Facility and Equipment at Sharp Recording Service

Batcave Studios at Sharp Recording Service

Recording Studio and Music Project Facility

Facility and Equipment at Sharp Recording Service
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The Facility & Equipment

Introduction: Most musicians and singers do not have the budget that it takes to produce a project on a reliable Pro Tools set-up. I emphasize the word reliable with good reason. There are many project studios based on “affordable” computer based systems. The problem is these set ups crash more often than many proprietors care to admit. Add to that the fact that computer platforms and software have a way of quickly becoming obsolete. Reliable, good sounding Pro Tools set ups are seldom within the budgets of unsigned artists.

Stand alone DAW’s (digital audio workstations) on the other hand are very reliable. They are designed specifically for one purpose: recording music. There is no conflict between the hardware and software because they were designed for each other. I am not alone in my opinion that the Roland VS platform stands out as a leader among DAWs.

There are two Roland 24 track recorders one 18 track and a16 track recorder in use for various purposes at the Batcave Studio.

My Rooms: The main room is an irregular shaped room approximately 18X 20 ft. The room has been thoroughly treated with Auralex acoustic foam panels on the walls and ceiling and Bass traps in the corners. Movable Primacoustic dividers are used as needed for each specific recording task. The room has no standing wave reflection problems the sound is well focused but not dead sounding. The room is thoroughly grounded with copper cable in contact with every steel stud used in constructing the studio.

Auralex acoustic foam panels on the walls and ceiling and Bass traps in the corners

recording mixing and mastering your project

The control room is a small rectangular room approximately 9 X 9 ft. It has also been treated with Auralex foam panels

Recorders: 2 Roland VS2480 DAWs provide 24 tracks each. Each of these has full recall automation and motorized faders. These are my workhorses for recording mixing and mastering your project. One Roland VS1680 and one VS 1880 are also used at my facility or for location recording. They work well for a variety of tasks such as Vinyl, reel to reel or cassette to CD conversions, low cost mastering of projects recorded elsewhere etc.

Equipment List

Monitors:
2 Dynaudio BM5A studio monitors
2 Roland DS90 digital studio monitors

D/A and A/D convertors:
1 Lucid AD9624 and 1 Lucid DA9624

Cables:
Mogami & Monster Mic and line cables

Mic- Pre amps:
1 Grace 101,
1 Avalon M5,
1dbx 386 Dual vacuum tube mic pre with digital outputs
1 ART PRP MPA 2 channel tube pre-amp
1 Joe Meek VC6A British Channel
1 Joe Meek VC10CS Studio Channel
1 M Audio Tampa Mic Pre with temporal harmonic alignment
2 Focusrite Octopres 8 channel preamps with dynamics processors

Outboard Processors/Effects:
1 Bellari RP282 tube compressor
1 Boss SP303 DR Sample Sampler
1 Rack mounted Antares Auto Tune pitch corrector
1 tc electronics M300 dual engine effects processor
1 Digitech Vocalist VR harmonizer

Internal software
9 Roland VS8F2 effects processor cards
1 Roland VS8F3 effects processor cards
T Racks Analog Mastering Suite
tc electronics TCR 3000 Reverb
Universal Audio VS1176 compressor
Universal Audio LA2A compressor
Sound Blender (VS Plug in) Studio Multi-Effects Processor
Chrome Tone Amp (VS Plug in) Mixing Amplified
Massenburg Design Works (VS Plug in) Hi-Res EQ
Auto Tune VS Pitch Corrector Plug In

Microphones and transducers:
1 Rode NTK Tube Microphone
1 Shure KSM 44
1 Shure KSM 32
3 Shure SM58
6 Shure SM 57
1 Shure SM81-LC
1 Shure Beta 91 (Kick drum mic)
2 Royer R-122 Ribbon Mics
2 Neuman TLM 103
1 Senheiser e602
(bass frequencies, floor tom, kick drum etc.)
2 Senheiser 421
1 MXL V69 Mogami Edition (tube mic)
1 Audio Technica AT4040
1 Audio Technica AT3060 Tube mic
1 Studio Projects B3
1 Studio Projects C1
2 Rode MT1
4 Senheiser e604
1 Hohner Blues Buster
1 Yamaha Sub Kick Transducer

Misc. Equipment /instruments:
1 Set Roland TD-20 V Drums (electronic drums)
1 Roland XP80 keyboard/sequencer
2 Roland DIF-AT24 Interfaces for ADAT
& Roland RBUS connectivity
1 Tascam 202MKII cassette deck
1 Tascam DA-20MKII DAT deck
3 Roland external CD burners
1 Internal (in VS2480 DVD burner
2 Juice Goose Power distribution Centers
1 RollsRA62 6 channel headphone amplifier
1 Berringer headphone amplifier (up to 8 channels
14 headsets: Sony MDR V700 and MDR 7506
and other models by AKG & Senheiser
Yamaha DD55 Digital Percussion Station
Drumset: Rogers/Sonor; mic’d for 11 tracks
available for use at all times
1 Fender Hot Rod Deville tube guitar amp w/4x12 speakers
1Roland V-Drums TD20S Complete 6pc kit with V cymbals

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