STUDIO A

 

Photos by Sal Tran, Kristen Murakoshi, and Molly DeCoudreaux

The sound of our main room can be heard on thousands of records over the last 5 decades.

Our mid-size live room (approximately 35 x 38 feet) is made of staggered oak and fabric. There is a built-in, sand-filled, lifted stage in the Northwestern corner of the room, providing an interesting place for drums, guitar amps, brass instruments, or vocals. The hallway leading from the lobby to the live room serves as an additional isolation space with four microphone inputs.

The live room lends itself to versatility. Three custom built rolling gobos allow you to instantly deaden up the space to accommodate VO and ADR session needs. From a soft string ensemble to a raucous live band recording, our room will certainly help breathe life into your project.

The Studio A Control room boasts the same SSL 4048E that was installed in 1986 and which has since become the standard in popular music and a favorite for mixers.

 

GEAR LIST

 

Compressors

Universal Audio 1176 LN Peak Limiter (x2)

Summit Audio DCL-200 Dual Compressor Limiter

Empirical Labs EL7 Fatso Jr.

Empirical Labs EL8-X Distressor (x2)

STA-Level gold edition (x2)

Teletronix LA-2A

Avalon Vt 747sp

EQ

GML 8200

Summit Audio EQP-200b

Aurora GT4-8 Class A 4-band

Avalon Vt 747sp

Desk

SSL 4048E

Monitors

Yamaha NS-10

Barefoot Micromain 27

West Lake Reference

Auratone

Cues

Hearback Hub w/ 5 boxes

DAWS

Pro Tools Ultimate

Ableton Live 11 Suite and Standard 9

Logic X Pro

Preamps

Shadow Hills Golden Age Mic Amplifier (8ch.)

Avalon AD2022

GML 8304

Aurora GTP (3 channels)

Effects

Thermionic Culture Vulture

Aphex Aural Exciter & Big Bottom

TBP

Lexicon PCM42 (x2)

Lexicon PCM70

EMT 240

AMS RMX 16

Eventide Model H3000SE

Mic Mix Super “C” Master Room

Recorders

Protools HD10 48 In/Out HD IO

Universal Audio Apollo x16 and Apollo Twin X

Tascam 388

Tascam TSR-8

Plug-ins

All UAD (Octo)

Waves Mercury Bundle

Infected Mushrooms Pusher

Soundtoys V5

Native Instruments

  • Absynth, Battery 4, FM-8, Guitar Rig 5, Kontact 5, Massive, Reaktor 5, Solid Bus Comp/Dynamics/EQ, Transient Master

Antares Audio

  • Autotune Vocal Studio, Auto Tune & Time, Auto Tune EFX 3, AVOX Articulator, Aspire, Choir, Duo, Mutator, Punch, Sybil, Throat, Warm, Harmony Engine, Mic Mod

Eventide

  • 2016 Stereo Room, Blackhole, EChannel, EQ45, EQ65, H3000, H910 Dual Harmonizer, H910 Harmonizer, H949 Harmonizer, Instant Flanger Mk II, MangledVerb, Octavox, Omnipressor, Physion, Precision Time Align, Precision Time Delay, Quadravox, Tverb, UltraChannel, UltraReverb, UltraTap

Xfer Records

  • LFOTool

Melodyne 4 Studio

Massey

  • CT5, DeEsser, TD5, TapeHead, THC, vt3

RP-Distort

Native Instruments Komplete 11 Ultimate

Fab filter Total Bundle

Glitch Machine

Slate Digital

  • Trigger

Sound Radix

  • Surfer EQ

Synchro Arts Ltd.

  • VocAlign Project 3

Goodhertz

  • Faraday Limiter 3, Good Dither 3, Lohi 3, Lossy 3, Megaverb 3, Panpot 3, Tiltshift 3, Tone Control 3, Trem Control 3, Tupe 3, Vulf Compressor 3, Wow Control 3

Kilohearts Toolbox Ultimate Bundle

XLN Audio

  • RC-2o Retro Color

Plugin Alliance

  • Bettermaker EQ232D, Black Box Analog Design HG-2, Black Box Analog Design HG-2MS, bxcleansweep V2, bxdigital V3, bxrockrack V3 Player, bxsubfilter, bxtownhouse Buss Compressor, elysia mpressor, elysia niveau filter, SPL Free Ranger

Valhalla DSP, LLC

  • FreqEcho, Plate, Room, Shimmer, UberMod, VintageVerb, SuperMassive, SpaceModulator

iZotope, Inc.

  • Nectar 3, Relay, RX7 Breath Control, RX7 De-click, RX7 De-clip, RX7 De-hum, RX7 Voice De-noise, Stutter Edit, Vinyl, VocalSynth 2

FutureAudioWorkshop

  • Circle

  • Sublab

GoodHertz, Inc.

  • Vulf Compressor

Oeksound

  • Soothe2