Studio Facilities and Gear


Studio 1

1600 Sq. Ft live room with 30 foot ceilings and semi-dead acoustics
6ft Piano by Baldwin
24 Channels concurrent capability


Apple Mac Pro running Protools HD 8 on dual 22" LCD Monitors
Solid State Logic AWS900+ Integrated Analog mixing console and DAW controller
Logic Studio
Reason Adapted 3
Apogee AD-16X and Digidesign HD192 Conversion
Outboard Preamplifiers: Focusrite Red series, Great River, AEA, Drawmer
Genelec 5.1 and Yamaha stereo monitoring
AES/EBU grade cabling and patchbays
Headphone monitoring using Hearback system
Headphones by AKG, Direct Sound, Sony, Fostex, and Vic Firth
Power Conditioning by Furman, APC and ETA
Glyph GT series storage
Outboard gear including Anthony Demaria Labs C/L 1500
Drum set by Mapex (no cymbals provided)
DBX 160x, Digitech RDS 4000, Digitech TSR-24




Studio 2

5 Acoustically treated isolation rooms
Upright Piano by Yamaha
32 Channels concurrent capability

Optional additional 600 person capacity performance hall with live acoustics (extra hourly surcharge applies)

Apple Mac Pro running Protools HD 8 on dual 19" LCD Monitors
Digidesign C|24 mixing control surface
Logic Studio
Reason 3
Apogee AD-16X and DA-16X Conversion and Digidesign HD192 Conversion with Apogee Big Ben clocking.
Preamplifiers: Focusrite Octopre, Universal Audio LA610, Mackie 800R
Genelec and Roland monitoring
AES/EBU grade cabling and patchbays
Headphone monitoring using Hearback system
Headphones by AKG, Direct Sound, Sony, Fostex, and Vic Firth
Power Conditioning by Furman and Aris
Glyph GT series storage

                                                                                

Outboard gear including Tascam DA88 for transfers, Lexicon PCM-70 Reverb, DBX 160x, Digitech RDS 4000, Digitech TSR-24

Electronic production area featuring Kurzweil PC88MX weighted-action controller
Drum set by Mapex (no cymbals provided) 

      

 
 























 
           












Microphones:

    1x Gefell UM900
    5x Neumann U87
    4x AKG C414 B/ULS
    1x BLUE Blueberry
    2x Audio Technica AT4040
    2x BeyerDynamic M130 
    2x BeyerDynamic M160
    2x AEA R84
    2x Rode NT5 (Matched pair w/ Cardioid & Omni caps)
    2x Mojave MA-100
    2x Rode NT2-A
    2x Shure SM87
    2x BLUE 8 Ball
    2x BLUE Bluebird (Matched pair)
    1x BLUE Ball
    1x BLUE Kickball
    2x Shure SM81
    2x Audix D6
    2x Heil PR-30
    1x Heil PR-40
    2x Crown PCC-160
    1x Shure Beta 52
    1x EV RE-20
    5x Shure SM57
    5x Sennheiser MD421
    2x Sennheiser MD441
    1x Sennheiser e609
    3x Sennheiser e604
    1x Yamaha Subkick


    Rates:
    25% Deposit due before booking will be confirmed.
    $50 per hour for commercial sessions.
    $40 per hour for Loyola University faculty, staff and alumni.
    $25 per hour for students at any New Orleans area university.
    $400 per day for 12 hour lockout, with $50 per hour over 12 hours.
    $110 one-time fee for piano tuning, upon request

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