stillness sound facility

will be closing as of january 1st, 2002
so that christian can pursue his
more nefarious interest in taxidermy


Stillness Links

Diastemata: One of Christian's personal favourites
Teenbeat 277: Flin Flon, Hot Pursuit, Phil Krauth and True Love Always
the Make-Up: Their site at Southern - real audio content
Drag City Records: Royal Trux, Edith Frost and BrotherJT
Edith Frost: her extensive homepage - real audio content
Laconic Chamber: long player on the way - real audio content
Free Range Pilgrim: split 7" w/ Most Secret Method - out soon on Resin
Royal Trux: Veterans of Disorder
Kanovanik: Kanovanik's site at No-Type
Dischord: site at Southern
Romans: their outersound homepage - real audio content
JAGJAGUWAR : Manishevitz and Sarah White
Art Monk Constuction: Home of Shoutbus
The American Workplace: Long Player out if you can find it - Brilliant!
Retsin: Their Carrot Top Site - MP3's
Tara Jane O'Neil: In The Sun Lines - out now on Quarterstick/Touch&Go
Gutbucket: Full-Length on Knitting Factory Records
Kanovanik: in space
Tape Op: Scrip info for Tape Op magazine - Interview with Christian in Issue #12

GEAR

CONSOLE/MIXERS:
Studiomaster Mixdown Classic 8  (32x8x2 w/ midi mute automation)
Sela Svenska (4x1 Discrete Mixer)

TAPE MACHINES:
Tascam MS-16  (1-inch 16-track - 30ips)  
Otari MTR-10  (1/4" 2-track w/CTC - 7.5/15/30ips)
Alesis ADAT  
Tascam DA-30 mkII  

MONITORING:
Tannoy FSM Dual 15's
Tannoy Reveal    
Alesis Matica 500    
(2) Stewart PA100b    

REVERB/EFFECTS:
Fairchild 658A Reverbertron
Orban Parasound 111B (dual spring reverb)
Orban Parasound 105D (dual spring reverb)
Orban Parasound 245E (stereo synthesizer) 
RCL Electronics CV571 (spring reverb)   
Lexicon Model 91 (vintage delay)   
Yamaha E1005 (analog delay)
Roland RE-201 Space Echo (tape delay/reverb)   
Maestro Echoplex  (tape delay)      
Electro-Harmonix Memory Man Deluxe (analog delay)
Yamaha SPX90 (digital multi-effects)  
Yamaha EMP700 (digital multi-effects)
Digitech 256XL (digital multi-effects)    
Audio Logic R2D3  (digital delay)         
many vintage and new instrument effects pedals

DYNAMICS/EQ/PRE's:
(2)Neve 3415 Mic Pre's
Benchmark System 1000 (w/8 mic pre's and 2 stereo DA modules)
(5)Fairchild 662 Mic Pre's
Altec 1589b Mic Pre
(2)UREI BL-40 Modulimiter (1176 & LA3)
(2)Orban 422A (compressor/gate/de-esser) 
(2)Orban 412A (compressor)
(2)Orban 672A (paragraphic EQ)
Orban 516EC (3 chnnl de-esser)
(2)Presonus ACP-8 (8 channel compressor/limiter/gate)    
Behringer Ultra-Curve DSP 8000, mdx2100 composer, 
xr2000 intelligate, mdx2400 multicom, xr1400 multigate 
DBX 163(mono compressor), 266a (stereo compressor/limiter/gate), 
(2) 263a (de-esser)   
Aphex Aural Exciter - Type CII     
ProCo RAT R2DU (2 channel distortion) 

DIGITAL AUDIO:
(2)pentium PC's w/ gina by echo (4in/8out multitrack digital audio recorder),
digital audio labs Card D+, philips omniwriter CDRW,
sonic foundry - sound forge 4.0  (digital editing/mastering)
w/ all available sound forge DirectX plugins, Arboretum plugins,
CD architect (red book PQ editing/CD burning),
sonic foundry ACID, cakewalk pro audio 8(256 track midi-sequencing/hard-disk recording),
syntrillium cool edit pro (hard-disk multi-tracking/editing), sek'd samplitude & steinberg wavelab

SYNCHRONISATION:
mark of the unicorn MTPAV  

MICROPHONES:

