Gear and Rooms
Floorplan
Floorplan of Studio "A" - Scroll to the bottom for room descriptions, or click on image for full-size.
Gear List
Console:
- Toft ATB-32 console. 32 channel inline console with Trident 80b style EQ’s on all 32 channels! Excellent sounding microphone preamps, and up to 80 inputs on mixdown!
- 2 x Euphonix Artist Series MC Mix and 1 x Euphonix Artist Series MC Control for 20 faders, and amazing programmable soft/hard keys and 24 rotary encoders!
Recorders:
- Lynx Aurora Converters x 3 for 48 i/o
- Universal Audio 2192 for 2 i/o
- RME MADI interface for up to 64 i/o
- Nuendo 4, Cubase 5, Wavelab 6
- Nuendo 4, Cubase 5, Wavelab 6
- AMD 4 Core Opteron VST-Instrument Server
- Mac Mini for Euphonix Support
Mic Preamps
- Vintech 473 – 4 channels of Neve 1073 style pre’s with basic EQ
- API 3124+ - 4 channels of API 312 mic pre’s
- 4x Seventh Circle Audio N72 (Neve 1073)
- 2x Seventh Circle Audio A12 (API 512)
- 2x Seventh Circle Audio J99 (Hardy M1)
- 2x DBX 760 Mic Pre’s (clean and VERY musical)
Dynamics, EQ, and other
- Tube Tech CL-1B
- Distressor EL8
- 3x DBX 160x
- DBX 160s (blue – 2 channels)
- Demeter VTCL-2 Tube Limiter/Compressor (2 channels)
- 2x FMR Audio RNC compressor (stereo or mono)
- T.C. Electronics 1140 4 band parametric EQ
- Speck ASC-T 4 band parametric EQ
- 2x Drawmer DS-201 Dual Noise Gate (4 gates total)
- T.C. Electronics G-Major multi-effects processor
- Alesis Quadraverb
- 2x Radial JDI Passive Direct Box
- 1x Radial JDI Active Direct Box
- Creation Audio Labs MW-1 DI, guitar re-amper
Microphones:
- Peluso 2247LE (Neumann U47)
- 2x Mojave MA-200 (Tube Large Diaphragm designed by Royer)
- Rode NT-2 (Large Diaphragm Condenser)
- 2x Studio Projects C1 (Large Diaphragm Condenser)
- 2x Cascade VinJet Ribbon Mics
- 2x AKG 451EB (Small Diaphragm Condenser)
- 4x Sennheiser MD-421
- Shure SM-7
- EV RE-20
- Shure SM-91
- Yamaha Sub Kick
- Shure SM-81 (Small Diaphragm Condenser)
- Shure SM-91 (Boundary Mic)
- AKG D112
- Shure SM-57 (11)
- Shure SM-58
- 2x Groove Tubes Convertible (Small Diaphragm Condenser)
- 2x Peavy PVM 480 (Small Diaphragm Condenser)
Monitoring:
- KRK E8’s (original with Kevlar Tweeters)
- Event 20/20BAS
- Blue Sky Subwoofer
Cue System:
- Furman HDS-16 Cue/Headphone System - (4 Stereo mixes, plus 8 mono “more-me’s” with talkback from control room, and each headphone station that everyone can hear).
Software:
DAW’s/Editing
- Nuendo 4
- Cubase 5
- Wavelab 6
- Pro Tools LE (available on request – e-mail for details)
- Pro Tools HD (available on request – e-mail for details)
- Propeller Heads Reason 2.0
Virtual Instruments
- Spectrasonics Omnisphere
- Spectrasonics Atmosphere
- Spectrasonics Stylus RMX
- Spectrasonics Trilogy
- Ivory (Piano)
- BFD 2 with lot’s of BFD expansion packs
- Native Instruments B4
- Halion 3.0 Sampler
- Steinberg Groove Agent 3
- Steinberg The Grand
- Steinberg The Grand 2
- Steinberg Hypersonic 2
- Steinberg X-Phrase
- Many, Many more…
Plug-in’s
- UAD-2 QUAD + 4 UAD-1 with ALL UA plugs!! Neve, SSL, Plate 140, Pultec, Fairchild, 1176, LA-2A, Helios, Fatso… and MUCH more.
