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Microphones
5 Shure SM57 - the stalwart 57s are great for guitar amps & drums
4 Shure Beta56 - dynamic mikes great for drums, guitar amps
3 Shure Beta98 - tiny condenser mikes - nice for toms
1 Shure SM58
1 Rode NT1 - large diaphragm condenser
3 AudioTechnica 4041 - high quality small diaphragm condensers
2 AudioTechnica 4033 - high quality large diaphragm condensers - these are my primary drum overhead mikes
1 Neumann TLM193 - great vocal mike
1 AEA R84 - ribbon mike, wonderful smooth sound
2 AKG C414 - great for vocals, background vocals, and room ambience
2 Sennheiser MD421 - dynamic mike good for guitar amps, toms
1 AKG D112 - great low end, I use this mainly for kick drum
2 AudioTechnica 31R - small diaphragm condenser
1 AudioTechnica 31 - small diaphragm condenser
2 Electrovoice RE20 - dynamic mikes, the classic radio station d.j. mike
2 Audio DeutchKraft A51S - large diaphragm condenser
2 Sony ECM 22P - small diaphragm condenser
Monitor
Mackie HR824 - Mackie's powered monitor system
Yamaha NS10m
Sony MDR7506 headphones - closed phones, good for keeping sound out
Oz Audio Q-mix - a headphone amp that can provide six separate mixes
Mixer, mike preamps, signal processors
The studio has a total of 24 analog inputs, which means we can record up to 24 sources simultaneously.
When I record, the signal goes from the mic to the preamp to the Lynx AD/DA converter - with no processing in the signal path. This means you get a true, clean, and accurate sound. I’ve always thought that the less you throw in the way of the sound while tracking, The better!
The Mackie and FMR Audio preamps are high-end solid-state pres, while the Fearn VT-2 uses a vacuum tube design, with nothing but tubes and transformers in the signal path - no transistors.
Mackie Control - midi control surface for Nuendo
1 Fearn VT-2 - two channels of super-high end, hand-built tube mic preamp
16 Mackie Onyx - 16 channels of Mackie's Onyx solid state mic preamps</a>
3 FMR Audio RNP 8380 - 6 channels of the "Really Nice Preamp" solid state mic preamps
1 ART Pro Channel - a tube preamp, eq, & compressor
2 ART Tube MP - ART's basic tube mic preamp, also great as direct boxes
1 Prosonus Blue - tube preamp, direct box
ART Pro VLA - tube compressor
dbx 166 - solid state compressor
Alesis QuadraVerb - digital reverb, fx, mainly used for headphone mixes
Alesis XTc - digital reverb
Biamp MR-140 - real spring reverb
Audio Software/Hardware
I’ve used Steinberg’s Nuendo DAW software for years, recording everything to Hitachi 7200 rpm SATA drives.
The majority of the audio processing goes on in Universal Audio’s UAD2 signal processing card.
The UAD2 has superb audio plugins, many of which are designed to precisely emulate vintage studio hardware, with classic Neve and Pultec equalizers, Fairchild compressors, amazing tape echo effects, and more.
The UAD card also has modern, more neutral, digital plugins - equalizers, compressors, limiters, de-essers, and more, that are meant to accurately deliver the goods without the same kind of analog flavor that the vintage style plugins deliver.
I use Steinberg’s Wavelab for the majority of my mastering work. It was Wavelab that led me to Steinberg’s products in the first place - it’s been an amazing workhorse over the years. It’s designed and written by one programmer, and he’s often available to answer questions at Steinberg’s online forum.
Nuendo 3.1 - multi-track recording/editing software from Steinberg
Wavelab 6.0 - stereo wave file editor, CD burning, audio montage, mastering software from Steinberg
Waves Renaissance EQ & compression - high quality plug-ins for mastering/mixing
1 UAD2 card, 1 UAD1 card - Universal Audio's "powered plug-ins", featuring vintage compressors, eq, and effects along with modern digital-era mastering quality filters & effects
Lynx Audio Aurora 8 & Aurora 16 for 24 analog input/outputs
Lynx Audio AES 16 cards (2)
MOTU 2408
2 TASCAM DA88 - modular digital 8-track recorder
1 TASCAM DA38 - modular digital 8-track recorder
1 TASCAM DA20 mkII - DAT recorder
1 TASCAM 32 - 2-track reel-to-reel
PC with Windows XP Pro, two dual-core Opteron 275 CPU, Tyan 2895 motherboard
Keyboards
Baldwin grand piano
Hammond A100
Hammond-Suzuki XK2
Leslie 122
Juno 106 synth
Oberheim Matrix 1000
Yamaha P80 electronic piano/controller
Drums
Vintage Slingerland - kick drum & pedal, '59 Radio King snare, floor tom, and rack tom
Vintage Ludwig - Acrosonic snare
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