This 1000 square foot open control room studio is the result of many hours spent building, wiring, and experimenting with acoustic treatment. We designed and built a silent 60 square foot Iso room.
Our room is designed to have enough "liveness" to create a sense of space around the music recorded there; or we can turn our diffusers around to create a "dead space" when needed. When you throw the gobos into the mix, you can easily set the room up to accommodate a band playing live, or drums with a big live feel, while simultaneously recording quiet instruments or vocals in the Iso room.
I built some huge bass traps for the control room. These, combined with the accurate monitoring and largeness of the whole space has caused my mixes to translate very well and sound like they are supposed to on music systems outside the studio.
I built most of the mic preamps and compressors and eqs that we use at the studio. It's a mix of older classic designs and newer, more modern sounds.
Here's the gear list:
We have a Soundcraft Ghost 32 channel console with mute automation which we use with both analog and digital recording gear. We have a Pro Tools LE Digital recording system with an RME FireFace 800 for a total of 16 digital inputs and outputs. We also have an MCI 1" 8-track and an Otari MTR-10 1/2" 2-track for those of you who love analog. A lot of the equipment below has been made by the engineers who work in this studio.
Mic Preamps
2 channels Hamptone HVTP2
2 channels Hamptone HJFP2
2 channels Hamptone LCMP
2 channels of JLM 99V
4 channels of JLM Baby Animals
Compressors
Empirical Labs EL8-X Distressor
(2) channels of Passive Tube EQ (Pultec type)
(2) Purple Audio MC77
Bloo Technologies LA-2A
FMR RNC
Mics
Soundelux e47
Royer R121
Josephson e22s
Josephson c42 (matched pair)
Beyer M88
AKG D112
AKG D12E
Oktava MC 012 (matched pair)
(4) Shure SM57
Shure SM7
Shure SM58
Pair of custom large diaphragm multi-pattern tube mics
Sennheiser e609
Effects
Alesis QuadraVerb
MPX-500
Massey plugins: limiter, compressor, tape delay, tape head
Convolution Reverb
Monitoring
PreSonus Central Station
JBL LSR4328 monitors
ADAM A7 monitors
Yamaha NS-10 Monitors
Furman HDS-6 Headphone Distribution System
(4) Furman HR-6 Headphone Remote Mixing Station
(2) AKG K240 Studio
(1) AKG K141 Studio
(1) Fostex T50RP
(2) Fostex T40RP
(1) Direct Sound Extreme Isolation Headphones
(1) Wharfedale powered monitor
Pedals
Tech 21 SansAmp
Soundtank Tubescreamer
Boss DS-1 Distortion
Boss DD-3 Digital Delay
Boss PS-3 Pitch Shifter/Delay
Line 6 DL-4 Delay
Ross Phaser
reamp
Instruments, Amps, and Cabs
Upright Piano
Hammond M-3 organ with a 52W Leslie (modded for two speeds)
Fender Rhodes
Fender Super Reverb
Carvin Pro Bass 500 head
Acoustic 406 cab
Tweed Deluxe amp
custom 2x10 guitar cab
Hamilton baby grand piano
Marimba
Wurlitzer accordion circa 1920
