Studio Infrastructure

Recording Console

Opamp Labs 1604

Vintage analog console from the 1960s. Known for its inductor eq i.e. Langevin or Quad Eight, these consoles have been used on records from as far back as Motown up to St. Vincent in recent years. Designed to be robust and easy to service this console keeps the bells and whistles to minimum, which honestly for modern hybrid workflows I have no problems with. For the most part I use it as a bunch of channel strips for tracking. The preamps have tons of gain for ribbon mics, and if I want to do some pre-mix eq while tracking the onboard eq is fantastic. It also has line inputs for mixing.

Monitoring

Behringer P16 System

One of the best monitoring systems that I know of. Each mixing unit gives the musician the ability to create their own mix from 16 individual channels, all of which have level control, panning, and eq. With this system each musician gets the best mix possible that they can tweak to their needs independent of the other musicians’ mixes. The studio has 6 units.