and jingles, audio restoration, etc. Bryan works with pretty much any genre and style of music, collaborating with some of the finest musicians in Rio de Janeiro. He lectures at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music and holds a Masters in Composition (UNIRIO, Brazil) and a Degree in Music (PUCV, Chile).

MORDENTE Studio's gear list includes:

- Macintosh and PC platforms

- Echo AudioFire Pre8 / PreSonus Firebox / Behringer ADA8000 Interfaces / Converters / Preamps

- Yamaha HS50M Studio Monitors / Secondary home speakers / Subwoofer

- Audio-Technica ATH-M40fs flat response / AKG K77 / Philips SHP2700 (x 2) / Phillips SHP2500 Headphones

Microphones:
Condenser
- Neumann TLM49
- AKG Perception 170 (x 2)
- Røde NT1-A
- Studio Projects B3
- MXL 9090 (x 2)
- Behringer C2 (x 2)
- Countryman B3
- Sennheiser ME2
- Zoom H4n
Dynamic
- Sennheiser e609 (black, original version)
- Beyerdynamic Opus99
- Audix i5
- ElectroVoice PL35 (x 6)
- Shure Brothers 545 L vintage mic (late 1960's)
- Shure SM58 wireless (x 2)
- Shure C606
Ribbon
- Cascade Fathead II SP (x 2)

MIDI Controllers:
- Behringer BCF2000 with motorized faders (x 2)
- M-Audio Oxygen 61 keyboard & controller
- Korg nanoKontrol

Instruments:
- Vox AC15 C1 Red Limited Edition (guitar amplifier)
- Guild/DeArmond Starfire (semi-hollow electric guitar)
- Fender Squier Stratocaster '94 (electric guitar)
- Fender CD-60CE NAT (folk guitar)
- Classical nylon strings guitar
- Fender Squier Vintage Modified Jazz Bass (electric bass)
- Moog Etherwave Theremin
- Homemade Theremin
- Cecilio Electric Violin
- Pandeiro (luthier)
- Berimbau
- Caxixi
- Cuban Claves
- Tarka
- Kazoo
- Trompe
- Thunder
- Other ethnic/folk instruments

Other:
- Radial ProRMP (re-amp) (x 2)
- Cloudlifter (preamp booster)
- Behringer Ultra-G GI100 (direct box with cabinet simulator)
- Behringer Ultra-DI DI20 (stereo direct box)
- Behringer HA400 (headphone amplifier)

Pedals:
- Electro-Harmonix Big Muff (fuzz)
- GFS Brownie Classic (distortion)
- Boss Hyper Metal (distortion)
- Boss DS-1 (distortion)
- Electro-Harmonix Small Clone (chorus)
- Zoom 508 (delay with tape delay simulation)
- Behringer US600 Ultra Shifter/Harmonist (pitch shifter/harmonizer/whammy)

As well as several DAW's, programming environments, plug-ins, virtual instruments, cabinet & amp impulse responses and a private sample collection.

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