Philosophy
The Studio has a long and venerable philosophy around the creation and capture of music and sound. It has to do with comfort and ease; the facility is large enough for technical separation to ensure accuracy, but intimate enough to allow solid sight lines, and convenient access from room to room. The studio is efficient: from architectural, to electronic design, everything has been built and maintained to utilize the most from everything from natural light sources, to large diameter, multi-strand cabling, to mic preamplifiers actually living as close as possible to the microphones, not miles away in a remote control room. The control room is extremely accurate, which is critical to getting your mixes to sound good no matter what the playback system. In addition to having soffit mounted Tannoy System 15 monitors,we also faithfully cross reference every mix on a pair of Klein and Hummel near field monitors, a Bose wave radio, highest quality headphones, and a boombox... the ultimate test! We also have some very lovely instruments, from an excellent and specifically chosen Yamaha C-7, 7'6"grand piano, to some exotic and rare keyboards. However, even with our architectural and technical excellence, the ultimate key to our success is how unencumbered the artist experience is. This is the human side of the equation, and we use our thousands of successful sessions as a reference library.. there isn't much that we haven't seen or experienced, and we apply this vast experience to gently guide you when appropriate, translate technical options and their meaning, and above all, make your recordings the very best they can be... both from encouraging performance, to nailing the ultimate microphone-preamp-dynamics chain to put a rare, clarified glow around each vocal, each instrumental. All of this adds up to our goal of a partnership in excellence with you, our client. We want you to succeed, and will handle all the technical details to help get you there.
Lane Gibson dba Lane Gibson Recording and Mastering, LLC.
Recording Equipment
DAWs
Protools HD 3 System: Main Studio
128 Tracks with 32 channels of discreet I/O, Digidesign Sync I/O, 23" Apple
Cinema monitor, and over 2 terabyte of hard drive space. Glyph GT 103
Mainframe. AIT 2 Tape drive backup. DVD backup drive.
Protools HD 3 System: Production Room / Remote Recording
128 Tracks with 32 channels of discreet I/O, 20" Apple Cinema Monitor,
Glyph GT 103 Mainframe. AIT 2 Tape drive backup. DVD backup drive.
Consoles
Digital: Yamaha DM2000 (96 channels at 96K)
Digital: Yamaha 02R96k (56 channels at 96k - remote recording)
Analog: Mackie 1604 (keyboard submixer)
Tape Machines (Multitrack)
Digital: (4) Tascam HR 78 24 bit recorders
..............(1) Tascam DA-88 with SY-88 sync card
..............(1) Tascam DA-38
Tape Machines: (2 Track)
Analog: MCI JH-110 1/2" and 1/4" 30 ips
...............Dolby SR, Dolby A, and Dbx 150X Type 1 NR.)
