the studio
I currently operate out of a single-room, pine-paneled home studio in the family basement. We have some excellent, industry standard gear and a great sounding space, but these days great gear can be had by just about anyone willing to make the investment. In reality, good gear is only a small part of what makes a great recording; it's the operator/engineer and his or her knowledge, experience, ear, and creativity in the field that either makes or breaks the production, and great engineering is what it's all about at The Tuning Spoon! If you want to hear some of my sample recordings from the studio, take a listen on my MySpace page.
Computer
- Foxconn custom built PC, AMD Athlon X2 dual core 2.5Ghz, 2GB RAM, 1TB total storage, 17" flat panel monitor, silent
Interface/Control Surface
- M-Audio ProjectMix I/O pro audio interface and control surface with motorized faders
Software
- Cakewalk SONAR 6 Producer Edition
- Digidesign ProTools
- Har-Bal Mastering System
- Izotope Ozone 3 mastering suite
- Antares Auto-Tune
- Roland V-Vocal
- AudioSnap time correction
- Loads of effects plug-ins
Outboard Gear
- Grace Design Model 101 Preamp
- FMR Audio RNC "Really Nice Compressor"
- ART TPS "Tube Preamp System"
- Presonus HP4 Headphone Amp
- Behringer Eurorack UB2442FX-PRO Mixer
- Behringer Composer Pro Dynamics Processor
- Juice Goose JG Junior rack power conditioner
- Alesis ADAT
- Pioneer tape deck
Microphones
- Groove Tubes GT66 Tube Condenser mic
- 2 Oktava mk012's
- Sennheiser e609
- Shure Beta 52
- Shure Beta 57
- 2 Shure SM57's
- Sennheiser e845
Monitoring
- M-Audio SP-5B Studio Reference Monitors
- Audio Technica ATH-m45fs Studio Headphones
- Vic Firth Isolation Headphones (Excellent for tracking Drums)
- 2 Pairs of Yamaha closed-back headphones
- Harman-Kardon Consumer Speaker System
Instruments, etc.
- Peavey TKO 15" Bass Amp
- Blackstar HT-5 all-tube Guitar Head and Cabinet
- Line 6 Spider 2x10" Guitar Amp
- DW Pacific LX 5-piece drumset and cymbals
- Ibanez GIO Bass Guitar
- Modded Epiphone Guitar
- 5 generations of Nintendo gaming (for breaks)
- Walking treadmill and game table