We try to keep this current, but with all the equipment we constantly add, we are usually not quite up to date. This is a list of a lot of the great equipment we have, but we have even more! |
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Studio Design |
4 rooms: Control Room, Main Studio, Drum/Isolation Booth, MIDI Room (also servers as a secondary iso room) |
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Analog Recorders |
Sony/MCI JH-24 Analog 24 track using 2 inch tape at 30 or 15 ips, Otari MX-5050II half track stereo mastering w/2 channels Dolby SR (better than digital specs!) or Dolby A Professional noise reduction, Denon DRM-800 Audio Cassette Deck with Dolby B, C, and HX-Pro |
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Digital Recorders |
Custom built Nuendo multi track computer DAW with Intel Dual Core technology featuring a full selection of plug-ins including Waves Platinum package, etc; Pro Tools LE with Digidesign 002 rack, 8 Track Alesis XT-20 ADAT Digital Recorder, (2) Tascam DA-30 MkII DAT, Converters : Custom Black Lion Audio MOTU 24I/O with enhanced analog section and the world's most stable clock to eliminate jitter error. Everything sounds bigger and punchier when using this custom converter!. Digidesign 002 Rack, MOTU 2048 Mk III, MOTU 828 Mk II. Software : Nuendo, Pro Tools LE 7, Wavelab Mastering software with a full assortment of plug-ins including Waves Platinum; Cubase SX DAW, Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 5.0 Digital Editing/Master System, Full SMPTE time code lockup, parametric EQ, playback speed, crossfades, gain attenuation, and "splicing" can be done entirely in the digital domain adding absolutely no noise or distortion. Complete Digital Editing and Mastering to CD, Plextor CD/DVD burners. |
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Digital Plug Ins |
Too many to list, here are some highlights : Abbey Road EMI, Waves Platinum Pack with UltraMaximizer3, Morphoder, Soundshifter, IR1 Convolution Reverb, Linear EQ, Paragraphic EQ, Q- Clone, Renaiscence Compressor, Enigma, IK Multimedia T-Racks, Auto-Tune, Antares AVOX Vocal Kit, Antares Tube, T-Racks, Amplitude, PSP Vintage Warmer, Lexicon PSP-42 and PSP-84, Focusrite Saphire Bundle, Kjaerhus Golden Audio Channel, Nomad Factory Blue Tubes Bundle, TC Native Bundle, Sonalksis Compressor, Sonalksis EQ, Sonalksis CQ-1 and DQ-1, BBE Sonic Maximizer, Native Instruments Guitar Rig, SSL EQ, SSL Compressor, and many, many more! |
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Audio Consoles |
Computer Automated DDA Recording/Mixing console. This mixing console is known worldwide for its clean, transparent sound, and provides 84 inputs on mixdown featuring 36 inputs and 48 monitor inputs. Mackie Onyx 1620, Steinberg Houston Controller with motorized faders for Nuendo and Cubase SX. |
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Monitor Amplifiers |
Hafler P-500, JBL/Urei 6230, Rane HC-6 headphone amplification system |
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Monitor Speakers |
KRK-9000 time aligned, Urei 809 time aligned, Alesis HR824s, Tannoy PBM-8. Yamaha NS-10m, Minimus 7, assorted headphone systems |
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Effects Systems |
Lexicon 480L with LARC, Eventide H-3000SE Ultra Harmonizer with Vocoder, TC Electronics M-One XL, Lexicon PCM-70, Yamaha Rev-5 |
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Outboard Processing |
