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Riverview Lodge Studio Equipment List - Comments by Jamie Durrrant.
Recorders + DAWs
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P4 Windows XP Machine | Includes RME DIGI96 24bit 96khz Hammerfall card running Nuendo 2.0 + Reason + Wavelab + Major Plugins. |
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RME ADI-8 AE AD/DA |
24bit 8 in 8 out world class converters, amazingly smooth. |
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Apogee AD500 E D/A |
Classic converters, with the famously smooth 'soft limit' and 'soft saturation'. |
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Fostex D-160 Hard disk recorder |
8 in 8 out AD/DA converters used for additional tracks synced to the RME DIGI96 24bit 96khz Hammerfall internal clock. |
| 1 | Fostex D-5 Dat machine | White in colour, records to DAT tape. |
| 1 | Sony DTC-750 Dat machine | Black in colour, also records to DAT tape. |
Mixing Table
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Neve 8014 console (1971 vintage) |
Includes 16 x 1066 Pre Amp moduals,
16 x 1272 monitor pre-amps and a 300 way large frame patchbay.
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AKAI 1214 Side Car |
12 clean line inputs with super warm EQ's. Used for effect returns and patched into the Neve's main output buses - sweet!
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Out Board Gear
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SSL mix buss compressor |
New custom SSL mix bus compressor with new technology THAT corp VCA's, this is the real sound that makes a mix slam! |
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1 | Bellari RP583 Studio Tube Compressor/Limiter | Warm n fat, this new toy sounds like good tape saturation, also nice across a mix. |
| 1 | Urie LA4 compressor | A newer more tansparent sound, great for clean acoustic guitars, nice musical sluggish performer. |
| 1 | Joemeek SC2 stereo compressor | Rather green coloured opto compressor, love the blue LED! |
| 1 | DBX 161 | Little toy box, good unit for anything that needs to 'pump'. |
| 1 | Behringer Suppressor | 2 channels of de-essing and can have a cool warming effect (or bad dulling effect) when pushed hard on a vocal. |
| 1 | Aphex Tubessence | Great valve distortion, think 'Soundgarden', can't get enough of it! |
| 1 | Aphex Aural Exciter (Type B) | Doesn't get used much, the name still gets a laugh though. |
| 1 | Roland SDE 2500 digital Delay | Great modulation, one of the best digi delays. |
| 1 | WEM Copycat Tape Echo | Still waiting for my assistant to put a new reel on it, has that classic 60's sound. |
| 1 | Alesis Quadraverb | Once a flash unit, now the computer does 101 different fx better, at least you can write ya name on screen! |
| 1 | DOD 15 band stereo graphic | I once made the best kick drum with this, maybe I should try it again. |
| 1 | Ibanez Multi Mode Analog Delay | Great widening effects, huge on bass guitar, much fun. |
| 1 | Rocktron Pro Gap guitar preamp | DI it for a great overdub. |
| 1 | Marshall JMP-1 midi preamp | Plug it into one of our 2 vintage speaker cabs for that heroic rock tone. |
Nuendo VST Plugins
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1 | Antares Auto Tune 3 | Good repair tool for bad vocal parts, however its still better to get it right on the day. |
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1 | Antares Mic Modeler | Can make a good mic sound better (or worse) and a bad mic sound worse (or better). |
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1 | Nuendo Dynamics (comp, limit, gate) | Very good noise gates. |
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1 | Waves Masters Bundle | Includes L2 leveler which seems to work rather well although pushing it too hard creates distortion. |
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1 | Waves R Bundle | The extream waves suite. |
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1 | Orange Vocoder | Kooky little effect this one! |
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1 | Waves Renaissance Bundle | Renaissance compressors are pretty smooth on vocals, the EQs are groovey looking. |
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1 | Waves Platinum 4 Bundle |
Everything you'd ever need from Waves, yay!. |
1 | Waves Restoration Bundle |
If you have noise to kill, try these, they work. |
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1 | AKAI Bundle | Includes a great vocoder and rotator effect. |
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60-90 | Various plugins | Too many to mention. |
Microphones + Monitors
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2 | Neumann KM56 multipattern valve condenser | Very warm room/drum/acoustic mics, silky smooth. |
| 1 | Neumann KM54 valve condencer | Tighter pattern of the KM56. |
| 1 | Neumann U87 multipattern condencer | A lush bright vocal from this one. |
| 1 | Microtech Geffel PM860 condencer | Fat, ultra clean, expensive and rather odd looking. |
| 1 | Rode NT1 condencer | Used as a bass drum mic, no distortion, produces huge subs! |
| 1 | BeyerDynamic M88 TG | The industry standard kick drum mic. |
| 1 | AKG D112 | The 'egg', the other industry standard! |
| 2 | Vintage White Sennhiser MD-421 Dynamics | Look like The Beatles at Festival hall with this one! |
| 3 | Shure SM57 Dynamic | Love these on drums and guitars, best all rounders. |
| 2 | Fostex T40 headphones | Industry standard but somewhat too silky puky smooth. |
| 1 | Hughes & Kettner Red Box Cab Emulator/direct box | Add some front end to ya guitar sound, groovey box indeed! |
| 2 | Whirlwind passive DIs | Black DI boxes. |
| 1 | Samson headphone distribution amp | Loud and clean, gets way too hot though. |
| 2 | Yamaha NS-10Ms + Sub | Only a few years old, good tight drivers that produce pain after too much listening, sub adds what they miss. |
| 2 | NEW! Event 20/20 monitors | Fat and silky monitors. |
| 1 | Yamaha 600watt Pwr Amp | Clean flat power with bucket loads of headroom. |
| 1 | ART 700watt Pwr Amp | Australian made workhorse. |
Musical Instruments
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Wurlitzer Electric Piano | The classic. 3 keys seem to be out of tune however it sounds cool in a mix. |
| 1 | Farfisa Organ | Reverse coloured keys, looks hip, sound hipper! |
| 1 | Lako Leslie Rotating Speaker cab/amp |
Real vintage Leslie style from downunder. |
| 1 | 1964 Rickenbecker 335 | This classic English made Ricky is a lush example of one the the best guitar tones on record. Sunburst however the previous ownser busted the whammy bar, grr. |
| 2 | Custom Cargill Strats | One with EMG pickups, the other with '62 L series pickups, sound amazing. |
| 1 | L series Steinburger | EMG pickups and transposing tremelo - the classic 80's cricket bat. |
| 1 | Cort Rosewood top drednought | Great recording guitar, shame it's not a Gibson. |
| 1 | 1962 Premier Drum kit | As used by Ringo Star on the first Beatles recordings, this kit is in great condition. Also inlcudes 60's Zildian cymbals. |
| 2 | Marshall Cabs | Did we mention the Marshall greenback celestion cabs? One is even signed by Jim himself. |
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