Studio Design
Our facilities were designed by Steve Durr and Matt Schlachter. Main monitors were designed by Steve Durr and constructed by Travis Smith, with components from Altec, TAD and Bag End. These monitors are modifications of the Altec “Voice of the Theater” design, with Altec 515 woofers and 511 horns with TAD-2002 drivers. Bag End ELF subwoofer processor with D12E subwoofer. Main monitor signal chain by Mike Schatzlein and Jake Saghi, with Trinnov crossover and amps from Hafler, CLA and Crown, and final tuning of course by Steve himself. Focal Trio6Be and Yamaha NS-10M nearfield monitors. MTRX and DADman monitor and cue routing.
Special thanks to Michael and Eddie at Avid for including us in the Pro Tools and S6 beta programs. Avid is serious about continuous improvement in Pro Tools. The S6 is an awesome instrument, and it just keeps getting better.
Very special thanks to Jake Saghi, our first Nashville engineer and now a producer, who designed and installed the audio wiring for Studio Five, and to Terry Palmer, technical audio consultant.
Equipment
Control Surface and Converters
Avid System 6 M40-32-9-D with 32 faders, display modules and 9 knobs per channel.
Burl Mothership HDX with 32 I/O Channels. Avid MTRX with 16 channels of DAD converters.
Tape
Studer A827 24-track (< 4500 hours, reconditioned by Steve Smith)
Studer A807 VU Mark II 2-track (reconditioned by Jake Saghi)
Multiple channels of Dolby A and Dolby SR for decoding
Microphones
Condenser
Ribbon
Dynamic
Analog Stuff
Hardware DSP
Instruments and Amps
Plug-ins
At least a thousand, from Avid, Universal Audio (UAD), Waves, Wave Arts, Antares, Celemony, Eventide, Focusrite, FabFilter, HOFA, Klanghelm, Klevgrand, Izotope, Native Instruments, Plugin Alliance, Vir2, Slate Digital, Sof-tube, SoundToys, Sonnox, Synchro Arts, Valhalla, Polyverse, others.