Recording: Hardware and Software
- Lynx Aurora Analog/Digital/Analog converter- 16-channels of 192Hz/32-bit w/RME AES card
- Rupert Neve 5059 16 Channel Summing Mixer
(‘Out-of the-Box’ mixing rules!) - Millennia Audio NSEQ-2 Tube Mastering Stereo Program EQ
- Steinberg CuBase 10 recording software with UAD plug-in bundle
- Izotope Ozone 9 Mastering, Rx 8 Restoration
- Wavelab 9.5 Mastering software w/UAD plug-ins
- Coleman Audio Q8 control room module/summing mixer
(Audiophile quality monitoring) - Ravenscroft Piano Software
(Amazing! THE best piano software available) - EZ Drummer 2
- UAD Plug-ins in abundance
Mic preamps
- John Hardy-the best!!
- Millennia Audio (8 channels)
- Neve (by Brent Averill)
- LaChappel tube 583s
- Focusrite ISA
Compressors
- Requisite Audio L2M
(exquisite boutique Tube Limiter hand made by Danny McKinney)
- Manley ELOP Optical Compressor/Limiter
- Joe Meek SC-2 (audio upgrade by Bob Alach)
- DBX 166
Mics
- Neumann U87 (modified by Bill Bradley)
- Mic Shop MS 47- Bill Bradley’s handmade reproduction of the legendary Neumann U 47 This is a jewel!
- (2) Telefunken ELA M 260 small diaphragm tube mics- spectacular on fiddle, banjo and acoustic guitar-vintage sound reminiscent of Neumann KM 64, but brand new.
- AKG C460 (2) (audio upgrade by Jim Williams)-pristine clarity
- Schoeps CMC 6
- Crowley and Tripp Ribbon (fiddle, flutes, horns, upright bass, guitar amps)
- AKG C414 (1990s model, the ‘warm’ sounding one, recently restored to new specs)
- Shure SM-81 (2), SM-57 (4), SM-58 (5)
- Shure Beta 91 kick drum mic
- Sennheiser e914
- Electro-Voice RE20, the ‘gold standard’ for warm voice-over/podcast sound
Monitors
- Dynaudio BM 15
- Yamaha near-field monitors
Headphones
- Audio Technica ATM 70Xs
- Audio-Technica ATM 50s
- Sennheiser HD 280
- Grado mastering headphones
- Beyerdynamic
Assorted instruments, keyboards and amps available
Vintage acoustic guitars, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, tenor and 5-string banjo, G & L bass, Gretsch Country Gentleman, 60s fender Vibrolux, National resonator guitar