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!