Welcome to the "Museum" as
I jokingly call it. As analog is getting pretty much obsolete, radio stations
trash their analog gear, replace it with computers and little else. Fine with
me, as everything here in my studio (or most of it) was orphaned from a radio
station looking for a home. As one who worked playing carts on air and most of
this gear professionally, and now i'm out of the business, It's a great souvenir
to play with and a nice way to preserve a different time of the broadcast industry,
when people were hands on 24/7, playing records, carts, reels, etc. We still have
the PC here, recording in digital, and I also do transfers from analog. It keeps
me out of trouble, and my wife still loves me with all this stuff in the house
(can you say true love?)
I can handle vinyl/acetate discs (up
to 16 inch transcriptions, and speeds 33, 45, 78) tape (broadcast cart, cassette
reel-3.75 to 15 ips, 1/4 and 1/2 track-stereo/mono 1/4 inch) and digital media
playback (CD/Minidisc/DAT) and playback/record through analog inputs (CD/Minidisc).
pretty much anything with a analog line output I can jack in. This studio is also used to create the funky world of CHEEZE PLEEZE The weekly half hour or so salute to cheezy music. CLICK HERE To find our more.
PLAYBACK/RECORD
2 ITC 3D Triple Decker Cart Machines-1 Mono/1 Stereo-with record amp
ITC RP(record/play) Mono Single Deck Cart Machine
2 Gates Criterion Mono Playback Cart Machines
Teac A-3300S 1/2 track & A-4300 Reel Machines 1/4 track 1/4" Reel to Reel Machines
Studer B67 1/2 track 1/4" Reel Machine
AudioTek-Ampex 351 Clone Mono Full Track Reel Machine with Inovonics 375 Record Amp
Revox B77 1/4" 1/2 Track Logger Speed Reel Machine
Technics SP15 Turntable with 16 inch Microtrak Tone arm, Stanton 500 Cartridge and Russco Pre Amp
McCurdy CH12 Turntable with 12 inch Gray Engineering Tone Arm, Stanton 500 Cartridge and Russco Pre Amp
Realistic TR882 8 Track Tape Recorder
Tascam 122 Mk II Cassette Deck
2 Denon DN-970 CD Cart Players
Sony MZR 37 Portable MiniDisc Recorder
Panasonic SV 3800 DAT Recorder
GE VHS HIFI STEREO VCR (used for high quality, long time recording)
OUTBOARD PROCESSING
Urei LA4 Compressor/Limiter
General Electric BA9B Tube UniLevel Amplifier (compressor)
CONSOLES
LPB S-13B 8 channel/24 input (5 channels are stereo) with cue bus and mono audition
Collins 212Z-1(mid 1950s vintage) 4 channel mono mic remote amplifier (mic mixer) with telephone interface and tone generator
Davtronics Mono Newsroom Mixer
MICS
Rode NT1 Condenser, Audio Technica AT 2020 Condenser (my main mics), and 2 EV 757 Dynamic Mics (second mics)
I also have and use, EV 664,
RCA BK5-B, EV 635 News Mics,and an Altec 639 "bird cage" as well as the Altec
630 (circa 1940s)
AMPS/DISTRIBUTION
Yahama CR620 Stereo Receiver-For headphones
2-Innovonics 375 Record Amplifiers (used as distribution amps for all recorders in the studio!)
TELEPHONY
JK Audio Auto Hybrid Telephone Interface (for telephone interviews)
SOFTWARE
Windows XP PC used as a DAW, using SB Audigy 2.0 with various software including Cool Edit Pro 2.1, Sound Forge 6.0, and numerous direct X plug ins for noise reduction, compressors and others.
Windows 98 PC used as a additional DAW, using Creamware TripleDAT 2.53 with various FX and noise reduction plug ins and the dedicated Tripleboard in addition to Cool Edit 1.53 and SAW (and other vintage software tools)
HEADPHONES
Sennheiser HD410SL and HD 414 SL (2 410's, 1 414's)
The studio for my online internet stream The Time Capsule Audio Network, running 24/7/365 playing 100 years in 7 days.
The website is HERE Most of the gear is 1970s based, The main console everything goes through is a fall 1970 vintage QRK 5S stereo console in great shape (though some work needs to be done on the program monitor amp and mic pre amps at some point) I use a very budget minded Behringer compressor/limiter to keep everything in line.
PLAYBACK/RECORD
ITC 750 Series 1/2 track 1/4" Reel Machine
1 ITC 3D Triple Decker Cart Machine
2 CD PLAYERS-Genexxa CD 1660
TOSHIBA PC 3460 Stereo Cassette Deck
2 Mccurdy CH12 Rim Drive Turntables, One with Gray Research Tone Arm and Stanton 500 Cartridges
CONSOLE
QRK 5s Stereo Console, some inputs are double and tripled up with selector boxes.
Dedicated PC running Zararadio for automation and winamp encoder for streaming to shoutcast.
PROCESSING
Behringer Minicom 800 Ultra-Compact Stereo Modeling Compressor
