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Rig Rundown: Henry Kaiser's Five Times Surprise

A studio visit with the new gear-heavy improv/art-rock supergroup that includes Henry Kaiser, Andy West, and Anthony Pirog.

Andy’s laptop is used primarily to host his plug-ins, employing Cockos’ Reaper as his DAW. Any latency? Since he’s using time- and modulation-based effects via his computer, it’s no problem. It all evens out in the wash, so to speak. And the Helix, of course, has zero latency.

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