Gear List & Specs
If there are specific items you need for your session, please check beforehand to confirm it’s in the studio you are booking.
Microphones
Tube Condenser:
- Vox-o-rama typ 47 (original U47 components reconstructed by the late Andreas Grosser, the world’s most renowned microphone builder)
- Neumann M147
- Chandler Limited REDD
- Mojave MA200
- Lewitt 1040
- Altes EF12 Röhrenmikrofon, ca.1950er Jahre
Solid State Condenser:
- Aim Audio Inspire (2)
- Neumann TLM 67
- Shure KSM 44a (2)
- Aston Spirit (2)
- Blue Bluebird
- Neumann 184 (4)
- Shure SM81 (2)
- Beyerdynamic MC930 (2)
- Oktava Mk012 (4)
- Shure 181 (4)
- Shure Beta 98D/S (2)
- Shure Beta 91a
- Shure Beta 87c
Ribbon:
- Royer 121
- Coles 4038 (2)
- Beyerdynamic M160 (2)
- Shure KSM353 (4)
- Shure KSM313
Dynamic:
- Beyerdynamic M69 Strasse
- Beyerdynamic M201 (2)
- Electrovoice RE20
- Schumann MDS 5N
- Sennheiser 441
- Sennheiser 421 (2)
- Shure Beta 52a
- Shure Beta 58a (2)
- Shure Beta 57a
- Shure Beta 56a
- Shure SM57 (3)
- Shure SM7b (2)
- Telefunken D11/B Mikrofon aus den 1950er
- Custom Made Zeta Creations Pepper Pot microphone
- Custom made Zeta Creations Telephone microphone
various odds and ends …
Preamps:
Studio A: 24 channels can be simultaneously recorded
- API 3124V (8 channels)
- Neve 1073DPA (2 channels)
- Manley Force Tube Preamps (4 channels)
- Vintech X73i (preamp and eq)
- Phoenix DRS8 (8 channels)
- Focusrite ISA430 (channel strip)
Studio B:
- Universal Audio LA610
- Universal Audio 4-710d
Studio C: 32 channels can be simultaneously recorded
- Neve 1073LB (2 channels)
- Cranborne Audio Camden 500 (18 channels)
- TLA VP-5051 (channel strip)
- Universal Audio Apollo x4 (4 channels)
- RME Fireface (4 mic, 8 line channels)
Outboard:
- Universal Audio LA-3A compressor
- IGS ONE LA 500 compressor
- Revox Stereo B77 MkII Tape Machine
- Mackie HM800 8 channel headphone amp
Electric Guitars:
- Vintage Fender Telecaster with Amber Pickups
- Framus Strato
- Reverend Buckshot
Bass Guitars:
- Fender Squier Precision Bass
- Venson (flat-wound strings)
- Hagstrom HB2 bass – short scale bass
- Yamaha TRBX 174
Acoustic Guitars:
- Yamaha FG 411 Acoustic Guitar (circa 1990)
- Gibson J45
- Vintage Hohner classical guitar
various guitars and basses from engineers personal collections …
Keyboards:
- Upright Pianos (4)
- Baby grand – Blüthner Aliquot
- Wurlitzer Omni 6500 Organ
- Hohner Organa 30
- ACE electric organ
- Hohner Symphonic 909 Organ
- Hohner string performer Organ
- Orcana electric accordion
- Casiotone 403
- Dr. Bröhm Top sound DS organ
- Harmonium Harmona Orchestrale super
- Roth & Juniu 380 organ
- Yamaha Electone ME-50
Drums:
- Kick: Gretsch Catalina 22”
- Toms: 12″ and 14″ C&C
- Ride: Zildjian K 22” custom high definition
- Hi Hat: Masterwork 14” custom series
- Crash: Bosphorus 17” Traditional series
- Snare: Vintage Olympic from the 70’s 14×5.5
- Snare: Peace hand hammered phosphor bronze 14×5.5
- Full kit: Gretsch Catalina Club
various percussion instruments …
Monitors:
- APS Aeons (Studio A)
- Mackie MR5 (Studio A)
- Hedd Type 20 (Studio B)
- Dynaudio BM6a (Studio B)
- Amphion Amp100 (Studio B)
- Focal Shape 65 (Studio C)
Amplifiers:
Guitar:
- Vox AC30 purple edition (combo)
- Acoustic Control Corp Model 160 (head); Model 469 (cab) – rare, hand-made in California
- Hi-Watt DR103 (head); Hiwatt custom 2×12” (cab)
- Fender Blues Deluxe (combo)
- Fender Vibrolux (combo)
- Orange Tiny Terror (head)
- custom 2×12” Celestion VC30; Greenback (cab)
Bass:
- Galleon Krueger bass head with Ampeg VST 4×10” (cab)
- Kustom Bass Amp tube/fett blendable head and cab
General:
- Custom made Zeta Creations French Radio amplifier
- Custom made Zeta Creations 1950s General Electric speakerbox amplifier.
- Custom made Zeta Creations Telephone amplifier
Rooms:
- Studio A: 25sqm control room, 40sqm live room, 14sqm second live room
- Studio B: 25sqm post production suite
- Studio C: (The Rabbit Hole) 28sqm
- The Lounge: 30sqm
- The Office: 30sqm
- Kitchen, Toilet
