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My Studio...

Designed by Glenn Brown, a Grammy winning producer/engineer who has designed over 420 studios since 1972. I am so grateful to Glenn for his care and hard work helping me create the best studio I could ever ask for, and a place your music will get the sound treatment it deserves.

Mics

Microphone for Music Recording

  • 1 Audix i5 dynamic for high db performance- usually for talkback but also can be used for snare or guitar cabs

  • 1 Sennheiser e 609 dynamic. Great for guitar cabs or other talkback applications etc.

  • 2 Audio Technica AT 2050 multi patter condenser with low cut, 10db pad and three patterns. I love using these as far room mics to pick up ambience that adds vibe and character

  • 6 shure sm57 dynamics. Still my favorite dynamic mic for guitar cabs along with a ribbon mic and it’s undeniably awesome on snare drum within a drum kit.

  • Matched pair of Soyuz 013 fet condensers with three different capsules including true cardiod, wide cardiod and omni. These mics are amazing for anything we’d mic with condensers, Truly versatile and clear smooth response.

  • Matched pair of AKG 414 XLS with 9 polar pattern options. The swiss army knife of studio mics! Great on everything from Acoustic instruments, to vocals, to piano and organ and drums/percussion.

  • 1 Rode NTK tube condenser. Perfect for a beautifully detailed clear vocal or an acoustic guitar or anything else that a nice smooth detailed sound is desired. 

  • 2 Kel HM2d condenser- these condensers are so great on anything I put them on. Think RE-20 but in a condenser mic with a lot of detail. A very nice warm mic that imparts a slightly classic/vintage sound. Love these so much!

  • 1 AEA KU5A Super-cardiod active Ribbon. Perfect for loud guitar amps, acoustics, strings, vocals and anything else you want that beautiful smoothness and finesse that only a ribbon transducer can impart. 

  • 1 Royer R 10 Ribbon perfect for Mid/side techniques or loud guitar amps along with a dynamic mic to fill out the warmth of the tone.  

  • 2 Nuemann U67 clones costume made at Avatar studios in New York. These lovely mics impart warmth, smoothness, detail and character all at the same time. 

  • Beta 52 A dynamic. Amazing for inside the kick or on the bottom of a hand drum or bottom of the leslie speaker when micing up an organ. 

  • AKG C3000 B Condenser. Perfect for the outside kick placement or other extraneous sources in session. 

Recording Gear

Computer:

  • Adk Custom built audio computer for maximum recording, mixing and composing capabilities. 

  • AD/DA Conversion: 

  • 2023 Lynx Aurora 24 with pristine clocking and the purest conversion I’ve ever heard.

Mic / Line / Preamps

Music Recording Gear

  • On the majority of my preamps, I have transformer output attenuation knobs that let me dial in just the right amount of saturation and dial back the output to reach the converters with all the headroom we’d ever need.

  • 2 Great River ME-1NV -amazing detail and warmth. 4 Shadow Hills Mono Gamma with three transformer options, Steel, Nickel and Discreet.

  • 2 Neve 1LB with Merinair input and output transformers

  • 4 API 3124 V with big console transformer input and output transformers. Includes 3:1 transformer switch for even more harmonic saturation.

  • 4 UAD 710 D twinfinity with FET, Tube and blending anywhere between.

  • 2 Cranborne Audio Camden EC 2 with optional mojo circuits for added tube or transformer saturation/grit

  • 8 SSL with switchable 4k mode for added analog character, fatness and creamy top end.

DAWS and Plugins 

  • Protools 

  • Cubase

  • Ableton Live 

  • Very extensive list of plug ins to dial in anything your sonic dreams can come up with. 

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    Some plug in companies I use regularly are: 

     

  • UAD plugs of all kinds 

  • Fab Filter

  • Brainworks 

  • Drawmer

  • Shadow Hills

  • Purple Audio 

  • Vertigo 

  • Neold

  • Amek

  • Maag

  • Dangerous

  • Black Box

  • Soundtoys 

  • Oxford

  • Klevgrand  

  • Slate Digital 

  • Good Hertz 

  • Sound Radix 

  • Elysia

  • Izotope

  • And much much more..