Rupert Neve AMEK 9098 Stereo Compressor/Limiter, (2) Teletronix LA-2A Tube Compressor/Limiters, Focusrite Red 3 Stereo Compressor, Drawmer 1960 Dual Channel Tube Compressor, (3) Urei/United Audio 1176LN (Black Face all discreet), (2) Aphex Expressor Compressor, James Demeter Tube Direct Box, Aphex Professional Aural Exciter model III, (2) Drawmer DS-201B frequency selectable gates, (4) Aphex 612 frequency selectable gates, (2) DBX 263X De-Esser, DBX 150X Pro Type I noise reduction, (2) Sontec MPA-1 discreet mic pre, (2) Tube Tech tube mic pre, Focusrite Red 2 Stereo Parametric Equalizer, Sontec MEP-250EX dual channel parametric equalizer, (2) Tube Tech PE-1B Tube Equalizers, (2) Vintech Neve 1272 Mic Pre's. |
| Microphones |
Neumann (Telefunken) U-47 Vintage Tube Mic with Stephen Paul 3 micron diaphram, (2) Neumann M-49 Vintage Tube Mics, (2) AEA R84 Large Ribbon Mics (stereo matched pair), Neumann U-87, (2) Neumann TLM-170i , (2) Neumann KM-140, AKG C-12 Vintage Tube Mic, AKG “The Tube” Vintage tube mic, (2) Stereo Matched Pair AKG 414 TLII Vintage with C-12 capsules, (2) Microtech Gefell UM-70SZ (East Germany Neumann with M7/U47 Capsule), (2) AKG C-414ULS/TL, (2) AKG 451EB, (2) AKG D-112, (5) Sennheiser 421U, ElectroVoice RE-20, Shure SM-7 large diaphram dynamic, Shure Beta 57, (3) Shure SM-57, Shure SM-58 |
| Mic Pre's |
In addition to 36 channels of clean, quiet DDA mic pres in our console, we have outboard mic preamplifers by API (both newer 312 as well as vintage 1970's 200 series types, Neve 1073 by Geoff Tanner Aurora Audio, John Hardy M-2 ("world's finest mic pre"), Tube Tech tube pre's, Drawmer 1960, AEA TRP (Fred Forssell) |
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Instruments |
Hammond B-3 with 122 Leslie (yes, the REAL thing!), Yamaha P-200 88 note weighted action grand piano keyboard with piano, organ, vibes, strings, and more, Yamaha Motif 7 Synthesizer workstation, Korg M1R (with 4 megabytes of 16 bit ROM samples), Yamaha DX-7IID, E-Mu Proteus II Orchestral module, Oberheim Matrix-12, Roland SC-88 with 635 instrument samples, 32 MIDI channels, and 64 note polyphony, Roland D-50, Kurzweil 1200 Pro I, Akai S-1000 16 bit linear stereo sampler with 12 megabytes of sampling memory and both analog and digital input/output,(2) Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter with MPG-80 Super Jupiter Programmer, Sequential Prophet VS Vector Synth, MemoryMoog Plus with MIDI, ARP 2600, 1980 Fender Stratocaster guitar |
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Virtual Instruments |
B4 II virtual B-3 organ and leslie, Steinberg's The Grand 2, Ivory featuring Steinway, Bosendorfer, and Yamaha C-7 grand samples, Bosendorfer 290 PMI. Akoustic Piano, Steinberg Hypersonic 2, Steinberg Virtual Guitarist Acoustic, Virtual Guitarist Electric, Steinberg Virtual Bassist, Groove Agent 2, Native Instruments Battery 2 Drum Sample Machine, SampleTank 2, Kontact 2 virtual sampler, Halion 3 virtual sampler, Garritan Personal Orchestra, Spectrasonics Trilogy, Spectrasonics Atmosphere, Lounge LIzard 2, EMagic EP73, Korg Legacy Collection with MS-20, PolySix and WaveStation, Yamaha CS-80, MTron (Mellotron), Synful Orchestra, NI Absynth 3, Prophet 53, NI FM7, LM-4 drum machine, Arturia Moog Modular, Arturia MiniMoog, Arturia ARP2600, plus many, many more. |
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Video Equipment |
Sony VX-2000 DV camera, Sony Hi-8 Video Cam, Canon 20D 8.25 Megapixel digital still camera, 4 Alien Bees Studio Strobes with soft boxes, umbrellas, and diffusers (complete photographic studio lighting setup) |
| Video Editing and DVD Authoring | Adobe Premier Pro Non-Linear Editing, Sony Vegas 6, Sony DVD Architect 2, Ulead DVD Workshop 2, Impression DVD Pro, Nero |
| Direction | Making your project a reality. We offer the biggest bang for the buck by keeping our rates as low as possible yet giving you the best equipment available at any price. Anything from demos to major label CDs can be done with the highest degree of professional quality while remaining affordable. We have been serving the professional recording community full time since 1986. |