Studio Equipment

While it may be secondary to creativity and performance, a carefully chosen piece of equipment may impart a certain underlying character to a recording, much in the same way a cask imparts character to an aging wine. Here is a list of what is typically available to every mixing & mastering session.

Analog Console

Soundcraft “MH4” 48 channel
British Built analogue console
​– 48 mic/line preamp & equalizer
– 5 stereo line inputs
– 16 mono or 8 mono/4 stereo aux/busses

Pre-Amplifiers

AMS Neve “1073LB”
Great River “MP-500NV” (x4)
Rupert Neve “Portico 511” (x3)
Warm Audio “TB12-500” (x2)

ReAmp Boxes

Little Labs “Redeye”
ReAmp Original
ReAmp V2

Boosters

Cathedral Pipes “Durham”
Marti Audio “Barrel Booster”

Direct Boxes

A Designs Reddi
ART dPDB
Little Labs Redeye
Yorkville YDI-1P

Outboard Equalizers

AMS Neve “8803”
API “5500”
Great River “EQ-2NV”
IGS Audio “RB500me”

Outboard Compressors

AudioScape “DC-101”
BAE “10DC” (x2)
DBX 160SL
Drawmer “1973”
IGS Audio “S-Type”
Inward Connections “The Brute”
Locomotive “Weight Tank” (x2)
Pete’s Place “BAC 500” (x2)
Purple Audio “Action” (x2)

Monitoring

Neumann “KH310a”
Neumann “KH120a”
AKG “K702”
Beyerdynamic DT770

Miscellaneous Outboard

Avid “Eleven Rack”
DBX “520”

Microphones

RIBBON MICs
AEA R44
AEA R84 (x2)
Royer R-101 (x2)
Samar Audio VL37 (x2)
SE Electronics R1 (x2)
Shure KSM313 (x2)

DYNAMIC MICs
Telefunken M80
Telefunken M81
Shure SM7b, SM58, SM57 (x2)
Shure Beta 57A
Sennheiser MD 441-U (x2 70’s era)
Sennheiser MD 421-II (x3)
Sennheiser e906, e904
Electro Voice RE20 (80’s era)
Electro Voice 648 & 647 (60’s era)
Audix D6, D4 (x3)

TUBE CONDENSER MICs
SE Electronics "Gemini II"
Mojave Audio MA-100 (stereo set)
Cathedral Pipes “Notre Dame”
​Avantone CV-28

​CONDENSER MICs
Townsend Labs Sphere L22
Shure KSM32 (x2)
Shure Beta 91
Peavey PVM 480 (x2)
Blue Microphones “Kiwi”
Beyerdynamic Opus 51, 88 (x3)

Amplifiers

Orange Dual Terror
Mesa Boogie Single Rectifier "Solo"
​Marshall JTM45
​Fender Greta
​Ashdown ABM500 Evo II

Cabinets

Marshall JCM410A
​Marshall 1960A
Hartke 410XL
​Fender SC112
Bell & Howell 1950s era 1x12

Combos

Peavey Windsor 1x12
​Peavey Bandit 65
​Kustom KLA10
​Fender Blues DeVille
Ampeg RB-110