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STUDIO & GEAR

Studio Layout:

 

  • Control Room

  • Isolation/Vocal Booth

  • Acoustic Room (w/ upright piano)

  • Grand Room (main tracking space)

  • Drum area (with in-house drum kit), partitioned in Grand Room.

 

All rooms are designed for cross-visibility.
Separated performers can all see producer, engineers, and other performers from each tracking space.

Room design includes professional attention to detail and precise acoustic treatment to give The Eagle Room a quality feel and a variety of controlled ambiance levels for live instruments.

 

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Great Vibe and Experience

Award-Winning Producer

Top Notch Equipment

Warm Analog Sounds

SIGNAL PATH
Up to 24 tracks of simultaneous recording!

Studer 928 Recording and Mixing Console:
  • 24 Mono modules with mic preamps and EQ
  • 12 Stereo modules with EQ and stereo enhancement component
  • 8 Group modules with limiter/compressors
  • 2 Master modules with limiters
 
2 Neve-style Great River MP-500NV mic preamps in API Lunchbox.
Pendulum Audio Quartet Class A Preamp, Optical Compressor, EQ, and De-Esser.

 

Focusrite Saffire Pro 40, Apogee Rosetta and Presonus A/D converters with

clocking via our Lucid low-jitter world clock source.

MICROPHONES
In-House Microphones:
 

AT 4033a (x2)
AT 2020 (x2)
AT Pro 37
AT 58
Audix i5
Audix OM2
Avantone CV-12 multi-pattern tube (x2)
Avantone C-14 ribbon
Blue Bottle Rocket with modified vocal and acoustic mic capsules
Blue Baby Bottle

Cascade Knuckle Head Ribbon mic with upgraded Lundahl Transformer
MiLab DC 96b

Neumann TLM-107 (multi-pattern transformer less mic)

Rode NT1 (x2 matched pair)

Rode M5 (x2 matched pair)
Shure PG 81 (x2)
Shure SM 57 (x4)

Shure Beta 52A kick mic

Shure PG 52
Shure Beta 57A
Shure SM 59 vintage
Shure SM 81
Stellar RM-3 ribbon (x2-matched pair)

 

Additional microphones can be rented for additional fees.

GEAR & AMPS
Outboard Gear:
 
Dramastic Audio Obsidian Stereo Mastering / Mix Buss Compressor (TXIO enhanced)
Manley Nu-Mu Dual-channel Tube/Solid-state Limiter/Compressor with Stereo Link
Pendulum Audio Quartet Class A Preamp, Optical Compressor, EQ, and De-Esser
JDK R22 2-channel Vintage-American-style Compressor
IGS Audio SSL-Type 500 Series Stereo Buss Compressor
IGS Rubber Bands RB500 ME Stereo Passive Pultec-style Mastering Equalizer
Rupert Neve Designs 542 Tape Emulator with "True Tape" Silk/Texture Circuitry
HHB Radius 30 Stereo Tube Compressor (TL Audio Ivory II)
DBX Subharmonic Synth Low Frequency Enhancer
Drawmer DL241 Dual Channel Auto-Compressor (x2)
Drawmer DL441 4-Channel Automatic Compressor
ART Pro-VLA II Stereo Tube Compressor (modified Sovtek NOS tubes)
Studer Limiter/Compressor units insertable through Studer 928 console (x8)
ART 31-band Stereo EQ
BBE Sonic Maximizer
HHB CDR-830 Burn It Compact Disc Recorder with Dither
Alesis Stereo Compressor/Gate
Autocom Stereo Compressor/Gate

 

Amplifiers:


Fender '68 Custom Deluxe Reverb Reissue with 1960's JBL D120F speaker (1x12)

Fender 1969 Vintage Twin Reverb with Master Volume
VOX AC-15 Tube Amp (1x12)
VOX Solid State Bassilator (1x12)
1972 Gibson Amp with Phase Shift (2x12)
1960's Yamaha Pyramid Amp (1x15)
1960's Fender cabinet (2x12)
Fender Acoustisonic Jr. (2x10/tweeter)
Fender G-Dec solid state amp

Orange Crush 15R Solid State with Spring Reverb

MONITORING
Focal Solo6 BE nearfield monitor speakers

Samson Rubicon ribbon tweeter monitors w/ subwoofer (2.1)
Yamaha mini monitors and subwoofer (2.1)

Furman Headphone distribution system (w/ 6 headphone stations)
Presonus HP-60 alternate headphone system (6 send A/B mixes)

Presonus HP4 personal headphone amps
Dual HD LCD Displays

SOFTWARE
The Eagle Room runs on Pro Tools DAW.
 
We use high quality virtual components including Waves Diamond Bundle (with SSL, API, and CLA plug-ins), Slate Digital, T-Racks IK Multimedia, and Digidesign plug-ins.
 
MIDI sample and sound library and virtual instruments.
 
Final Cut Pro HD X for Video Editing.
INSTRUMENTS
Drums:

Gretsch Catalina Birch 5-piece kit (10, 12, 14, 22)

Vintage Zildjian New Beat Hi-Hats

Vintage Zildjian 16" Crash Cymbal

Zildjian K custom Dry Complex II 20" Ride Cymbal

Sonor Hardware

Pearl Roadmaster Drum Throne

Keys:
1960's Yamaha Upright Piano (always tuned and in immaculate condition)
1968 Hammond Cadet
MIDI 61-key controller (numerous virtual sound libraries)
Toy piano

Electric Guitars:

Fender American Stratocaster (SSS pickups)

Fender American Jazzmaster

Fender Cyclone (Strat-style 1990's mixed Fender MIM)

Godin Freeway (with GHOST guitar synth pickups)

Godin LGX (LR Baggs Active pickups and Dual Humbuckers)
St. Blues (Thinline Telecaster design, semi-hollow body, P-90 and single coil)

Thin The Herd American-made Strat (HSS pickups)

Thin The Herd Languedoc copy (Dual Humbuckers)

Thin The Herd Tele-Hybrid with Strat Tremelo (Dual P-90 pickups)
 

Electric Bass Guitars:
Ibanez 4-string bass (active electronics)
Lakland Skyline 5-string bass (Bartollini pickups)

Acoustic Guitars:
Taylor 714ce (Cedar/Brazilian Rosewood)
Taylor 310 (Hawaiian Koa/Engleman Spruce)

Custom Build/Thin The Herd Guitars (Maple/Sapele)
Dean (Rosewood)
Seagull 12-string (Cedar/Mahogany) 

Violins:
German Rudolph Deutsch Concert acoustic (L.R. Baggs pick-up)
German Wilhelm Duerer circa 1894
U.S. made French traditional acoustic violin
Rave 5-string electric
Zeta 4-string electric with synthezier/midi pickups
Custom Equester 6-string and 7-string electric violins

Mandolins:

ISK custom A-style mandolin

ISK custom Grecian mandolin

Michael Kelly Custom Dragonfly III (w/ Fishman)
1934 Orpheum A-style mandolin (w/ K&K pickup)
Fender mandocaster (5-string)

Percussion:
Glockenspiel 
LP congas
Rogers congas and bongos
Remo Djembe
Toca Djembe
Tongue drum (in G/Em)
Large assortment of tambourines, shakers, bells, etc.
Xylophone
Kalimba

 

 

And please bring whatever you'd like!
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