Studio Gear

Equipment: Our Philosophy

Like other studios, for most of GilderSound’s history the centerpiece of the studio was a large mixer. In our case, it was a Yamaha 02R 40 channel digital mixer with moving fader automation. However, the move to Pro Tools HD changed the way we work in three important ways.

First, most signal routing, mixing, and automation tasks moved inside the computer. Second, our growing collection of mic preamps became the main source of input into Pro Tools. Third, we began to do a lot of recording at high sample rates such as 24 bit/ 96k or 24 bit/88.2k, and the 02R was limited to 24 bit/48k.

So, in 2006 I decided to sell the big mixer. In our control room we use a Digidesign Command 8 for "hands on" access to Pro Tools and a Mackie Big Knob does a great job handling monitor routing, talkback, etc.

With our current setup we can create many signal paths - tube, solid state, colored, uncolored, British, American - whatever it takes to create the best sound for your recording.

Our equipment was carefully chosen to bring you the best quality for a reasonable price. We also have a collection of outstanding instruments, including drums, bass, guitars, amps, keyboards, and percussion available. Read on to check out our extensive list of gear.

Inventory of Gear

In-Studio Pro Tools System
Pro Tools HD3 Accel version 7.x software running on a 2GHz, dual processor Mac G5 with 2 gigs of RAM. This system has 32 inputs and is capable of playing back 96 tracks.

Interfaces
Digidesign 192 and 96

A/D & D/A
Apogee Rosetta 800/192

Digital Clock
Aardvark Aardsync II & Sync DA

Plug-ins
Bomb Factory classic compressors bundle
Antares
Celemony Melodyne (pitch correction)
Digidesign DINR
Drum Core
Eventide
Focusrite d2/d3
Impact
Line 6 Echo Farm
Massenberg DesignWorks EQ
Princeton Digital
Pultec bundle
Reverb One
ReVibe
Sound Toys
Sound Toys Echo Boy
Trillium Lane
URS bundle
Waves Platinum
Additional plug-ins available

Control Surface
Digidesign Command 8

Hard Drives
Glyph, LaCie, Digidesign

Acoustic Treatments
Acoustic treatments by RealTraps

Portable Pro Tools System
Pro Tools Digi 002Rack with with Black Lion Audio Signature upgrade running on a 2GHz MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo with 1 gig of RAM. This system has 16 inputs and can play back 32 tracks.

Hard Drive
Glyph GT series 250 gig

Plug-ins, Virtual Instruments, and Additional Programs
Bomb Factory
Digidesign
Funk Logic
Garage Band
IK Multimedia
Live
Reason

Additional Recorders
Alesis ADAT 20 bit digital tape recording (24 channels with BRC controller)
Alesis Masterlink stereo recorder/CD burner
Panasonic SV-3700 DAT recorder
Tascam 102 cassette decks (2)

Microphone Preamps/Channel Strips
AEA The Ribbon Preamp
Aphex Model 107
Atlas Pro Audio Juggernaut
Focusrite ISA 428 (4 channels with optional ADC)
Great River MP2NV
Millennia STT-1
Summit MPC-100A
Symetrix 528
Tech 21 SansAmp PSA-1
Universal Audio 6176 (2)
Universal Audio LA-610

Mixers
Mackie 1402VLZ Pro
Yamaha 01V

Direct Boxes
Aguilar DB900 Tube DI
Behringer Ultra DI-20
Horizon Phantomline
Radial J48 (2)
Rapco DB-100
SansAmp Bass DI

Other Outboard Gear
Alesis 3630 compressor
Alesis Midiverb II
Antares ATR-1 Auto Tune
API 5500 dual equalizer
BBE 822A sonic maximizer
Burgin-McDaniel Komit compressor/limiter
Buzz Audio SOC 1.1 stereo compressor
Dangerous D-Box monitor/summing
Furman PL8 and IT1220 power conditioners
Lexicon MPX1
Lexicon Vortex
Lexicon LXP1
Redco patchbay
TC Electronic Finalizer Plus
Vestax BDT-2000 turntable

Monitors/related equipment
ASC Tubetrap monitor stands
Behringer Powerplay headphone amp
Genelec 1030A and 1092A sub
Rane HC6 headphone amp
Sony boombox - big and ancient
Yamaha HS 50M monitors

Headphones
AKG K240
Audio-Technica M40 (2) & D40
Sennheiser HD280
Shure SRH440
Sony MDR-7506
Yamaha RH5m (4)

Microphones
Audio-Technica 4051 (2)
Audio-Technica 4050
Audio-Technica ATM25
Audio-Technica ATM23 (2)
Audio-Technica ATM61
Neumann KMS 104
Pearlman TM-1 tube microphone
Royer R-121 ribbon
Sony C-48
Shure KSM32 (2)
Shure VP88 stereo
Shure SM57
Shure SM58
Yamaha Subkick

Other
Fender Rhodes Stage 73 Mk II electric piano