When recording an entire
band simultaneously, including electric guitar, bass, drums,
keyboards, vocals and acoustic guitar, various techniques are
utilized. Typically, two very quiet Iso-booths are used for recording
vocals and miking acoustic guitar. We use direct
recording techniques for bass and guitar with virtual amp technology
(listen to Amplitube 2 and Ampeg
SVX plugin demos). For drums, we use
the incredible Roland TD-20 (Their Flagship
Electronic Drumkit).
This kit plays and sounds like real drums - just listen to the
demo! For piano, B3 organ and
all other keyboard sounds, we use an 88-key fully weighted midi
controller with several incredible virtual instruments including Ivory for
acoustic piano, B4 II for organ,
and Lounge Lizard for Electric
Piano. Again, check out the demos you see linked here. Also,
recording direct has an added benefit of being much cleaner and
quieter. |
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n s t r u m e n t s |
Computer/DAW:
Nuendo 3.1 on a Mac G5 Dual 2 ghz
with 4 gig of Ram, 2 Terabytes of hard drive space (w/Glyph Raid
setup)
24 channels of I/O including the Lynx
Aurora 16,
and Nuendo/RME 24bit/96k 8 I/O More
info...
Nuendo Audiolink 24 channel interface,
Dual 19” LG monitors
Instruments:
Roland TD-20 Drums Listen to demo...
Taylor Acoustic Guitar,
CME-UF8 fully weighted 88 key midi keyboard controller – works
great with Ivory Piano plugin!
Monitors:
Mackie HR-824
Microphones:
Brauner Phantom C More info...
Neamann TLM-103,
Lawson L-47,
Shure KSM-32,
M-Audio Sputnik More
info...
SE Electronics SE-3 pair More
info...
CAD E-350
Sennheiser MKH-416,
Pre-amps:
A-Designs Pacifica (4 channels) More
info...
Focusrite ISA 430 More info...
Mixer:
Mackie 24x8 Mixer (for monitoring only. All mixing is done inside
Nuendo)
Effects/Processors:
(2) Empirical Labs Distressor Compressors (w/British Mod) More
info...
Focusrite ISA-430
EQ/ISA-430 Comp/ISA- 430 Limiter/ISA-430 DeEsser More
info...
Neve Portico 5043 Stereo Compressor More
info...
Tape Machines/CD Player:
Fostex D-5 Dat Machine,
Marantz Pro Cassette Deck,
Marantz Pro CD Player
ISDN Digital Codecs:
Musicam Prima 220
APT Worldnet Milano
(the studio has 2 ISDN lines w/4 ISDN #s)
Misc. Hardware:
Lucid SSG 192 Master Clock,
Z-Systems 16.16Digital Patchbay,
Mackie HMX-56 Headphone distribution System,
Equitech Balanced Power System,
Power Play Headphone Amp,
Hafler Power Amp,
Telos One Hybrid Phone interface,
MX-8 Midi Patchbay,
(2) 24 point Neutrik Patchbays
Video:
Hitachi 42” Plasma TV,
Panasonic Universal Format DVD player,
Sony Video Deck |
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t i n g / m a s t e r i n g s o f t w a
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Nuendo 3.21 Digital Workstation More
info...
Peak Pro 5.2 XT 2 track mastering software More
info...
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Antares Auto-Tune 5,
Waves Platinum Bundle (includes L3 Maximizer, Linier Phase EQ,
Renaissance EQ/Bass/Comp/De-esser/Reverb/Vox, Linear Phase
Multiband Limiter, IR-L Convolution Reverb, Doubler, Super
Tap and many more).
Sonalksis EQ and Comp., More
info...
UAD Plugins (1176, LA2, Fairchild, Pultec, Precision Limiter Dreamverb
and many more),
Ampeg SVX Virtual Bass Amp and FX Listen
to demo...
Amplitube 2 Virtual Guitar Amp and FX Listen
to demo...
BlueTubes Bundle,
IK-Multimedia CSR Reverb Listen
to demo...
WizooVerb Reverb,
Ohmboys Delay,
PSP Mixpack and Vintage Warmer,
TrackPlug,
Sound Soap Pro, and others… |
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i r t u a l i n s t r u m e n t p
l u g i n s |
Ivory Virtual Piano Listen
to demo...
Native Instruments B4 II Organ Listen
to demo...
BFD Virtual Drums Listen to demo...
Lounge Lizard Virtual Electric Piano Listen
to demo...
AMG Kick Ass Brass Listen to demo...
Miraslov Philharmonik virtual orchestra Listen
to demo...
Sample Tank 2 (1,300 sounds) Virtual Sampler,
Sonic Synth Virtual Synthesizer (633 sounds) |
