Great Western Record Recorders

Equipment

The real strength of GWRR is the great sounding drum room, the free living space, and the overall recording environment. That said, I am slowly putting together a pretty extensive collection of high-end gear to help me toward my goal of giving my clients the best sounding analog recordings possible.

If you are seeking a specific piece of gear let me know. I will either buy it or rent it at my cost.

Read on...

Recorders
Studer A820 2-inch 24 Track
ATR 102 1/2-inch 2 Track

Console
Tonelux - 26 inputs plus 4 stereo aux returns. (Pics coming soon.)

Monitoring
Big: Tannoy FSM 2x15  Soffited, powered by a Yamaha 2200
Medium: KRK V88 Self-powered
Headphones: Sennheiser HD280 Pro and Shure 440. Pick the ones you feel are most comfy and sound the best to you.

(Our headphone system sounds great, by the way. We trashed the Furman "build your own mix" system and installed a much better sounding, simpler solution. Two mixes are powered by a pair of Yamaha 2200s. And the fact that the system is fed via the discrete and transformer balanced Tonelux aux sends and masters does not hurt.)

Mics
u47 clone by Scott Hampton. Real Neuman KK47 capsule.
u67 clone (2) By Scott Hampton. Real Neumann K67 capsule.
AKG D112
AT 4050
Earthworks TC30 (2)
EV RE20, 686
Josephson e22s
Octava 012 (3)
Royer 121 (2)
Sennheiser 409, 421, 441
Shure KSM44, SM57 (6), 58 (2)

Microphone Preamps
Neve 1272 clone (4) - Featuring original Neve 183 boards, 31267 and 1166 transformers.
Hamptone Silverbox - One of only a few 4-channel tube preamps made by Scott Hampton.
Sage Electronics (2) - Discrete solid state preamp. Very linear, but very musical.
GML 8302 - Two channel discrete, transformerless preamp. Transparent and true sounding as it gets.
ADM 760 (2) - From a vintage ADM broadcast console. Uses ADM's proprietary discrete opamp. Wonderful on guitars.

Dynamics
Westrek Limiting Amplifier (2-channel) -   Custom built, just for me. An LA-3A clone every bit as nice as the original.
Gates Sta-Level - Vintage broadcast limiter. Just rebuilt. NOS RCA 6386 tube. Like butter.
Talbotttronix LA-2A (2) - LA-2A clones custom built, just for me, by Mike Miller/Westend Studios, KC.
Universal Audio 1176  
DBX 160xt (2)
Valley People 440

Effects
EMT 140 - Vintage tube plate reverb (mono) (and broken).
Lexicon PCM 80
Yamaha SPX900 multi-effects unit
Lexicon Prime Time delay
DeltaLabs Effectron II delay

Digital stuff
Not really my bag. Aaron tells me we have ProTools 9 now. Fantastic.