...............Nakamichi MR-1 Cassette machine
Digital: Tascam DA-45 HR (24 bit)
...............Panasonic SV 3500 DAT
...............Sony PCM R500 DAT
Monitors
Tannoy System 15 Monitors (soffit mounted)
Klein+Hummel 0-198 Nearfield Monitors
ADS BC-8 Studio Monitors (2 pr.) - custom designed for Telarc
Custom Headphone Cue System (see below)
Bose Wave Radio
Panasonic Boom box
Microphones
Sony 800G (tube)
AKG C-12VR (tube) (2)
Neumann U-67 (tube)
Neumann U-87 (Stephen Paul modified)
Neumann U-47 FET
Neumann M147 (tube)
Neumann KM84 (3)
Neumann KM86
Neumann KM150
Sanken CU-41
B&K 4006 (3)
B&K 4011 (2)
RCA DX-77 (ribbon)
Coles 4038 (ribbon)
Royer R121 (ribbon) (2)
AKG 414EB (2)
AKG 451E (2)
AKG D12E
AKG D112
AKG 535EB
Beyer MC740s (2)
Sennheiser 441 (2)
Sennheiser 421 (4)
Sennheiser MD 409 (2)
Sennheiser 609
Shure SM-7
Shure SM-81
Shure Beta 58 (2)
Shure SM 57 (3)
Shure SM 58 (2)
Crown SASS Head (B&K)
EV RE 20 (2)
Microphone Preamps
GML 8304 (4 Channels)
Millenia HV-D (8 Channels)
Millenia TD-1 (with HV-3 mic pre)
API 3124M (4 Channels)
API 512 C (2 Channels)
Universal Audio 2-610 (2 Channels)
Focusrite ISA 215 (Neve designed) (4 channels)
Demeter VTMP-2A (2 Channels)
Pultec Mavec
Compressor/Limiters
Teletronix LA-2A (tube)
Teletronix/UREI LA-3A (2)
UREI 1176LN Blackface (4)
UREI 1178
Neve 33609 (discrete)
DBX 160 VU (2)
DBX 160X (3)
TC Electronics Finalizer 96k
Equalizers
Pultec EQP-1A3 tube EQ
Pultec Mavec tube EQ
Lang PEQ-2
Focusrite ISA215 (Blue Series) (4)
API 550A (6)
API 554 Parametrics (2)
API 560 10 Band Graphics (2)
Reverbs
Lexicon 480L (with LFI-10 digital interface)
Lexicon PCM 96
Lexicon PCM 70
Lexicon PCM 60 (2)
TC Electronics M2000
Korg DRV 3000
Eventide H3000 DS/E
Delays
Lexicon PCM 42
TC Electronics 2290
Eventide H3000 DS/E
Cue System
The "White Crow Artist Cue System" [featured in
Mix Magazine]
(5) Discrete, musician controllable headphone mix stations, each with
individual 24 channel mixers, internal signal processing, Crown D-75
amplifiers, 480L effects returns, and lighting module, in roll-around
pedestals.
Direct Boxes
Millenia TD-1 (with HV-3 mic pre)
Avalon Ultra 5 Direct (3)
Demeter Tube Direct
Brookes-Siren AR-133 (2)
Amplifiers
Bryston 4B [mains]
Hafler PRO 2400 [headphones]
Crown D75 [headphones] (5)
BGW 250E [nearfields]
Headphones
Sennheiser HD 600
Sennheiser HD 580 (2)
Sennheiser HMD 25-1
Beyer 990
Beyer 770 (2)
Audio Technica ATH M-50
AKG K240 (9)
Misc.[outboard]
Apogee PSX-100 24 bit A/D convertor
Roland SVC 350 Vocoder
BBE 822 Sonic Maximizer
Dbx Subharmonic Synthesizer
Keyboards
Yamaha C-7 7' 6” Grand Piano
Hammond B-3 with Model 122 Leslie (1961)
Wurlitzer Electric Piano
Fender Rhodes Electric Piano
Vox Jaguar Combo Organ
Minimoog synthesizer
Oberheim OBXA 6-Voice
Oberheim OB-8 8-Voice
Yamaha Motif ES Rack
Roland FP-5 digital piano
Roland RD-700GX Piano/Synth
Roland S760 Sampler (32 meg RAM and CD ROM drive)
Roland D550 Synth module
Roland R-8M Drum machine
Akai S1000 Sampler (3)
Korg M1R Sound Module
Korg CX-3 organ module
Harmonium
Castiglione Accordian
Other [instruments]
1966 Fender Super Reverb amplifier (totally refurbished)
1966 Fender Deluxe Reverb Amplifier
Miscellaneous
Sony VO-9800 3/4" video machine
Adams-Smith Zeta 3 video synchronizer
Aardvark Aard Sync II Master Word Clock synchronizer
Sony 25" XBR high resolution video monitor
Sony 9" color video monitor (for Roland S760 sampler)
Reamp (tape
to instrument amp interface) (2)
Melior "French Press" coffee
maker!