Studio facilities

Overview - Audio Visual Factilities

Recording Capabilities

Studio A & B -800 and 1500 Sq Ft hybrid studio with 14 Ft ceilings

• Highly noise optimized facilities - both acoustically and electronically advanced 400 lb copper grounding bars and electronically optimized distribution panels with no audible noise (-92 dB) Class A guitar amps, and studio pre’s. It is refreshing to hear a guitar amp at high gain without hum or other electrical/RF noise. As a result, there’s no need for dynamics-destroying noise gates.

• Microphones - over 150 popular dynamic, ribbon, condenser and modeling microphones, from Aston, Earthworks, AKG, Lewitt, Neumann, Slate, Cascade, Sennheiser, Sontronics, Shure, SONY, Telefunken and many others (see: Equipment:Microphones page )

• Neve, SSL, API and Focusrite AIR - an extensive array of native and UAD realtime preamps and related recording options

• High performance DAW hardware, latest, highly upgraded Mac and PC driven DAW’s, from multiple, 12-Core Dual 3.2 GHz XEON’s, to the latest 2021 Apple Silicon Mac’s, Practically unlimited tracks, plugins and FX— all without having to bounce or freeze tracks— providing much more fluid creativity without the typical delays.

• Extensive input and routing capabilities -
32 UAD Apollo, Focusrite Red Mic Pre channels,
48 Apollo, Focusrite and Antelope Line input channels
128 Dante channels on sub-2 millisecond dedicated GB networks to all 9 recording areas, across 11,000 sq ft of recording options
32 channels of Helix floors, Rack’s, LT’s and Native in-box and amp-routed recording options
Tri-mic’d Jackson Ampworks Class A Amp

• Plenty of Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) options:
Pro Tools Ultimate
Pyramix Premium & Masscore Platinum DSD256+, with 384 Channel DAW
Logic Pro
Ableton Live
Reaper
Cubase
MainStage
Cakewalk/SONAR (Cakewalk by BandLab)
Also have in-house AA-Translator software that allows us to do inter-DAW translation between dozens of major and minor DAW’s.

we offer true 6-degree of freedom 3D audio, up to 7th Order Ambisonics, with ability to walk through live recording recordings.

9 Radically different recording areas, acoustically optimized recording studio environments, from highly damped and controlled vocal room and 1500 sq foot Studio B, to moderately through highly reverberant 350-1,700 sq foot rooms and 80 sq foot tiled “shower room”.

Photography Capabilities

Studio b2 - hybrid studio with digital plug analog summing

• SONY Alpha 1, SONY A7SIII, A7III, BlackMagic Studio and others.

• Realtime 30 shot per second still capabilities at 50 MPXL’s, with full 120 shot per second strobe and large, instant image proofing screen.

• Full in-house image grading, post editing and printing capabilities using 10 and 12 bit HDR/XDR monitors and other high-end post production tools often used in Hollywood.

Mixing & Mastering Capabilities

Studio A & B - hybrid with 64bit digital and pure analog MIXING & Mastering summing

• Raven MTi2 - With UAD SSL, API and Neve preamp options

• Antelope Satori Analog summing and mastering as well as Pro LA mix-down and Dangerous Music bus

• Surround / Immersive Recording, Mixing & Mastering Analog full Dolby ATMOS 7.1.4 - 11.2.6, NHK 22.2, 7th-order Ambisonic and related monitor, channel and creative hardware and plugin support.

• Live sound reinforcement gear including Line 6, Schertler, L’Acoustics, Meyer Sound & other PA, amp, mixing / distribution gear

• 384 Channel DSD Merging Quintessence Suite - Pyramix Masscore Platinum HORUS DSD 384 Channel DAW, with Flux Suite and other extensions and realtime DANTE to RAVENNA IP support.

• 64 Channel Analog Mixing & Mastering - Including SSL SuperAnalogue, Neve 73, Neve 88, WesAudio, Fredenstein, Neumann and several other preamp, Distressors, compressors, EQ and FX analog channels.

• Massive Plugin libraries - hundreds of the top plugins, from UAD, Fab Filter, iZotope, Sound Radix, Positive Grid BIAS, Native, Waves, and many others

• Acoustically optimized recording, mixing, mastering rooms - Actively and passively optimized, acoustically treated studios.

• Sub Bass Optimized Studio- Capable of controlled bass down to 18 Hz, and bass production and checking down to 12 Hz.

• Focal, Fluid Mixing and Mastering monitors, with custom Class-A Fluid, Avantone and IK and Klipsch, Ocean Way, SVS near, mid and far field monitors

• Extensive digital Audio Workstation (DAW) instrumental options- including Vienna Studio Library Suite, Pianoteq, Native Instruments, Omnisphere, Spectrasonics, and many, many more..

• Vocal Recording Room- Not just a little booth, but a well-optimized room, with the best Seheisser, RODE, Neumann, Sontronics, Earthworks and many other great options..

Video Recording & Post

Blackmagic, sony, panasonic and related systems

• Blackmagic, SONY and Insta-360 Titan 4K-11K recording and Post Facilities - DaVinci Resolve software and hardware to six (6) 4K-11K cameras and 8K switching and acquisition hardware.

•  Greenscreens, Blackdrops, CloudChamber and FX Drops - multiple backdrops up to 12 x 15 feet for still and video and VFX use.

• Raven MTi2 - With UAD SSL, API and Neve, Fredenstein, Wes Audio and other preamps and monitoring and routing control

• Massive Plugin libraries - hundreds of the most popular plugins, from UAD, Fab Filter, iZotope, Sound Radix, Positive Grid, Native Instruments, Waves, and many others