Our facilities were designed by Steve Durr and Matt Schlachter. Main monitors were designed by Steve Durr and constructed by Travis Smith, with components from Altec, TAD and Bag End. These monitors are modifications of the Altec “Voice of the Theater” design, with Altec 515 woofers and 511 horns with TAD-2002 drivers. Bag End ELF subwoofer processor with D12E subwoofer. Main monitor signal chain by Mike Schatzlein and Jake Saghi, with Trinnov crossover and amps from Hafler, CLA and Crown, and final tuning of course by Steve Matt. Focal Trio6Be and Yamaha NS-10M nearfield monitors. MTRX and DADman monitor and cue routing.
Special thanks to Michael and Eddie at Avid for including us in the Pro Tools and S6 beta programs. Avid is serious about continuous improvement in Pro Tools. The S6 is an awesome instrument, and it just keeps getting better.
Very special thanks to Jake Saghi, our first Nashville engineer and now a producer, who designed and installed the audio wiring for Studio Five, and to Terry Palmer, technical audio consultant.
Equipment
Control Surface and Converters
Avid System 6 M40-32-9-D with 32 faders, display modules and 9 knobs per channel.
Burl Mothership HDX with 32 I/O Channels. Avid MTRX with 16 channels of DAD converters.
Tape
Studer A827 24-track (< 4500 hours, reconditioned by Steve Smith) Studer A807 VU Mark II 2-track (reconditioned by Jake Saghi) Multiple channels of Dolby A and Dolby SR for decoding
Microphones
Condenser
AKG C414B (2)
AKG C451B (2)
Audio-Technica AT4033/CL (2)
Beyerdynamic MC930 matched pair
Blue Kiwi (2)
Miktek CV-4 Tube (2)
Neumann KM185 (2)
Neumann M149 Tube
Neumann U87ai (2)
sE sE4400a (2)
Telefunken AR51 Tube
Ribbon
Cloud 44A
Rode NTR
sE RNR1 Active (2)
sE VooDoo VR2 (2)
Vintage RCA Type 77-DX
Dynamic
AKG D12 VR kick drum
Sennheiser e609 Silver (2)
Shure BETA91A kick drum
Shure SM57 (5)
Analog Stuff
Rupert Neve Master Bus Processor
LaChapell tube (2)
Cloudlifter CL-1 (2)
Soyuz Analog Launcher
Avalon VT-737sp
Rupert Neve Portico II (2)
Trident 80B (2)
Universal Audio 6176
Line 6 Helix
MXR Bass DI+ Pedal
Hardware DSP
Avid HDX2
UAD-2 Shark Octo
Instruments and Amps
Yamaha Montage M6
Kurzweil 2600 with 88 weighted keys
Martin DXM six-string
Fender Twin Reverb (tubes, 69 reissue)
Fender Mustang
Gibson Les Paul 70s tribute
Gibson Les Paul Melody Maker
Roland V-drums with mesh heads and TD-50 sound module
Jamstix studio MIDI guitar
Plug-ins
At least a thousand, from Avid, Universal Audio (UAD), Waves, Wave Arts, Antares, Celemony, Eventide, Focusrite, FabFilter, HOFA, Klanghelm, Klevgrand, Izotope, Native Instruments, Plugin Alliance, Vir2, Slate Digital, Sof-tube, SoundToys, Sonnox, Synchro Arts, Valhalla, Polyverse, others.
* Download the brochure for the latest equipment list.
