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The control room is about 14 by 16 feet, with an angled 9-foot ceiling. One of the compromises I had to make was to turn the mix position and console 90 degrees from the window that looks into the large recording room. So far I have not found that to be any problem at all. Obviously this is the nerve center for the entire studio. All 64 lines from the various rooms terminate here in a 480-point patch bay. There is also a crude EtherNet bay that distributes data to the headphone system. Each station in the headphone system (from Aviom Systems) is a 16-channel digital mixer that allows each musician to dial in exactly the mix of instruments he or she needs to assure the best performance possible.
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Looking through the door leading from the main recording room into the control room. The console can house 128 rack units of gear; lots of that space is still open and begging to be filled with new pricey toys! The large panel behind the monitors is an 8-inch deep broadband absorber. The sloped ceiling causes reflections to be directed back to a diffuser array that sits behind (to the left in this picture) the mix position. |
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This view looks from the left edge of the console toward the main recording room. The rack at left houses preamps, some effects processors, and a couple of guitar modelers. The edge of the grating diffuser array can be seen at the right. |
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Another view of the console area. Not seen in these pictures are the recording decks and hard disk drives which are mounted on either side of the main console cabinet. We use the Mackie Digital 8-bus mixer, 48 tracks of Tascam MDM tape machines, and a Mackie HDR2496 hard disk system with non-linear editing software. The analog patchbay is at lower left. The open cabinet near lower center is intended to house a digital patchbay - sometime real soon now! |
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| The Mackie d8b mixer is equipped with numerous software plugins, the latest operating system, and I/O hardware capable of mixing 32 digital and 24 analogue tracks simultaneously. | The studio headphone system runs via Cat 5 cable to Aviom 16-channel digital mixers, one of which is shown above. There are 10 headphone mix positions throughout the studio. | Most of the recording is done through a variety of vacuum tube preamps. Shown here are a pair of Avalon 737sp, Universal Audio 6176, and an Aphex 1100A. |