Spacejunk III is now an airconditioned three room set-up comprising a daylit control room, a conventional "live/dead" studio room, an ambient drum room (suits acoustic instruments and vocals) and further improvised spaces including isolated amp/ speaker cabinet, and "live" wooden upstairs space with vintage upright piano.
The heart of the recording system is an Apogee Symphony 64 card with audio via Apogee AD16X and DA16X, Lavry Blue AD and DA, and Audient Sumo AD. It utilises both Logic Pro and Protools software (003 or CoreAudio), with clock distribution courtesy of an Antelope Isochrone DA, and running on Apple MacPro and MacBook Pro computers, there is a Quad UAD DSP Card for extra plugin power. Audio is patchable to both a TOFT ATB16 in-line analogue 8 buss console (52 inputs avail) and an Audient Sumo Class A Bus mixer, with an eclectic collection of hardware devices both classic vintage, retro, modern, and rare, to further colour the sound at will.
Monitoring- GENELEC 1037B large-fill monitors, KRK V8 midfield and YAMAHA ms50 nearfields.
Software- LOGIC PRO 9, PROTOOLS 9, UAD, MCDSP, FINALE, MIROSLAV PHILHARMONIC ORCH, MTRON PRO, G FORCE, BLUETUBE FX, DRUMAGOG, PIANOTEQ, BRICASTI Reverb impulses, and huge collection of FreeWare plugins
Hardware- EMPRICAL LABS EL8 DISTRESSORS X2 (-matched pair), EMPIRICAL LABS FATSO JUNIOR (stereo tape sat and compression), UREI 546 PARAMETRIC EQ, HHB STEREO TUBE PARAMETRIC EQ, TL AUDIO BLUE STEREO TUBE EQ, DBX 166 STEREO COMP/LIMITER, DBX 266 STEREO COMP/LIMITER, TOFT DC-2 STEREO COMPRESSOR, DRAWMER 1969 MEMORIAL EDITION VACUUM TUBE MIC PRE AND COMPRESSOR, JLM AUDIO MPE STEREO MIC PRE AND PULTEC EQ, PHOENIX AUDIO DRSQ-4 DUAL CHANNEL MIC PRE AND EQ, UAD 6176 MIC PRE AND 1176 COMPRESSOR, UREI 7110 STEREO COMP/LIMITER, SPL 4 CHANNEL TRANSIENT DESIGNER, APHEX DOMINATOR, JOE MEEK VC3 MONO PREAMP, JOE MEEK MC2 STEREO COMPRESSOR, ART DUAL MP MIC PRE, ART TUBE CHANNEL MONO PRE AND EQ, FMR Audio RNC 1773 STEREO COMP/LIMITER and ALLEN+HEATH ZED-10 10 CHANNEL MIXER.
Effects and Spatial- TC M-One Reverb, Zoom 9200 Reverb, Lexicon MX400 FX, ROLAND SDE100, YAMAHA SPX90, SONY V-55 MULTI FX, LINE 6 DL4 x 2 and EFFECTRON DDL.
Amp Mods- SANSAMP RACK PSA-1, SANSAMP TRIAC, SANSAMP CLASSIC (dipswitch), VOX TONELAB, ZOOM GM200 FX.
Pedals- BLACKSTAR HT-DUAL DRIVE, LINE 6 GOLD DIST MOD, MXR DYNACOMP, BIG MUFF, SANSAMP COMPTORTION, CryBaby Wah, ErnieBall Volume, etc.
Microphones- JZ BLACK HOLE SE, MOHAVE M200, AKG 414 XLS II, RODE K2, AKG 451 (C1 capsule), AudioTechnica AT4040, ATM 450 pair, KEL AUDIO HM-1 pair, AKG c1000 pair, AKG c2000, RODE NT3 pair RODE NT2 pair, assorted SHURE Dynamics, inc legendary SM7, SM52 and SM57's, AKG D112, Sennheiser 421, BARDL PZM Boundary mic.
Headphones- Audiotechnica, Sennheiser, AKG, Fostex, EXTREME ISOLATION EX-29
Amplifiers- MESABOOGIE ROCKIT combo, PEAVEY CLASSIC 50 2 X12" combo, BLACKSTAR HT-5 HEAD, LESLIE 147 AND PREAMP, FENDER ACOUSTASONIC JUNIOR COMBO. Hire/loan items- Vox AC30 Top Boost, DAN ELECTRO 50's combo, ORANGE AD15 combo, MATCHLESS CUSTOM HEAD, MARSHALL DSL40 combo.
Guitars- much available
DRUMS- endless collection of custom and regular drums- MAPEX Orion, BRADY and SONOR, Meinl, Boshporus and Zildjian Cymbals. Roland pads and SPD-1 pad and triggers
Keyboards- YAMAHA ELECTONE 1979, ROLAND EP 760 PIANO, OBERHEIM OBX1000 rack synth, ENSONIQ ASR-10 classic sampler, software synths galore.
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