Archive for January, 2012

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  ROCK

  Our Brother the Native
  B. Hamilton
  Kill Moi
  Man/Miracle
  Royal Baths
  Saything
  The Big O
  Weatherbox
  Efft
  Belly of the Whale
  California Honeydrops
  The Buttercream Gang
  Alee Karim and the Science Fiction
  Matt Hopper and the Roman Candles
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  ELECTRONIC

  13 & God

  James + Evander
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  METAL

  Ash Borer

  Fell Voices
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  SOLO

  Shareef Ali

  Ryan Christopher Parks

  Parentz

  Nadia Shihab
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  LIVE ROOM

  The live room is 20′ x 40′, with 11’6″ ceilings and natural light from three large West-facing windows.  Typically drums are set up in a corner, sounding balanced and spacious in far room mics.  Distant mic-ing techniques in the live room also add pleasing depth to voice, acoustic guitar and piano.

   

  The room is exceptionally useful as an echo chamber during mixdown, unifying overdubbed and D.I.’d instruments into the same sonic space as the drums.
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  RECORDING

  Analog

   

  Ampex MM1200:  2″ 24-track (1981)

   

  Ampex ATR-102:  1/4″ 2-track (1984)

   

  Digital

   

   Logic 9 or ProTools 9

   

   28 channels of RME conversion

   

   Universal Audio UAD-2 Quad Core card

  with comprehensive plugin package
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  CONSOLE

   

  Trident 24

   

  28 mic/line preamps with 4-band sweep EQ

   

  24 busses

   

  8 aux sends

   

  4 dedicated echo returns

   

  “Split” 24-track monitor section

   

  All possible patch points represented

   

  Flexible routing

   

  Last of the classic Tridents (1992)

  well-maintained and sounds great
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  OUTBOARD

  Preamps

  Altec 1567A (x2), No Toasters Nice Pair, EH 12AY7, Tube PAC

  Compressors

  DBX 160 (x2), Urei 7110, FMR RNLA, Fat Man, DBX 166, DBX 163 (x2), Boss CS-3

  Equalizers

  ELI Li’l FrEQ (x2), Orban 622B, Urei 537

  Multi-effect Units

  Alesis Microverb, Digitech 3.6 sec, Line 6 DL-4, Boss Harmonist HR-2

  Real Tape Delay

  Otari MX-55 (varispeed), Roberts 770X (tube 3-speed with feedback control)

  Reamping

  Reamp v2, Pigtronix Keymaster

  D.I.

  Available on Altecs, Fatman, Tube PAC, and Li’l FrEQs
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  MICROPHONES

  Large Diaphragm Condensers

  •  CAD E300 (x2), Shure KSM27 (x2), AKG C414E, EV Cardinal

  Small Diaphragm Condensers

  •  AKG C451E (x3) with cardioid/hypercardioid/omni capsules (x2) elbows (x2) and shotgun head, Tascam PE-120 (x2) with cardioid/omni capsules, Crown PZM-30D (x2), Radio Shack PZM

  Large Diaphragm Dynamics

   •  AKG D112, Sennheiser MD421, Heil PR30, and a 40mm headphone driver in an Elvis Mic housing

  Small Diaphragm Dynamics

  •  Shure SM57 (x2), AKG D202 (x2), EV 623 (x2), Beyer M81, STC “Ball and Biscuit,” Altec “Saltshaker,” Fairchild 8000, Lafayette 99-4603, Shure PG58, and The L-C-R Shitty Drums Mic

  Other

  •  Cascade Fathead Ribbon (x2), Shure Slim-X 777 (crystal), and a 4″ speaker mic for kick