Recording
Rooms
Live room = 1500 square feet (hardwood floors 12 foot ceiling, all
non-parallel walls)
Dead Room = 400 square feet
Control Room = 18 x 27
Echo chamber
Roof access (recording possible)
Full kitchen
Console/Mixer
Neve Pre 80 Series 58 input console
Vintage Custom Neve serial #2008 console circa 1968 (pre 80 series
Neve). Refurbished by Hutch at Manley in 1994 (recapped, rewired,
functionally upgraded). The first 16 buss Neve console ever produced.
Originally hand-built by Rupert Neve himself in England. All internal
summing uses original Neve summing amps and bussing protocols. Preamps
use original Gardner input transformers. Line inputs are original
Marinair. (Portions of Led Zepplin’s “Physical
Graffiti” were recorded on this console among MANY others).
Features:
24 channels 1061 Germanium preamp/eq
10 channels Manley 40db tube preamp with Manley extended Pultec
EQ.
24 monitor returns using late 70's era BBC console Neve line inputs.
6 sends + 6 cue sends. Can be split or joined.
4 echo returns.
12 x 8 on-board summing mixer.
8 x 2 on-board summing mixer.
34 channels flying faders (on all Manley and Neve channels).
Neve1061 Germanium Preamp/eq utilizes the same amplifiers found
in all the germanium Neve's (incl. 1055, 1057, 1058, 1060, etc.)
but with a more comprehensive set of EQ points than the earlier
modules. Similar to the 1066 eq points.
Can switch between original 1969 germanium based Neve summing amps
on the stereo mix to Rupert Neve Focusrite summing amps used in
the original three Focusrite consoles (eg. the console at Ocean
Way studio A). Additional switching allows for a 'double Neve'
setting where 4 original Neve summing amps are used.
Microphone Preamp
Daking Mic Pres w/ eq (2)
Manley tube preamp with Manley extended Pultec EQs. (10)
Neve 1061 Mic Pres (24)
No Toasters Nice Pair (2 channel mic pre)
Recorders
Studer A-80 Mark II 2” 16-track
Radar V-Nyquist 24-track Digital Recorder
Pro Tools HD3 on a Macintosh G5 using Radar ADA Converters 24 Analog in/out
Ampex ATR-102 1/4” 2-track
Tascam TSR-8 1/2” 8-track
Studer A-710 cassette deck
Speakers
Focal Twin 6 BE
Adam P-22s (ribbon tweeters)
Yamaha NS-10Ms
Microphones
AEA R-84 Ribbon
AKG D112 (2)
AKG 460
AKG C1000S (2)
Audio Technica 4050
Audio Technica 4033
Coles 4038 (2) – Matched pair
EV RE-20
Neumann M-582 tube condensers (2) - Matched pair - using the m62
nickel diaphragm capsule. (circa 1965)
RCA 44 (circa 1937)
Sennheiser 609 (2)
Sennheiser MD 421 (1)
Sennheiser MD 441 (1)
Shure SM7
Shure SM 57 (4)
Shure SM 58 (2)
Telefunken RFT AK47 (2) - In the spirit of the U47 and M49
microphones. Matched pair.
Telefunken RFT M16 (1) - In the spirit of the C12 and U67 microphones
Soundelux U195 (1)
Microtech Gefell UM70s (2) - LDC, using M7 capsule. Matched pair.
Compression
Daking FET II compressors (2)
DBX 160XT
Distressor EL-8 (2)
FMR Audio RNC stereo compressor
Neve 2252 compressor (2) - original 2254 with germanium gain blocks.
Recapped at Manley. (Huge sounding diode bridge type compression).
Neve 2253 limiter (2) - on console, germanium based limiter.
Purple Audio MC77 (2) – basically well-build 1176s
Retro (Gates) STA-Level tube compressor
Retro 176 tube compressor (2)
Thermionic Culture-The Phoenix stereo tube compressor (can be dual
mono or stereo)
Valley People 610 stereo compressor
EQ (Outboard)
API 550b 4-Band EQ (4)
API 560 Ten-Band Graphic EQ (2)
White Instruments 4000 Series EQ’s. (2)
Effects/Processors
Demeter Real Reverb (Springs!)
Eventide Harmonizer H3000
Flexion analog tape echo
Korg Stage Echo
Lexicon PCM-60 reverb unit
Lexicon Prime Time Digital Delay
Roland 200-Space Echo
Univox spring reverb with EQ
Univox EC-80 tape echo
Boss RE-20 Space Echo
Direct Injection
Avalon U5 Class A DI
Radial Jenson JDI (2)
Reamp Box
Radial SGI Guitar Interface
Guitars & Basses
Danelectro single cutaway 6-string with 2-lipstick pick-ups
(2001)
Eko hollow body six-string electric
Epiphone Riviera (left handed – 1996)
Fender Jaguar (left handed – 1962 RI)
Fender Jazz Bass (1973)
Fender Precision Bass (1991)
Fender Stratocaster (left handed – 1990)
Harmony semi hollow body
Link Pedal Steel Guitar (9-string, one bed, three pedal, four knee
bars)
Old Kraftsman Archtop six-string acoustic/electric
Saturn 6 string electric (left handed)
Schecter Strat copy (hand made – 1983)
Yamaha acoustic (left handed)
Custom hand-made Pedal Steel guitar Amplifiers
Ampeg SVT (1980) with matching 8x10 cabinet
Ampeg V-4B
Fender Champ (1978)
Hiwatt DR504 Custom 50 head (1979, Partridge transformers) and matching
4x12 cabinet (1970, loaded
with four vintage Hiwatt Purple Fanes)
Valvetech Hayseed 30 (1963 Vox AC-30 clone hand wired with EF-86
circuit (One Silver Bell and one Blue dog)
Supro Royal Reverb 2x10 combo amp (1967)
Traynor YBA-1 Bass Mate Head (70s)
Traynor 2x15 bass cabinet
Peavey Super Festival Series 300-watt solid-state bass head.
Sunn cabinet 4x12
Univox 50 watt head
Drums & Percussion
Ludwig 24” four piece drum kit (1970)
Westbury 20” four piece drum kit (1965)
Ludwig 14” silver metal snare
Ludwig 14” grey ribbed metal snare
Various percussion (tamborines/bells/chimes/shakers)
Drum Machines
Roland 707
Yamaha RX-17
Various Hammond organ drum machines
Keyboards & Synthesizers
Fender Rhodes Mark II 73 key
Gourley upright piano 1920s
Hammond S-6 all-tube organ made in 1959. (Amplifier section loaded
with vintage Jensens).
Hammond drawbar console organ
Nord Electro 73 key
Roland Juno 60
Krumar Multiman-5
Roland SH-2000
Synthesis Technology MOTM (analog modular synthesizer – designed
after the original MOOG sythesizer by Paul Schreiber in Fort Worth,
Texas)
Yamaha Organ (Farfisa copy)
Guitar Pedals
Big Muff Electroharmonix Distortion Pedal
Boss Super Feedbacker & Distortion Pedal
Boss Tremolo Pedal
2-Boss DD3 Digital Delay Pedal
Boss DD2 Digital Delay Pedal
Boss RE 20 Space Echo
Empress Tremolo Pedal
Boss Touch Wah Pedal
Ibanez Bi-stage Phaser Pedal
DOD Flanger Pedal
Ross Chorus Pedal
Morley Power Wah Pedal
Diamond Distortion Pedal
Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
Boss Vibrato clone Pedal
Ratt clone Pedal
Miscellaneous
2-Technics turntables
Hohner melodica
Harmonicas
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