Gear List
Recorders
-1977 Ampex MM-1200 2" Analog Multitrack Tape Machine.
Two-Inch 24-Track Headstack & Two-Inch 16-Track Headstack available.
Operates at 30 ips or 15 ips.
Provenance: Wally Heider Recording and Filmways Hollywood.
-1956 Ampex 350, 2-Track, Quarter Inch, analog master tape recorder. Operates at 15 ips or 7.5 ips.
- 1977 Ampex ATR-102, 2-Track, Quarter Inch, analog master tape recorder. Operates at 30 ips, 15 ips, 7.5 ips & 3.75 ips. (NOTE: This machine is currently unavailable. It has been rented by a record lable for an archieval project.)
- Tascam 246 Portastudio, 4-track cassette. Circa 1985.
- Pro Tools Ultimate HDX rig, in a Mac Pro 5,1 with 96GB of RAM, Solid State Drives, and 2x UAD-Octo cards.
- Burl Audio converters: Mothership B80 with BAD8 & BDA8 converters, plus the Orca B22 Monitor Output card. 24 inputs and 24 outputs, plus Orca. Up to 24-bit / 192kHz of the nicest sounding digital audio Planet Earth has to offer.
- Antelope Isochrone OCX High Resolution Master Word Clock Generator.
- Tascam DA-3000. 2-Track High Definition Master Recorder. Direct Stream Digital (DSD) 2.8 MHz & DSF-5.6 MHz, and PCM, up to 24 bit / 192 kHz.
- Endless Analog CLASP. Seamlessly record to 2" Analog Tape and digitize into Pro Tools in the same pass.
- Adams Smith Zeta III, with remote control unit. (for synchronizing 2 transports).
Microphones
- RCA 77 DX (Vintage: Circa 1954).
- RCA PB-90 (Vintage: Circa 1932).
- 2x Neumann U87 (Vintage: Circa 1969, Sequential pair).
- Neumann U47-Fet.
- 2x STC/Coles 4038.
- 3x Chameleon Labs TS-2 (large diaphragm Tube mics).
- 2x Violet Wedge.
- 2x Violet Black Knight.
- 2x AKG D12E (Vintage Circa 1970).
- 2x Electro Voice RE-20.
- Electro Voice N/D 767a.
- Shure Beta 52.
- 4x Senneiser MD421-U5 (Vintage Circa 1970).
- Sennheiser E609.
- Beyerdynamic M-88.
- Shure Green Bullet.
- 5x Shure SM57 Standard.
- Shure SM57 with Tab-T58 transformer upgrade.
- Shure SM57 with Tab-T58 Transformer upgrade and Granelli 90º mod.
- Shure SM-7B.
- 2x Josephson E22s.
- 2x Josephson C42 (a matched pair, C42MP).
- 2x PPA Ribbon One R-1.
- 2x Apex 201 Ribbon Mics.
- Binaural Bowie, aka "Ziggy". Hand built Binaural microphone.
Analog Recording & Mixing Console
- Otari / Sound Workshop, Series-54 console, Built in 1994.
Complete with 36 dual-path inline channel strips.
Dual-path channels provide 76 line inputs on mixdown.
Sound Workshop Series-54 preamp on every channel.
4 band parametric EQ on every channel.
Low & High pass filters on every channel.
Diskmix Moving Fader Automation.
Preamps
- Dan Alexander Dual Class A Mic Preamp. (2-Channel, original Vintage Neve 1272).
- Focusrite ISA-Two. (2-Channel, design by R.Neve).
- 2x Golden Age Pre-573. (Clones of Neve 1073 preamps).
- 2x Siemens V72 Preamps. (German tube preamp. Vintage Circa 1954).
- 36 Channels of Sound Workship Series-54 FET preamps.
- Anthony DeMaria Labs, ADL-200 Stereo Tube Direct Box.
- Anthony DeMaria Labs, ADL-300G Stereo Tube Direct Box.
Compression
- Anthony DeMaria Labs ADL-1500 (2 channel LA-2A circuit).
-Chameleon Labs 7720 (SSL 4000-G buss compressor clone).
- ART Pro VLA-II, 2-Channel Tube Opto compressor.
- 2x ART Dual Levelar, 4 Channels of VLA Tube compression and limiting.
- 2x FMR-RNC compressors, 2 stereo pairs of Really Nice Compressors.
- 2x Symetrix CL-150, Fast RMS Compressor/Limiters.
- DBX 160 XT.
- Big plug-ins list for many more flavors of compression and limiting.
Effects
- 4 distinct & natural reverent spaces. 2 hallways, 1 wide stairwell, and 2 different sized bathrooms.
- Roland RE-201 Space Echo.
- Moog MoogerFooger Low Pass MF-101 (Original Bob Moog Signature edition).
- Moog MoogerFooger Ring Modulator MF-102 (Original Bob Moog Signature edition).
- Moog MoogerFooger 12-Stage Phazer MF-103 (Original Bob Moog Signature edition).
- Moog MoogerFooger Analog Delay MF-104 (Original Bob Moog Signature edition).
- Moog MoogerFooger MuRF MF-105 (Original Bob Moog Signature edition).
- Moog MoogerFooger Analog Delay MF-104M (Newer edition with MIDI).
- Echoplex EP-2, tube tape delay.
- Eventide H3000B.
- 2x Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro+.
- Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi.
- Ernie Ball Wah Wah.
Instruments
- Rhodes 73 MK2 with matching 4 speaker Janus amp.
- Alesis QS8.1 synthesizer, 88 weighted, plus expansion cards.
- MPC 1000 Drum Machine and Sequencer, fully upgraded.
- Fender Torranado electric guitar.
- La Patrie classical guitar.
- Vantage acoustic guitar.
- Washburn semi-hallow body 4 string bass guitar.
- Warwick Fortress R&B 4 string bass guitar.
- Novation 25 SL MIDI Controller.
Amplifiers
- Ampeg B15 w/JBL K-140 speaker.
- Ampeg SVT 1540 Bass Cab, 4x10" + 1x15".
- Ampeg micro SVT + 2x10".
- Roland Jazz Chorus JC-77.
- Fender Super Champ X2.
- Fodera Private Practice Amp.
Plug-ins
- 2x Universal Audio UAD-2 Octo Cards on PCIe in the Mac Pro.
UAD-2 Ultimate 8 collection. (More than 100+ licensed UAD plug-ins.)
- Fab Filter - Total Bundle.
- iZotope - Everything Bundle.
- ADR Editor & Video Sync, by Non-Lethal Applications.
- And of course, all of the standard AVID plug-ins that comes with Pro Tools.