Bird Song Audio: FACILITIES

Overview

  • On-site: Like many of us, I’m running a business centred around a small project studio.

  • On-line: With online connectivity (Zoom, Source Connect), I’ve run sessions with producers in different remote locations, including recording voiceovers for Mainland Cheese TV commercials.

  • Off-site 1: I can come to your location to record.

  • Off-site 2: I also ‘cold-hire’ my personal services, my expertise, should you want to work in another facility for example.

 Core plant

  • Apple Macintosh iMac (well spec’d)

  • Avid Pro Tools

  • UAD Apollo interfaces, allowing simultaneous recording of up to 6 microphone/line/instrument inputs

  • Amphion One15 studio monitors (hand made in Finland no less) mounted on Primacoustic Recoil Stabilisers

  • Zoom F6 field recorder with 32bit floating file capability, which yields exceptional dynamic range. The F6 can record up to 6 microphone inputs simultaneously

Microphones

  • Earthworks SR40 small diaphragm condenser: cardioid

  • Warm Audio WA47jr large diaphragm multi-pattern condenser: omni, cardioid, bi-directional

  • 2 x Sony ECM30 lapel mics

  • Sennheiser and Shure moving coil (‘dynamic’) types: cardioid

  • With sufficient notice, I can access other microphones and accessories from my contacts in Auckland and Wellington

Instruments etc.

  • Yamaha KX88 MIDI controller keyboard, weighted

  • VI Labs Ravenscroft 275 virtual piano

  • Roli Seaboard Block synthesiser

  • Various other virtual instrument sound libraries

  • 1989 USA Fender Stratocaster. Jansen Invader 12 string reissue. 2006 Maton EM225 acoustic with LR Baggs M1 pickup. Peter Zettwitz custom Fender Telecaster. Zell Tate customised 1970s Tokai Hummingbird 9 string

  • Appalachian Dulcimer

  • Vox and Fender amplifiers