Studio 2 -- Specs

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Facilities:

Live Room – 15’ x 21’
Control Room – 11’x 21’
Drum Iso-Booth – 8’ x 6'
11 ft ceilings

Instruments:

Piano:
Samick SG-161 (5’ 10”) Grand

Keyboards:
Rhodes Mark I, 73-key Stage Piano
Yamaha P-80 (used as DAW controller)
Korg DW-8000 (vintage synth)
StudioLogic S161 midi controller

Drum Kit:
RAZORBACK custom made jazz and fusion kit
6-ply maple shells, all-new Aquarian skins
Toms: 10x9, 12x9, 14x14
Kicks: 20x16, 18x16
Snare: 14” Ludwig Black Beauty
Cymbals “K” Zildjian 16” Dark crash “K” Zildjian 22” Dark ride Sabian 14” hats Sticks, brushes, mallets available

Percussion: Remo FiberSkyn Djembe – 14”x24”
Toca Calfskin Mini Djembe – 8”x15”
Assorted claves, Shakers, Tamborines, etc.

Amps:
Gallien-Krueger 400RB Bass combo
Roland JC120 guitar amp
Roland KC 350 keyboard amp
JBL EON 15 powered monitor

Outboard Gear:
Mackie Onyx 1640 16-channel mixing console
Crown D150 power amplifier (2)
E-Mu Proteus FX sound module
MOTU 2408 MkII with PCI card hard disk recording system
MOTU 1224 (added to 2408 for 16 channels of audio input)
Sound Devices USBPre D/Aconverter and mic preamp (for remote recording) MIDIMan USB Midi-interface
Behringer Powerplay Pro-8 8 channel headphone amp/mixer
TASCAM DA-20 DAT recorder

Microphones:
Neumann U87 (1)
Audio Technica AT4033 (2)
Rode NT1
Shure SM81 (2)
Audio Technica ATM 23HE (2)
Audio Technica ATM 25HE (2)
AKG D112 Shure SM57 (2)
Shure SM48 (2)
Core Sound Binaural mic (2)

Audio Monitors:
Tannoy PBM 8 Near-field studio monitors

Headphones:
SONY MDR V-700
SONY MDR V-200
SONY MDR 7502
Sennheiser HD280 Pro
Sennheiser HD250 (3)

Computer:
Custom DAW PC made by ADK Pro Audio
Pentium 4, WindowsXP Pro, dual hard drives
DVD-RW, CD-RW, USB2.0, Firewire, DSL internet
Dual 22 inch NEC MultiSync FE1250 CRT monitors

Digital Audio Software:
ProTools
Cakewalk SONAR
SoundForge
Full range of FX and processing plugins, (Sonic Foundry, Cakewalk, etc).
Nero DVD and CD mastering software