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!