Feel free to contact us if you have specific gear requirements so we can make sure we're prepared.
MONITORING
NAD 2200 power amp
Tannoy System 10 loudspeakers
Yamaha NS10M Studio
Realistic Minimus 7
Canare 4s11 speaker cabling (biwire), Monster, etc.
Pro-Co RMS-2A speaker selector
JVC PC-70 boombox
FOLDBACK / TALKBACK
Sennheiser HD-202 headphones (x 6)
Simon Systems CB-4 headphone junction box
Pro-Co HJ6 headphone junction box
Pro-Co RMS-2A speaker selector
Sherwood 2x100w integrated amp
Kustom wedges for live room playback / talkback
Various Sony, Sennheiser, Audio-Technica, and iPod headphones
CONSOLE / DAW
Panasonic Ramsa DA7 digital mixer - used mainly for talkback, cue mixes, monitoring, conversion and digital routing. Outboard pres are routed into the channel inserts, bypassing the onboard preamp stage. The Ramsa is clocked to the RME card, which opens up the high end of the converters a bit more. The board pre's (channels 1-6 in our setup) sound excellent as well.
RME HDSP9652 audio interface
ASUS custom recording PC with Nuendo, Sonar, Wavelab, CD Architect, good sounding plugins including the
Universal Audio UAD-1 card, etc. We can import/export OMF/WAV/AIFF/more so you can take tracks home to mix or vice-versa.
ANALOG RECORDERS
Ampex AG-440B 4 track 1/2" master recorder (electronics functional, but overall still in 'project status')
MICS (click here for collage)
Condensers:
Gefell/Neumann MV692/M70 small diaphrahm nickel cardoid (x2)
Lawson L47SH (shortbody U47 FET clones with 3 micron capsule)
Peluso custom multipattern U47 clone (heavily modified Nady TCM1050 w/ Peluso CEK47 capsule, BV8 transformer, PSU mods, NOS GE tube, upgraded caps and resistors, etc)
Earthworks
M30 omnidirectional super-hifi measurement microphones (x2)
Audio-Technica 4040 cardoid LDC's (x2)
MXL V69 Mogami Edition w/ NOS Jan-Philips tube.
Groove Tubes multipattern FET
Shure SM91 boundary condenser (excellent inside kicks or as a 'heart' mic on drums)
Naiant MSH-2 miniature omni sdc's (x4)
Various cheap cardoid SDC's.
Dynamics/Ribbons:
Shure SM7B
Shure SM57 (x2)
Beyerdynamic M88
Beyerdynamic M99
Beyerdynamic M201 n(c) (x2)
Revox 3500
AKG D112
Apex 210 ribbons (x2)
TapeOp Ribbons (with grille mods) (x2)
Sennheiser E609 (x2)
Realistic Hi-Z omni that sounds awesome
Various ugly dynamics (for ugly sounds)
RACK STUFF
Spectra Sonics 101 stereo mic preamp with inductor EQ
Quad Eight AM-10 4 channel mic preamp (custom rack)
Hamptone HJFP stereo jfet mic preamp / di
Hamptone HVTP stereo tube mic preamp / di
Electro-Harmonix 12AY7 tube mic preamp (x2)
Panasonic Ramsa DA7 preamps (16 channels)
Electro-Harmonix NY2A stereo opto tube compressor
Gyraf Audio G-SSL stereo buss compressor
ART Pro VLA stereo tube compressor
HHB Radius 20 stereo tube eq
ART power conditioner (x2)
Transformer isolated power conditioners for picky gear (x2)
INSTRUMENTS, ETC.
Heintman "Vertical Grand" upright piano, circa 1900 - regularly tuned, but regularly goes out of tune, so let us know ahead of time if piano is a key instrument in your band and we'll make sure its in decent shape for the session.
Heads/Combos:
60's Music Man 210HD130 tube guitar combo w/ original and Jensen C10 speakers
70's Traynor YBA-1 Bassmaster tube guitar / bass head
70's Traynor Mono Block II solid state head
70's Fender PA100 tube head (modified for a silverface twin channel, a blackface deluxe channel, plus original channels)
80's Roland Cube 60 solid state 12" combo - awesome overdrive
70's Kent tube combo with terrible paintjob and 3x5 speaker (now with speaker jack and grounded plug! no more shocks!)
Epiphone Valve Junior tube combo heavily modded with Weber Alnico 8", EHX tubes, Bitmo preamp mod, Hammond DSE transformer.
Cabs, etc:
Avatar 2x12 Special guitar cab (Celestion Greenback G12H and Vintage 30)
Eden 410XLT bass cab
70's Traynor 2x15 closed back bass cab w/ original and Yamaha speakers
70's Sunn PA horn (x2)
Weber MASS speaker level attenuator / power soak
Any of our combos can also be used as cabs
Guitars and Basses:
80's Fender MIJ jazz special w/ P-bass pickup (mid) and J-bass pickup (bridge)
90's Fender MIJ '54 reissue precision bass w/ Seymour Quarter Pounder pickup
80's Fender MIJ frankensteined Stratocaster w/ Bill Lawrence pickups
Epiphone Dot Special semi-hollow
Godin LG w/ Seymour P90's
Larivee D-03 acoustic
Some cheap steel string acoustic
Pedals, Tuners:
Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive (overdrive / clean boost)
Boss Bass EQ
MXR Supercomp Compressor
Boss tuner pedal
Korg chromatic tuner
Seiko chromatic tuner (analog, very accurate)
Lots of 9V batteries, 9V power supply and daisy chain cables
Drums and Percussion:
Various percussion stuff - shakers, a tamborine with only two rattles, triangle, etc.
Sabian and Zildjian cymbals - 2 rides,3 crashes, 2 splashes, 3 sets of 'hats, a good (K) china, etc.
Lots of
drum hardware.
60's Ludwig drum kit - 20/12/13/16
70's Slingerland kit - 22/12/16
60's Rogers Powertone brass snare w/ Puresound snares
70's Ludwig 5x14 steel snare
OTHER
Two couches, two drum stools, a tv, xbox, dvd player, blankets, cushions, drum mats and rugs, tools, gaffers tape, picks, etc. |