The Garage and the Gear.

When I returned to California during the pandemic, I spent my days experimenting with salvaged equipment and my nights working at a restaurant to save up to build my dream studio. The result was a cozy analog-focussed garage studio featuring superb equipment from the 70’s to the modern day.

Console:

Tascam 388 8-track ¼” tape machine


Hardware:

Neve 1073lb Mic Preamp

Roland 201 Space Echo

Heritage Audio Successor (diode bridge compressor)

2X Standard Audio LevelOr limiters

Standard Audio Stretch multi-band compressor

Warm Audio EQP-WA Pultec style tube EQ

Warm Audio WA-2A optical tube compressor

JDK by API R24 Dual Channel EQ

2X FMR Audio Really Nice Compressors (RNC)

FMR Audio Really Nice Leveling Amplifier (RNLA)

FMR Audio PBC vintage-style compressor

FMR Audio Really Nice Preamp (RNP)

Sonic Farm Silkworm Preamp

Meris 440 Mic Preamp

Earthquaker Devices Avalanche Run stereo reverb


Microphones:

2X Coles 4038 ribbon microphones

Soyuz 017 tube condenser microphone

Soyuz Bomblet large diaphragm condenser microphone

Beyerdynamic M160 ribbon microphone

Sennheiser 421 dynamic microphone

Electro-Voice RE20 dynamic microphone

2X Oktava MK012 small diaphragm condenser microphones

DrAlienSmith Alien8 Figure 8 dynamic microphone 

2x Shure SM57 dynamic microphones

Shure Beta 52 dynamic microphone

Shure SM58 dynamic microphone


Amplifiers:

1977 Marshall JMP

Fender Blues Jr


Instruments:

Yamaha Acrolite snare drum

Restored frankenstein three-piece Rogers drum kit

Jazzmaster-ish guitar built from parts with Lollar P90 pickups and self-resonating capability

Telecaster-ish guitar built from parts with Bare Knuckle pickups

Mellotron Micro

Squire P-Bass

Casio SK1 sampling keyboard


Speakers:

Adam Audio A7x monitors

Behringer PA system

Yamaha stage monitor


Computing:

iMac

Logic Pro X

Antelope Audio Discrete8 Interface 

Sonarworks Reference 4 software

Plug-ins from Waves and Softube


Misc:

2x surface transducers

2x Jez Riley French Contact Mics

2x Jez Riley French Hydrophones

Soldering iron

Zoom H5 handy recorder

Vintage Roland analog mixer

A very friendly cat named Cleo!