Studio setup
picture: Stephanie Dunant
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This studio/workstation is specifically set up for midi/music production plus post audio sweetening. There is an isolation booth for voice/vocals, picture sync playback, state of the art digital audio recorder, timecode DAT, CD/DVD authoring/burning, and expertise accrued over many years producing music and programs for commercial release plus broadcast all around the globe. This is a Protools free studio, I use SSL owned SOUNDSCAPE. My studio is one room 4 x 5 metres with a vocal booth in one corner, on a spring or summer day it's not uncommon to hear tui's in the garden. I use near field monitoring Blue Sky Mediadesk 2.1, all input passes through a TL Audio valve compressor before going digital into SSL Soundscape V6. Voice booth has three main microphones, a KM184 Neumann for voice, Rode NTK valve for vocal, plus a Crowley and Tripp Naked Eye ribbon for brass/acoustic and the odd vocal when it suits. Mic pre is a Presonus ADL600. I record directly into my DAW via a valve compressor and mix in the computer using plugins plus a virtual mixer. Hardware compressors, reverbs, processors are still used depending on circumstance. Most mixes are done to *.wav file on removable drives these days, clients bring them with pix on board plus the OMF, also have Timecode DAT, VHS, MiniDV, Mini disc, Digital8, CD, DVD. Can even do a video edit and/or audio layback if necessary. I produce music for advertising (jingles), plus television audio post. I also write and record my own Pop/Rock albums.
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music for advertising original music
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Vocal Booth Katze the studio cat The Rack!
Main Studio equipment list: Main Workstation: SSL Soundscape, balanced in and out, PC with XP & two monitors. PC Soundcard: Soundscape Mixtreme PC card with Tdif 8 in/out, and external 8 in 8 out, (SS810-3 interface box.) Video Playbaack: Though iMac synced to PC via Unitor8 Software: SoundscapeV6, Cubase, Logic9, Audition, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Tape recorders for archive: Revox B77 with Dolby A, A77, G36 valve recorder, (question about Revox machines? email me... I know them well,) Other machines: Tascam 8track (38), Uher stereo 4200 portable. Microphones: Crowley and Tripp Naked Eye ribbon, Neumann KM184, Neumann TLM103, Rode NTK, Shure 58. 57, A Fostex ribbon M11RP, classics. Compressors: TL Audio Dual valve pre-amp/compressor, Micro FX (Valley International), Vintage DBX 163, Boss CL-50 stereo pair, Drawmer MX30 stereo. Midi Sequencer: Cubase 4 , Logic 9 on iMac, with a Xiosynth keyboard plus Midiman Oxygen 8 keyboard with USB midi. Synths/Modules: JV880, U110, R8 drum machine, Korg 707, MiniMoog S#8888, plus heaps software synths Reverb: Genuine EMT 140 stereo valve plate, Alesis Microverb 2, Silverspike plugin, SpinAudio and others. FX hardware: Korg AM8000R multi effect processor, Monitoring: Blue Sky 2.1 Dat machine: Fostex D20B timecode capable Recording signal path (mic): Neumann TLM103 or Rode NTK or Crowley and Tripp ribbon to Presonus ADL600 to TL Audio valve compressor to Soundscape balanced in, 44.1 to 96k. Guitars: Gibson Les Paul 1969 Goldtop - P90 pickups, Korean Epiphone "Les Paul" Standard. Custom Strat, Classical Gut string, old 12 string, Yamaha Bass R, Maton Acoustic with EM325C pickup, Epiphone Acoustic Inspiration: 3 flying Pigs on the wall, Weakness: Lion Beer On the wall: Sonex Acoustic foam
Oh, yes, my 1962 Jaguar Mk2 car
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