Gear
Whilst creativity isn't all about the gear it still makes a real difference if you've got some world class kit to record with. If you are really interested....
The studio is based around an Audient ASP 4816 console which includes 16 channels of class A pristine mic preamps and delicious EQ. There's another 8 channels of Audient Mic Pres in the rack. There's also 8 very tasty BAE 1073 Mic Preamps (characterful and warm with a vintage flavour).
Analogue/digital conversion is handled by an Antelope Orion 32 which runs into an Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra, running Logic Pro, Reason, TC Finalizer and a shed load of top plugins made by people like Waves, SoundToys, Sonnox, Overloud, Sonivox, Fabfilter and IK.
The multicore from the live room to the control room is all analogue and accommodates plenty of channels of balanced audio, instrument line level signals and speaker signals to go either way.
Console:
Audient ASP 4816
Microphone Preamps/Outboard:
8 x BAE 1073mp
24 x Audient ASP (16 in console, 8 in rack)
2 x Wes Audio Beta 76 (1176 compressor)
Radial Tank Driver (Spring reverb)
Roland RE201 Space Echo (Tape Delay)
Watkins Copicat Mk3 (Tape Delay)
Zoom 9030 (it does some odd, interesting things)
Mics:
Neumann U87 P48 (one of the 70s ones everyone wants, 1974 to be exact)
2 x Mojave MA 300 (valve mic)
2 x AKG 414
Neumann TLM 103
2 x Shure KSM 141
AKG C451b
2 x AKG D12 VR
Shure Beta 52a
2 x Audix D6
3 x Sennheiser MD421 II
Beyer Dynamic M201 TG
Shure SM7b
5 x Shure SM57
Granelli mod SM57 (basically a bent SM57 for getting into tight spots)
Shure SM58
Placid Audio Copperphone
Wasaphone MKII
Soup Can Mic (www.soupcanmic.co.uk)
Solomon LoFReQ Subkick
DI Boxes:
Avalon U5
Radial JDI Duplex
Radial Pro 48
Radial Pro RMP reamper
Radial SGI studio guitar interface line driver
Tech 21 SansAmp Bass DI
Monitoring:
Adams AH8 monitors
Avantone Mixcube monitors
Sonarworks SoundID room calibration
2 x Beyer Dynamic DT770 Headphones
5 x Beyer Dynamic DT100 Headphones
Various Headphone amps including a Palmer PHDA 2 reference class amp
Guitars:
American Fender Strat Plus (Monty's Guitars pickups)
Epiphone Les Paul (Bare Knuckle Riff Raff pickups)
Gordon Smith GS1 (Les Paul Junior type guitar, P90 pickup)
Gordon Smith T1 (Telecaster type guitar, Monty's Guitars pickups)
Tangelwood GSA2 (335 type guitar. Monty's Guitars PAF pickups)
Auden Chester Acoustic
Takemine Sante Fe LTD 97 Acoustic
American Fender Precision Bass
Ernie Ball Musicman Stingray Bass (two of them)
Epiphone Jack Casady Bass
Hayman 4040 Bass
Cort GB Custom Bass
A very odd lap steel, I have no idea who made it.
An even odder cigar box three string guitar made by Geeman
Pedals include:
MXR Phase 90, Blue Box and Double Shot
Cry Baby, Vox Wah, Snarling Dog Wah
ElectroHarmonix Memory Man Deluxe 550T, Bass Soul Food, Q Tron and Pulsar
TRex Mudhoney
Boss OC3, SD1, BD2, MT2, SYB3
Zvex Fat Fuzz Factory Vexter
Earthquaker Devices Hummingbird
Ibanez Tubescreamer and Paul Gilbert Airplane Flanger
Digitech Whammy 5
Tech21 SansAmp Bass DI
Amps:
Marshall JCM 800 (80s, 100W 2203) and 2x12 Cab (1936 Lead)
Fender Blues Deluxe (USA,early 90s)
Fender Hotrod Deville 410 (USA, late 90s with some punchy eminence cones)
Roland JC120 (yup, one of the 80s ones)
Vox Night Train 15 head and Cab
Orange Dark Terror Head and Cab
Ampeg SVT Pro 4 and HLF 410 cab
Ampeg Portaflex B15N (70s Fliptop)
Aguliar Tone Hammer 500
Line 6 Pod Pro
A 2watt battery powered Marshall practice amp. Great for adding filth to vocals.
Keyboards:
Roland Juno 60 (old school analogue greatness)
Dave Smith Mopho (new school analogue excitement)
Roland JV1010
Rosedale Chord Organ
Nektar LX88 semi weighted midi controller keyboard
A great plastic toy piano
Drums:
Pearl Masters Custom Maple (14", 18", 22")
Ludwig 401 Snare (from 1976)
Zildjian K Dark Cymbals and Hi-Hats
Unusual but interesting bits:
Hohner Melodica
Old battered 148 bass Accordion
Hawaiian Ukulele
Heaps of quirky percussion and toys including a tin bucket, chains and washboards
Mabel - Friendly, spirited and painfully cute little doggy
Plentiful tea and coffee