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SpringStone Studio
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Professional Audio Recording Services
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SpringStone Studio Gear
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Projects may be recorded in our studio or at a specified venue or other location. We use some of the best vintage and modern recording equipment available, including 2496 AD and DA converters from Mytek Digital, API and Great River pres, and top studio microphones from AKG, Beyer, Bruel & Kjaer (DPA), BLUE, Neumann, Schoeps, and others.
Gear List :
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Schoeps M221B/M934b, this vintage tube mic was recently rebuilt by Schoeps, including a NOS AC701 tube from Schoeps. Many consider the M221B to be one of the finest mics available for acoustic instruments, choirs, and orchestral instruments. With updated electronics, our M221B sounds better than ever!
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AKG 480 (4), a CK61 cardioid pair and a CK62 omni pair, with A61 swivels, and A60M adapters for using the AKG 451 and BLUE capsules below. AKG 480s are excellent for classical and other acoustic instrument based recording. The 480 also is a terrific mic amp for the Blue Lollipop capsules. While the U47-type Blue B7 capsule sounds really nice on an AKG 451 body, the B7 is among the best vocal mics we've heard when it's mounted on a 480.
AKG 451E/EB (3), transformer-based SD mics, originals, not reissues. Capsules/accessories: A51 swivels (2); -10/-20 pads (4); factory-matched CK1/CK2 pairs; CK1S(card)-CK22(close omni)-CK5(vocal, 2)-CK8(shotgun); custom BLUE B7 Bottle Mic LD capsule (1) and BLUE "Lollipop" LD capsules (2). All also can be used with the A60M-equipped AKG 480s transformerless SD mics.
AKG D112 (kick) and D65 (2) dynamic mics
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AT 4050 (2) multipattern condensers. Great all-around LD studio mics.
AT Pro25 (kick)
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Beyer M88 classics (3) (one of the best dynamic mics)
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B & K (DPA) 4060 (3) (top miniature omnis)
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BLUE Blueberry, a LD vocal/instrument mic
BLUE premium lollipop capsule (Blue Bottle B7 capsule). Fits our AKG 451 & 480 bodies (480w/A60M adapter). The B7/480 has a big, classic tone that is superb for vocals. The B7/451 sounds great, too, when a transformer-based tone is desired.
BLUE B6 Lollipop Capsule Pair, fit our 451s and 480s like the B7. The B6's on 451s (or our 480s) have a similar tone to the Blueberry, but with more low end and they can sound bigger and smoother on many sources.
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EV RE15 (2) (perhaps the *best* mic for isolating a source)
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Neumann KM140 (3 excellent SD cardioids, including a stereo set)
Neumann TLM103 (LD vocal/instrument mic)
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Shure SM57 (3)
Shure 315 vintage ribbon mic (fig8, updated by S. Sank). A bit noisy, but worth it for certain applications. Dick Gardiner of the Harmonicats told me it is the ONLY mic that he'd use to record harmonica. And he knows harmonicas!
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CONVERTERS AND STAND-ALONE RECORDERS:
Mytek Digital 2496 AD and DA
Symetrix 620AD
Customized Fostex D1624 (2) and D824 Hard Disk Recorders (40 simultaneous tracks of 24 bit/44.1/48 KHz or 24 tracks of 24 bit/96 KHz)
Fostex D90 x 2 HDRs
Word clock sync for the studio provided by Mytek clock.
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CONSOLES: 4 Ramsa consoles WRC4520, WRC4512, WRS4412, and WRS208 for >40 mono and >14 stereo channels and two 8x8 matrices -great for multiple monitoring which is done with Hafler P3000 and P1000 power amps and Dynaudio BM6 and Event powered 2020bas speakers. Furman distributed headphone system with 4-HR2 remote stations, 5 Sony V6(7506), AKG240, and Koss Pro4AA sealed headphones.
OUTBOARD GEAR includes
API 212 mic pre (2) - same pre as API Legacy console
Great River MP-4
Summit Audio TLA50
Amek 9098 comp (Neve)
ADM 1540 EQ (4)
dbx 160xt, 163x (3), 263x de-essers (4), 463x gates (5)
FMR Audio RNC 1773 (2)
Symetrix 201 EQs (2) /202 mic pres (2) w/ Burr-Brown mod
BSS FCS-916 (2) mic preamps/parametric EQs.
Art Pro VLA and Dual Leveler
Valley People Dynamite compressors/limiters (2)
Composer 2100
Roland SRV-330
Lexicon MPX550, Reflex, and MPX100
Zoom 1204 (with vocoder)
Intelligate (3)
Antares ATR-1
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DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION (DAW):
A professional, 32 bit floating point, digital audio workstation (DAW) with Pentium IV processor is available for audio editing, music notation, and CD preparation.
Plextor Premium CDR (with BLER analysis)
Frontier Design WaveCenter (2)
RME Hammerfall 9652
Samplitude 2496
Adobe Audition 1.5 (Cool Edit Pro)
Sonar 6
Propellerhead Reason 2.5
Finale Notation
PSP - all plugs (Vintage Warmer, Neon HR, Mastercomp, Lexicon 84, MixPressor, MixSaturator, etc.)
Waves Gold Mastering Bundle
Waves Renaissance Maxx Bundle
Waves IR convolution reverb
Waves Tune
Voxengo Elephant
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