Gear

Control Room / Live Room / Isolation Booth

  • Pro Tools Ultimate version 2023.9  recording system, running on iMac Pro
  • Universal Audio Apollo 8p UAD 2 Quad Audio Interface (16×20, 24 bit 192k), Universal Audio Apollo Twin MkII Quad
  • Apogee Rosetta 800 192 A/D converters
  • Icon Qcon Pro G2 DAW Control Surface
  • Plug-ins by UA, Waves, Antares, Fabfilter, Celemony, iZotope, NI, Specrasonics, Plugin Alliance, Soundtoys, AVID and much more
  • 26 simultaneous mic recording capability
  • Heavy-duty isolation booth as well as live room with vaulted ceiling for tracking (with dual-zone Air Conditioning for Control Room and Live Room)
  • Speakers:
    • PMC 6-2 monitors on Sound Anchor stands
    • Yamaha NS-10M Studio near field monitors with Yamaha 10″ sub
    • JBL 305MKII powered reference monitors
  • Studio Headphones:
    • Audio Technica ATH-M50x
    • Sony MDR-7506
  • Behringer P16 personal monitor Headphone system with 6 individual headphone mixers
  • 1/4″ balanced patch bay for easy patching and gear interfacing
  • Source Connect Pro for ISDN-quality remote voiceover sessions (with ADR timecode sync)
  • Skype/Zoom with in-booth webcam
  • Audiomovers for remote monitoring, production, mixing, mastering
  • Roland JunoDS88 – 88 key weighted synthesizer and midi controller
  • Mobile Recorders:
    • Tascam Model 24 Mixer/SD recorder (16 XLR Input / 22 Line Input) plus USB
    • QSC TouchMix 30 Pro digital mixer and recorder
    • Zoom F8n Pro 8 channel mobile field recorder with timecode sync, 32 bit float
    • Zoom H6 – 6 channel portable recorder. 4 XLR/combo inputs plus X/Y stereo mic
    • Tascam DR-70D – 4 channel portable recorder 4 XLR/combo inputs
    • Portable Laptop Pro Tools rig with MacBook running Pro Tools Ultimate 2023.9, UA Apollo Solo or Twin

Mics

  • Neumann U87 Ai multi-pattern large diaphragm condenser x 2
  • Neumann KM184 matched pair small diaphragm condenser mics
  • Mojave 201 FET large diaphragm condenser
  • AKG 414 XLII matched pair large diaphragm condenser mics
  • AKG 451 C matched pair small diaphragm condenser mics
  • Royer R-121 matched pair ribbon microphones
  • Beyerdynamic 834 large diaphragm condenser
  • Beyerdynamic M160 dual ribbon
  • Beyerdynamic M88 dynamic x 2
  • Beyerdynamic M201 dynamic
  • Beesneez Elly large diaphragm condenser
  • Warm Audio WA-47 – U47-clone multi-pattern large diaphragm tube condenser
  • Astin Spirit multi-pattern large diaphragm condenser
  • Octava 012 pair small diaphragm condensers
  • Sennheiser MKH 416 shotgun mic
  • Sennheiser 441 dynamic
  • Sennheiser 421 dynamic x 2
  • Sennheiser 609 dynamic x 2
  • Sennheiser G4 Wireless lavalier packs/mics x 4
  • AEA R84 Ribbon mic
  • Coles 4038 Ribbon mic
  • Cascade Fathead matched pair ribbon mics
  • Crown PZM 30D x 2
  • Avantone KICK sub kick speaker microphone
  • Audix D6 kick mic
  • Electro-Voice RE20
  • Shure SM7B x 2
  • Shure SM 57 x 5
  • Shure SM 58 x 8
  • Shure Super55 hypercardioid dynamic mic
  • AKG, Beyerdynamic, Shure and CAD drum mic packs
  • Sanken COS-11D wired (48v) lavalier mic (x1) and wireless (x2) with Sennheiser G4 pack

Preamps and Outboard Gear

Mic preamps:

  • 10 x UA Apollo Unison Preamps
  • Chandler TG2 2 channel Abbey Road special edition microphone preamp
  • Focusrite ISA ONE – Rupert Neve design mic preamp and DI
  • Warm Audio WA-273 – 2 channel Neve-clone 1073 preamp
  • Grace Designs m201 – Pristine 2 channel Grace preamp
  • UA LA-610 mkII- Classic 610 tube preamp/eq with LA-2A optical compressor
  • Focusrite OctoPre 8 x Focusrite Mic Preamp with dynamics

Outboard Compressors:

  • Tube-Tech LCA-2B – 2 channel variable Mu tube compressor/limiter
  • Universal Audio LA-2A (T-4 optical tube compressor)
  • Empirical Labs EL8-X Distressor
  • Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor
  • UREI/JBL 7110 compressor/limiter x 2
  • DBX 163 Overeasy Compressor

PA / Sound Reinforcement Equipment:

    • QSC TouchMix 30 Pro Digital Mixer and Recorder
    • Tascam Model 24 22 input / 3 bus / 1 FX Analog Mixer and Recorder
    • Mackie 3204 VLZ4 32 input / 8 bus / 2 FX Analog Mixer
    • Mackie ProFX16 v2 Mixer (16 input / 3 bus / 1FX Analog Mixer plus USB
    • Mackie DRM315 powered 15″ 3-way Loudspeakers (x2)
    • Mackie Thump 215 powered 15″ 2-way Loudspeakers (x2)
    • Mackie Thump 18 powered subwoofers (x2)
    • Mackie Thump 12A powered 12″ 2-way Loudspeakers (x6)
    • FX rack with DBX 2231 2 channel graphic eq (x2), DBX 166x 2 channel Compressor, TC M350 stereo outboard FX Processor, Digi Tech TRS-12 Stereo outboard FX Processor

Additional Gear

The studio also features DW 5 piece Design Series drum kit, 2 Ludwig drum kits, Sabian and Zyldjian Cymbals, Martin Acoustic guitar, Kala Ukulele, Vox VT40x combo amplifier, Orange Crush 8″ bass amplifier, M-Audio Code61 semi-weighted key midi controller with drum pads, Novation MicroNova analog synth/vocoder, Korg NanoPAD2, soft-synths, drum machine and loop engines, and headphones for plenty. Additional mics, guitars, drums, amps, and gear can be brought in or rented upon request.