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Mark's Studio

"The equipment list is too numerous to mention it all but, I'll give the main highlights:

I'm running Cubase 6.
I have a Mackie Control Universal Pro and two Extender Pros for 24 moving faders of mixing (unlimited if you factor in the layers).

The Slate Digital Virtual Console Collection (which along with the UAD-2 Studer 24 track tape plugin and the Waves Ampex 2-TrackTape plugin are the core of the sound of the studio.)
I have a UAD-2 Quad card. I have pretty much all of their plugins.(most used are the Fairchild Limiter, Pultec EQ, Studer 24 track tape, Neve EQs and Channel Strip, Helios EQ,  Harrison EQ, SSL Channel Strip LA 2A-3A and 1176 compressors and the EMT 140 and 250 plates)
Chandler/Abbey Road TG12413 Compressor/Limiter and RS compressor
Nomad LM-662 Fairchild Compressor/Limiter
Waves Renaissance Compressor and EQ, Helios channel strip, Pye compressor, API 550 EQ and Ampex 2-track Tape plugin
IK Multimedia Classik Studio Reverb, ARC room correction software and T-Racks Mastering Software (I use Sony Sound Forge with iZotope mastering software to master along with T-racks and Waves)
Altiverb 6
PSP, Soundtoys, East West, Native Instruments, Sonic Reality, fxpansion, Steinberg and Lexicon plugins and Virtual instruments.

In the Hardware Rack, among other things, I have M-Audio 2626 and Presonus DIGIMAX fs as my audio interface. I have numerous stand alone mic pres from Presonus, M-Audio, Studio Projects and ART.
My main hardware channel strips are:
First and foremost myDaking Mic PreGolden Age Pre73,  A few ART MPA II Pro with Sylvania NOS tubes.M-Audio DMP3 modded by JJ Audio, Universal Audio LA-610
Joemeek VC1Q and a Focusrite Platinum Twintrack Pro
For outboard effects I have (among others) a Kurzweil Rumour, a Lexicon MX200, two Behringer V-Verbs and a Rocktron Intellifex


I monitor with:
KRK Rokit 8 powered monitors, Event BAS 20/20 powered monitors and vintage JBL L36 passive monitors powered by either a a vintage Marantz 2275 receiver or an NAD (depending on my mood).
I also have a pair of Pyramid and a pair of JVC very small passive monitors run by a harmon-kardon hk490i
I have many more plugins and hardware units but, these are the things I use the most.
Also, I master on a separate computer and monitor with the Blue Sky EXO 2.1 system as well as KRK V4 powered monitors and Mackie MR5s, using an SM Audio M-Patch to control Volume and switch between them. I also use a pair of vintage Pioneer HPM-40 speakers, which are very much like the JBL L36 monitors, and I run them with a vintage European Sansui 790 Receiver.


rack 2011

   
 

Main Vocal Microphone

Soundeluxe e251c tube microphone.
It is a cardiod only recreation of a Telefunken Elam 251. I also use a Shure SM7 for screaming vocals. I’m having a U67 and a U87 clone made for me by JJ audio (which will become my main vocal mics) and they are also modding my C1 mics.

I have many mics. They include an AKG 414, two Studio Projects C1 mics, an Audio-Technica 4060 tube mic, 3 Cascade ribbon mics, 5 Nady RSM-4 ribbon mics and various Shure, AKG, Rode and Audio Technica condenser and dynamic mics.

 

 

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