Neumann - U89, SM69
BMP StudioTeknik - (2) CR-10 - matched pair
Oktava - (2) MC012 - matched pair   
AKG C414eb, C414b/uls, D12E, D160e1 
ADK a51   
Electrovoice PL20, PL10, N/D 408a, N/D 408b, US664A       
Shure SM7, (2) SM57    
Sennheiser MD421U, (2)MD402-U          
Audio Technica ATM4033SM,(2)Pro37R, ATM63     
Crown (2)PZM       
(10)various odd old mics

HEADPHONE MONITORING:
Sennheiser hd-450II,(2)hd-440II, hd-435, hd-414     
(8) Koss td/65    

INSTRUMENTS & AMPLIFICATION: 
`57 Zimgar drum kit (5-pc)       
various snare-drums, hand percussion & cymbals
(20) various acoustic and electric guitars/basses, ETC.    
sitar, dulcimer & cello 
 
`72 Fender Twin Reverb    
Roland Jazz Chorus 120   
`72 Fender Bassman 50      
Galien-Kruger 800RB
`69 Kustom 250    
`64 Silvertone Twin-Twelve       
Crate Twin-Twelve (woodface)  
Hi-Watt 4x12 Stereo Cabinet    
David Eden 4x10 ported bass cabinet w/horn

KEYBOARDS:
Korg - Poly61
Sequential Circuits - Prelude
Moog/Realistic - Concertmate mg-1
Crumar - Orchestrator
Fender - Rhodes 73 electric piano
and one screwy old Hammond living room type organ
          
DIMENSIONS:
Control Room - 20ft. x 15ft.
Tracking Room A - 16ft. x 14ft.
Tracking Room B/drum room - 16ft. x 11ft. 
Tracking Room C - 18ft. x 12ft.


SOME RECENT/UPCOMING RELEASES:

Weird War - LP/CD (Drag City) Winter '01

Phil Krauth - CD (Teenbeat) Spring '02

Diastemata - CD/EP (Mudmemory)

Tara Jane O'Neil - The Sun Lines LP/CD (Touch & Go/Quarterstick) 

Retsin - Cabin In The Woods CD (Carrot Top) 

Gutbucket - Insomniac's Dream (Knitting Factory)

Jenny Toomey - Tracks for Mark Eitzel and Joni Mitchell Tributes

Jay Kishor, Sitar - Amber - Malgunji Raga  CD (MysticSound)

The American Workplace - CD 

Solex - Athens, Ohio (Matador) 

Sisterhood of Convoluted Thinkers - Ume Sour CD (Darla) 

Sarah White - Bluebird CD (JAGJAGUWAR)   

Hot Pursuit - The Thrill Department CD  (Teenbeat)   

Brother JT - Way To Go LP/CD  (Drag City)  

Laconic Chamber - A History of Epidemics CD (Camera Obscura) 

Woodbine - LP/CD (Domino - England) 

Royal Trux - Veterans of Disorder LP/CD (Drag City) 

Maneshevitz - Grammar Bell and the All Fall Down CD (JAGJAGUWAR) 

The Sisterhood of Convoluted Thinkers - CD (Darla)

Flin Flon - A-ok LP/CD (Teenbeat)

Edith Frost - Telescopic  LP/CD (Drag City)

Make*Up - In Mass Mind  LP/CD (Dischord/Black Gemini)

Tarot Bolero  - Vaudeville Rising CD (Ace-Fu)

Shoutbus - Ain’t That America  LP/CD (Art Monk Construction)

Phil Krauth - One, Two, Three  CD (Teenbeat)

Kidskin Conduction/Bubble Jug - split 12" (Kidskill) 

Real Cool Rain - Restless  CD (Orange Sound Rhyme)

Ugly - Round Boy Laughing  CD (Generalissimo)

Flin Flon - Swift Current 7” (Teenbeat)

True Love Always - Take Me Over 7” (Teenbeat)

The Others 7” (Duchess)

True Love Always - Secret Scenes/My Shit 7” (Motorway)

Shoutbus 7” (Torque)

Spent - Mark Robinson Remix - Merge 100 (Merge)

Teenbeat 1998, 1999, 2000 & 2001 Samplers - Compilation CD (Teenbeat)






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