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
Elysia Karacter Analogue Saturator
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
Gibson Les Paul Jr
Yamaha Spanish Acoustic
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 Fabfilter, Soundtoys, Eventide, 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!