    • Sound Libraries 

    I have an extensive list of sample based libraries and vst instruments including but not limited to:

  • Keyscape 

  • Mtron pro -mellotron 

  • BBC Orchestra 

  • Spitfire woodwinds professional 

  • Spitfire solo strings professional

  • Spitfire alternative solo strings professional 

  • Spitfire orchestral swarms 

  • Spitfire Olafur Arnalds 

  • Kontakt 7 with:

  • Vienna Saxophone 

  • Studio Horns

  • Pedal Steel 

  • All kinds of crazy VST synths 

  • Superior Drummer

  • Skaka 

  • Brusfri 

  • Stomps and Claps 

  • A giant amount of drum, percussion samples and fx samples etc.

  • DI and Reamp boxes

  • 1 A designs Reddi all tube DI. Perfect for Bass direct in, or on guitar DI with the thru to amp of choice.

  • 1 Radial Pro 48 DI

  • 1 Radial Passive DI

  • 1 Radial Passive Reamp Device- great for sending things back to amps for adding layers of great or warmth to sources, as well being able to capture multiple guitars amps at the same time along with many other fun uses.

    • Keys

    Walter Upright Grand Piano

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    • Charles Walter Studio Upright Grand with full harp laid vertically. This makes for the ability to get upright or grand piano sounds easily. 

    • Hammond B3 tonewheel organ with Leslie 145/147 

    • Dave Smith Prophet 12 polyphonic synth 

    • Moog Little Phatty Blue addition 

    • Yamaha Montage 88 for the best piano action on the market for playing libraries and other sounds

    • Nord Electro 2 

    • Fender Rhodes Mark 1

    Hammond B3 Organ

    Drums / Guitars

    Pearl Masters Drum Set

    Drums 

    • 6 piece Pearl Masters Custom kit , all maple with Ludwig Acrolite snare.

    • Tamborines, shakers, blocks and other fun accessories

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    • Guitars Gibson 1965 LG1 steel string acoustic - beautiful resonance and presence and plays beautifully

    • Yamaha C 40 Nylon String guitar - very nice sound and plays great

    • Fender Stratocaster clone custom made -plays and sounds amazing

    • Fender Telecaster - custom built - also amazingly playable and great tone

    • Line 6 Variax electric with tone modeling for many different sounds at the flip of a switch

    Fender Stratocaster Guitar

    Amps

    Marshall Super Lead Amp

    • Fuchs Overdrive Supreme 50 with 2 x 12 closed back cabinet - great for cleans and dirties. Very punchy, quick and warm. Amazingly versatile.

    • Fender Hot Rod Deville with custom Spring Reverb. - Beautiful, punchy, classic sounds. 

    • 10w - 1x12”Gnarly old Valco-made amp with aggressive, upper-midrange voicing. Mostly a dirty amp, but there are some chimey cleans available. Good tone and volume controls. Really rocks when turned up.

    • Fender Pro Reverb (1967)40w - 2x12”Classic Fender cleans with natural breakup like a Deluxe Reverb when pushedAMAZING spring reverbFender

    • Champ (1973)5w - 1x8” alnico speakerExcellent recording amp - sparkly cleans to blooming overdrive when pushedOverhauled in 2024

    • Gibson GA-5T (1958)~5w - 1x8”Pretty basic old amp. Starts clean and gets dirtier as you turn it up. This one hasn’t been tuned up since I’ve owned it and it has a bit of a farty sound at high volumes with certain guitars. It doesn’t sound bad - in fact, it’s pretty vibey and unique. It’s just not for every track.

    • Harmony H-195 (1949)~5w - 1x8”Low wattage - small speakerGreat recording amp - middy, filtered mids cleans - beautiful singing overdrive at full gain with big chords. Sits right where an electric guitar should in a mix.

    • Marshall Super Lead (1973) - Head Only100w head - master volume modQuintessential 70s rock tonePurple!Completely overhauled (to original spec) in 2024

    • Mesa Boogie Lonestar Classic (1990s)50/100w - 2x12”Amazingly versatile amp. Voiced more like a Fender than other Mesas. Cleans are tight and sparkly. Overdrive channel is amazing - more midrange bump than the clean channel. Tons of tonal options.Usually lives in a band trailer for live shows.

    • Peavey Delta Blues (1990s)30w - 1x15”Similar to a Hot Rod Deluxe/DeVille, but it has a little different sound. Awesome cleans. It’s a great pedal platform. The 15” speaker is a beast and really brings out a ne

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