Consoles:
MCI 428 — Quad/Stereo console, 28 channels, 16 buses, four reverb sends, Neve-meets-API EQ
Studer 269 - 16 channels of Swiss-made gentle goodness with parametric EQ and compressors
Recorders:
RADAR-24 - 24 track dedicated hard-disk recorder with amazing A/D and D/A
AMPEX 440C 8-track 1” tape machine
AMPEX 351 - 1955 1/4" tape machine - all tube electronics
STUDER A807 - 2-track 1/4” Swiss-made tape machine with timecode track
SoundDevices and Edirol 4-channel location/film recorders
Microphones:
Telefunken U47 tube mic (1952) - Vocals as big as a house
Neumann M49 tube mic (1949) (x2)
Neumann U67 tube mic (1968) (x3)
AKG C-24 stereo tube mic (1962) -- it's like having two C-12's - sounds awesome on drum overheads
Neumann km-54 (x2) / km-56 (x3) -- fantastic small diaphragm tube mic - absolutely lovely on mandolin and acoustic guitar
Neumann km-84 (x2)
Neumann km-85 (x2)
Altec M11 coke-bottle mic (x4) -- small diaphragm tube mic
AKG C-414EB -- compact large diaphragm mic liberated from the sorely missed JAG studios
AKG D-12
RCA 44BX -- Big-butt broadcast ribbon mic like no other (x3)
RCA KU-3A — Unidirectional large-geometry ribbon mic, built for the film industry (only 500 of these were made). Great for vocals and horns.
RCA 77DX -- Smaller (but still quite righteous) broadcast ribbon mic
RCA BK5A ribbon mic (x3)
Altec 633 "salt shaker" omnidirectional mic
Coles 4038 (x2) -- BBC ribbon mics
Altec/Western Electric 639A "Birdcage" ribbon mic (x2)
Royer 121
Royer SF-24 - modern phantom-powered stereo ribbon microphone -- excellent on drum overheads, guitars, choirs
Beyer m-160 (x3)
Sony C37a tube mic
Sony C38 mics (x2)
Shure sm57 (x2)
Shure sm58 (x2)
Shure beta87 (x2)
Shure KSM32 (x2)
Shure "Green Bullet" harp mic
Senheiser e609
Senheiser MD-421
ElectroVoice RE-20 (x2)
Neumann TLM-103 -- the mic they love to hate
DPA 4061 (x2)
Mic Pre-Amplifiers:
28 channels of MCI 428 console pre’s — modded with discrete op-amps
2 channels of Neve 31102 — huge gain, big iron, fantastic EQ
RCA BN-2A - Vacuum-tube remote pre-amp / mixer with 90db of gain
RCA BA-2C - Vacuum-tube pre - sounds huge (x4)
RCA BA-11 - Vacuum-tube pre (x2)
Gates SA-70 - Vacuum tube pre’s - so bold and huge! (x2)
2 channels of Aurora GTQ2 (Neve clone)
8 channels of Aurora GTP8 (Neve clone)
4 channels of Telefunken/Tab/Siemens v72 modules - 1950's German tube pre-amps
2 channels of Telefunken/Tab/Siemens v76 modules - 1950's German tube pre-amps -- big, wide, open, high-gain monsters
4 channels of API 512
4 channels of John Hardy M-1
16 channels of Studer 269 console pre's
24 channels of ATI 8MX2 for remote/on-location recording/mixing
In the studio...
Or recording live on-location, from inside the van...
Compressors/EQ/Effects:
Lang PEQ2 — Sweet, sweet, powerful EQ with massive inductors and transformers (x2)
Pultec EQP1A — Inductor / vacuum-tube EQ
Pultec MEQ5 — Mid-Range Inductor / vacuum-tube EQ
Terry Audio CEQ — Gorgeous hand-made EQ full of carefully selected inductors and oil caps
Collins 26u — A beast of a tube limiter! Vari-Mu not to be trifled with. (x2)
Universal Audio 175 tube limiter — Stellar tube limiter designed by Bill Putnam
Highland Dynamics BG2 limiter - Amazing tube limiter with American/Brit personality
Highland Dynamics BG1 Stereo limiter
Spectrasonics 610 Complimiter — Nothing to see here, move along (x8)
Teletronix LA-2A tube-based opto compressor (1967) -- awesome on vocals
Gates Sta-Level tube compressor - amazing tube broadcast compressor
Daking FET III limiter
UREI 1178 compressor
UREI LA-4 solid-state opto compressor
Neve 2254e compressor/limiter (x2)
DBX 165 "over easy" compressor (x2)
DBX 160VU compressors (x2)
Empirical Labs Distressor
Telefunken/Tab/Siemens u73 tube compressor (x2)
Toneluxe EQ4 (x2)
Neumann W491 mastering EQ (x2)
Neumann W495 mastering EQ (x4)
Bricasti Reverb
EMT 140 plate reverb
Mastering Room Spring Reverb
Quad Eight Spring Reverb
Orban Spring Reverb
Roland SRE-555 Space Echo tape delay / chorus
Higwatt Tape Delay
Studer A807 Tape Delay
We got stuff to boss the electrons around...
Live, Remote Recording: This is how we roll…
Instruments/amps:
Hammond B-3 organ w/ Leslie 122 (1965)
Fender Rhodes - Suitcase electric piano, formerly of Marsh Woodwinds — freshly serviced and dialed in by David Anderson!
National Steel Tricone Guitar - style#1 (1939)
National Steel Duolian Guitar
National Triplex Chord Changer Lap Steel
National amp - great for lap-steel / harp
1968 AMPEG Reverb-o-Jet amp -- with reverb and tremolo
Fender Deluxe Reverb - great sounding blackface amp
Premier guitar amp - from Marsh Woodwinds
Gibson EH-185 — Amazing tube amp from 1939, field coil speaker
Gibson ES-150 — 1940 archtop guitar w/Charlie Christian pickup
Silvertone Accordion
Martin 00-18 guitar (1956)