- Waves Platinum (tons of plugs)
- Melodyne Plug-in
- Chandler TG Compressor
- Drumagog
- Altiverb Convolution Reverb
- Air EQ
- Full PSP Audio Suite!
Amplifiers and Instruments:
- Amps/Cabinets
- Marshall JCM 900 modified by Voodoo Amps
- Randall all tube MTS Modular Guitar Head by Bruce Egnater
- Randall ALL tube modules by Bruce Egnater: Blackface, DLX, XTC, Top Boost, 1086, Treadplate (Mesa)
- Fender 70's Silverface Bassman 50 watt head - modded to "blackface specs" on one side and a Marshall 2204 circuit on the other… WAY cool.
- Bogner 4 x 12 Cabinet with 3 V30's and 1 G12H-30
- Mesa Rectifier 2 x 12 Cabinet with 1 V30 and 1 G12H-30
- Vintage Silvertone 2 x 12 Cabinet
- Marshall 4 x 12 Cabinet – old basketweave… super sweet.
Keyboards/Controllers
- Alesis QS-8 88 key weighted keyboard, synth/midi controller
- M-Audio Axiom 49/ 49 Key USB Midi Controller
- M-Audio Trigger Finger Drum pad
Rooms
"Live Room"
This room is one of my favorite drum rooms ever. It turned out even better than I had hoped. It's unique room with a ceiling that slopes up to around 12 feet. The surfaces vary, and include drywall, wood (3 types!), 703 insulation, pegboard based resonators, brick, and glass! Additionally, ISO 1 which is almost completely dead opens up into the live room. So, if the door doesn't have to be closed... it can be opened varying amounts and it changes the tone of the room in a cool way. Also in this room are two very large GOBO's with 703 insulation on one side, and wood resonators on the other so they can be flipped around based on what you want. It can be very, very live... or tight with a beautiful flavor depending on how it is configured. Has worked amazingly on a wide variety of genres.
Oh, and it's not only for drums! Carl Marsh has recorded string quartets over here and was absolutely thrilled with the results. We have had an entire band setup in this one room and it sounded killer! Want guitars with a SERIOUS room vibe... oh yeah... this room is awesome.
"ISO 1"
This is a really flexible room also. It's mainly dead, but the back wall is wood and slopes out as it goes up. It can be used for vocal overdubs, acoustic guitar overdubs, guitar amps, etc. It makes a great room for bass and keys to setup during tracking as well. We also can configure it as a "programming" room, with a couple of keyboards, drum pad... etc. We have gotten some amazing acoustic guitar tracks in this room too. The wood on the back wall is really nice... and the door can be opened varying amount to allow the mics to capture some of the character of the live room. The more the door is opened... the more you hear!
"ISO 2"
I call this room the "Dead Room". It is covered in 703 all the way around and has almost no reflections at all. I love it for "in ur face" electric guitars. It's also become the favorite vocal iso of the bunch. Plenty of room for multiple singers for BGV's as well.
"ISO 3"
We call this the "Wood Room". It has real wood panel all the way around, with a cool 703 based absorber in the corner. This room rules for any stringed instrument... roomy electric guitars, steel guitar amp... etc. We just rented a Yamaha standup piano and stuck it in there for a project, and the client was THRILLED with the piano sound. There is plenty of room for a couple of people in this room if needed as well.
"Other"
The kitchen, hallway, and bathroom are all wired with mic ties as well. So, there is room to spread out with more musicians, or just experiment with different sounding environments in the same building.
"Studio B"
There is an iso in Studio B as well. It's about the same size as ISO 3, and is moderately live with a decent amount of 703 absorbers as well. This room can be a pretty cool overdub room as well.